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by dekhn 6mo ago
The platform you're using- a website on the Internet- was funded for, and developed by, NSF (many other orgs contributed). They played a critical role in the 1980s when the net was in a period of tremendous growth. They helped enable
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by dekhn 6mo ago
You must be fun at parties.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
Now what would be great is if they found a complete Telegony- the ostensible "third book" of the Iliad trilogy.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
MSG is the salt form, wherre the glutamate is bound to a sodium atom. In food, my understanding is that MSG will split into two things: sodium ion and glutamate ion. The difference between adding MSG to food and food being already high in
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by dekhn 6mo ago
I took his class, Nature of Math, at UCSC and it was wonderful. Absolutely great teacher with excellent humor.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
The main issue is there really no good way to take an action based on a manually sequenced genome like this right now, with a few exceptions. It's good to know what can be done at home with reasonable costs for the hardware and softwar
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by dekhn 6mo ago
I don't use Gemini CLI- I use the extension in VSCode, and Gemini extension in VS Code is barely usable in comparison to Claude or GPT-5.4. My experience (consistent with a lot of other reports) is that it takes long time before answe
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by dekhn 6mo ago
Prediction: Sundar will step aside and Demis will replace him. (actually I doubt this- Demis does not want to run a big company whose main business is Ads)
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by dekhn 6mo ago
I've got enough equipment and skills already to run an etsy shop when I retire, but looking at the economics, I concluded that it would just turn an enjoyable hobby into a chore, and I didn't want to do that.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
Where does Google publicly promise they don't do this? For example, there's https://policies.google.com/terms/information-requests?hl=en... """When we receive a request from a government agency
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by dekhn 6mo ago
While true, the predominance of evidence for evolution has reached the point that anybody attempting to argue against it would have to produce absolutely enormous amounts of self-consistent evidence that explains our observations better tha
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by dekhn 6mo ago
the heat generates plasma out of gases surrounding the ship, which prevents EM wave transmission. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/ngpdl/research/hypersonics/radi...
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by dekhn 6mo ago
I suspect they were instead referring to patents; for example, when I worked at Google, they told the engineers not to read patents because then the engineer might invent something infringing, I think it's called willful infringement.
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by dekhn 6mo ago
This was definitely covered in my middle school classes (although those were 40 years ago). Standard US public school. We spent a fair amount of time discussing the Antipope, it always sounded like such a cool job name. We also read Genes
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by dekhn 7mo ago
Yep- this is the press release: https://news.mit.edu/2026/molecular-editing-tool-relocate-al... and the published paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10347-4
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by dekhn 7mo ago
You're posting multiple repeated AI slop articles.
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by dekhn 7mo ago
Example: Shoreline Amphitheater, near Google HQ in Mountain View. Built on top of a landfill. For a while in the 80s, there were occasionally small fires during shows when people lit cigarettes. Google also harvested the methane and used
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by dekhn 7mo ago
Everything changed in the past 6 months and coding LLMs went from being OK-ish to insanely good. People also got better at using them. Also, high false positive rate isn't that bad in the case where a false negative costs a lot (an ex
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by dekhn 7mo ago
In my case I have AT&T Fiber that IIUC carries ethernet frames encoded optically.
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by dekhn 7mo ago
For another perspective on this, see the book Shroud ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_(Tchaikovsky_novel) ), there is all sorts of nifty commentary on oxygen related to your point. (it's a great book in genera
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by dekhn 7mo ago
Are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troctolite_76535 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Schmitt#NASA_career )?
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by dekhn 7mo ago
This is a common trope in the tech field- successful tech person who is good at tech gets disease and wants to help cure it. It's easy to generate a lot of data these days (whole genome sequencing, various tests) but the reality is th
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by dekhn 7mo ago
it's only a fallacy in purely logical arguments. Appeal to authority makes sense in medical, scientific, engineering, and other contexts when the arguments necessarily depend on ambiguous data and subjective conclusions.
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by dekhn 7mo ago
It almost could be a Hollywood movie in the vein of Sorceror. Couple of grizzled CERN vets transporting a volatile load of antimatter across a post-apocalyptic wasteland while being chased by energy terrorists.
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by dekhn 7mo ago
pseudointellectual VC advertising
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by dekhn 7mo ago
The main one for me is not putting your chopsticks on top of the bowl rim or putting the chopsticks sticking up from the rice. Those are both intuitive natural actions for me. In the US I rarely see chopstick rests so I'm always wond
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by dekhn 7mo ago
I believe any chemistry or physics textbook will state (possibly indirectly) how temperature deltas work. But I think it's sufficient to just say that Kelvin and Celsius have the same scale magnitude and just a constant offset.
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by dekhn 7mo ago
I'm not entirely sure what point you are trying to make, but this is absolutely false from a scientific perspective. If you believe otherwise, please provide some citations to your beliefs so we can understand what you are trying to sa
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by dekhn 7mo ago
absolutely terrible writing.
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by dekhn 7mo ago
I did something like this: a 64x64 (4K) display of GoL (among other things) using addressable pixels. Alas, I only took one video when the display was working and it wasn't fully cleaned up: https://photos.app.goo.gl/W

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