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Possible cluster of human bird-flu infections expands in Missouri(nytimes.com)
104 points by ctoth 2y ago|35 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Meta. Made me laugh.
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by ctoth 2y ago
I don't really understand what this comment about Google has to do with OP's comment. Is this something that even old Google could have done pre-SEOification? Would Google have been able to read the datasheet? Or just point OP at
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by ctoth 2y ago
> What we have right now is impressive, but no one has shown anything close to a possible path from where we are right now to AGI[0]. [0]: From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs https://situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-t
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by ctoth 2y ago
I'm pretty sure Banks is responsible for more than ~3 ideas across all of SF. From Drug glands to The Sublimed. Gridfire to Gelsuits to GSVs. Special Circumstances itself seems like an innovation.
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by ctoth 2y ago
Isn't it fun how every single HN comment is now a nice little encapsulated Turing test? Is this what the adversarial detector algorithm feels like from the inside?
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Sakana, Strawberry, and Scary AI(astralcodexten.com)
4 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
> striking in the best economy in the world and in the history of the world Isn't this the best time to do it? It seems like if workers did the opposite you'd be complaining that they were striking when conditions were bad and
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The Rise of Post-Literate History(compactmag.com)
4 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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What's Wrong with Journalism(aiascendant.substack.com)
1 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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What Does McDonald's Mean?(wisdomofcrowds.live)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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Missouri Bird Flu Case Raises Prospect of Human Transmission(nytimes.com)
4 points by ctoth 2y ago|1 comments
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Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions(understandingai.org)
3 points by ctoth 2y ago|1 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
I believe they used the game to show how the same underlying technology would build a mental model not because the game was perfect-information, but because it was easy to probe for without a lot of other unrelated concepts getting in the w
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by ctoth 2y ago
Sure! https://thegradient.pub/othello/
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by ctoth 2y ago
Some really cool stuff here.
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by ctoth 2y ago
> At least once or twice a week, Woods went to one particular person with that higher-level clearance, forensic scientist Marko Kokotovic, and asked him to make changes for her without doing that formal documentation. He had “complete tr
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CBI's star DNA scientist got away with deleting data for years(denverpost.com)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|1 comments
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Tasat(tasat.org)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Wait until you learn about Anesthesia!
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1960: The Year the Singularity Was Cancelled(slatestarcodex.com)
5 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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Capturing Eardrums (2000)(wired.com)
1 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Sharing this for a sample of the discourse, written in the NYT, by the NYT's tech reporter, that is just ... not even wrong? > My theory about what happened next — which is supported by conversations I’ve had with researchers in art
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I Improved My Tainted Reputation with Chatbots(nytimes.com)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|2 comments
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The Many Frustrations of LLMs(aiascendant.substack.com)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
> The first thing is that Rust is just not particularly amazing at tree structures. As someone who doesn't write any Rust I'd like to understand this more. Is it the ownership model that makes trees weird? Is there something yo
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by ctoth 2y ago
Wouldn't the obvious solution be to make the apartments airtight, so as to avoid everything from smoke to cooking smells to whatever bothering your neighbors? Isn't second-hand (passive smoking) shown to not increase cancer[0]? Re
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Bird Flu Is Infecting Pet Cats. Here's What You Need to Know(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
This is super-interesting! You might be able to get even more information with a stereo signal, use the pan field for something.
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by ctoth 2y ago
> when done with discipline I suppose that the drug also cures people with Parkinson's [0] through ... Discipline, right? 0: GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: A New Treatment in Parkinson’s Disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2

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