MiguelVieira

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by MiguelVieira 3mo ago
Here's a site that asks the same questions to 22 models and compares how similar their responses are. https://typebulb.com/u/lab/you-re-relatively-right/full According to these results GLM 5.2 is very si
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by MiguelVieira 4mo ago
Throughout the 1960s a majority of Americans did not think the Apollo moon missions were worth the cost.
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by MiguelVieira 4mo ago
An optimal algorithm is shockingly simple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm
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by MiguelVieira 4mo ago
I think of the film as a Daft Punk music video, and from that perspective it's great.
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by MiguelVieira 1y ago
Related: Recovering Grizzly Bears in California https://docs.calgrizzly.org/docs/CGA-Feasibility-Study-2025....
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by MiguelVieira 2y ago
"AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-1
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by MiguelVieira 2y ago
I have a spreadsheet that I clone and edit each time I go on a trip. So if I go camping, skiing, to the beach, etc, I can look at my old checklists, find a similar one, then clone it and tweak it for my upcoming trip.
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by MiguelVieira 2y ago
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-...
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by MiguelVieira 2y ago
The National Forest Service alone maintains 265,000 miles of roads. https://www.fs.usda.gov/science-technology/infrastructure/ro...
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by MiguelVieira 2y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
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by MiguelVieira 3y ago
My Amazon account order history starts in 1998.
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by MiguelVieira 3y ago
> 96% of West coast redwoods' habitat has been lost. To be clear, redwoods still grow in almost all of their former range. They were logged, but they grew back. About 4% was never logged and is old-growth. You can see a map of the r
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by MiguelVieira 3y ago
It's interesting to point out that the wood has tighter rings and is more durable not necessarily because it came from old trees, but because the old growth trees grew in mature forests where they were in the shade of other trees, and
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by MiguelVieira 3y ago
Yes https://www.reuters.com/science/huge-ancient-solar-storm-rev...
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by MiguelVieira 3y ago
Whoa I had no idea: "To reduce the cost and increase the efficiency and reliability of transporting fuel and materials to South Pole Station, USAP established an overland traverse route from McMurdo Station to the South Pole. The trave
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by MiguelVieira 3y ago
In Costa Rica I would find toads culstered at the bottom of street lamps, waiting to eat insects that would come crashing down.
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by MiguelVieira 4y ago
I like David Allen Sibley's definition of a tree: "If you can walk under it, it's a tree; if you have to walk around it, it's a shrub".
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by MiguelVieira 4y ago
> 70 percent of the sunlight that hits it It looks like that's comparable to fresh snow or a glacier?
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by MiguelVieira 5y ago
Expected investment returns are already inflation-adjusted https://www.csun.edu/~vcovrig/Asset_Aloc.pdf Edit: I think your point still stands though. In situations where inflation is out of control or where you don&#x2
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by MiguelVieira 5y ago
"Well suppose" — Pemulis can just make out Lyle — "Suppose I were to give you a key ring with ten keys. With, no, with a hundred keys, and I were to tell you that one of these keys will unlock it, this door we're ima
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by MiguelVieira 5y ago
A favorite of mine is the Gauss-Bonnet theorem which relates the Euler characteristic of a surface (i.e. its topology) to its Gaussian curvature (its differential geometry). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss–Bonnet_th
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
But the best selling candy bar in the US is Snickers. So that would be your biggest competitor.
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
I can hear Basil Poledouris’s Hymn to Red October just looking at the photos.
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
When I look at this heat map of recent cases per capita in the US https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppressio... the first thing I see is hot spots all across the southeast and desert southwest. These place
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
It’s more like “matter tells spacetime how to curve, spacetime tells matter how to move”.
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
I wonder if they can find any timelapses of nature being restored instead of destroyed.
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
Re-opening is a knapsack problem. Your budget is Rt (effective reproduction number) which has to stay at or below 1. All social and economic activities have a benefit to society and a cost in terms of Rt. The goal is to get to Rt = 1 while
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
Also this Washington choir where over 80% of the attendants were infected https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-superspreader-singing.h... This article is just wishful thinking.
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
Environmental Kuznets curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve#Environmental_Ku...
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by MiguelVieira 6y ago
See also Street Fighting Mathematics https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighti...

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