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Why DPS says it must close Denver schools to avert a "full-blown crisis"(denverpost.com)
4 points by ctoth 2y ago|1 comments
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Influenza Expert Gets Real About the H5N1 Risk to Your Swine Herd(porkbusiness.com)
3 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
> ON the hook Weird to see this framing for something that was promised as a condition of employment. The USPS gets me my mail regularly. Not sure what else it should be doing. And yes, paying people pensions you promised them is a good
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4 in 5 Americans think 'words can be violence'(thefire.org)
9 points by ctoth 2y ago|9 comments
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Misinformation: A Flawed Concept(quillette.com)
4 points by ctoth 2y ago|3 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Why would I ever want my oven or stove to evolve over time?
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Serological analysis in humans in Borneo suggests prior exposure to H5 avian Flu(nature.com)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology(dynomight.net)
3 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Leopold Aschenbrenner starting to sound more and more prescient, eh?
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October 30 – Reflections on the Day the Earth Moved for H5N1(hogvet51.substack.com)
52 points by ctoth 2y ago|34 comments
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OHA reports 3 humans with bird flu traveled to Oregon during Washington outbreak(koin.com)
3 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Being able to decode audio in a Web Worker rather than the main UI thread is also a nice use case.
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by ctoth 2y ago
Why is this important? > Many influenza experts are concerned about enhanced zoonotic potential for H5N1 viruses that might spill over and establish ongoing infections in swine populations. Swine already endemically carry many human spil
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First H5N1 Detections in Swine(aphis.usda.gov)
56 points by ctoth 2y ago|8 comments
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A Bird Flu Vaccine Might Come Too Late to Save Us from H5N1(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by ctoth 2y ago|1 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Apologies for the headline, but I've been tracking H5N1's evolution closely (see my submission history for ongoing coverage). What makes this notable is the speed and scope of adaptation: In January this was just another bird viru
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H5N1 virus isolated from infected dairy worker is 100% lethal in ferrets(news.wisc.edu)
46 points by ctoth 2y ago|32 comments
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Web Assembly audio decoders highly optimized for size and performance(github.com)
145 points by ctoth 2y ago|27 comments
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The quest to use AI to build better AI(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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Human bird flu cases in California may be undercounted as workers resist testing(reuters.com)
5 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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A second person in Missouri caught bird flu without exposure to infected animals(cnn.com)
10 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
I am going to offer you some tips for using ChatGPT. 1. Just because something is in a public specification does not mean that GPT knows about this specification. If you want to work on something, and that something is documented, share the
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by ctoth 2y ago
Just curious, before reading this, would you have given an alien intelligence access to your computer, not understanding how it works, and not trusting it? It doesn't have to be an AI, just ... an alien intelligence. Something not huma
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by ctoth 2y ago
Hate to be glib, but this "if it were possible, someone would've done it" thinking is exactly why we're stuck. Your reasons sound smart. Well-reasoned. Totally rational. And they're missing something fundamental. Kn
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by ctoth 2y ago
Hmmm. I think I'm a blind user of the late 2024 Internet. I use a screen reader for everything. Now I'm paranoid that I'm just a computer use model, testing this a11y API hypothesis, in training.
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by ctoth 2y ago
Can you work in a repo with fifty million files? Can Git? I just checked on my Windows machine using Everything and there are 15,960,619 files total including every executable, image, datafile, &c. Out of curiosity what does your IDE
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by ctoth 2y ago
Next release patch notes: * Fixed bug where Claude got bored during compile times and started editing Wikipedia articles to claim that birds aren't real * Blocked news.ycombinator.com in the Docker image's hosts file to avoid spur
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by ctoth 2y ago
> It seems a little silly to pretend there’s a scaling “law” without plotting any points or doing a projection. Isn't this Kaplan 2020 or Hoffmann 2022?
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by ctoth 2y ago
So basically the same way XMLHttpRequest was born[0]? [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20060617163047/http://www.alexho...
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by ctoth 2y ago
You write large orbital mirror for redirecting sunlight to solar farms I read space-based magnifying glass to cook any spot on the ground. Without running the numbers I'm not sure my intuition holds, does it?

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