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by abeppu 2y ago
Skimming the actual paper ... it seems pretty bad? The thing about Beethoven's 9th and biological materials which is mentioned in the OP is just that, out of a very large knowledge graph, they found small subgraph isomorphic to a subgr
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by abeppu 2y ago
Do archaeologists or other relevant experts have any sense of how common these things were / what fraction have been destroyed either through natural processes or human activity? Are there a smallish number of these sites because they
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by abeppu 2y ago
This seems like the start of something handy, but isn't yet useful. As others have mentioned, which holidays a company offers will vary. But more than that, given a number of days off and a calendar year, this currently seems to outp
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think the other side of this is, how would one enter the pool of eligible PHOSITAs participating in establishing obviousness? If the fear is around blocking out individual inventors or small companies, that's reasonable -- but can yo
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think the problem now is that individual waymos are ok on relatively narrow streets, streets with hills, being cautious about pedestrians and cyclists, etc. The most frequent issues I notice in SF now are around waymos interacting with
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by abeppu 2y ago
Yeah so I have to imagine that most of those are bogus, right? That's like if 1 in a thousand people in the country had a new "invention" every year. Considering life expectancy, that's like if a single digit percentage
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think I may be in the minority for believing that patents for software could in some cases be reasonable, but the main problem is that the current system has no reasonable mechanism for establishing 'obviousness'. Closely relate
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think making your tech company staff make furniture is about as sensible as if the people who make furniture were also building their own software. But as to open source furniture design ... I thought furniture was basically in the same p
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by abeppu 2y ago
I agree with you but I wonder if this algorithm could be reworked to be an important part of a system of that considers context. Roughly, what if we consider x_i the sequence of latent chords, and y_i the observed notes. If we reframe the a
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by abeppu 2y ago
So, if the ethical problem is not attempting self-treatment, but that publishing about self-treatment will lead others to make potentially dangerous choices ... then isn't the publishing process, and its selection bias for positive res
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by abeppu 2y ago
> First, let's not forget that jaywalking is one of those "crimes" that is used as a pretense by police to harass people, usually young people and people of color. But let's also not pretend that decriminalizing jaywa
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by abeppu 2y ago
> Honestly, I would not hire a single manager from these big companies because they operate in an environment where they're playing with monopoly money and don't know what reality is. In part, to unpack why part of this glib ta
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by abeppu 2y ago
But in SF, and a bunch of other places that have a lot of visible drug use, I think the "gateway drug" has often been legally prescribed opioids. You could be prescribed opioids for any number of legitimate reasons (injury, post s
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by abeppu 2y ago
Even if they're _chemically_ inert, physical accumulation of particles of foreign matter in your brain might be causing problems. When it gets inside of cells, is it in the way of any processes? When it's between cells, does it tr
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by abeppu 2y ago
But I have seen reporting that it takes SF and Oakland cops extremely long to respond to complaints about a side-show. Presumably before you actually prosecute people you need cops to actually get there, arrest people, etc while the event i
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think the juxtaposition between this and Flock's (and other's) license-plate reader products is interesting. My gut reaction to a network of cameras that can track people's movement whether or not there's any cause to
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think that was mostly debunked, including from statements from Walgreens itself. This isn't super recent, and perhaps things got worse after this, but in 2023 both they and 3rd party sources basically admitted that the theft story wa
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by abeppu 2y ago
How would it be different if Amazon does it than the current company they're partnering with? It already sounds like there's a subscription structure, which I think implies that the partner company and not the city owns and runs t
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by abeppu 2y ago
This is a bad and shallow article. Critically, n-gram models are literally just counting in the way described. If you can't account for the difference in behavior and performance between a LLMs and an n-gram model of either similar par
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by abeppu 2y ago
The confusing choice they seem to have made is that "Claude 3.5 Sonnet" is a name, rather than 3.5 being a version. In their view, the model "version" is now `claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022` (and was previously `claude-3-5-s
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by abeppu 2y ago
> One important piece of context to keep in mind is that although the US helped negotiate the Convention on Biological Diversity — the treaty under which COP16 takes place — it’s not a formal member of the agreement. In fact, the US is t
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by abeppu 2y ago
You started by saying that in science you cannot prove things, only provide evidence, but that in math you can prove things. Then you made an assertion that a hypothesis "is a statement that can be true or false. That's it."
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think it's a mistake to frame "why" as "cultural stuff around the scientific method" but not actually part of science. > Basically a hypothesis is a statement that can be true or false. That's it. No, a st
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by abeppu 2y ago
I like the example of seeing a clock as you walk past. It says it's 2:30. You believe that the time is 2:30. That seems like a perfectly reasonable level of justification -- you looked at a clock and read the time. If unbeknownst to yo
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by abeppu 2y ago
This article is about time spent alone, which isn't intrinsically tied to the kinds of relationships one has (i.e. can be a thing you do more than a long-term state you're in), and which certainly is not the same as not being marr
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by abeppu 2y ago
Does anyone have references on any explanation, or even partial explanation, on why this might be the case? The published stuff I can find seems to be at the level of anecdata, scarcely better than "I know a guy who..." - What peo
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by abeppu 2y ago
... but even before the rule change, in virtue of being a proper name, if the proprietor calls it "Eva's Blumenladen", and it's marked as such, wasn't it proper usage to refer to it that way? If I call my English bu
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Wanted: Expedition botanist to follow in Darwin's footsteps and look for plants(theguardian.com)
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by abeppu 2y ago
> If they react inappropriately, I'll be cordial and treat them with respect, but I don't want to be friends. If they're way too supportive - the same rule applies. > Really, I'm just looking for people who won&#x2
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by abeppu 2y ago
The author talks about how acquiring books reflects their personal story, time spent, interests etc, and then seems sad and surprised that kids don't want their parents' libraries ... But presumably those kids have their own inter

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