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by bhickey 3y ago
Second longest coastline in the world. Fjords run deep into the country. Maritime society. Major lumber exporter. The UK agreed to a median line split for divvying up oil fields. A tiny island 17km off shore gave Norway 85% of the most prod
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by bhickey 3y ago
Alternatively give out bonus points on an individual basis. This is already done to a limited extent with homeless students receiving +15.
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by bhickey 3y ago
Here's one paper on the subject. There are others, but I've run out of steam for trawling through Scholar and arXiv. Radiation hazard of relativistic space flight https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610030
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by bhickey 3y ago
Students at shools where 40% or more of the student body is classified as low income receive 10 points towards exam school entrance. [0] Being a poor kid at a rich school is a penalty, while being a rich kid at a poor school is a bonus. A s
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by bhickey 3y ago
> Are affluent kids moving into housing projects in order to get admitted into Dartmouth? This came up in Boston Public Schools. Admission to Boston Latin took into account the portion of a student body eligible for free lunch. It became
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by bhickey 3y ago
Briefly: No. I read a paper on the topic a few years back. My recollection is that once you go faster than about 0.3c it becomes impossible to shed heat faster than you gain it from collisions with Helium. I'll try to dig it up.
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by bhickey 3y ago
Well actually... There have been non-Russian Soviet bloc cosmonauts. For example — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miros%C5%82aw_Hermaszewski https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Klimuk
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The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation(newspaceeconomy.ca)
15 points by bhickey 3y ago|7 comments
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by bhickey 3y ago
> Mistral AI is incorporated in Paris, France. No US court is going to invent new rights under US law because a company happens to be incorporated in a foreign jurisdiction. > While there is a discussion to be had on sovereignty and i
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by bhickey 3y ago
Database rights don't exist in the United States. Their weights obviously aren't protected by trademark. So, what IP regime protects the weights?
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by bhickey 3y ago
> the fate of the Roanoke colony What is the prosaic explanation for the Roanoke colony?
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by bhickey 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
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by bhickey 3y ago
https://blog.google/products/search/overview-our-rater-guide... > Our search quality raters provide us with insights and evaluate pages against our guidelines to help make sure our systems — and proposed improv
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by bhickey 3y ago
They didn't declare many works ineligible, but it's telling which ones they did rule out.
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Hugo Nomination Report Has Unexplained Ineligibility Rulings(file770.com)
6 points by bhickey 3y ago|3 comments
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by bhickey 3y ago
> Some cities do not want housing/population growth. Why is that not okay? Because "Fuck you, I've got mine" is no way to organize society. Local control enabled a race to the bottom of trying to fob the poors off on
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by bhickey 3y ago
> being drunk allowed him to make it through the cold shock without drowning. He had a life belt on, so he wouldn't have drowned. Being drunk might've prevented a heart attack brought on by cold water shock.
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by bhickey 3y ago
Why they aren't computing the next token marginal and sampling that? All I'm coming up with is that it's a reasonable way to work around dealing with different tokenizers.
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by bhickey 3y ago
Better yet: why aren't they treated as pirates?
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by bhickey 3y ago
Grandparent. While OP designates the root post, GP is two posts up.
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Dijkstra Maps Visualized(roguebasin.com)
1 points by bhickey 3y ago|0 comments
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by bhickey 3y ago
> This digital image may be used for educational uses. Please cite as miSci - Museum of Innovation and Science. Prior written permission is required for any other use of the images from miSci. Glad to see copyfraud alive and well on Publ
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by bhickey 3y ago
This analogy doesn't work. Fair use is an affirmative defense to copyright infringement claims. Entities that are training models largely claim that their uses are transformative and fall under fair use. Creative Commons, among others,
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by bhickey 3y ago
Disclaimer: ibid > It can't just crawl Wikipedia because Fair Use in Wikipedia doesn't constitute Fair use for a commercial AI model. Why not? The lawyers I've discussed this with socially think that questions like this ar
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Coupon Collector's Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by bhickey 3y ago|0 comments
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by bhickey 3y ago
Stellarium
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by bhickey 3y ago
You're talking about an industry that's unwilling to spend $10 to vaccinate herd animals. > Please consider being less hasty to dismiss unconventional thinking. Let’s keep HN weird thinking friend? Friend you're approachin
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by bhickey 3y ago
That's amazing! Through my 8in scope Uranus looks like a blue dot — too big to be a star, but paltry even in comparison to Mars. Admittedly I've been having trouble reliably locating it. Currently it's near the middle of a li
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by bhickey 3y ago
How does it compare with Xmage and cockatrice?
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by bhickey 3y ago
Yeah, I previously confirmed with a PM at Cloudflare that it was 100% fake.

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