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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Ancestry owns newspapers.com A lot of Ancestry.com and AncestryDNA was founded to support the Mormon belief that the LDS church can posthumously baptize ancestors of living individuals into the church under the belief that many deceased ind
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I thought DJT is just a huge foreign influence campaign to get financial leverage over the "future US president". Can't compare the two.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
The settlement is way lower than what it could have been. The settlement should be seen as positive news for the company's future, not negative.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
You cold e-mail CEOs and get a >70% hitrate? I gotta try this more often.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
SEC regulations
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Anne's sister Susan, who died a month ago of lung cancer was CEO of YouTube. Susan was the person who advocated Google acquire YouTube in the first place. Google was founded in the garage of Anne and Susan's childhood home. Anne w
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
She founded the company 18 years ago. Google invested like <$10 million at the beginning and pulled out just earlier this year.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
If the board is resigning, and the company is selling DNA kits, running a telemedicine operation, selling pharmceuticals online AND developing cancer drugs at a 180 million dollar market cap... It's quite possible there was no plan at
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I stand corrected. Well maybe the board took a day to get together and draft the letter. One of the board members Neal Mohan has to stand before a judge in Google's current anti-trust trial. No doubt he has no time for this stuff.
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Not necessarily. Just because the government is collecting everyone's DNA doesn't mean they're gonna create a slick web app for showing you your ancestry results. That's like asking why the DMV isn't competing with
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Virtually impossible as Anne Wojcicki holds 20% of the outstanding shares and 49% of the voting power of total outstanding shares. That's essentially dictator-level power over the company. I believe the next largest shareholder is Rich
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Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board(investors.23andme.com)
633 points by LarsDu88 2y ago|350 comments
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Literally just one day after 23andMe presented positive phase 2 clinical results for two anti-cancer drugs: https://therapeutics.23andme.com/news-and-research/ The board of directors of 23andMe just resigned in protest
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
How many GPU servers are we talking about here exactly?
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Very cool!
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Inflation adjusted that's $3,089.26 and $7,568.70 respectively The modern Apple Vision Pro falls right in between Quite honestly, though the Apple II would've been better for students!
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Show HN: Diffumon – A Basic Image Generating Diffusion Model(github.com)
4 points by LarsDu88 2y ago|1 comments
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Diffumon – Simple Image Generating Diffusion Model(github.com)
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
About 2 days ago, I decided to learn about how diffusion models work, and made this rudimentary image generation model. This is to followup on a DCGAN I made several years ago to generate Pokemon images. The Pokemon model is still training,
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I wonder if this architecture is just asking a chain of thought prompt, or whether they built a diffusion model. The old problem with image generation was that single pass techniques like GANs and VAEs had to do everything in one go. Diffus
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
The episode Okuda refers to where Marina Sirtis is on the Battle Bridge is the very first episode of TNG "Encounter at Farpoint" which aired in 1987... basically filmed in 1986 - same year the movie Aliens came out So I got my dat
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I think the best example of pseudo CGI are the user interfaces from Star Trek the Next Generation in the late 80s, early 90s. In the show, every display is supposed to be an interactive digital display, but because such displays didn't
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
The first diffusion model for text generation was published less than a year ago. Should add something about that
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
This paper is much clearer and succinct than the original papers from the field. Trying to build a protein diffusion model from scratch right now. The math explainer is quite helpful
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
I was just working on a small protein diffusion model and felt bad when I started copying and pasting quaternion functions from pytorch3d to avoid dependency hell. Lo and behold I see Chai did the same shit in their repo. Lol
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Putting Drake as a default avatar is just begging to be sued. Please remove pictures of actual people!
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Sigh https://dublog.net/blog/so-many-python-package-managers/
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Well, one could argue obesity has as much to do with deregulating the advertising of sugary cereals as a breakfast food for children in the 1980s as the non-existence of a $10,000+ shot that alters human metabolism!
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Having praised Elon, I will now additionally add that he is pretty much a mouthpiece for rightwing Russian propaganda despite Starlink being vital to Ukrainian war efforts. You've truly achieved wealth when even people you don't l
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Say what we will about Elon, but him gambling his PayPal fortune was the best thing that happened to the US space program (and the global space race as whole!)

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