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by crocowhile 2y ago
I've joined Mensa a few months ago and I've never met so many idiots in my entire life. It's a small percentage of the members overall but they take over the online communities compulsively and make the environment miserable.
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by crocowhile 2y ago
Oh FFS the conspiracy of the egg companies it's a new low. 160M chickens were found affected so far. More culled. https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/data-map-comm... Most chicken in the USA are ra
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by crocowhile 2y ago
It certainly would but still it would have to be a controlled and regulated environment. I honestly would not want to have chicken near me in this particular moment especially considering who is the secretary of health. The USA really are p
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by crocowhile 2y ago
Only France in Europe vaccinate its chicken yet we still have normal prices. This is not the issue but merely the fact that 70% of chicken in the USA are battery caged plus a protectionist market that does not allow imports. https:/&#
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by crocowhile 2y ago
The egg price is due to the H5N1 epidemics, which also means that this is the least indicated time to get a backyard chicken. The US should have dropped battery caging, like the rest of the world did 15 years ago.
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by crocowhile 2y ago
You are comparing apple with oranges. Cursor is not an LLM and yes, it has a business model. So does openrouter and million other applications that can switch API to the low bidder any moment.
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by crocowhile 2y ago
YouTube did not have competitors and certainly not open source competitors.
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by crocowhile 2y ago
That's a bit different though. META invested in a product that, as of now, as very little competition. The QUEST is sold at a slight loss but at least at an approachable price and to a volume that makes them the clear leader in the mar
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by crocowhile 2y ago
It's not good news when this competition comes at cost of a gigantic over inflated bubble, in which all the big players keep on sucking billions from investors without even having a business model. This hype will burst sooner than late
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by crocowhile 2y ago
You must be new to Elon's modus operandi.
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by crocowhile 2y ago
That's comparing apples to oranges though. Renewables are to stop emitting CO2, carbon capture to try and recover the one we've been emitting in the past decades. We need both, the latter possibly in the shape of organic capture s
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by crocowhile 2y ago
This is so fun! Could you make it compatible with openrouter please? I see you use the openai binding that allows you to specify a different base_url so that would work out of the box and integrates well with the .env ``` from openai import
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by crocowhile 2y ago
Well, the ministry of propaganda says this is la creme de la creme and we can trust their handling of government data blindly. So showing that DOGE is unable to even secure their website is a good exercise of hacker activism. The times are
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by crocowhile 2y ago
It does not matter. None of that has to do with the requirements of the job which, BTW, should have zero executive power and only make recommendations to Congress, the institution that has power of the purse. Do you understand that this
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by crocowhile 2y ago
The big problem is not science per se but capitalist pharma. Science eventually self corrects but capitalism creates a huge inertia driven by the fact people do not want to lose money and do everything possible to push things as much as the
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by crocowhile 2y ago
You either don't know what you're a talking about or a in bad faith. The demographic or PhD researchers is , in fact, the problem because the ration of women to men is very high at the beginning of the career but declines as t
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by crocowhile 2y ago
Oh, I do lots of open source. Everything my lab does is released as open source (eg https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou... ) We've never patented anything.
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by crocowhile 2y ago
Every now and then we still experience the power of collaborative work fueled by open source and not driven by money but curiosity and collegiality. This is the thing I miss the most from the early internet years.
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by crocowhile 2y ago
I am a professor of Neurobiology, I know a thing or two about lifespan research. To claim that human lifespan can be doubled is crazy per se. To claim it can be done in 10 years by a system that does not even exist is even sillier.
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by crocowhile 2y ago
I think we should not underestimate one aspect: at the moment, a lot of hype is artificial (and despicable if you ask me). Anthropic says AI can double human lifespan in 10 years time; openAI says they have AGI behind the corner; META keeps
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by crocowhile 2y ago
I have asked Deepseek-R1 and o1-preview to articulate in 1000 words on why this is potentially disruptive of the highly overvalued US market. I gave them the same guidance / prompt using openWebUI multimodels functionality and let them
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by crocowhile 2y ago
When the price difference is so high and the performance so close, of course you have a major issue with competition. Let alone the fact this is fully open source. Most importantly, this is a signal: openAI and META are trying to build a mo
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by crocowhile 2y ago
I am in London at the moment but I worked in Italy, Austria, USA before. I would never, for any kind of money, go back to academia to the USA for the reasons you listed.
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by crocowhile 2y ago
As someone who has worked in academia for more than 20 years, in four countries, (and now is a professor in a top 3 world institution) I can tell you that it very much depends on where you work. Working conditions depend on the larger and s
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by crocowhile 2y ago
I am in my late 40s and my two boys are 11 and 15. They make great use of the internet, especially youtube. One is a big fan of all the STEM channels on youtube and he is getting an education through those that, when I was at his age, I cou
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by crocowhile 2y ago
It would be an amazing gift to you, but it would not make sense from the evolutionary point of view. Take an animal of your choice (e.g. a cat or a dog or a mouse) and give them through magic the ability to sleep only 1 hour a day or nothin
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by crocowhile 2y ago
yes, we've known for two centuries that a couple of hours of extra sleep can help us undo the effects of days and days of sleep deprivation. This is one of the strongest argument against this brain clearance non-sense. If we can get th
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by crocowhile 2y ago
This sounds great. Would you consider making this a plugin for owncloud/nextcloud?
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by crocowhile 3y ago
I have PS4 pro and for as long as I tried to find one, there is not a single reason for me to upgrade. I bought a Quest 3 instead.
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by crocowhile 3y ago
I do the same. I write and prepare figures for each single paper that comes out from my lab. I double check each single Jupyter notebook and I share every single piece of raw data ( for the last paper we just submitted yesterday we uploaded

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