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by abeppu 1y ago
There may be a real point here but this post and paper are not good evidence for it. The blogpost doesn't have a date, but links to a 2023 preprint, which is hard to evaluate b/c it doesn't actually have a methods section, de
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by abeppu 1y ago
... did you finish the series? I think for adults it should be 3 doses. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/administration.html
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by abeppu 1y ago
Methodologically, why would you have one cutoff vs a different cutoff per group (as there are different qualifying times per group)? I am not a marathoner, but I'd imagine that a 6 min decrease from the stated qualifying time cuts out
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by abeppu 1y ago
> Laqua, whose father is a lawyer for an insurance company, said he hires only people willing to work seven days a week. Of his 40-plus employees, around 30 are ex-founders. His welcome gift to new hires is a mattress to keep at work. &g
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by abeppu 1y ago
I think we can't actually know this unless Meta tries it. I think there are two main open questions: 1. With aggressive, noisy referrals to prosecution, and banning people who report others in bad faith, can you get these people to sto
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by abeppu 1y ago
I think this is a distinction without a difference; if you use insulin from Novo Nordisk, what does it mean to "apply a high degree of skepticism to anything they do or say"? Do you have an independent (small?) lab check that it i
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by abeppu 1y ago
In practice, what does that look like? B/c large corporations are constantly doing shady stuff, but in day-to-day life, how does one avoid being in situations where you're dependent on them, without that avoidance becoming its own
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by abeppu 1y ago
How about: e) the product records a window on behalf of each customer, and the customer can report an incident like this to both Meta and legal authorities including such a recording. Strangers who sexually proposition kids get removed from
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by abeppu 1y ago
I _think_ the distinction is that the interface tells you what MovieAPI _does_, but this system also tracks what are contextual requirements to do that thing. So when they write their version of the MovieAPI that calls out to an existing we
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by abeppu 1y ago
> For that, I think The Economist is much better. It has more direct reporting, with seemingly less editorializing. I appreciate The Economist, but I find that they do editorialize, they're just up front about it. They use the word
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by abeppu 1y ago
I dunno, I think you can believe that LLMs are powerful and useful tools but that putting them in kids toys would be a bad idea (and maybe putting them in a chat experience for adults is a questionable idea). The Internet _is_ hugely valuab
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by abeppu 1y ago
I think that's a misleading statement: - Prior to the pandemic, BART got >60% of its operating costs from riders (p9 in your linked doc) - Ridership is still way down relative to 2019 even though costs are up in absolute terms - Eve
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by abeppu 1y ago
BART now does actually have tap-to-pay, but it's very recent: https://www.kqed.org/news/12052690/bart-fares-2025-credit-ca...
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by abeppu 1y ago
So like 11 years ago, Stripe made investments into Stellar, which was supposed to be a payment network that would facilitate transactions into existing currencies. I think that hasn't really gone where it was hoped? https://
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by abeppu 1y ago
I think it's important to distinguish between "life expectancy gains have slowed substantially" vs "meaningful longevity increases are not reachable". A huge fraction of deaths in the developed world are from "
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by abeppu 1y ago
Like, I don't expect this administration to be _good_. But Trump has had a _lot_ of experience fighting with his own appointees who aren't blindly obedient (e.g. he appointed Jerome Powell in 2017 and has spent months threatening
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by abeppu 1y ago
Logistically / organizationally, what has to go wrong for the administration to nominate her, have her in place for less than a month, and then remove her? Like, before you send someone through confirmation, do you have a quick convers
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by abeppu 1y ago
My understanding is that the _concept_ of a virus wasn't even established until the late 19th century, because we first needed the germ theory, and then we needed to understand bacteria well enough to have a filter whose pores were kno
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by abeppu 1y ago
> When he and his colleagues looked at the individuals’ immune cells, they could see encounters with all sorts of viruses—flu, measles, mumps, chickenpox. But the patients had never reported any overt signs of infection or illness. Give
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by abeppu 1y ago
... and similarly doesn't it mean the pile is slow to absorb heat when your PV installation is trying to dump energy into it?
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by abeppu 1y ago
But the Biden administration which introduced the IRA subsidies also jacked up tariffs on solar panels, increasing the price of these projects. Would many of these businesses been viable if neither subsidies nor tariffs had been introduced?
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by abeppu 1y ago
Is there an agricultural analog of portfolio theory? Permaculture always seems to be pitched in terms of the ecological perspective, but I wonder if there's some way to firm up the idea that if your fields/portfolio are diversifie
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by abeppu 1y ago
... what would a chip version of 641A even look like? If it involves (a) identifying / filtering stuff they want to spy on (b) sending it back to one of the intelligence agencies, it seems like both would be hard to do well and secretl
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by abeppu 1y ago
... that's not how freedom works? Even if I happen not to hold any particularly radical political opinions, if political speech is censored, my rights of free expression are also decreased. I may not practice a minority religion, but i
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by abeppu 1y ago
I remember hearing this story at the time but have forgotten all the details. I think it involved a pretty well known company? I also remember hearing that some DC in NJ got special priority in getting diesel in the following days because
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by abeppu 1y ago
I wasn't involved in the specific details but I remember being told that during the power outage from hurricane Sandy, even datacenters that had sufficient generators had trouble getting the diesel to keep them running, because everyon
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by abeppu 1y ago
I think the case for interpretability could have been made better, but in Figure 3 I think if you look at the middle "prototype" rows from the traditional vs Tversky layers, and scroll so you can't see the rows above, I think
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by abeppu 1y ago
While I think the idea of LLM-based tooling and languages co-evolving is interesting, from this limited description, I think this isn't a helpful direction. > “So instead of writing three applications, you write it in a special prog
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by abeppu 1y ago
To be very clear, redlining didn't happen just because a bunch of individual bankers happened to be racist. It was a consequence of federal policy -- the FHA would insure loans in white neighborhoods but not in minority neighborhoods,
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by abeppu 1y ago
I mean in the US a bunch of them are still the remaining product of redlining policies where racial minorities were allowed to live but banks would not give loans. Housing segregation was planned and enforced. That sounds a lot like intenti

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