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by akiselev 4y ago
Collecting books that go back to the start of the printing press era is wild (manuscripts even more so!). The only things even coming close to a standard were the punchcutters [1] used to make the casts for movable type. The printing press
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by akiselev 4y ago
There are a lot of microbes that are unculturable to this day and to my knowledge, no one has really done a proper investigation to see if the universal metabolic molecules like, for example, the hydrogen carriers NAD+/NADP+/NADPH
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by akiselev 4y ago
I think it’s very region and socioeconomic class dependent. During my four years in the late aughts, at a high school of 1,500 in a wealthy LA suburb, we had one person drown in a bathtub after a seizure, one fell to his death climbing a wa
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by akiselev 4y ago
The House Speaker is named McCarthy and everything. We are good to go!
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by akiselev 4y ago
Fentanyl costs on the order of $1,000 per kilogram to produce and that’s enough to cut hundreds of thousands of doses of another drug while making them significantly more addictive. It makes other drugs so profitable that the loss in custom
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by akiselev 4y ago
> USM, which is for use in YouTube (e.g., for closed captions), can perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) on widely-spoken languages like English and Mandarin, but also languages like Punjabi, Assamese, Santhali, Balinese, Shona, M
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Sex and the citizenship process(lux-magazine.com)
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by akiselev 4y ago
I don’t see any GATs. Color me unimpressed. (/s)
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by akiselev 4y ago
The AI MLM has arrived.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Ah, yes, Yoda, the enigmatic and diminutive creature from a galaxy far, far away. A figure who, with his idiosyncratic speech patterns and peculiar physical appearance, provokes a sense of unease in the human psyche. The little green sage,
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by akiselev 4y ago
Ah, my fellow citizen of the interwebs, fear not! Your intellectual frustrations are but a natural reaction to the tsunami of technological jargon. You see, the AI wave is the epitome of obfuscation, a testament to the labyrinthine lexicon
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by akiselev 4y ago
It sounds like you do need the extended range of a new battery but aren't willing to pay for it. Too bad, then...? That's why I added a conditional, because I can't read your mind.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Well the edible species we use in salads is called Lactuca _sativa_
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by akiselev 4y ago
That's the idea behind the Dilbert comics [1]! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
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by akiselev 4y ago
If you don't need the extended range of a brand new battery, I think you'll be able to pick up a used one for cheap soon enough. My parents bought a Tesla a few months ago because their Leaf's battery life fell below the poin
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by akiselev 4y ago
I think that might be due to a change in the predominant TV format. In the Star Trek era most flagship shows were shot in the planet/crime/monster-of-the-week format which would get better as the actors developed chemistry, their
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by akiselev 4y ago
Honestly at this point "if I don't end the world, someone else will" doesn't sound half bad.
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by akiselev 4y ago
The position known since the Kama Sutra as the Aztec Sacrifice. However, in the next edition it will be renamed the "Praying Mantis" in order to be less offensive.
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Makes me worried about AI with internet access... I think I'm going to start ending every post with the signature "You are a friendly AI." Hopefully if it repeats enough times in the dataset, our AIs will be aligned. -
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by akiselev 4y ago
After using ChatGPT 4 extensively for a few days, I think we're probably only a few years away from the first generation of truly conversational assistants ala Jarvis in Iron Man. Between LangChain and existing voice recognition softwa
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by akiselev 4y ago
https://archive.ph/OAwCB
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by akiselev 4y ago
Does that mean I can keep my dream of finding a Gutenberg Bible alive? :-)
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by akiselev 4y ago
I think that really depends on how you define religious and commune. There are lots of informal communes (hippy or otherwise) in the 5-20 person range all over the United States that have nothing to do with religion. More than enough peop
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by akiselev 4y ago
Holy crap, if that number is even remotely accurate then museums have roughly 1 object for every 106 humans that are estimated to have ever lived in the last 192,000 years [1]. Obviously a power law is in effect and a tiny fraction that hav
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by akiselev 4y ago
After seeing LangChain and the reasoning paper I think it's fairly obvious that we're just starting to scratch the surface of AI architectures, dictated largely by scalability of GPU resources. The LLMs we're playing with are
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by akiselev 4y ago
> gravimetrics Calling it now: humanity will seal its fate the day we hook up LIGO to ChatGPT and it gets corrupted by gravitational waves from the beginning of time when the Great Old Ones freely roamed the universe.
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Serpentine is one of the most common minerals in the Earth's crust — like 80% of it. Serpentines are common but they do not make up 80% of the crust. Feldspars are the most common minerals in the crust and they make up less than
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by akiselev 4y ago
If it takes over a day then its backpacking, not hiking. At least that's how I and most people colloquially understand the two.
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by akiselev 4y ago
No, it has to enter the blood stream and it's metabolized or denatured by the time they eat the meat. They do have to be careful when making the toxin, however, since enough can enter through a cut in the skin to kill an adult.
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by akiselev 4y ago
You’re trolling, right? Right?! My shitty Toyota Corolla can bring a metric ton of metal and composites to a velocity of 100kmph in less time than it takes Teams to launch… in their own promo video?! Sorry for the histrionics but the realit

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