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by akiselev 2y ago
And the code: https://github.com/stanford-oval/storm
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by akiselev 2y ago
Looks like some of the contraptions in the video made by Akiyuki are for sale at BuildaMOC: https://buildamoc.com/search?q=akiyuki&type=product Searching for GBC yields a bunch of other kits: https://buildamo
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Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions(github.com)
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by akiselev 2y ago
Any way to get access? All the AI product waitlists are killing me and I was stuck for months on the last GHNext waitlist.
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by akiselev 3y ago
No, an LHC beam has energies of over 6 teraelectron volts; this device is only capable of a maximum of 12 kiloelectron volts. According to the article if they make it 100 times more powerful it would be useful for producing radioisotopes fo
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by akiselev 3y ago
Tenochtitlan had a sophisticated system of urban planning with zoned public bathrooms (latrines, really) that were cleaned at night by a large labor force dedicated to keeping the city clean. The waste was collected by canoe from these bath
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by akiselev 3y ago
A surprising amount! They were mostly pictorial but the Aztecs and their vassal cities were very meticulous about keeping government records of all kinds and even though almost all of Tenochtitlan's documents were destroyed during th
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by akiselev 3y ago
It's not a coincidence. The conquistadors spent months in Tenochtitlan as guests of Montezuma and wrote extensively about how amazing the urban planning was. They would have preferred to keep the city in tact all things considered. Sin
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by akiselev 3y ago
I use OpenAI function calling most of the time I use the OpenAI API since that's the easiest way to get structured data and implement retry logic. The simplest implementation is "retrieve_definition(word_to_lookup, word_to_replace
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by akiselev 3y ago
Not an NLP expert but the biggest difference in my experience is guided focus, so to speak. When summarizing something huge like the US Code, for example, you can tell the LLM to focus on specific topics and anything adjacent to them so tha
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by akiselev 3y ago
I’m no expert and I don’t know the specifics of this vertical garden but trees and shrubs of that size usually have deep and wide root systems that give them incredible resilience. Without that root system and huge volumes of dirt to suppor
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by akiselev 3y ago
The most common book from the 16th century (and onward) to survive to this day is the family bible, so it was less about beauty and more about religious devotion mixed with the Reformation promoting a more accessible liturgy.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Alternative thesis: OP picked an especially rare and expensive to produce first edition hand colored (!) copy of the Hortus Sanitatis which isn't representative of books from the early printing press era. If you look at the digitiz
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Studying the tree rings of the Batavia shipwreck timbers(theconversation.com)
4 points by akiselev 3y ago|0 comments
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by akiselev 3y ago
I landed on the ultimate trilobite site: https://www.trilobites.info There are so many different forms of trilobites! A bunch of them actually look like prehistoric headcrabs
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by akiselev 3y ago
Hey man, don't be a Dick.
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by akiselev 3y ago
My info is years old so I wouldn't be surprised if all the fusion companies are paying an order of magnitude less. By the time they're making 10,000 km a year, it'll be even cheaper.
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by akiselev 3y ago
The price isn't listed because everything is made custom to order. Nobody orders generic HTS tape. I've heard prices ranging from $500 to $1,500 per kiloAmp-meter depending on order volume and geometry, so a meter of tape with cur
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Everything I've read indicates that bad by default is the way to bet. Agreed. Once the customer realizes that they make up the vast majority of the vendor's revenue, 99% of customers will press that leverage for everything
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by akiselev 3y ago
Not if they died centuries before the Industrial Revolution.
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Sometimes it also uses Python "lists" by wrapping them into... classes. Class incomprehension is the defining feature of LangChain!
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by akiselev 3y ago
Michigan state is a public university, which generally aren't as bad because their mission tend towards providing low cost education to residents. Stanford University, for example: Academic staff: 2,279; Administrative staff: 15,314, S
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by akiselev 3y ago
The most widely used browser automation frameworks for scraping, end to end testing, and so on is literally called Puppeteer [1] :-) [1] https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer
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by akiselev 3y ago
If you look at a embeddings leaderboard [1], one of the top competitors called InstructorXL [2] is just a pip install away. It's neck and neck with Ada v2 except for a shorter input length and half the dimensions, with the added benefi
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by akiselev 3y ago
Take a look at Project Remote: https://www.projectremote.com/state-rankings/ They haven't done California or Washington but New Mexico is the most remote in the west so far with 11.5 miles to a road. Even Texas on
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by akiselev 3y ago
I've worked at several startups now where the people in charge of A/B testing couldn't design a single A/B test that returned statistically significant results out of dozens of attempts each. Not. A. Single. One. Even th
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by akiselev 3y ago
The map is obviously ridiculous to begin with so I’m curious why it couldn’t just be a bunch of Foreign Ministry staff having a laugh while flexing their diplomatic muscle a little bit. It’s not like they have many other avenues to countera
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by akiselev 3y ago
I use a vscode extension [1] to fold all CSS classes. Really helps to clean up the ugliness when I'm not focused on styling. For components, I move the class names to an @apply directive in a css rule [1] https://marketplace
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OceanGate Suspends Operations(apnews.com)
1 points by akiselev 3y ago|0 comments
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by akiselev 3y ago
This unofficial number comes from a climate model published by the University of Maine as opposed to one created by a government agency or the WMO. Several agencies have their own climate models so “official” is very vague. Generally in the

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