LarsDu88

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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I remember opening a copy of PC Gamer in the early 2000s. I was totally taken aback that they had moved Half-Life from a sci fi New Mexico base, to some sort of weird Eastern European dystopia. It was all thanks to Antonov. And Half-Life 2
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
This is more accurate. The productive fraction of professors still follow the Pareto principle or 80/20 rule. And even then, these professors aggregate into the elite institutions making it even more skewed. To get an academic position
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Fair
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A 20 something is hardly a teenager. Alexander Hamilton was like 21 years old at the start of the American Revolution
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HackerNews is suddenly getting political content at the very top, right after PG slams the "woke" agenda. Is the HN crowd finally waking up to what a danger to the US the "most successful startup entrepreneur of all time&quot
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I think you misunderstood my proposal LLMs are good a producing embeddings which are latent representations of the content in the text. That content for research papers includes things like authorship, research directions, and citations to
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I think you misunderstand my proposal. I am not describing a fraud classifier. I am describing fine-tuning an embedding space based on papers with known fraud. The content of the fraudelent paper which includes information such as authorshi
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Can you explain to me what about the idea I presented is flawed or infeasible?
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Based on the scale and impact of fraudulent results, I wonder if some form of LLM based approach with supervised fine-tuning could help highlight the actually useful research. Papers are typically weighted by citations, but in the case of f
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There's a big gap between speculating on a blackboard and hard physical proof For instance, that there would be 33 amino acids in that sample. For all we know, those amino acids could've all been left handed like the ones in our b
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Asteroid Bennu samples have 14/20 amino acids found in life on Earth(nature.com)
5 points by LarsDu88 2y ago|3 comments
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Hopefully the Deepseek news hasn't obscured the discoveries from this space mission. 14/20 amino acids found in life on Earth were recovered from the samples from that mission. 33 amino acids overall. Unlike with terrestrial amino
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
This was actually the year I was born. Also very auspicious if you're Chinese. I'd be the most asian white supremacist north of Tila Tequila if this was actually a coded Neo Nazi user handle. (Also, don't look up Tila Tequila
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Well I did say DON'T look into it, but ya'll had go ahead and Streisand this.
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If you're all wondering why that company name is a bad one, I would urge you not to look into the personal life that that particular scientist.
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About 4 years ago the best example of generative AI for non-moving images was a fuzzy cartoon of an Avocado Man walking a pet Hedgehog. If AI videos feel like slop right now, just wait another 4 years and see what happens
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
People have served more time for selling less drugs and attempting to murder fewer people than Ross Ulbricht did. Just because he was decent with computers does not mean he should be busted out of jail.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Quite possibly pulled out of their asses... If Son can actually build a 500B Vision Fund it can only come from one of two places... somehow the dollar depreciates radically OR Saudis Vision Fund was heavily invested in by the Saudis so...
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
My kneejerk response was to point to the incoming administration, but the fact Stargate has been in the works for more than a year now says to me it's because of tax credits.
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To be fair, a lot of European countries and localities do not treat their water with fluoride at all. Some have better dental health purely due to better healthcare/dental coverage. The onset of anti-vaccine sentiment will do far more
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I don't think the UK is allergic to industry, it just got worse and worse at manufacturing relative to other countries after WW2. Just look at the UK's automobile industry... terrible quality.. terrible reliability, particularly i
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Ad services, once it was monopolized by Google and Facebook really warped the value of the software engineering profession over other areas. Software is incredibly valuable, but there are other technology areas that are much harder and equa
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
People on the left don't like to admit it, but a lot of the left wing activism we see today growing out from the 1960s was directly influenced by the Soviet Union and it's "active measures" programs According to the KGB
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And once autonomous vehicles expand to every city in America, and multiple robots are in every home in America, NVIDIA's market may expand even more.
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Funny, I was just playing around with some of these techniques yesterday for my game https://roguestargun.com now that I got it running reasonably comfortably at 72 fps on the Oculus Quest 2. Mostly due to laziness, as a cell sh
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I can see why the next generation of shooters made A and D strafe rather than turn
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Is it messed up that my first thought was relief that these are regular 'ol white supremacists, and not Russian intelligence?
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I could've swore I posted this article as well.
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Gemini 2.0 Flash Text-To-Speech is Insane [video](youtube.com)
3 points by LarsDu88 2y ago|1 comments
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I was looking to get emotional single shot text to speech for my solodev VR game (Rogue Stargun) which has something like 90% of its dialogs generated by ElevenLabs. I found out Google is rolling out "Native Audio" TTS in January

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