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by ckw 2y ago
Personally, in the six months prior to the release of the deepseekv3 api, I'd made probably 100-200 api calls per month to llm services. In the past week I made 2.8 million api calls to dsv3.
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by ckw 2y ago
This is the landing of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa in 1989. It hit the runway very hard, tumbled, broke, left the runway, and burned, but encountered no significant non-frangible obstacle. Of 296 passengers and crew on bo
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by ckw 2y ago
From O1: Summary of Confirmable vs. Speculative • Confirmed by reputable sources: 1. Dates of the events (Las Vegas shooting: October 1–2, 2017; Khashoggi’s murder: October 2, 2018). 2. Alwaleed bin Talal was a major investor in the
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by ckw 2y ago
Khashoggi was killed one year after the LV shooting, to the day. The theory is that MBS was staying at the Four Seasons at the Mandalay Bay (~6 floors above Paddock’s room) at the invitation of his cousin Alwaleed bin Talal, who owned the F
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by ckw 2y ago
That’s a south park quote: https://youtu.be/wWfacULP1o0?si=ddBWXFuQMoxxY-Yu
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by ckw 2y ago
Sometimes anti-vaxxers will point to the ostensibly high rate of serious adverse events exhibited by study participants in HPV vaccine trials. For example, in the study 'A 9-Valent HPV Vaccine against Infection and Intraepithelial Neop
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by ckw 2y ago
These people are so sure they occupy the moral high ground, but they do not. If the trend continues it will be possible for anyone to materialize their artistic vision with great fidelity. I’m sure there are countless people who would have
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by ckw 2y ago
This is my experience as well. I would also say that when improvising I’m not really thinking consciously about the movements, but rather the notes I want to hear.
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by ckw 2y ago
Some people can play chess blindfolded. There is a popular method of memorizing which has one visualize the placement of objects in a familiar space. Both of these seem absurd to me, as I can at best conjure a fleeting glimpse of an object
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by ckw 2y ago
Errol Morris mini-documentary on the event: https://youtu.be/o8vdkTz0zqI?si=8_Be_zNPTOq9iZEF
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by ckw 3y ago
You cannot understand a thing if it kills you first.
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by ckw 3y ago
Haskell is incredible for refactoring. And if the team is composed of people with the outlook of the post author, the code will be usually be easy to understand. One ought not conflate the difficulty of understanding code written in an exot
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by ckw 3y ago
So why didn't they start selling 1/5 pounders?
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by ckw 3y ago
Can you visualize a blackboard and perform calculations ‘by hand’?
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by ckw 3y ago
GPT-4 takes a shot: > Imagine an AI that could fundamentally alter its own sensory perception and cognitive framework at will. It could “design” senses that have no human equivalent, enabling it to interface with data and phenomena in en
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by ckw 3y ago
See my reply to AdieuToLogic.
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by ckw 3y ago
First, I don't want to type <shift><semicolon><period><space><shift><1><s><h><enter>. I want to type at most two characters, because I do this a lot. I chose sx, but really any good
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by ckw 3y ago
This is a little off topic, but some people might find this useful. I have bindings that allow me to execute the current line or paragraph under the cursor in the underlying shell and then inject the result into the current buffer. &quo
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by ckw 3y ago
A phalanx of mace-wielders, legioned by the dozens, swathed in interlocking geometries of archaic clan and tribal shroud, donned in specters of yesteryears garb. Upon crowns they bore the half moons of sun-shielders, hands sheathed in the c
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by ckw 4y ago
Needed to safely move a bulk carrier on short notice recently: Q: Describe turning 180 degrees and continuing down stream with the current in a heavily loaded bulk carrier from a stationary position tied to a dock with five knots of downstr
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by ckw 4y ago
As of 11-22 GM "expects its EV lineup to be profitable by 2025." "Ford's Model e business generated operating profit margins of roughly negative 40% in 2022, according to the company." I don't see how those com
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by ckw 4y ago
Animal House: https://youtu.be/JUOGxePBs50 Pascal: […] But to show him another prodigy equally astonishing, let him examine the most delicate things he knows. Let a mite be given him, with its minute body and parts inco
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by ckw 4y ago
I think it could be liberating, in that it forces us to accept that our true motivations are always ultimately hedonistic. Why do we pursue the instrumental (for most) goals you mentioned (writing, painting, composing)? Because the limbic s
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by ckw 4y ago
Despite these advances, life expectancy in the US is declining. If you google for something like ‘life expectancy change if cancer cured’ you’ll find that estimates of the effect on life expectancy of curing heart disease and cancer don’t e
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by ckw 4y ago
The intentional homicide rate in the US is 7 times that of Australia (6.3/100k population vs 0.9/100k), and 21 times that of Japan (0.3/100k). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti.
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by ckw 4y ago
So copyright is incentivizing only $9 billion of spending on books… This seems suboptimal. You’d think it’d be possible to design a different government scheme that yielded say, twice as much book publishing, but with no restriction on copy
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by ckw 4y ago
I personally experienced a week of heart palpitations following my second dose of Moderna, as well as an acute visual aura, having never had a migraine. Not only did I fail to report this to VAERS, it only occurred to me as a vague possibil
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by ckw 4y ago
When I say VAERS notoriously undercounts, I’m referring to the literature on the subject. For example, the Harvard report Electronic Support for Public Health - Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS) https://digital.a
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by ckw 4y ago
There are 5 reports of death following Covid-19 vaccination in VAERS for children 0.5-5, and ‘1.6 million US children ages 6 months-4 years have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine’ as of 11-2-22. This is 3.125 deaths per million
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by ckw 4y ago
And the peak age/sex related risk is almost certainly understated in the paper, because ‘younger men’ refers to the entire under 40 population.

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