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by dahart 10mo ago
Depends on what aspects of your scientific training you want to re-engage with. Do you want to be writing & publishing, giving talks, doing experiments, or building predictive statistical models? And what kind of software do you want to
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by dahart 10mo ago
It’s superficially easy to bike-shed on use of clever code and debugging, but there is an interesting and fundamentally difficult question to answer underneath about what to spend your limited time learning, and how to think about it. Yes K
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by dahart 10mo ago
They might not intend to claim homicide is a bigger danger than heart disease, specifically, but that’s effectively what’s happening anyway. However, they are claiming homicide and terrorism cause more risk and death than they really do,
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by dahart 10mo ago
In this shared responsibility model, if the public is mostly responsible, then what can and should be done by the public to fix these issues? And how long will it take? And how would you propose getting the bipartisan support needed, or avo
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by dahart 10mo ago
Agreed on 2, this problem predates what we call social media. I also tend to agree with 1, but that’s the actual problem, and I don’t think it’s fair to call it clickbait. The news media shouldn’t be reporting what they think viewers will f
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by dahart 10mo ago
The source article elaborates on the reasons that dramatically over-reporting homicide and terrorism is bad for the public. One of those reasons is that it obscures the actual changes in our lives, it hides what’s truly ‘new’. In that sense
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by dahart 10mo ago
Why does inevitable death mean there’s never going to be reporting equality on the causes? I don’t understand your logic. The image in the article includes a summary of the top causes, so… it is possible?
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by dahart 10mo ago
On social media, yes, travel bragging is a form of manipulation.
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by dahart 10mo ago
That makes sense to me. Adafruit’s complaint relates to layer 3, right? Is Qualcomm changing the openness of layers 1 & 2 in meaningful ways that affect makers & hobbyists? And I guess layer 1 is PCB design, not [MC]PU design, right
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by dahart 10mo ago
I saw this the other day. I’m not sure exactly what the concerns are, nor why Qualcomm deserves any shade. I don’t know much about Qualcomm, but at least on the face of it, they’re keeping Arduino alive and infusing a lot of cash and expand
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by dahart 10mo ago
Quick google search… from Popular Science: “Among the 14 studies reviewed, five supported the idea, eight contradicted it, and one ended with mixed results.” They talk about a few studies with positive results, but then share this: “not eve
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by dahart 10mo ago
FWIW, your first line by itself does not come off as a friendly reminder at all. If that’s all that was there before your edit, I can understand why it inspired some reactions. The edit suggesting it’s everyone else’s fault isn’t going to h
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by dahart 10mo ago
> Textbooks don’t contain section headers every few paragraphs. Yes they absolutely do. What are you even talking about?
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by dahart 10mo ago
Yes, training data is a plausible answer to your own question there, as well as mine above. And that explanation does not support your claims that AI is writing differently than humans, it only suggests training sets vary. Repeating your th
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by dahart 10mo ago
> AI may output certain things at a vastly different rate than it appears in the training data That’s a subjective statement, but generally speaking, not true. If it were, LLMs would produce unintelligible text & images. The way neur
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by dahart 10mo ago
That seems like straw man. Image generation matches style quite well. LLM hallucination conjures untrue statements while still matching the training data style and word choices.
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by dahart 10mo ago
So what would explain why AI writes a certain way, when there is no mechanism for it, and when the way AI works is to favor what humans do? LLM training includes many more writing samples than you’ve ever seen. Maybe you have a biased sampl
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by dahart 10mo ago
> humans simply didn’t write this way prior to recent years. Aren’t LLMs evidence that humans did write this way? They’re literally trained to copy humans on vast swaths of human written content. What evidence do you have to back up your
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by dahart 11mo ago
Do satellite embedded satellite systems usually have an OS these days? Is this a custom made OS, or do you have any examples of an OS that honors the no stack/heap and fixed address requirements you mentioned? What does the OS do? I do
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by dahart 11mo ago
> the “local AQI” is usually from a single government sensor for 100 mile radius What’s your source on this? IPhone’s AQI report says it’s from Breezometer, which links to Google’s Enterprise AQI offerings, which claim 500m resolution an
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by dahart 11mo ago
Like I totally agree with encouraging exercise most places, but let’s be careful to not understate the risks of pollution. The paper states that above 35μg/m^3 of PM2.5 pollution, the protective benefits of exercise were “non-significa
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by dahart 11mo ago
Yeah it’d be cool if the phones had sensors. Everyone can see local AQI already though; weather app has AQI, and you can tap on it for a local region map, as well as a table of pollutant details.
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by dahart 11mo ago
Thanks, makes sense. Are the headers even an issue when using ZIP as a container? Are there superior alternatives in practice? I’ve reached for ZIP for application containers because it’s really easy, not because of design choices that affe
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by dahart 11mo ago
ZIP isn’t an application format, it’s a container, no? You store files with any format in a .zip, and that’s what applications do - they read files with other formats out of the .zip. What are your goals; what else would you pick, and why?
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by dahart 11mo ago
Great looking demo. Someone could use this for a show’s title sequence. There’s something about the combination of soft shadows and r-squared light falloff that always tickles me. Fun fact - you can use very similar logic to do a single-sam
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by dahart 11mo ago
I’ve seen a paper about this, I’ll see if I can dig up a link. I believe you’re right and the answer is yes it can help, but it can be complicated to prove what’s safe or not. The gradient tells you about the orientation of the nearest surf
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by dahart 11mo ago
The vast majority of traffic deaths are preventable. Whether we’re willing to accept that as a goal and make the changes needed to achieve that goal remains to be seen. Industrial accidents, and cancer from smoking are both preventable, and
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by dahart 11mo ago
Weschler’s definition of intelligence fits almost all functional adults, and most animals on the planet for that matter, and it doesn’t really back up your claim above about extreme intelligence. You’ve conflated a lot of things together
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by dahart 11mo ago
Yeah exactly. Spectral isn’t often giving you a very different result from RGB. It rarely matters for entertainment rendering like films & games, but it’s useful for scientific predictive rendering. Sodium lights are a problem not becau
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by dahart 11mo ago
Whether the benefit is light sources or transparency or reflectance depends on your goals and on what spectral data you use. The article’s right that anything with spiky spectral power distributions is where spectral rendering can help. &gt

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