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by abeppu 1y ago
But aren't there a lot of processes that could drive accumulated damage that are hard to avoid (so you can't realistically get lucky)? E.g. if metabolic processes produce harmful products in low quantities that build up ... How wo
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People keep repeating this, but my understanding is that low overall life expectancies historically were substantially about high infant mortality. If you made it out of childhood, your chances of living to be "old" were decent. I
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> As the probes twinkle on and off, computational models estimate exactly where each molecule is located — and reconstruct a high-resolution image of the sample. How do time and motion fit in with these techniques? I'm dimly aware t
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> The experiments also revealed that the fruit stem straightens up during ripening, creating an average 53° angle that is close to the theoretical perfect angle of 50° that would maximize shooting distance. I recall from school that dist
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I dunno this seems like a not great program and a not great study. > Its findings are the result of a 70-question, anonymous online survey made available to basic income recipients in Hamilton, Brantford and Brant County. A total of 217
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by abeppu 1y ago
Why is the surfside condo collapse specifically relevant for office-to-residential conversions? That building was built for residential from the start. And that building also had basically ignored a major maintenance issue for multiple year
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Ok, so ericmay was not entirely explicit and perhaps we read his point differently. > then I don’t want to hear a peep about us taking any other actions in the world that we deem just I think the noteworthy peeps are not about the mere
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The article makes clear that the initiative, though announced by USAID with other partners, was funded primarily by philanthropy. > The money – most of it from Open Philanthropy – will go to more than a dozen countries from Indonesia and
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> But if you ascribe even the slightest but of agency to any of the non-Americans involved, you have to wonder if this problem will come back. From the article: > And recently they are celebrating some big news on the lead fighting fr
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I wonder: will there be a noticeable increase in the rate of mistakes on grocery orders this week?
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Amazon asks corporate workers to 'volunteer' help with grocery deliveries(theguardian.com)
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I think you're basically saying that ARC-AGI doesn't achieve a goal that _it didn't set_. The point of ARC-AGI is not to benchmark LLMs specifically. The point is to measure fluid intelligence in a way which supports comparis
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Maybe the most memorable version of the response is this the "Copying is not Theft" song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
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There are so many layers of crazy here but the one that strikes me most is attacking CNN for having a piece about the App. I.e. it's not just that reporting police activity is treated as a problem (it's not) but even an article di
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1. I explicitly said I agree with the broader point 2. The fallacious form of "what about ..." is trying to dismiss problem X without addressing it by raising problem Y. I identified the article's concern as being part of a l
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism > Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "but what about X?")[1] is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation inste
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While I agree with the broader point that people should not abuse rules that are meant to accommodate for real needs ... this seems like the smallest-scale example of our society falling away from having meaningful rules right now. If you h
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The methodology at the page you link to seems really sketchy and inappropriate to the kinds of groups under discussion. > Suppose PA(x) and PB(x) differ only by a translation in x, such that fB(x) = fA(x - Δ), where Δ is the mean differe
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> Why is that important? Unless the runners are conscripted into the race, it's not telling you anything about women or men It's not saying something about _all_ men or women. If you did try to work with a random sample wouldn&
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That's literally not what that soecific article says: > While men still hold the edge, women’s rapid progress suggests a future where they may outperform men in extreme endurance events.
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The actual article from the researchers discusses their choices: > The boat was paddled by a mixed team consisting of four men (paddlers) and one woman (steerer), without replacement by other paddlers on the way. The inclusion of both me
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> If consciousness exists on a gradient rather than as a binary state, then each architectural advance might add layers of cognitive sophistication that could eventually support conscious experience. It's 2025 and I'm frustrate
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I think the "senate-confirmed" part is important and relates to three president's inability to just install a replacement independently. He can remove an official nominated by the president, but he can't unilaterally fil
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So, this article describes the sequence of events as the Trump administration attempting to replace the librarian of congress, and Trump's named replacement saying he was replacing the Copyright Register with a Trump DOJ person. I am n
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I think we should shift the focus from adapting LLMs to our purposes (e.g. external tool use) and adapting how we think about software and focus on getting models that internally understand compilation and execution. Rather than merely buil
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Nevada became US territory through the treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo, and the US paid per acre ceded. Who should it have gone to? Lots of people fought in the Mexican-American war, and the military was funded by taxpayers. Is it wrong for it
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I think a basic issue here is that they're claiming this is to build housing, but this is not gonna help our housing issues: - the housing crisis isn't about a lack of land to build on really - there's a decent amount of vaca
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This seems to be overstating the separation. For people doing applied ML, there's often been a dual responsibility that included a significant amount of software engineering. I wouldn't necessarily listen to such declarations from
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I'm not saying I believe their statement, but in principle they could be storing messages indexed by recipient and have the sender id be part of the encrypted content? Then you can drop messages in each user's inbox as they arrive

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