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by abeppu 1y ago
Yesterday I went through Glen Park Bart, and every one of the scanners had a taped-on hand-written note in sharpie that said "hold 4 seconds". I doubt that the taller gates will ever pay for themselves (I thought in general fare-e
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by abeppu 1y ago
Yeah I think there are multiple documented cases of this, where especially well-practiced motor-plans seem to be 'pushed down', and if they're interrupted, correction can start faster than a round trip to the brain.
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by abeppu 1y ago
I think it would be interesting to know if the viewer's familiarity with the object informs how accurate the reconstruction is. This shows presumably lab-raised macaques looking at boats and tarantulas and goldfish -- and that's c
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by abeppu 1y ago
I think the distinction you're drawing between "the central nervous system" and "the brain" is mistaken here -- the brain is part of the CNS. This kind of reflex basically has to involve the brain b/c it invo
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by abeppu 1y ago
> But antivenom is made much the same way it was 130 years ago when it was first produced. A small amount of venom is pumped into a horse, camel or sheep, and the antibodies produced in response are harvested. The antibodies tend to be s
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Snake collector's immunity quest opens path towards universal antivenom(theguardian.com)
6 points by abeppu 1y ago|1 comments
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by abeppu 1y ago
> “Congress, not California, is the only body that can regulate the interstate automotive market,” Joyce said during a Monday meeting of the House Rules Committee > Yet the Senate parliamentarian, the nonpartisan arbiter of the upper
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by abeppu 1y ago
... is helping them get $17M not "giving Aid and Comfort"?
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by abeppu 1y ago
It's a bit weird that our base view of some forms of life is the highly selected warped version we've created over centuries. Roses with a single row of petals were the original form, and are still cultivated in many varieties, bu
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by abeppu 1y ago
> Duckdb and datafusion are super cool! But they are VERY large wasm blobs (30-40mb each). This is often larger than the data you’re trying to load. I don't know how to reconcile this with the emphasis in the page on interacting wit
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by abeppu 1y ago
Though these tools might be interesting, I wish they had called this something else. This isn't at all related to the concept of hyperparameters which people commonly refer to as hyperparams. And in their copy, the only reference to hy
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by abeppu 1y ago
> I believe that a lack of alternatives to our current political and economic ideas is a problem for the world right now. While I agree with this statement, I think imagining alternative political and economic systems is not primarily ab
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by abeppu 1y ago
I don't think I care about what brain activation happens while I'm writing per se -- though I may care about behavioral/performance differences. Do you think more deeply or remember better when taking notes by hand? Are you m
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by abeppu 1y ago
Huh, there must have been something in the water leading up to this. Also from 1998 is this paper, "Calculus in coinductive form" and neither of these cites the other. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/705
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by abeppu 2y ago
Sure the burden _should_ be high in both directions. But the journalists seem to be doing a decent job of announcing and describing the data they have, and confirming it with multiple sources within Meta. They're engaged in a seemingly
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by abeppu 2y ago
... and you're absolutely right, innocent people had basically no recourse when Meta took down their content, or shadow-banned them etc on the claim that they were inciting violence, pro-terrorist, engaging in hate-speech etc. The accu
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by abeppu 2y ago
> Sure it happens to immigrants only for now ... and they're trying to end birthright citizenship. I.e. people who are literally not immigrants (were born here and perhaps have never lived anywhere else) are already being lined up f
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by abeppu 2y ago
It sounds like you're using the fact that the posts aren't available for you to view to evaluate as a weakness of the reporting on this suppression campaign, but of course they're not available because of the suppression ca
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by abeppu 2y ago
... so while we were all worried about TikTok, being owned by a Chinese company, would be a vector for that government to push a skewed/propagandized stream of content on the world, Meta has already been doing it for a foreign governme
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think Lex also has recycled some questions / topics across several guests. I'd enjoy a virtual panel supercut where we see only all the guests' responses to the same prompt.
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by abeppu 2y ago
Actually, the (in)famous "sparks of general intelligence paper" about GPT-4 included tasks such as "Draw a unicorn in TikZ" which really is not that far off from this task. There were also examples for drawing cars/
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by abeppu 2y ago
See also work from Schmidhuber in the mid/late 1990s https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/locoart/node12.html
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by abeppu 2y ago
My claim is that intentionally dishonest speech shouldn't obviously enjoy the same protections as earnest speech. > That is the usual degradation of freedom of speech and not at all different from other cases before. That's a r
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by abeppu 2y ago
I'm surprised this works as well as they're describing! There's a single comment about risk that the fiber could become tangled or broken, but they show the drones going through dense forest. I would think that becoming tangl
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think the swerve that makes free speech absolutism less credible now than a generation ago is the prominence that lies and misinformation have gained in the discourse. I think you can still believe that any political, religious or economi
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by abeppu 2y ago
The fertility rate in India is only slightly above replacement. The fertility rate for China is well below replacement. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/ind/ind... https://www.m
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by abeppu 2y ago
I haven't read any of the code to see how it compares, but this work reminds me of research from Nada Amin & Tiark Rompf on "towers of interpreters", where a stack of meta-circular interpreters uses some explicit staging
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by abeppu 2y ago
Her point about private contractors being paid by the number of people detained is an important larger warning. Privatized systems are not magically more efficient; they can just as easily be the driver of the bureaucratic labyrinth.
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Elon Musk's Starlink internet service installed in White House(theguardian.com)
22 points by abeppu 2y ago|20 comments
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by abeppu 2y ago
Not addressed in the article is why a satellite-based internet service makes sense for a building in a city that presumably has ready access to more conventional high-speed internet services.

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