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by briandw 1y ago
Restarting testing is a bad idea. However this is a false equivalence. H-Bombing an island nation isn't the same as testing. Underground testing in the middle of nowhere NM has very little consequence to anyone. Restarting testing is u
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by briandw 1y ago
Have a look at The Limiting Factor episode "The Hype and Reality of Sodium Ion Batteries" https://youtu.be/KjiqqafD_0w?si=txe6eODkSiasSylg It's really well done and digs into all the details on sodium-ion. Lo
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by briandw 1y ago
Are you counting over the air updates as recalls?
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by briandw 1y ago
Fords recall numbers have skyrocketed in recent years. So Fords real comparison to its previous self, 2015 they had 68. Why isn’t Fords roughly doubling of recalls news?
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Far behind who? China still doesn’t have a Falcon 9 competitor, let alone Starship.
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by briandw 1y ago
You have problem with too much traffic that your server can't handle. You add a queue. Now you have 2 problems :)
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by briandw 1y ago
Perfect example of the expert fallacy. Also how safetyism can cause harm.
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by briandw 1y ago
I love seeing these simple experiments. Easy to read through quickly and understand a bit more of the principles. One of my stumbling blocks with text diffusers is that ideally you wouldn’t treat the tokens as discrete but rather probably f
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by briandw 1y ago
This is not my field but: I did a search for polymersome-based drugs on the market, and didn't find anything. Similar drugs might include Doxil. Doxil took 15+ years to commoditize and is around 800USD per dose, so even assuming that t
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by briandw 1y ago
Sabine has pretty much sworn off the Academy, so I very much doubts she cares.
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by briandw 1y ago
For a primer on CRDTs, Martin Kleppmann has a number of good videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7drE24geUw
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by briandw 1y ago
Op was showing off a project. Not claiming novelty. The fact that there are similar items on the market does not diminish this work.
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by briandw 1y ago
Travel blacklists have always been a weapon. It’s like saying the weaponization of firearms.
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by briandw 1y ago
" With only 7M parameters, TRM obtains 45% test-accuracy on ARC-AGI- 1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, higher than most LLMs (e.g., Deepseek R1, o3-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro) with less than 0.01% of the parameters" That is very impressive. Side n
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by briandw 1y ago
I can't believe that they named their protocol SPQR. It's the Latin abbreviation for Senatus Populusque Romanus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR Love it :)
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by briandw 1y ago
It's a simple matter of 2 wrongs not making it right. How can you in the same sentence say that Kirk is wrong for endorsing violence, while at the same time endorsing this shooting?
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by briandw 1y ago
About 20% of the male population of Switzerland keeps an assault rile at home.
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by briandw 1y ago
The average person in the capitalist west is so ridiculously wealthy compared people that lived pre Industrial Revolution, or in any communist or socialist country.
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by briandw 1y ago
Lidar is the first thing brought up in these discussions. Lidar isn’t that great of a sensor. It does one thing well and that’s measure distance. A visual sensor can be measured along the axis of spatial resolution (x,y,z) temporal resoluti
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by briandw 1y ago
The crappy system that everyone ends up using is better than the perfectly designed system that's only seen in academic papers. Javascript is the poster-child of Worse is Better. Protobuffs are a PITA, but they are widely used and gett
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by briandw 1y ago
This is standard response to any new technology. Socrates call books the death of knowledge, in the 19th century there was a moral panic about girls reading novels etc etc.
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by briandw 1y ago
A starship mission to the moon will land over 100tons of cargo. Saturn V could get roughly 5tons to the surface. Its an entirely different class of operation.
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by briandw 1y ago
This was an observational study, not a randomized control trial. Access to care is one plausible confounder. Individuals who receive treatment may differ systematically in socioeconomic status, healthcare access, parental advocacy, comorbid
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by briandw 1y ago
Very few people that I talk to are truly in favor of free speech as a principle. They are either in favor of free speech in cases like this, where christians are banning books that they like, and not in favor when it’s about political corre
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by briandw 1y ago
I wasn't explicitly quoting anything, but I'm sure I've read something similar somewhere.
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by briandw 1y ago
I home schooled my kids during the pandemic. It was amazing how quickly we got through the material for the year. We did all of 5th grade math in 3 months of 40 minutes a day. It not just my experience, 1 on 1 tutoring has been shown to be
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by briandw 1y ago
Sounds like the major complaint here is trying to make the web into something it's not. It's something like 17 years since the iPhone app store. Web apps were not comparable to native apps then, and while they've made progres
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by briandw 1y ago
Guess I should read more than the summary :)
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by briandw 1y ago
This is a real modern day John Henry story, except John Henry dies in the end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
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by briandw 1y ago
O3 was just reduced in price by 80%. Grok4 is a pretty good deal for having just been released and being so much better. The token price is the same as grok 3 for the not heavy model. Google is loosing money to try and gain relevance. I gue

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