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by bertil 3y ago
Similar name, seemingly a lot less talent (intentionally so, IIUC), but awe-inspiring grit: _How To Make Everything_ on YouTube [0] has really hit the nail on the head with having an average man trying to recreate items from scratch. He’s n
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by bertil 3y ago
They are allowed have friends and to communicate with them?
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by bertil 3y ago
Probably. I just happen to have had the most incredible physics teachers, and I know elite engineering schools do too: Feynman, that Eastern European lady who is way too loud and excited about science, the “let’s see if conservation of move
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by bertil 3y ago
> Carbon capture is being successfully used all around the world. [Citation needed]
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by bertil 3y ago
> economic upside of cheap energy isn't being accounted for It is: we anticipate companies to operate “indefinitely,” which turns to a high market value. Banks sell that stock, pension funds store it, and their activity is accounted
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by bertil 3y ago
I can’t speak intelligently about the relationship between the pension fund and the wealth fund (it is complicated), but I think you overestimate the share of upcoming revenue from oil over the on-going benefit from operating a fund that
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by bertil 3y ago
> new oil field I was surprised because I assumed Norway wouldn’t open new oil fields. I’d say it’s “interesting,” but what I actually mean isn’t publishable.
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by bertil 3y ago
I spend a lot of my life very much hoping for things like that, but I’m increasingly wondering how not having a central server makes it impossible to be interoperable, successful, and spam-proof. Having “AGI” —or at least a very convincing
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by bertil 3y ago
I don’t think this announcement will make any of the relevant debates (on the impact of Meta on the world, or the fears around AI, or the confusion on whether sharing a trained model qualifies as “open source”) any less frustratingly contro
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by bertil 3y ago
I’m convinced it’s not done in many areas of science. I have seen it done extensively in others. The point is: I’m not sure doing it should be qualified as plagiarism.
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by bertil 3y ago
I happen to tell people I’m a statistician—because it’s true, and because I didn’t learn from the first 10,000 times someone heard that, turned around, and left without a word. The always run away, except in one case… If they stay, I know
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by bertil 3y ago
I didn’t look too deeply into the scandal about plagiarism (because seeing people I admire fight like kids makes me sad), but I saw one glimpse: one accusation was comparing the Literature section of two papers by a PI and their Ph.D. stude
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by bertil 3y ago
I read that as a dismissal of the title: as you have experienced, chemotherapy is horrible. “Kinder” there can feel like a comically low bar. But this is wonderful progress. Let’s hope is a lot kinder.
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by bertil 3y ago
This is the first model that I’ve noticed offers the one feature that I am really looking for in a laptop: an integrated keyboard and the included screen at eye level. Sure, that one has a first screen where the screen usually is (next to t
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by bertil 3y ago
Product development, as in product teams and writing software, i.e., what most people at Amazon or on Hacker News do, is R&D.
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by bertil 3y ago
Sodium boosting Lithium battery isn’t novel at all. There’s a lot of SEO crum but here’s a two-year-old mention, for example: https://cnevpost.com/2022/11/29/sodium-ion-batteries-evs-ran...
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by bertil 3y ago
This article would be a lot better if there were anything material about what was novel. Mixing the two isn’t new. If the AI was anything more than a word-mashing stochastic parrot, it could have come with a representation that piked Pr. Mu
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by bertil 3y ago
Replacing Lithium with Sodium, the only information this article suggests came from the AI, is about as trivial as you get in chemistry. That is a question that a high school teacher would ask their class after introducing the period table
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by bertil 3y ago
I click systematically, and it almost always says they picked a broad category, like “Men between 25 and 75 in [country].” There’s usually some phrasing that is meant to be ambiguous or unclear but that I have to interpret as “based on your
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by bertil 3y ago
Technically (and by that, I mean if you get into multivariate, intertemporal, multi-product auction theory, so very technical), “customers,” i.e., users seeing irrelevant ads, means they don’t get to see relevant ones, don’t click. Those
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by bertil 3y ago
There are some Ads I'm keen to watch: I just clicked on an ad for Netflix telling me about a new movie that came out. I probably shouldn’t watch movies in the middle of the day, but that was relevant, well targeted, and will lead to me
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by bertil 3y ago
If anyone is curious whether I’m exaggerating, I had to check a vendor presentation for work. The video is on YouTube, and the first ad I saw reads: > Beauties From Eastern Europe > Chat and meet real Slavic women > Sponsored >
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by bertil 3y ago
I’m hoping that, at some point, someone at YouTube will ask a User experience researcher to look into users’ motivation to block ads and realize that there are glaring issues with their model. What has been happening to me is that, for the
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by bertil 3y ago
Unlike what you are implying, I never posted anything offensive. If you want me to help you with your User experience research, let me know where to send the invoice.
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by bertil 3y ago
Ask them.
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by bertil 3y ago
Look around and ask them
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by bertil 3y ago
Incogni has been sponsoring a lot of the YouTubers I watch regularly, so I’ve had to ask myself: is that worth it? There’s, of course, the risk of sharing your personal details with a company that gave money to people to build para-social r
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by bertil 3y ago
This article, and every comment on here, every discourse about that problem, takes this tsunami of shocking images as a natural, exogenous phenomenon. No one ever asks: Who shares those? Why? Do they ever stop? Can we discourage them from d
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by bertil 3y ago
That’s probably the most horrifying flip side of that debate. There’s genuine physical abuse at a scale that would make every genocide, or any pandemic look tame, but it’s all dismissed because car companies represent a material amount of a
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by bertil 3y ago
There are other types of storage than batteries: flywheels, pumped water storage, etc., and each has a time frame where they are competitive. I’m assuming that with 400M EUR, there’s room for all sorts of short-range and long-range options.

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