It's surprisingly small! In order to deliver enough light, I would have assume it would need to be maybe half the size of the area it needs to illuminate.
Would it ever make sense to build one for ones own home? I guess it must be far enough away for the light to spread out enough...
It does help at some margin to make code more readable. Humans just aren't that great at reading and understanding code. It has been said: "Write for humans, not computers because computers will understand what you wrote no matter how badly written". So if you're writing code on a team, do your co-workers and your future-self a favour and write code that's easy to read. It won't run any better or with fewer bugs, but it will be easier to understand later, easier to be understood by others, and "wishful thinking here": easier to debug.
problem is that it does too much out of the box. Finding some sloppy formatting - ok. Fixing it automatically? even better. But rubocop tries to sniff "code smells", security problems, and it's not that great with it, not everything you can get about the logic and intent just from AST. There are so many rules that developers spent significant time appeasing rubocop and this sometimes takes away effort to make code actually readable by humans. Have you ever seen a tidy mess?
Even worse, it gives simple tools to write plugins to sniff more logic related stuff, and I've seen projects where developers really went overboard with it.
Why does it matter when there is auto-fix-on-save? I just write whatever, hit ctrl+s and the code is fixed. The result: The code is "fixed" based on whatever rule and it doesn't cost me a thing. I don't think about it and I don't lift a finger.
But I do personally appreciate the tidiness of code-consistency.
Most of these trivial rubocop rules autoformat so it doesn't bother anyone. The ones that don't are usually odd things like code that doesn't run or things with the same name, which can't be safely autofixed.
It isn't mentioned, but I would think that this works for cryonics... the ice crystals were one of the biggest sticking points. Well, aside from the original cause of death of course
I remember an arc in the Dick Tracy comic strip in the 1980s where the villain was a cryonics expert who had invented some quick way to thaw out corpsicles and thus revive arch criminals of the past.
Dick Tracy had the such over the top villains... nearing on superhero comic stuff, which it competed with. I don't think there was any multiverse arc, though.
I think the harder part is freezing fast enough. Experiments have been done with freezing and thawing small mammals. They survived but there was a maximum size after which they couldn’t be frozen solid pretty much instantly.
I would say more research needed, but it seems promising to me. After we get it working for transplant organs would probably be a better time to investigate this application.
This telling by Toner has the ring of truth to it over the reason for Sam's ouster. It matches. Whatever I think of Sam personally, I would likely have done the same thing in her shoes. The CEO lying to and deceiving the board multiple times is a pretty serious red line.
It's also a similar reason that Sam was fired from Y Combinator. None of this should be new, it's just when there's money on the line people's memories get as fuzzy as their morals.
"In 2019, Altman was asked to resign from Y Combinator after partners alleged he had put personal projects, including OpenAI, ahead of his duties as president, said people familiar with the matter."
Regardless, this is another in a recent string of blows to YC's reputation for making people believe Sama moved on when in reality he was fired. What do you call making people believe something that's knowingly not true? Deception?
> Sam may have been fired from YC but it does look like they believed in him.
Being character like that, unfortunately, leads often success in life. You are not limited by ethics or morals like most people do.
You need to be convincing that you care, while in reality you are only objective about financial success.
And if you are into money, you will invest these kinds of people.
Would it ever make sense to build one for ones own home? I guess it must be far enough away for the light to spread out enough...