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Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End (futurism.com)
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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, and they're wrong.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Says the country where every science textbook is half science half conversion tables.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Not even close.

Yes, one half is conversion tables. The other half is scripture disproving Darwinism.

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 1 points 9 hours ago

We (in Europe) probably should be thankful that you are not using feet as thousands-separator over there in the USA... Or maybe separate after each 2nd digit, because why not... ;)

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It makes sense from typographical standpoint, the comma is the larger symbol and thus harder to overlook, especially in small fonts or messy handwriting

[–] suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

But from a grammatical sense it’s the opposite. In a sentence, a comma is a short pause, while a period is a hard stop. That means it makes far more sense for the comma to be the thousands separator and the period to be the stop between integer and fraction.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 hours ago

I have no strong preference either way. I think both are valid and sensible systems, and it's only confusing because of competing standards. I think over long enough time, due to the internet, the period as the decimal separator will prevail, but it's gonna happen normally, it's not something we can force. Many young people I know already use it that way here in Germany