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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Yeah. Think of how many man-hours over the past ~35 years have been spent in trying to make graphene and carbon nanotubes into useful products. It's easily somewhere in the millions. And really all we have to show for it are resins w
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
The whole Iran debacle is their fault, as they insisted that the regime was internally unstable and would collapse at the first sign of trouble. Now Iran has never been more united and is on track to become regional hegemon, lol. Cartoonis
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Gemini is so far behind it hurts. It's useful for daily tasks and simple questions, but it codes like a model from late 2024. I can't imagine using it for any serious work.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> Then there was the fun of driving on a highway at 110 km/h (I think with a friend with a Tesla) and we passed a school bus that had a '40 km/h when lights flashing' sign on the back but with 40 is in the red circle
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Most of the rentals around my neck of the woods are VWs or entry-level Mercedes. The two seem approximately equally bad; they both have the exact same problems with cruise control, lane assist beeps, speed limit beeps, "take a break!&
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
All new cars. At this point I don't know if I'd buy anything made after 2008. Whenever I rent a new car around here (in the EU) I find them very annoying. The worst is the cruise control that tries to stick to the speed limit
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Proving "efficacy" -- which is the difficult and expensive part -- should not be necessary, and the government increasingly moves its own goalposts as to what the word efficacy even means. Simple as that. Postmarketing surveilla
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> "This feels off. In medicine, any evidence can also be blinded by confounding factors that are far easier to miss without adding specific controls. Really, in any field this will be the case." If you have enough data, you c
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
In medicine, observational evidence is actually better and far more ethical than the RCT. (Which simply dooms the terminally ill to fake treatment.) You just need large datasets and an agile culture that's responsive to new input.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Works for me in Claude Code and in the chat interface /w a personal Max subscription. The message I'm getting is that it's available "through" July 7th, which probably means for the rest of the day?
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> So, first, by no measure is GLM5.2 as good as Opus. Depends what you do. Complex tasks, poorly-defined tasks, sure. For relatively simple tasks, though, or very well-defined tasks, it's just as good and usually a lot faster.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
"Irradiated wastelands" -- surely you realize that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are large cities today? Harmful radiation usually doesn't stay harmful for very long. In any case, I don't share your low opinion of future human
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Prehistoric climate change was sometimes much more sudden than anything we've experienced. See e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas There are others.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> Bootstrapping it again will be quite difficult as a lot of the easily accessible natural resources are already depleted. That's a myth, but let's assume it isn't. I'm thinking it sounds like a job for you. Okay,
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
War won't end human existence. If there's one thing you can learn from the recent wars in Iran and Ukraine, it's that conventional air-bombing has acquired a terrible cost:efficacy ratio that cannot be sustained, that drones
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Nah. It's really as simple as this: Southern climates are moving north. (In the northern hemisphere.) If you want a vision of the future, consider a New England that looks more like the Southeast. There will be winners and losers.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
I've had exactly the same thoughts. I think it's a stretch to call Mistral "frontier" though, their models are trash. So it makes me wonder if there's a business opportunity here -- selling air-gapped, on-premise GL
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
WRT [1], you get a lot more results with https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anetnut.io And if they didn't even grab the main domain that the service used, why so confident that they've totally dismantled the ba
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
It seems to me that it doesn't really work that way. You're not a cog, and robotics capabilities research is hugely multidisciplinary, so you should be able to synthesize unique insights of your own. There are always, always ope
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> https://x.com/weezerOSINT/status/2072772333329416654 > They seized the wrong domain. Netnut is still up and running > The domain FBI seized: https://netnut.com > The real domain https:&#
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
IMO being a researcher makes sense iff (1) there are unsolved technical or scientific problems that are of personal interest to you, which is to say that you puzzle over them in your spare time, and (2) you can't possibly solve them
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
100%. I'd add: Whoever hasn't downloaded GLM 5.2 should download GLM 5.2 immediately.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
I'm with you there. The way they treat their customers is high-handed and disdainful. I'm gradually moving to GLM 5.2 on Opencode. It's the barest fraction of the price, and it's surprisingly capable. I notice very li
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Yeah, and even more concerning is that there's a thriving market in "high karma" reddit accounts. These are bought and sold for marketing/astroturfing, often run by bots. So a human today can be a bot tomorrow. And th
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
I don't use Reddit much. (I think it's structurally broken, easily the most astroturfed website on the internet, and weirdly uncivil in a passive-aggressive way.) The only good thing I'm inclined to say about it is that
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Have you considered gig work on Fiverr? (Or similar. There are many others, e.g. PeoplePerHour.com) You're an American and speak English, so you've got a leg up over a lot of your potential competitors. And since you actually k
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Just as there are SEO firms that help companies ascend the rankings, there are "reputation management" firms that erase bad news by publishing new articles & by pushing takedown requests on articles they don't like. As w
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> This is such an absurd statement. Oh come on, it's hardly "absurd." > What US aerospace has created post 1969 is nothing short of remarkable in comparison. (And we can be proud of the Apollo era too.) What are yo
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> I haven't managed to really figure out what's the best way For you, the best way is to break your code down into modules insofar as possible, so that you don't overrun the context window. Opus Max starts forgetting th
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
The answer is, of course, yes. What is there to stop them? Sure, it's difficult -- but where there's a will, and where the resources of China are involved, there is most assuredly a way. I remember when their cars were a joke, a

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