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by akiselev 3y ago
> The US locks up more people, but not for wrong-think. Instead our country does it for consuming the wrong plants at the wrong time, because our systems are still racist in various ways, and because we have somehow allowed prison to be
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by akiselev 3y ago
IANAL but Z-Lib is run as a for-profit business which makes it more of an open and shut case, especially if they're hosting their own files (which I believe they were, to implement that pay gate). LibGen acts more like an archive that&
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by akiselev 3y ago
A more cynical take: There’s a technology in HBO’s Avenue 5 that I think is prescient: the rich owner of the space ship is pissed off that he can’t talk to people on Earth in real time due to the delay, since they’re pretty far from Earth.
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It’s Javascript. Everything is weird - from the equality coercion to the package management to left padding text.
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by akiselev 3y ago
In case anyone is wondering, studying these aerosols is very important to our understanding of global ecology because the desert dust coming off the Sahara [1] supplies critical nutrients like phosphorus from the Bodélé Depression [2] in Ch
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by akiselev 3y ago
See also the “Don’t Say Velcro” [1] campaign from the eponymous hook and loop fastener company. [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY
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by akiselev 3y ago
I've been an avid Hacker News reader for over a decade and this is by far the funnest/funniest/most fun anecdote I've read. That includes all of the comments on the HN highlights page [1]. My nationality has nothing to d
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by akiselev 3y ago
The industry term is "exoplanet" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet
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by akiselev 3y ago
($25)*(24hours)*(30 days)*(12 months) = $216,000 That's absolutely nuts. That's basically the entire capital cost of an 8x A100 hyperplane from LambdaLabs [1] plus power for a year plus administration ! What's the point of
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Open Assistant now has plugin support(open-assistant.io)
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by akiselev 3y ago
In school we were taught "we care for the elderly, we aid the less fortunate" but that doesn't rhyme :-(
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Fun fact: That's actually the real world location of Kree City [1] from the Marvel franchise. However, they had to film in Puerto Rico and show the city entirely via CGI for the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. due to the Cuban embargo and Skye
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by akiselev 3y ago
During the last glacial maximum 20,000 years ago the sea level was about 130 meters below today's [1] so agriculture would be found above that. About a hundred thousand years before that sea levels were close to modern levels and the c
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by akiselev 3y ago
> You want to write an adventure, but want to keep it unpredictable. Ask the AI for ideas, there, the adventure is now a true adventure, not a fake mirage created by the writer. There's something really funny about using an algori
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by akiselev 3y ago
LIDAR has made a splash in archaeology last few years, especially in South America where the jungles cover up all the ruins. See [1][2][3] etc You haven't heard much about it because everyone is scrambling for funding to go excavate th
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by akiselev 3y ago
Nothing is safe in that range - that's why it's unrealistic. The cast iron would decompose, shatter, and light a commercial kitchen on fire, let alone a residential tinder box.
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by akiselev 3y ago
I think we've known about the dangers of lead since Roman times so it's even worse. Quoting Vitruvius [1]: > Water conducted through earthen pipes is more wholesome than that through lead; indeed that conveyed in lead must be
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by akiselev 3y ago
> As burners can get crazy hot, that probably means I'd call teflon unsafe, unless it broke down at 2000F. That seems a bit... unrealistic. Not even cast iron is usable at 2000F.
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by akiselev 3y ago
For that reason most of the high end restaurants in my area have separate menus for take out. Usually it's just their regular menu limited to the dishes that travel best, but often times they'll have dishes that are exclusively fo
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It really depends on the kind of bread you like too. It's true for bog standard wheat sourdoughs and stuff but not for more complex breads like borodinsky [1] which has steps that take several days and include everything from boiling w
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by akiselev 3y ago
It's also completely meaningless even if the conversion was right. They're comparing the average ocean surface temperature off the east coast of North America to just "the average temperature between 1981 and 2011." The
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by akiselev 3y ago
Drats! My plans have been foiled by those dastardly legislators! Again!
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by akiselev 3y ago
Likewise! You should have seen the look on the landlord's face before I opened it up to show them the mess of cucumber plants in space buckets (sidenote: do not grow vining plants in a grow tent!)
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by akiselev 3y ago
Logical consistency is not the same thing as probabilistic consistency.
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The amino acids are generally supplied as - I kid you not - fetal bovine serum.
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https://archive.ph/lGVVc
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by akiselev 3y ago
Why is the supply of tokens limited? Are they currently represented as 16 bit unsigned ints (I hear vocab size of about 50k for GPT3)? If so, is there a performance penalty for going to u32 beyond the extra memory?
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by akiselev 3y ago
“Latino” refers to the mixed descendants of Spanish or Portuguese ancestry as opposed to the indigenous Mayans, Guarani, Aymara, etc that still inhabit the continent, numbering in the millions.
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Based on what happened with the Strategic National Stockpile [1] right before COVID hit, I don’t have much confidence in government run capacity either: > From 2017 to 2019, the Trump administration failed to replace masks and other sup
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> In 1869, while doing experiments searching for the location of the soul, German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but an intact frog attempted to e

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