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by ctoth 2y ago
> However, I highly doubt I never understand why people don't just test this? Claude 3.5 sonnet, first test, prompt: Any idea what this SVG is describing?: This SVG describes a simple geometric composition consisting of three circle
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Joint FAO/WHO/WOAH assessment of recent H5N1 Flu events in animals and people(who.int)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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They All Got Mysterious Brain Diseases. They're Fighting to Learn Why(nytimes.com)
37 points by ctoth 2y ago|14 comments
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I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)(jdstillwater.blogspot.com)
525 points by ctoth 2y ago|323 comments
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The Cure for Hiccups Exists(theatlantic.com)
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Sonos' $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|1 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Was I the only person who saw this article was by Pete Singer and was briefly deeply confused? Why does the OG EA guy care about ... Oh. No R.
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by ctoth 2y ago
Iain Banks already wrote this for you, it's called Excession, and it is even better than you imagine. I'm pretty sure the concept comes up in other Culture Novels but one of the main characters in Excession is the Sleeper Service,
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Review of the Quantum Thief Trilogy(gwern.net)
1 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
> If a single employee drives to the factory, it's no longer carbon-free I'm actively really trying to understand your perspective here, and how you do... anything? at all? Ever? Do you not leave the house? If I drive to the fa
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by ctoth 2y ago
> Do we really need even more personal aviation in the situation we’re currently facing? Yes? What's to stop them from using the fly-by-wire tech on a battery-powered, solar-powered, or hydrogen-powered airplane as they become viabl
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by ctoth 2y ago
Can I get a whole bunch of Apple stickers and brand the heck out of an old Dell r630 Server and run this on it? Or how about a cattle brand with an Apple logo?
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by ctoth 2y ago
Without humans, who cares about the world? Serious question.
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by ctoth 2y ago
Maybe, if he keeps saying the same thing for enough years, one day it will actually come true! > Remember how I said that deep learning was “hitting a wall” with compositionality in 2001, in 2018 and again 2022? We get it. We really, re
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Artificial Intelligence Research Might Have Hit a Wall (2018)(bloomberg.com)
3 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Wouldn't the equivalent for Meta actually be something like: > Other companies sell widgets. We have a bunch of widget-making machines and so we released a whole bunch of free widgets. We noticed that the widgets got better the more
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Stratospheric Optical Earth Observation(intelligence.airbus.com)
7 points by ctoth 2y ago|1 comments
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Coronavirus contagion fears in Silicon Valley (2/13/2020)(vox.com)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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Who's got the guts to go to the moon?(experimental-history.com)
32 points by ctoth 2y ago|26 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Sad to not see Attrs mentioned. Dataclasses are cool, I guess, but Attrs is seriously great.
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Taking a closer look at AI's supposed energy apocalypse(arstechnica.com)
58 points by ctoth 2y ago|86 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
I was also curious. If you really wanna go down the rabbit hole: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1557349 History certainly loves to rhyme.
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Experimental Psychology on Roofies(malmesbury.substack.com)
2 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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You'll need to put down ~35%, or almost $128,000, to afford a typical home(fortune.com)
3 points by ctoth 2y ago|1 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
How much space trash is there in total from less than a hundred years of space travel? How large is the surface of the earth? Would you really consider yourself "surrounded" by trash if there was one piece of trash a mile away fro
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by ctoth 2y ago
Thanks! I knew I had read this before but the date was making me question myself.
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by ctoth 2y ago
> WTF are you even talking about? How does intelligence have levels, in your opinion, Having previously met humans, I have noticed using my intelligence that the intelligence of other humans differs, and exists on a set of spectra. It se
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by ctoth 2y ago
I want to read this book please.
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by ctoth 2y ago
After reading her book on Nuclear War, I read Annie Jacobsen's Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. I recommend it. I'm not sure what was going
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by ctoth 2y ago
Can we just ... not use this word anymore? Taboo Gaslighting? > among S.E.O. experts, this “reinforces an already long-held belief that Google’s public representatives regularly lie, mislead, and omit key information. Yes. This happens.

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