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by comfypotato 3y ago
It’s only a matter of time before adoption catches up to the tech. HN is the epitome of cutting edge when it comes to this stuff. It’s only natural that readers don’t yet see the adoption. I was in an 800-level (PhD) course last semester, a
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by comfypotato 3y ago
This is a big deal. The study concludes that it makes you twice as likely to die from CVD. Normally it’s not a big deal when the chance of death doubles, because it normally starts at a tiny percent, but CVD is one of the leading causes of
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by comfypotato 3y ago
My source is an Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua, and the guest mentioned that they heard it from the developer of Ruby. So the source here is a tad removed, but it sounded right to me!
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Ruby itself was developed specifically for Emacs. Decisions were made about syntax specifically because they did or did not work well with default Emacs movement and structure editing.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
That’s the point, though. This is no different than any other statement made by a CEO with good engineers behind them. This time it worked out. Can’t give it a survivorship bias. I don’t personally mind CEOs being encouraging, but at least
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Would love to see this applied to the fruit fly connectome that was on the front page the other day.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
In defense of the project: they’ve been working a lot over the last 10 years. They recently published what they call a “liquid neural network” where they’ve isolated the neuron structure doing the work. It outperforms CNNs for some niche ta
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Nematode specifically, which is a very little worm.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
If the people at the receiving end are annoyed by the interruption, they have every right to implement a solution. Your remark implies the “hello” folks are correct, and that is purely opinion.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
No it doesn’t. If any more than 0% of comments contain profanity, then on average code with more profanity will be better.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
The distinction, defining your straw man, is simply that the image itself is generated by the “commissioned artist” that is the AI. Even non-generative-AI inside Photoshop only mutates images. Generative AI is the source of images.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
https://hackernoon.com/an-introduction-to-liquid-neural-netw...
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Your tone is out of line with HN guidelines. Emotionally laden, sure. But it’s not garbage. Our inhabitation is sustainable in part because of sensational climate science. It plays an important role in keeping our effect on the planet in ch
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by comfypotato 3y ago
For me, in the context of the climate change discussion, I knew exactly what it was trying to communicate. I did not find it particularly sensationalized. > Would love to see a source for that. False. If you’d love to you would have at l
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by comfypotato 3y ago
The sensational tone of the article is annoying. There’s no data presented here. Why is this rising in popularity?
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Climate science has always acknowledged this. The rate of rise is unprecedented. This is based on non-man-made evidence we gather from the world around us. Concentration of pollen in layers of ice cores for example.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Obviously physical intervention is ridiculous here, but forcing the student to leave the classroom if they don’t comply is reasonable. That being said, discipline in schools is a huge can of worms in the US. Bu, in principle, the specific p
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by comfypotato 3y ago
They started publishing again this year! They’ve isolated the neural net and published it as a “liquid neural network”. Check it out, it outperforms CNNs for niche tasks with a fraction of the resources.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Do you have any insight regarding latency? Intuitively it sounds like HDMI over Ethernet may actually be a tad faster. I’ve also seen HDMI over IP devices marketed specifically as low-latency. I’m asking because I’ve heard a gripe over the
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by comfypotato 3y ago
This comment strikes me like a breath of fresh air amongst a lot of bad breath. RHEL has taken a step that looks like Solaris etc. of the past, but aren’t the ecosystems completely different nowadays? It seems like it’s comparing apples to
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Not so different a question than asking where “synapses and neurotransmitters” end and the experience of consciousness begins.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
This discussion is in the context of the open worm project. It has successfully modeled the neurons of a nematode such that the organism model functions inside a physics engine as would the real organism. Extending this to humans, the neuro
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by comfypotato 3y ago
As someone else said, Kahneman is OK. He certainly has some brain-tickling research. I’ve read some papers by him about how people use poor logic in decision-making that were truly fascinating. There are countless bad papers. If you lean le
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Science in the context of politically charged topics generally disgusts me. The outcome, that is. In theory it could help things, but it never does. The authors’ personal beliefs interfere every time. From the conception of their idea, to t
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by comfypotato 3y ago
The neuron models used in the open worm project… function… That is to say that the complete organism model can learn to swim, which about all the organism is supposed to be able to do. I see what you’re saying though, that human-level funct
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by comfypotato 3y ago
In the correct physics engine, with the correct models of eyeballs etc., a connectome-based model may experience qualia. It would likely tell us that it experienced qualia. The biggest difference would be that new connections wouldn’t be fo
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Consumer Reports reviews mattresses. They do a decent-to-great job depending on the product. Shopping for anything they review is infinitely better than dealing with the hellscape of normal reviews.
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by comfypotato 3y ago
Only a matter of time before this goes the way of the open worm project. Incredible that they’ve increased the number of neurons imageable by this magnitude. A similar increase from here would encompass the human brain. Models of the human
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by comfypotato 3y ago
> It's not really a problem to lose money on some users if they are making money over all. Both sides of this argument are laden with assumptions. It’s a more opinion-based discussion than most. It’s a philosophical wormhole with no
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by comfypotato 3y ago
It’s hot and new, but this is still a valid question. Neeva shows up, not Kagi, when you query Google about paid search engines.

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