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by dekhn 5mo ago
Those are typically skills a starting scientist needs to learn. At the same time, sometimes it does feel abusive especially if the student doesn't get some sort of credit for doing the peer review and talk prep. In my program the main
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Scattering has long been key to making realistic looking rendered images. One of my favorite papers: http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/papers/bssrdf/bssrdf.pdf which I think is the first time I learned that render
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Several tips helped me move from "painting with solder" to "hmm, that's acceptable": "heat the component, not the solder", "taping things to the table saves a hand", "use an analog, not digi
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by dekhn 5mo ago
AI models moved beyond next word predictors recently. Considering them to just be partially decent auto complete is completely missing many recent innovations.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I don't have a Bambu; previously, I had Prusa printers from the MK3 generation and I struggled to get good prints (poor bed adhesion and the extruder breaking frequently, requiring very intensive repairs); since not having a working pr
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I agree. I would almost say the best argument to make is "liberal humanism is compatible with machine intelligence and regulated capitalism, but we must still remain wary that authoritarians will abuse the system".
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I do see prices when I look at the instance selection box. "On-demand linux base pricing: 0.0104 USD per hour" for t3.micro (matching the published pricing). it does not show the full price (based on any additional volumes or oth
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by dekhn 6mo ago
Making two products in the same factory does not necessarily mean they are identical.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
Modern US coke doesn't taste much like the coke I drank growing up (late 70s, early 80s, before they switched over). I remember drinking "a perfect coke" on a hot day, it tasted almost "botanical". These days, the
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by dekhn 6mo ago
This doesn't make any sense. You can do a < 5 second 0-60 in your Subaru or Kia?
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by dekhn 6mo ago
If you mean specifically the Gemini VS Code Extension: it's terrible compared to Claude Code or Codex. I don't know how they can get away with it. Just constant timeouts, weird failure modes, have to start a new chat to switch m
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by dekhn 6mo ago
When I was a kid I read Asimov's laws and it inspired me to work on robots and machine learning. However, I quickly realized: the computers of the time (Apple IIe) could not implement those laws; they required the ability to parse hum
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by dekhn 6mo ago
No health claim is ever proven. Even with overwhelming evidence for a claim we can't really say it's proven. At best we can say we have very high confidence, supported by a lot of data. Further, what exactly are we supposed to b
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by dekhn 6mo ago
No, not really. If you are not a covered healthcare entity, or a business association of a covered healthcare entity, the law simply does not apply to you at all. Also, I believe (but am not certain) that if there was any criminal case, it
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by dekhn 6mo ago
I wonder if that's why so many people write it as HIPPA.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
Here's the original text of the bill's purpose; very little of the bill talks about privacy, and most of the rules around that are part of the HHS Privacy Rule. To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and
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by dekhn 6mo ago
You're referring to the privacy rule, which is only part of the law (and not its primary prupose). The original intent of the law was to ensure easy transfer of information to keep health coverage when changing jobs. The privacy rule
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by dekhn 6mo ago
That's not really correct. It was designed for portability- the ability to move data between health care providers. (I work in healthcare-adjacent and have met with many lawyers and had to explain them all about "HIPAA compliance
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by dekhn 6mo ago
HIPAA as a law is intended to ease transfer of medical information, not restrict it.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
What is your point, exactly? You should state it clearly at the start of the post. When I asked gemini, it printed the right answer, and it also had a button: "Show code", which I clicked: word = "strawberry" count = wo
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by dekhn 6mo ago
The grateful dead were definitely my introduction to flow state. It wasn't just programming, it was using a MUD in the late 1980s. In my case, the Dark Star from Live/Dead (a long, extended jam that explores the outer reaches),
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by dekhn 6mo ago
I start from the assumption that I am a philosophical zombie, and that makes all this argument pretty irrelevant. More realistically, I'm in the camp that if we keep developing machine learning in the right directions, we may actually
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by dekhn 6mo ago
How do you get from "trying to park car" to 70 miles an hour? That does not seem consistent with the geometry of the accident.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
Hmm, I thought the other poop knife apocryphal story was older, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X1... but the oldest reference I could find there was 1953, while the Spock book is ol
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by dekhn 6mo ago
The context switched mid-thread- the reply was to somebody saying they hadn't heard from either Apple or Google phone users.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
The way I describe it is that his actions (even before the human genome) clearly showed that the individual-driven, "artisinal" sequencing was far less productive. When I started in computational biology (1994) the E.Coli genome w
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by dekhn 6mo ago
The majority of the genomic sequencing done by Celera for their initial released draft genome was on Venter's sample.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
I wish that they had done just San Jose to Burbank with a couple stops on the west side of the central valley (starting building from both directions at the same time). I think that was the maximum achievable initial goal.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea
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by dekhn 6mo ago
The AI you ask is based on technology developed by (not exclusively) researchers funded by the NSF.

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