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Wuhan laboratory adds another branch to bat coronavirus family tree(scmp.com)
3 points by bigpumpkin 5y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
I take a little NAC before a night of drinking. Too bad the FDA is doing this.
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
When breaking news isn't enough, and you can't call it opinion, you rename it "Breaking Views" Not one piece of reporting was done in the article, this indeed is suitable for the GPT-3 age.
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Wuhan is, however, in the range of Horseshoe Bats. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_horseshoe_bat So people who suggest that it's far from Yunnan are missing the point.
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
In 2003, it was hypothesized that civets were the source. However, this was not conclusively proved until 2017.
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
"from just over $10 million in 2016 to nearly $64 million last year" Top sources: CCTV America $50,244,312 Huawei Technologies $3,495,775 China Daily of Beijing, China $3,004,114 China-US Exchange Foundation $928,209 Fujian Jinhua
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
Currently, no carrier group is in the South China Sea [1] [1] https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
I find disfigured/ disabled people livestreaming to many people on Tiktok all the time in my feed.
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by bigpumpkin 5y ago
For SARS (2003) It took 3 years to find the intermediate host (civets). And 14 years (2017) to find the bat parent of the virus[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr... Guess who found the
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DoorDash Drivers Game Algorithm to Increase Pay(bloomberg.com)
4 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|1 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
perplexity score against a corpus such as wikipedia? Basically how well the model predicts the next word.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
"For instance, with some effort I can notice that a white wall is made of millions of blinking colored neuropixels. " This I cannot achieve unless I'm staring at a white computer screen up close.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Alternatively, humans hunted the big games to death after acquiring big brains that enabled more cooperation when hunting. Curious if the decline in big game happened in places without humans.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
TL:DR "Steve Yegge is ex-Geoworks, ex-Amazon, ex-Google, and ex-Grab, with nearly 30 years of tech industry experience. Nowadays he’s pretty much retired." "If you break up the Western Tech Giants, then they will be replaced
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
"The gap between most writing and pure ideas is not filled with poetry." - Paul Graham "I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors – Of Chambers as the Cedars – Impreg
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
I thought my space bar was suddenly broken and slammed on it about 10 times.
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Zhihu Form F-1 IPO Registration Statement(sec.gov)
5 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|1 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
The Uyghur Genocide- The genocide where the Uyghur population grows faster than the Han population in Xinjiang. The genocide where a Uyghur actress- Dilraba Dilmurat remains one of the most popular actresses in China. The genocide where vir
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
In 30 years, China would deindustrialize just like the West in favor of services and finance.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
They are generally written by really smart people/ geniuses who worked years on a particular book. They also contain thoughts that were once likely mainstream/popular in a particular time/place. Those with good literary taste
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Use the new words you learned in speaking and writing.
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India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees(wsj.com)
8 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Blacklisted China’s Xiaomi Because of Award Given to Its Founder(wsj.com)
4 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Wait until you see what it does to sperm count.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Hopefully they also address network stability, which can be more important for video streaming than the bandwidth speed.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
When I'm drunk, I find my thinking rate is slowed by ~20%. Songs that sound normal during normal times sound ~20% too fast. I wonder if there's any substance to speed up my mind. Coffee?
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
There's a social video app called "Monkey" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cool.monkey.an... I'm guessing OP had "Monkey" as a keyword?
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US Intel report finds Saudi prince approved Khashoggi murder(politico.com)
6 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Other than F-35, what are the US going to field on its carriers? Super-hornets until 2050?
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
"I point out to him no American president can be sustained as a president if he doesn’t reflect the values of the United States, and so the idea I’m not going to speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the

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