2024-01-12 00:50:23 <KipIngram   > You know, that paper offers a very good reason for why the G gravitational "constant' seems constant (while actually depending on the distribution of matter in the universe.  That dependency on each bit of matter goes as 1/r, while the amount of matter distance r away goes as r^2.  So the more distant matter contributes more to the total because there's more of it.  We already think that at large scale the
2024-01-12 00:50:24 <KipIngram   > universe is uniform, so that would mean no matter where you run that calculation you'll get the same answer.
2024-01-12 00:51:07 <KipIngram   > It also asserts a relationship among the matter distribution, G, and the speed of light c.
2024-01-12 20:33:14 <KipIngram   > Does anyone know of a tool that will crawl a website and product a text file or collection of text files with all of the extractable text?
2024-01-12 20:33:43 <KipIngram   > There's a hierarchy of web pages I'd like to get into a form I can search with grep and/or fzf.
2024-01-12 20:34:18 <KipIngram   > I'd like for it to follow links that are local, but not off-site links.
2024-01-12 20:34:52 <KipIngram   > I suppose I could try writing one myself, but if something's handy that would be better.
2024-01-12 20:35:42 <KipIngram   > This looks like it might be a reasonable tool if I try to do it myself:
2024-01-12 20:35:44 <KipIngram   > https://realpython.com/beautiful-soup-web-scraper-python/
2024-01-12 20:36:19 <GeDaMo      > You could use wget to download the pages then maybe there's a html-to-text program?
2024-01-12 20:37:19 <KipIngram   > Yeah, that's possible too.
2024-01-12 20:37:47 <KipIngram   > I've also thought at times of rolling up my own news collector with some AI methods built in - same stuff would likely apply there.
2024-01-12 20:38:24 <KipIngram   > My general approach to news is to try to consult many sources (I don't regard any one as trustworthy) - it would be kind of neat to automate some of the labor of that.
2024-01-12 20:38:59 <KipIngram   > Ideally I'd wake up in the morning and have a digest waiting for me that drew on dozens or hundreds of sources and extracted consensus information.
2024-01-12 20:39:23 <KipIngram   > Try to collect the wheat and discard the chaff.
2024-01-12 20:39:59 <KipIngram   > On the basis that information that was consistent across a political spectrum of sites would have a higher probability of being reliable.
2024-01-12 20:40:36 <KipIngram   > One of my biggest disappointments in ChatGPT is that it's not on top of recent news.
2024-01-12 20:40:42 <KipIngram   > By design.
2024-01-12 20:40:48 <thrig       > train catches fire because stupid republicans cut regulations; train catches fire because the ultra left is woke
2024-01-12 20:40:59 <KipIngram   > :-)
2024-01-12 20:41:03 <KipIngram   > More or less, yeah.
2024-01-12 20:41:44 <KipIngram   > When I was young the left and right disagreed on plenty of t hings, but there was still a set of "non-conTentious" where there was some agreement.
2024-01-12 20:41:50 <KipIngram   > Those seem to have more or less vanished.
2024-01-12 20:41:59 <KipIngram   > It's like they EXIST to oppose one another.
2024-01-12 20:43:13 <KipIngram   > And insofar as nationalistic issues went, you could have a person on the left and a person on the right argue over all kinds of things, but there was still a "we're all Americans" mentality that was part of things too.
2024-01-12 20:43:17 <KipIngram   > A shared set of core values.
2024-01-12 20:43:30 <KipIngram   > I don't really see that anymore.
2024-01-12 20:44:15 <KipIngram   > Of course it doesn't help when we have overt enemies using social media to fan our flames, which I ABSOLUTELY think happens.
2024-01-12 20:44:27 <KipIngram   > I mean, if I were a nation's enemy it's one of the first things I'd think of doing.
2024-01-12 20:44:41 <KipIngram   > It's an obvious tactic.
2024-01-12 20:45:50 <KipIngram   > You'd think that AI could be effective in recognizing that.