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by Leary 2y ago
I don't think they are claiming 40% of males today have y-haplogroups descended from the Yamnaya r1b's population is only 190 million [1] [1] https://www.razibkhan.com/p/the-haplogroup-is-dead-long-live...
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by Leary 2y ago
Maybe because real estate prices are not captured by CPI, only rental prices. People are taking longer and longer to save up for a house[1]. https://www.crews.bank/blog/real-estate-prices-vs.-income
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by Leary 2y ago
The authors make a case that China's GDP is overestimated from past night time studies so I ran an analysis on which country produces the most nighttime lights. 110 RUS 926043522.5 136 USA 816841431.0 24 CHN 541388528.0 21 CAN
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by Leary 2y ago
On an EV basis, the worst thing SBF did was probably funding Anthropic and accelerating the demise of humanity.
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by Leary 2y ago
One of the people on the Qwen team tweeted this instruction.
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by Leary 2y ago
To test: https://chat.qwen.ai/ and select Qwen2.5-plus, then toggle QWQ.
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by Leary 2y ago
How does this compare with Grok 3's parameter count? I know Grok 3 was trained on a larger cluster (100k-200k) but GPT 4.5 used distributed training.
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by Leary 2y ago
As recent as 2017. "Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me. I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco. I didn’t feel completely comfortable—th
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by Leary 2y ago
This is weak sauce. America should limit chips to other countries and then make Taiwan sell them to the US with the 100% tariffs. Oh wait, that's what the AI diffusion rules do.
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NIH's drastic cut to indirect cost rates is a critical threat to US research(statnews.com)
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by Leary 2y ago
Enjoy this poem: I dwell in Possibility – (466) By Emily Dickinson I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors – Of Chambers as the Cedars – Impregnable of eye – And for an everlastin
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by Leary 2y ago
Dario certainly had no qualms about working with authoritarian regimes when he worked for Baidu! Also, if the US seeks a permanent advantage over China by 2027 with self-replicating AI, so much so that it can dictate whatever terms militari
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by Leary 2y ago
Does this mean when you use OpenAI as an enterprise customer, they can see exactly the queries and answers? So much for privacy!
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by Leary 2y ago
Things that are true: The first large cluster of infections was associated with the Huanan Seafood Market, and retrospective analyses of influenza-like-illness patients and blood donations in Wuhan found no evidence of earlier circulation.
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by Leary 2y ago
Alexandr Wang did not even say they lied in the paper. Here's the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Ekl9Izd38 . "My understanding is that is that Deepseek has about 50000 a100s, which they can't tal
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by Leary 2y ago
or maybe the US economy will do even better because more people will be able to use AI at a low cost. OpenAI will be also be able to serve o3 at a lower cost if Deepseek had some marginal breakthrough OpenAI did not already think of.
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by Leary 2y ago
That 1% golden share is in Douyin, the Chinese subsidiary of ByteDance, not ByteDance or Tiktok.
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by Leary 2y ago
Trump wants 50% US ownership in a joint venture for Tiktok. Shouldn't be a problem since 60% of bytedance ownership is already non-China (probably a lot of it already US investors - General Atlantic/SIG) https://truthso
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TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users(nbcnews.com)
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by Leary 2y ago
https://www.tiktok.com/@storytimewithpapajake/video/74609880... This 102 year old American veteran who fought in WW2 sure will miss it.
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RedNote Jumps to #1 in App Store as TikTok Ban Looms(newsweek.com)
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by Leary 2y ago
I think there’s a fascinating throughline from older Christian moral enforcement to what the essay calls “wokeness.” Historically, a lot of Christian movements had the same impulse to legislate language and behaviors—just grounded in sin ra
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by Leary 2y ago
Slight tangent: thoughts on the J-36 in a hypothetical Taiwan scenario?
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GenZ boss and a mini. GenZ boss and a mini.
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Deepseek got it right: "A 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than a 9.99-pound pack of steel ingots. Even though steel is denser and takes up much less space, the weight is determined by the mass, and 10.01 pounds is greater t
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by Leary 2y ago
Americans: I'm not anti-China, just anti-CCP Chinese: I'm not anti-west, just anti people who are anti-China
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by Leary 2y ago
https://live.lczero.org/
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The court must not have looked very hard. "Let us be very clear: TikTok does not remove content based on sensitivities related to China. We have never been asked by the Chinese government to remove any content and we would not do so if
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by Leary 2y ago
1. Apps stores remove them. 2. Any transactions paying the creators are banned. Any Tiktok shopping stuff banned. 3. ISPs?
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by Leary 2y ago
Are they going to cancel the parlamentary elections, which were held one week after the Presidential election?

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