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bawana
1y ago
try this visualization https://gist.github.com/bwanaaa/4c77b33311916b230c8b1891bab4... just open it in collar and the 3d graph appears
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1y ago
Here is a python script that plots on the Z axis - each number through an entire Collatz cycle until the result of 1, on the X axis - the number of cycles needed to get to 1, on the Y axis - add 1 for odd numbers, subtract 1 for even number
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1y ago
We are the global outlier because it costs an arm and a leg to go to college and medical school. In the rest of the world the education is free/ still affordable. And thats why all the young doctors are also imports.
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1y ago
When will we get AI CEOs? I am tired of seeing corporate decisions driven by quarterly bonuses.
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1y ago
How much of this account is realistic? If this is the writing of an educated young person. Imagine how despondent must the average young person be? And are we to presume this is the material that will help Ukraine? It seems the pendulum of
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I wonder if they used the output of alpha fold? Remember that Deepmind published the 3D structure of hundreds of millions of proteins for FREE. Imagine if they walled off that data behind an Elsevier like subscription wall? They shoould cre
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1y ago
Finasteride was discovered because of a tribe in south america with a high frequency of a mutant allele in the gene responsible for protein that converts T to DHT. They had no BPH. This led to the search for a competitive inhibitor of that
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Unmentioned is the significance of dietary modificatioon. In one study, Japanese men had 10% of the incidience of problematic bph as americans. The offspring of the japanese in Hawaii had half the iincidence. The second generation had no di
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1y ago
At 50 cents a capsule on amazon , prostamol uno (serenoa repens) is more expensive than finasteride so it will forever remain an unrecognized herb. Also, remember we dont really know how these pills are made. Remember the story of that mira
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2y ago
Robotic obstetricians
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2y ago
We offshored manufacturing for profit. We are now offshoring brainpower. Manufacturing will only come back in the form of intelligent robots .
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Inflation continues. Salary bumps reward the bureaucracy. Meanwhile i get paid less every year - even medicare is going to cut me 2% next year. I guess doctors will suffer the same fate as teachers. I discourage every young person i see fro
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2y ago
Ai excel at mapping an input to an output. Isnt this what management is supposed to do? Why isnt there an AI CFO? CEO? The gains to the bottom line are huge considering their salaries, bonuses and stock options. It will send their share pri
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2y ago
All i see is an nginx welcome page
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2y ago
I just paid $3.45 at a chargepoint charger for enough electricity for 22 miles. My plugin hybrid car gets 27 mi/ gallon. Gas is a cheaper source of energy for me
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2y ago
The article begins with claims of violation of conservation of energy but no examples. Then it posits that violations of energy conservation are explained by symmetries. What does that mean in English? Is there something else that changes i
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2y ago
imagine the share price jump when the first corp announces this!
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2y ago
So will this ever be able to run a lightweight windows vm?
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2y ago
The effect of stiffness can also be represented by stretchability of the string. Picking up a string with a free end will result in the same shape described by adding stiffness. A fanciful analogy might be a chain of springs with constant k
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2y ago
That kind of blog post never happened in the 1950 to 1980 era. It is so naive and selfish. But It might have been written in another era by Marie Antoinette. Avarice and decadence like this need to be taxed into oblivion
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2y ago
But why is spacetime distance (x^2 - t^2)^.5
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2y ago
Sounds like Synapse was a great money laundering schemme. My conclusion is that all aggregators are bad. Economies of scale are bad.AI is bad. Anything that devalues humans is bad. Everything has just become bad. Reminds me of our blooming
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Entropy is also defined as the number of different arrangements of particles in a system. We say that entropy is increasing in our universe. But we have also found that space is increasing. If space increases faster than particles move, ent
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In 'The War Below' by Ernest Scheyder, I learned about the complexities of mining companies profiteering vs the rights of 'the land' as represented by the indigenous people and environmental activists. This is another ex
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Not really. Consider private equity’s solution to our doctor shortage. Import foreign trained physicians without requiring additional training. Give them access to an electronic medical record eith AI. Teach them how to click a mouse so the
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If china is pumping so much money into their economy, subsidizing every manufacturer, why dont they have runaway inflation?
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This project highlights the complexity of the real world. Not all of russia is evil. So why should the good be isolated, starved, punished? True, people in power can cause irreparable harm to neighboring nations, or even their own (Stalin?)
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2y ago
What i was wondering…exactly… how do you make this kind of a laser? And imagine an xray laser… you could fry the guidance system of drone very precisely
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2y ago
Arent gamma, x, and uv ALL em radiation? What makes a gamma with a wavelength near uv still allow it to be called gamma? Why dont we say the nucleon emits uv at 148 when it transitions to its ground state?
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3y ago
Why would increasing memory bandwidth reduce performance? You said "You can get a decent approximation for LLM performance in tokens/second by dividing the model size in GB by the system's memory bandwidth"
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