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by busyant 3y ago
> AI & superconductors? I have a feeling that there will be some massive humanitarian crisis--mass migration due to floods maybe. Then some nation(s) will roll the dice and go for the quick 'fix' of tossing reflective &#x27
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by busyant 3y ago
> Personally I'm convinced we've passed the point of no return a long time ago Yep. I have a variation of Hofstadter's law. Climate Change Law: "The amount of time it will take to see the dangerous effects of global w
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by busyant 3y ago
> until someone got frustrated enough to call for the IT admin, at which point he would try to log in and reboot the PC when it failed, apparently "fixing" the problem and erasing any evidence of my dastardly crime. This was pr
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by busyant 3y ago
> The IT person easily figured out it was me and then tricked me into thinking I would be expelled within days. Similar. I wrote a program to emulate a the logon text on a PDP-11 terminal in high-school in the mid-80s and steal a bunch o
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by busyant 3y ago
Thank you.
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by busyant 3y ago
My recollection is many birds use their nests for 2 to 4 weeks, so maybe it was finished with your capacitors by the time you found them. I love this story.
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by busyant 3y ago
If he had less than the PE firm from the get-go, then he was never in control.
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by busyant 3y ago
I thought this statement was interesting (especially for the HN crowd). "He was caught by utilizing the type of communication analytics only available to federal law enforcement. Bringing in the FBI became a key moment in the investiga
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by busyant 3y ago
> Having 51% control guarantees nothing. Maybe. But something (literally) doesn't add up in the original story. If the CEO had 51% and sold the 49%, there is no place for the PE firm to capture the 2%. Unless there is convertible de
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by busyant 3y ago
> was buying the entire set of National Geographic magazines on DVD disc for about $15. More than 100 years of articles! What file format were the issues/articles? PDF? Something else?
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by busyant 3y ago
my guess is that they did test in a shallow location, but ... not nearly enough unit tests.
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by busyant 3y ago
can you elaborate on what you're saying? it sounds insightful, but also cryptic and indirect. not flaming, just interested
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by busyant 3y ago
So, you're basically telling me that there is (or was) a bioinformatics prof @ Berkeley who was fucking with the data. Yeeeesh. I guess my science career was relatively clean. I knew a few fellow students who got screwed over by their
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by busyant 3y ago
> I once had an advisor edit my draft over night and submit it as a paper with a bunch of juiced up numbers that weren't true, I'm stating the obvious here, but that is not a good advisor in any sense. It must have been difficu
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by busyant 3y ago
So, I briefly visited reddit twice over the past 2 days and I noticed something interesting. Each time I visited, I had a new reply to one of my recent posts. Each time, the reply was pretty obviously from a bot account (newly created usern
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by busyant 3y ago
> to create a "new normal" or new baseline where an e.g. strawberry is sweat again. Just an interesting story. About 5 years ago, I tried to cut out all processed carbs from my diet. After several months, I was away from home a
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by busyant 3y ago
> He has said in the past that no one uses 3rd party apps and they're not a meaningful amount of their traffic. I wish I had known about the Apollo app before all this drama. I would have gladly paid because the official mobile an
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by busyant 3y ago
> I've seen so many boycotts on the internet and the only one that worked was DIGG->Reddit and it worked only because Reddit was ready to take over. Agree. Reddit had the critical mass and content to absorb Digg. Unfortunately, I
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by busyant 3y ago
> Obviously typing from start to finish with few edits is also a "failed" result in such a program. I hear ya, but I wonder if there are people who have the proper mental organization to write a well-organized coherent essay in
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by busyant 3y ago
I made a "laser-beam-break" camera trigger for my Nikon D750, which I use to capture images of hummingbirds at my feeder. Instead of paying $125 for this ... ( https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/133705
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by busyant 4y ago
Thank you. That's fascinating. I never knew this. My brother's reddit account was suspended recently. He's somewhat conservative and the last bit of posting he made (that I could find) was arguing about COVID & masks. I d
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by busyant 4y ago
> You can probably extend this to "Never get the first word." Amen. From about 1999 to ~2010, I was a practitioner of "don't wait up: somebody's wrong on the internet." It gradually dawned on me that it was
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by busyant 4y ago
> 'you've been doing that too much!' and stops you from posting. What does this mean? Does reddit actually ban you if you're downvoted "too much"? Seems crazy.
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by busyant 4y ago
What I don't understand is how GPT-4 is able to do reasonably well on tests like the AMC12: Many of the AMC12 questions require a number of logical/deductive steps. If GPT-4 is simply trained on a large corpus of text, how is it a
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by busyant 4y ago
> Great way of ruining your child's relationships. I had a similar conversation with my wife a few years back. Her sister's teenage kids insisted they needed iPhones "because all our friends use them." And my wife exp
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someone should post this on today's "who's hiring" ... to meet the April deadline.
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> why can't the model do those things? Isn't this just an intrinsic problem with the ambiguity of language? Reminds me of this: https://i.imgur.com/PqHUASF.jpeg edit: especially the 1st and last panels
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by busyant 4y ago
> I doubt that. Heat and alcohol are two examples that are doing just fine. Yes. It's difficult to acquire resistance to heat and alcohol. The problem is that heat and alcohol are indiscriminate in their ability to kill cells, inclu
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by busyant 4y ago
> I would rather this author be writing about how he is going to re-examine how he teaches rather than bemoaning that students can shortcut his current approach. He alludes to this: "The first solution is hard for lots of reasons,
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by busyant 4y ago
I don't mean to bash the reputation of the Lancet nor that of the authors. But here's one thing to keep in mind with respect to this specific research. They examined the ability of two specific strains of bacteria to develop res

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