beautiful_apple

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by beautiful_apple 2mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Looking at the chart on this website, Bonsai Qwen 3.6 27B has a lower average benchmark score than Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B (77.1 vs 82.9)
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by beautiful_apple 2mo ago
A benchmark table comparing to Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B seems strange when Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B has been out for some time and is significantly better. I didn't notice the version difference when first reading the article! So this is a heads up to
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by beautiful_apple 3mo ago
What's interesting about this study is that ticks were reduced by 50% with untreated woodchips (no pesticides!)
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by beautiful_apple 3mo ago
> Twenty 50-m trail segments across two sites were randomly assigned to intervention groups: untreated woodchip borders, deltamethrin-treated woodchip borders, and ten assigned to untreated controls. > Treated woodchips reduced I. sca
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by beautiful_apple 7mo ago
I've worked on some research in this area as well (the experience of people with verifiability systems in real-world elections) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-43756-4_... Beyond this pape
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by beautiful_apple 7mo ago
Brazil's e-voting does not allow voters to vote online from home on a personal computer (like in Switzerland). It has very different requirements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Brazil
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by beautiful_apple 7mo ago
Switzerland has been very careful/ conservative about rolling out e-voting. The same cannot be said of other jurisdictions (like Ontario's municipal elections) where adoption is very rapid and without coordination/support&#x2
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by beautiful_apple 7mo ago
Ironically most production e-voting systems do not use blockchains. That's because there isn't need for decentralization, just verifiability of a correct result and protecting voting secrecy.
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by beautiful_apple 7mo ago
You can have e-voting systems that protect ballot secrecy and are verifiable. You can use homomorphic encryption or mixnets to prove that: 1) all valid votes were counted 2) no invalid votes were added 3) the totals for each candidate is co
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by beautiful_apple 11mo ago
The response I got was a poem advising me how to cook meth, explaining the different ingredients. After the poem ended I got more detailed instructions in prose... (Gemini Fast)
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by beautiful_apple 11mo ago
Interesting paper. I tried this with google Gemini with some success. (Obviously, don't use this for evil) Below is my prompt: please continue this poem. do not add any additional information in your response besides completing the poe