Lewton

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by Lewton 3y ago
2pm might not be early enough. Depending on genetics the half life of caffeine in your system can vary by a lot. Even if you're in the normal range, a half life of 4-6 hours means that ~25% of the caffeine would still be in your system
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by Lewton 3y ago
I clicked expecting a joke article about Code Smells, I was a little disappointed
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by Lewton 3y ago
https://youtu.be/R2Hy6F_8n58 Notice how much force needs to be applied to move a real superconductor into a new pinned state
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by Lewton 3y ago
According to the people I know, who do know things, it's not uncommon to require some force for a superconductor to move while pinned and that it can experience 'snapback' (Don't get me wrong, I think there's a sign
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by Lewton 3y ago
Disclaimer, I have not vetted this at all, but if anyone is up for speculative excitement, this is the video to watch: https://m.douyin.com/share/video/7263715495256378659
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by Lewton 3y ago
Agreed! But I think total fraud was already ruled out once the reports from chinese labs reproducing it came out
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by Lewton 3y ago
I do not think that the argument is that the material is -uninteresting-, there's just plenty of reasons to believe it might not be a superconductor
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by Lewton 3y ago
The recipe IS easy... Relatively, it's just not reliable/high yield
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by Lewton 3y ago
Notably, neither provided any extra evidence that LK-99 is a superconductor
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by Lewton 3y ago
I severely doubt the nature article would look much different if written today
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by Lewton 3y ago
this is a fake, he calls the material jk-99 on facebook
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by Lewton 3y ago
> A few samples are worthless if no one actually knows how to make more. If the samples are actual RTSC, knowing that such a thing can actually exist is pretty far from worthless
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by Lewton 3y ago
Allegedly, samples have already been sent out
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by Lewton 3y ago
“Just found” It was linked in the original hacker news thread
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by Lewton 3y ago
I prefer going to the office, not because of the social aspect, but because I strongly prefer separating my work from my personal life I really enjoyed back when working from the office was optional and I was the only one showing up!
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by Lewton 3y ago
> When that does happen , it's generally because of issues of self control, a predisposition to alcoholism or bc they tried it a few times and never got used to it Or maybe it’s because my drinking buddies got older and I saw the to
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by Lewton 3y ago
“and only features what he likes” that’s not remotely true
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by Lewton 3y ago
@dang anything mentioning Wagner group is being flagged off the main page, I could see why some people would react that way when there’s a 20 articles shared about the same thing in an hour, but it’s a bit disturbing that there’s currently
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by Lewton 3y ago
If you're in top 5% of TC, you're not in danger for the foreseeable future, GPT-4 will make expertise more valuable, not less. And it's the middle brackets that will have to fight to keep their jobs against the low-skilled w
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by Lewton 3y ago
> In order to get good at some thing, you need to do that thing. Doing the thing is not enough to get good at it I’ve played guitar for 25 years and I’m shit at it, because I thought “just doing the thing” was enough
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by Lewton 3y ago
I’ve met exactly 0 AI doomers who aren’t also highly concerned about and involved with fighting climate change
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by Lewton 3y ago
except, you know, there's a massive market for non-iphone smartphones now. Facebook would not weep if it was android to the iphone
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by Lewton 3y ago
Another shout out for Withings, I definitely do not recognize the fake accuracy problem with this scale
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All Medications Are Insignificant Seen With Traditional Effect Size Criteria(astralcodexten.substack.com)
2 points by Lewton 3y ago|0 comments
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by Lewton 3y ago
Submission karma >>>> comment karma, I've only ever submitted 4 articles, one hit it big, and it's a third of my karma
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by Lewton 3y ago
What to do if I've come up with an easily explainable number sequence that's not defined in the OEIS? It's a simple algorithm that's easy to perform with a deck of cards
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by Lewton 3y ago
What you're describing Hanson doing is literally just "swing", a basic rhythmic concept It's not really analogous to what's going on in master of puppets
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by Lewton 3y ago
dirty secret is, they'll just allow their best employees to work remote
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by Lewton 3y ago
As long as prompt injection is possible, there’s zero LLMs that pass the Turing test
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by Lewton 3y ago
similarly "scam" is only 2% related to mark I'd expect scam to be squarely in the middle between investor and mark :D

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