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by dekhn 1y ago
I work with live tardigrades under a microscope and you could easily squish them with a little metal pick, or by pressing on the glass coverslip. Tardigrades are very different from amoeba. They have a well-defined cuticle exoskeleton surr
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by dekhn 1y ago
By the way, if you ever want to start a scientific argument, bring up this paper among doctors and scientists. It never fails to start a big argument that is usually concluded with "human metabolism does not violate the conservation o
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by dekhn 1y ago
I don't disagree that increased exercise is associated with weight loss. I don't think I denied that. We're mainly disagreeing about mechanisms. Ultimately, fat metabolism does not violate the conservation of mass/ene
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by dekhn 1y ago
"Burning" fat doesn't violate conservation of mass/energy. Instead, weight loss occurs primarily through co2/oxygen exchange that is connected to metabolism. https://www.bmj.com/content/349&#x2
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Weight loss is not simply calories in - calories out. Fat is not burned and its metabolism does not change your weight. Oxygen/CO2 exchange in the lungs is also a major component of weight change. Further, your body homeostatically m
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only in their dried-out state. Under regular conditions, they are easily squished.
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I strongly prefer windowless offices for work. The outside looks distracting (enticing), people walk by, the light is bright, etc. My ideal work environment would be a small room with a door that closes and excellent sound isolation and a
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by dekhn 1y ago
A long time ago, Harry Harrison wrote a series ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden ) where dinosaurs weren't wiped out, evolving for millions of years before primates showed up. The dinosaurs have a geneti
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by dekhn 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
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by dekhn 2y ago
Because all the smart people at Google who worked on Quality (Ads Quality, Search Quality, etc) got promoted and moved away from those, and the revenue is good enough that google can maintain its monopoly without improving the product.
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by dekhn 2y ago
On the contrary, to some of us (who have focused on probability, big data, algorithms, and HPC, while eschewing complex theories that require geniuses to understand) the bitter lesson is incredibly sweet. Very much like when I moved from ti
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by dekhn 2y ago
There are certainly situations where specific vaccine formations have caused measureable harm. For example in Japan there was a specific formulation of MMR vaccine that led to high rates of sepsis. Experts certainly were involved in the m
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by dekhn 2y ago
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYDGZTMV makes the case that DeepSeek is a poet.
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The way I see this is that for a long time there was an academic field that was working on parsing natural human language and it was influenced by some very smart people who had strong opinions. They focused mainly on symbolic approaches t
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by dekhn 2y ago
This is why I want the field to go straight to building indistinguishable agents- specifically, you should be able to video chat with an avatar that is impossible to tell from a human. Then we can ask "if this is indistinguishable from
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by dekhn 2y ago
pharma does plenty of research outside of patent extension.
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by dekhn 2y ago
I have a RAV4 Prime (decided to get that instead of a Tesla) and I absolutely love it. It's the best of all worlds for my use case (mostly <40mi daily commute entirely on battery, occasional longer drives that use gas). I often go
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Toyota makes hybrids that are excellent. I don't think they want to go full EV.
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"linked" does not mean what most people think it means.
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In a larger sense, Google's monorepo and tightly coupled internal infrastructure makes it extremely challenging to break up without breaking things (even though Android and Chrome source both live outside the monorepo). It would be qui
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by dekhn 2y ago
Ah, thanks for the reminder there are passing tracks already. Are passing tracks really practical? Wouldn't they have to be extremely long to accomodate high speed trains mixed with local Caltrains? I have a hard time picturing this
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by dekhn 2y ago
I simply cannot see HSR sharing track with Caltrain between San Jose and SF working at all. There are only two tracks (North and South) and there is no room to build more. So it would seem that no high speed rail could go faster than calt
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by dekhn 2y ago
It's easier for memory and verbalization.
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by dekhn 2y ago
Yeah the real outcome of all this was "stress is not a cause of ulcers and other GI issues, but it can increase the negative impact" and "some uclers and other GI issues can be treated by antibiotics".
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by dekhn 2y ago
We already culture and DNA test cancers. Sometimes we can point at a secondary tumor and say "it came from this primary tumor". And we already know viral and bacterial infections can increase the likelihood of people getting mal
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by dekhn 2y ago
tasmanian devils [edit: I guess you already said that] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
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these products are 10 years old, and were buggy and broken (by design) when initially launched.
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It depends on the nature of the federal action. If they do illegal things to enforce a law, that would be overreach.
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Depends- if the judge directed agents from their subjects for a lawful reason, then no, there is no cause for arrest.
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I think the main Facebook product is basically running on autopilot now- the folks who wrote the pipelines got promoted and went to work on other stuff. (note that if you click Friends or Feeds you will see somewhat more personal content, b

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