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by dekhn 8mo ago
I don't see any reason for the source molecules to come from space. We already know that nucleotides will spontaneously form and polymerize in conditions consistent with the early earth, and a meteorite origin just moves the source of
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by dekhn 8mo ago
Yes, for me it's the scene with the knights riding through the forest with Carmina Burana playing (this was one of my introductions to recorded music- my parents had that record and I spent a lot of time listening to it later). I think
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by dekhn 8mo ago
I had a similar experience in my genetics class in grad school- the professor explained that children of musicians were more likely to have perfect pitch, hence it was a genetic trait. Some folks suggested that perhaps it was possible that
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by dekhn 8mo ago
no, alphafold is basically just a static structure predictor. folding@home explicitly models the folding process (the journey, not just the destination).
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by dekhn 8mo ago
I used to think this way, but after about 30 years in the field (including ML, MD, sequence alignment, homology modelling, drug discovery, and more) I've concluded grandiose visions like this have little to no chance of actually making
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by dekhn 8mo ago
No.
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by dekhn 8mo ago
I'm talking about any situation where a principled person who is technically correct gets a threatening letter from a lawyer instead of a thank you. If you read enough lawyer messages (they show up on HN all the time) you will see they
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by dekhn 8mo ago
It would take a bit of time to re-read the entire chain and come up with highly specific ways. The way I read the exchange, the lawyer basically wants the programmer to shut up and not disclose the vulnerability, and is using threatening l
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by dekhn 8mo ago
I find often that conversations between lawyers and engineers are just two very different minded people talking past each other. I'm an engineer, and once I spent more time understanding lawyers, what they do, and how they do it, my a
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by dekhn 8mo ago
My confidence comes only from what I hear people doing with the system. I have zero experience with it and consider most of the PR from Tesla to be junk. "would not expect" is the way a cautious person demonstrates a lack of con
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by dekhn 8mo ago
This is the undergraduate curriculum. I've talked with folks who went through various programs (biology, chemistry, math, and physics) and I think they are demanding courses, and the question sets and tests were extremely hard. The s
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by dekhn 8mo ago
Sure, no argument there, I was just referring to research like this: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82d0550k """Results. At a discount rate of 3 percent, males and females aged 20-24 have the hig
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by dekhn 8mo ago
Well, I'm in the US, I already know how to recognize US propaganda and ignore it :) I don't think I was shown anything that was clearly labelled as "state-sponsored-media" from any other country and I don't think I
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by dekhn 8mo ago
Autopilot is similar to cruise control that is aware of other cars, and lane keeping. I would fully expect the sort of accident that happened to happen (drop phone, stop controlling vehicle, it continues through an intersection). FSD has m
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by dekhn 8mo ago
I generally don't complain about being downvoted, but it is always puzzling when I post a neutral fact without any judgement.
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by dekhn 8mo ago
I stopped when it started showing propaganda from the CCP (at least it was clearly labelled as such). https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/chinese-state-... https://www.reddit.com/r/China
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by dekhn 8mo ago
When my spouse worked in the area of determining "the value of an individual" (economically, not morally), it was computed as present value lifetime earnings: the cumulative income of the individual, converted back to its current
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by dekhn 8mo ago
If I read the article it says autopilot, not FSD.
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by dekhn 8mo ago
I would go so far as to say that the vast majority of the time, systems that evolved are robust, not brittle, and you're right, this compromise "works better" or is "good enough to reproduce more than my relatives".
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by dekhn 8mo ago
Evolution has lead to optimization and efficiency many times. It rarely trends to maximization or the largest possible efficiency, since those conflict with "good enough". Protein structure and function is a common example.
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by dekhn 8mo ago
I disagree- this subthread was not about assault weapons, it was about gun-control laws. But yes, if you limit yourself to assault weapons (itself a somewhat nebulous term that just muddies the discussion IMHO), then yes, you're not g
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by dekhn 8mo ago
Your fun fact is misleading because it's specific to AR-15s. A better comparison would be all types of guns.
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by dekhn 8mo ago
So basically the comparison to foreign body objects (of any type) to a single type of gun- which represents a tiny fraction of all gun deaths- is not a convincing comparison.
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by dekhn 8mo ago
Another Jeff Dean post about this model shows it writing programs that generate CAD objects. I suspect if you ask it to, it will create a CAD pelican on a CAD bicycle and even make joints so you can turn the pedals.
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by dekhn 8mo ago
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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by dekhn 8mo ago
They are busy demonstrating that Mark Zuckerberg has no sense at all.
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by dekhn 8mo ago
The reason we correct vision is for safety and convenience. My guess is that we have a distribution of vision capabilities due to the inability of complex biological systems to ensure that the precise geometry of the cornea and lens is sub
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by dekhn 8mo ago
They didn't claim evolution got it perfectly right. They speculated that immune systems evolved to avoid being continuously on alert. And that's exactly right- our immune systems have an extremely complicated system for detectin
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by dekhn 8mo ago
One of the highlights of my youth was attending Apple convention in boston in the 1980s and meeting Lord British (Richard Garriot). He saw that I liked the game and asked me to stand in the kiosk and teach people how to play it.
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by dekhn 8mo ago
There wasn't the internet, but there was a book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Adventure_Games After a number of very frustrating experiences I ended up buying this. For example, in the Sierra Online

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