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by dekhn 4mo ago
Typically what happens is that the new treatments with bad side effects are given to the sickest patients (who have exhausted all other mechanisms), rather than to the bravest souls with less dire current circumstances. This makes some sens
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Seeing and hearing Karateka for the first time on an Apple II+ was a life-changing experience for me. Along with Ultima III, it made me want to be a game developer (I was in 4th grade, so around 12, at the time). Everything about the game
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by dekhn 4mo ago
That is not a remotely accurate representation of what he wrote.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
I think if Damore had limited his criticism to the corporate DEI (which I found to be a bit heavy-handed and prone to critical theory groupthink) in a short doc, he probably would have been a bit more successful (in helping Google rein back
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by dekhn 4mo ago
This violates law #27, "do not unnecessarily increase the entropy of the universe"
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by dekhn 4mo ago
yes, but can you get a tattoo of all tattoos that do not contain themself?
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by dekhn 4mo ago
I once interviewed for a company and the interviewer was telling me how he (a vc) funded a project to generate large streams of random numbers; you would select an index at random, share that private key with somebody, and then the subseque
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Yep- this is what I do. I use a high quality VLM to generate labelled boxes (in my case, around tardigrades in a microscope image), do some light editing to fix the small number of errors, and then train YOLO26 with it. Works great, saved
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by dekhn 4mo ago
In my experience, many claims of cancer clusters aren't actually caused by the things people say they're caused by. For example, for a long time people thought living near power lines caused cancer, but careful work suggests that
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by dekhn 4mo ago
I blame eukaryotism.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
It's more like... the comment doesn't contribute anything of value to the conversation.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Without engaging with the rest of your content, I have to point out that Wikipedia's "list of countries by cancer rates" is not actually a useful metric for the true rates of cancer in those countries. Poorer countries tend
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by dekhn 4mo ago
What sort of modern experiments can be convincingly replicated at home? I can't think of very many.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Demis Hassabis - head of Google DeepMind.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Rossman sometimes makes good points, but he's also very prone to generating controversial content (intentionally), so as always, practice some level of skepticism.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
Do you run it at 20V or USB 5V? I ask because I found it heated up very slowly at 5V (and had trouble maintaining high heat), while once I got a nice USB PD power supply, it worked very well. It replaced my weller almost instantly (the wel
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by dekhn 4mo ago
dekhn's 12th law (amended): any discussion of how AI and brains work will devolve into several threads about the nature of the subjective human experience, solipsism, whether humans are machines, and whether a feedforward network train
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by dekhn 4mo ago
When I worked there a few years ago, if you made a meme that made anybody unhappy, there was a team in corporate that woudl threaten your job to make you delete it.
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by dekhn 4mo ago
I reached my own productivity limit on several projects (in my case, I'm building a fully automated microscope that uses realtime computer vision to solve a number of longstanding problems with microscopes). As much as I'd want t
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by dekhn 4mo ago
As you wrote it, it really reads as "everybody who says datacenters have health impacts is a crackpot" but I think your intent was "some people who say datacenters have health impacts are crackpots".
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I remember when 32MB of RAM cost $375. I paid it anyway, even as a poor undergraduate, so I could avoid swapping while running g++, emacs, and X11 at the same time, on my cheap linux machine
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Can you say with absolute certainty that sick animals and long term impacts on their health are not caused by data centers? Certainly we have long list of examples where industrial activity contaminated areas with little oversight and it d
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I worked with a foodie who was also a protein scientist ( https://scienceandfooducla.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/kent-kir... ) and he once pointed out: nearly everything you need to know about protein folding, you
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Proteins are truly amazing. I've studied them for decades and they still manage to surprise; for example, i worked with protein structural prediction for decades and assumed that structure was necessary for function, but some proteins
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Linux: first they laugh at you, then it embraces, extends, and extuinguishes Windows.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I ported a million-line, OpenGL/Motif application using Interix (before it was acquired). Indeed, it was grand.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Ditto- it played an important role in my entry to the world of electronics. Some of their breakout boards are my favorite (very nice layout, highly functional, well-documented).
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Google has a number of passion projects typically run by people who established credibility/value to Google a long time ago. Not surprisingly, some of those are medical/biological in nature, because that's an area that tech
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by dekhn 5mo ago
This project is not part of Verily any more- it moved back to Google.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
If you mean that seriously: homo sapiens came into existence in Africa, existed solely there for a long time (generating lots of genetic diversity) and then spread throughout the world in multiple waves. It's complicated by the fact th

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