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by Luc 7mo ago
This account is an LLM IMHO.
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by Luc 7mo ago
Sextants were used for coastal mapping though, albeit specialized ones called hydrographic sextants. You can see one here: https://sextantbook.com/2019/01/13/a-french-hydrographic-sex... The linked article is
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Virtue Metascience – What good is science anyway?(macroscience.org)
1 points by Luc 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Luc 7mo ago
72% is just not a believable figure. I assume we're talking about TUI here, and they haven't announced anything about this 72% as far as I can tell.
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by Luc 7mo ago
That can't be right, the real figure is probably closer to 7%.
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by Luc 7mo ago
There's different models from several suppliers as well: https://www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-Interceptor-Drones.html
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by Luc 7mo ago
It is dead because it is an LLM.
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PCB Tracer(pcbtracer.com)
66 points by Luc 7mo ago|48 comments
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by Luc 8mo ago
Paper: https://andrewbenjaminhall.com/asher_et_al_LLM_sycophancy.pd...
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Do Claude Code and Codex P-Hack? Sycophancy and Statistical Analysis in LLMs(github.com)
1 points by Luc 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Luc 8mo ago
> However, you can save 1 byte of RAM by using the branch instructions instead, as long as you know which flag(s), if any, are guaranteed to be on or off at the jump point. > For example, if you know the carry flag will always be clea
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by Luc 8mo ago
The Soviets tried to transition from an economy focused on war and heavy industry to a consumer oriented economy, and they failed massively. See the book 'Building a ruin'.
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Voith Schneider Propeller(en.wikipedia.org)
140 points by Luc 8mo ago|42 comments
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by Luc 8mo ago
Cool, but the method of verifying the data (playing back the movie) seems non-optimal. The movie could have had some data corruption that went unnoticed.
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A Framework for Time-Updating Probabilistic Forecasts(arxiv.org)
6 points by Luc 8mo ago|0 comments
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by Luc 8mo ago
It's on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/emerson-lori-other-networks-a-ra...
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by Luc 8mo ago
For those confused like me: the line drawing shows both halves of the stela, including the ‘7’ (-..) just above the break. The bottom half was found 30 years before the top.
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Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python(twitter.com)
3 points by Luc 8mo ago|0 comments
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by Luc 8mo ago
> home game console that attempted vector graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex
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by Luc 8mo ago
Active electrostatic. It uses a battery, EMR doesn’t.
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by Luc 8mo ago
A substantial percentage of the population (10% to 15%) has IBS-like symptoms, and would be sensitive to even small amounts of polyols (another name for sugar alcohols). Hence why they are excluded in a low-FODMAP diet (the P stands for pol
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by Luc 8mo ago
Not the first time, it was auctioned in 2001: https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-2053069 I noticed the lack of glue and yellowed tape. Actually it consists of strips of paper that are 12 foot long, taped togethe
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by Luc 8mo ago
A note at the bottom of the page now says: "To conceal stylistic identifiers of the authors, the above text is a sentence-for-sentence rewrite of an original hand-written composition processed via Claude Opus 4.5."
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The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe(possessedmachines.com)
21 points by Luc 8mo ago|2 comments
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Quantum physicists create largest ever 'superposition'(nature.com)
3 points by Luc 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Luc 9mo ago
> To the Unix purist, this might appear wasteful and unnecessary, but macOS isn’t, and never has been, Unix. I get what they mean, but macOS is even Unix certified. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
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Sandvault: Run AI agents isolated in a sandboxed macOS user account(github.com)
3 points by Luc 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Luc 9mo ago
Any navigator worth their salt would take rather take more than fewer chronometers, for various and frankly obvious reasons. This saying must originate with a landlubber...
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by Luc 9mo ago
No need for pi. If you know the angle and the distance between the two cities, you can just multiply the distance by [full circle divided by the angle], and that's the circumference.
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by Luc 9mo ago
It's the other way around. Think about it, how would the oil travel to the rest of the tool that's not touching the felt? Felt is bad, it wicks away oil from the tool's surface and often absorbs moisture from the air. Tools p

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