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by dekhn 11mo ago
A hummingbird builds a nest in my back trees just about every year and raises a couple hatchlings. They can be very territorial- buzzing my head as I walk by, constantly chirping at other birds. The nests are really impressive, made out
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by dekhn 11mo ago
for me it's "nobody has borgmon readability" and "I forgot how to count that low".
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Yes, I do. I don't consider articles in the regular press to be even remotely worth looking at due to their high rate of inaccuracy. Here's the paper that the article refers to: https://www.jclinepi.com/article&#
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Cherrypicking is bad, but worse is reading a paper and thinking you understand what it says, when you don't actually understand what it says. Or thinking that a paper and its data can be observed neutrally as a factual and accurate st
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by dekhn 11mo ago
In this area, having credentials makes a difference. Experts matter. Few if any non-medical people can read medical papers and make sense of what they say. There is simply far too much context to evaluate such papers, especially in the ca
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by dekhn 11mo ago
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Arduino and related technologies have revolutionzed scientific instrument making. Things that were either "too hard" or "too expensive" are now straightforward for hobbyist and non-technical scientists. For example, I b
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by dekhn 11mo ago
The only thing of value left in Arduino is the API (which has been ported to non-Arduinos) and the drivers (of which there are hundreds; Adafruit is one of the main developers).
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by dekhn 11mo ago
I wanted to learn more about computer hardware in college so I took a class called "Cybernetics" (taught by D. Huffman). I thought we were going to focus on modern stuff, but instead, it was a tour of information theory- which in
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by dekhn 11mo ago
Using a single custom benchmark as a metric seems pretty unreliable to me. Even at the risk of teaching future AI the answer to your benchmark, I think you should share it here so we can evaluate it. It's entirely possible you are com
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by dekhn 1y ago
it is very, very unlikely that a fully cooked egg that sat out overnight would have enough bacterial growth (and toxin production by bacteria) to represent a threat to a normal person with a typical immune system. If the egg had bacteria al
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by dekhn 1y ago
Interesting- I ask a license plate question (when will california run out of plates in its current serialization format, based on a couple of plates observed in two different years). It's a much simpler question, though (just linear e
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by dekhn 1y ago
This reminds me of the time I was driving on 101 south of SF and saw a sea lion flopping across the road ( https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/seal-otter-on-freeway... ). It took my brain quite some time to acce
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by dekhn 1y ago
There's a great paper which I can't find any more that said "going faster makes you take longer to get to the destination"; they showed the expected value for arrival time was longer at speed due to higher accident rates
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by dekhn 1y ago
the history of humans on earth has been pivots, even amongst people who had few options. I don't subscribe to feeling guilty every time somebody loses a job. I feel empathy, but telling people to "feel bad" is not constructi
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by dekhn 1y ago
Frankly I think this is inevitable- it's practically one of the laws of computing: any sufficiently complex system will ultimately require a turing-complete language regardless of its actual necessity. See also: """Zawi
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by dekhn 1y ago
Yes but in those situations, you typically can at best find associations between variables and outcomes. We really want evidence of causality, although it sort of depends on how you interpret the precautionary principle.
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by dekhn 1y ago
It's not completely correct, though- "race" as we currently classify it has a strong correlate to genetic background and self-identified race is often used as a proxy for genetic background.
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by dekhn 1y ago
Even if he was "into eugenics", there is strong evidence that your genetic makeup contributes significantly to your longevity.
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by dekhn 1y ago
No, Mullis wrote the Nature paper on time reversal due to the LSD trip ( https://www.nature.com/articles/218663b0 )
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by dekhn 1y ago
both of them were jerks.
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by dekhn 1y ago
It's also incomplete and incorrect. It was Gosling's photo, he did the work for Franklin. And she had already shared the results in a department seminar before Wilkins showed it to W&C. And she was credited for this in the
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by dekhn 1y ago
She was credited, see the original W&C paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/171737a0 at the end is an acknowledgement. She also has a related article in the same issue of Nature. I wouldn't be so sure that
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by dekhn 1y ago
The best I've read is "The Eighth Day Of Creation" (which is amazing book beyond the part that covers the elucidation of the structure of DNA). He references multiple internal data sources that establish the process by which
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by dekhn 1y ago
I asked the authors of the original SMILES paper and they didn't have a good answer. I wrote a parser for SMILES so I could tokenize that way but never followed up, and eventually SELFIES was announced.
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by dekhn 1y ago
Let me start with an example- some time ago I worked on a VAE that encoded and decoded SMILES strings. The idea is that you should be able to encode a SMILES into an embedding space, do all the normal things you would do in that space, and
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by dekhn 1y ago
I wrote a very simple SMILES parser using pyparsing https://github.com/dakoner/smilesparser/tree/master I wouldn't say it's intended for production work, but it has been useful in situations where I
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by dekhn 1y ago
Heat pumps are used a lot in space already. They do not address data center scale heat removal.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I expect the same thing will happen here as happened when Google X said they were looking into space elevators. They'll conclude it won't be feasible because of already-known engineering challenges for which there are no technica
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by dekhn 1y ago
It's still being argued if you really need SELFIES, or if SMILES autoencoders can be trained to only generate valid molecules, or if generating invalid molecules is useful (I'm in camp SELFIES, but I also want better ways to repre

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