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deegles
3y ago
I'm thinking about buying a personal voice recorder and keeping it on me 24/7. I could run the audio through Whisper every day and then slowly build up a database of facts that I could query. Like every day if I learn someone'
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Urbit, a Network Older and Weirder Than Bitcoin, Finally Turns Toward Growth
(coindesk.com)
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Brains are bad at big numbers; it's impossible to grasp a million Covid deaths
(theconversation.com)
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I was in Japan recently and they sell these pocket size translator devices with a microphone, camera and screen. You can speak to it or take pictures and it will translate on the fly. Maybe $100 usd range for a nice one. It's only a ma
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Texas braces for a potential insurance crisis as storm season nears
(texasstandard.org)
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3y ago
Just buy glycine, it's cheaper and has the same effect. Up to 20g/day is safe.
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ASTM F3502-21: An In-Depth Look at the Barrier Face Covering Standard
(breathesafeair.com)
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Covid Death Rates by Partisan Lean and Vaccination Rate (With Bivalent Booster)
(acasignups.net)
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4y ago
Remember the Ubuntu phone kickstarter? I pledged for it back in the day and was relieved it fell through... maybe some day they will try again.
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I had to throw away my nice Leatherman Micra (because of the tiny blade) at an airport because I forgot it was in my carry on, only to sit at a restaurant next to the gate and be given a full size serrated steak knife with my meal...
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Mounjaro Could Eclipse Ozempic as the Most Powerful Weight-Loss Drug
(wsj.com)
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Real-Time Charisma as a Service (CaaS) Using GPT-4, Whisper and AR Glasses
(twitter.com)
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Superhuman AI can improve human decision-making by increasing novelty
(pnas.org)
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Absence from work at record high as Americans feel strain from Covid
(theguardian.com)
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Long Covid has had a brutal effect on the workforce, study finds
(gavi.org)
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4y ago
I like the remote code editing feature. I would love a solution that lets me write code on my iPad, including running the code locally. If I could run a server at home and connect to it it would be great. Is there anything like that?
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Scientists Learned to Treat the 20th Century’s Biggest Killer of Children
(asteriskmag.com)
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A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself
(oneusefulthing.substack.com)
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4y ago
Was its usage actually declining? When it was shut down every other feed reader alternative I tried was overloaded for weeks.
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There was a device called the Dreem headband that used EEG and bone conduction earphones to play special tones at specific points of your sleep cycle, the goal being to extend the REM segments. Unfortunately that function was software limit
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A Brief History of the Mason Jar
(smithsonianmag.com)
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Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.
(nytimes.com)
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I feel like the biggest impact will be for authors who have an existing body of work... you can train the model on your writing and generate new text in your own style. What takes days could be done in hours. I'm sure the same could be
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> they can trick a computer to go against it's programming isn't it behaving exactly as programmed? there's no consciousness to trick. The developers being unable to anticipate the response to all the possible inputs to
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Why would an AI be civilization ending? maybe it will be civilization-enhancing. Any line of reasoning that leads you to "AI will be bad for humanity" could just as easily be "AI will be good for humanity." As the saying
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Read this: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-g...
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The immune system is not a muscle that needs to be "exercised."
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They'll just have to chime in and clarify which pathogens they meant. I was snarky because the idea of "exercising the immune system" is misinformation and used by "immunity debt" proponents.
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let me know how your exercise with avian flu, yellow fever, HIV, ebola, hepatitis, etc etc etc goes.
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Disinfection with Far-UV (222 nm Ultraviolet light) (2020) [pdf]
(boeing.com)
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