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by dgacmu 9mo ago
That seemed high, so I plugged it into the bank of England's inflation calculator[1] and got: > What cost £85.00 in 1957 would cost £1,796.12 in November 2025. Not orders of magnitude off, but makes a little more sense this way. I w
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
But it's not. You can do an RCT of the new treatment vs the old treatment. You won't get a direct measure of its absolute efficacy but you will know if it's superior/ non-inferior to the best known thing. And then you ca
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by dgacmu 9mo ago
Oh man, that's funny to see one of my grad school class projects in that list. Takes me back. :-) From that experience: The LLM is likely to do drastically better. Most of the prior work, mine included, took a genetic algorithm approac
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
Right, but the people making the argument about vaccines don't understand the principles, because they're actually the same! 1) a double blind RCT with a placebo control is a very good way to understand the effectiveness of a trea
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
Because it's generally unethical to not give someone a treatment known already to be safe and effective. Studies of new vaccines where there is not an existing vaccine _do_ use placebo controls. Heck, my son got placebo during moderna&
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
About 12. First deployed mid 2015.
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
There are only two places I still routinely wear a mask (n95) these days: Airplanes from waiting at the gate until about 10 minutes after takeoff when the air handling system has had time to clear things out (and the same after landing), an
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
Kudos! It would be interesting if in your performance analysis on the readme you also showed the false positive rate, assuming the memory use between the data structures you're comparing is identical.
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
I've really enjoyed using my newer instant pot as a sous vide lately. The fact that the lid closes on it is nice for saving energy, though it does take longer to get to temperature than my anova. But the anova is less convenient.
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
I have a very large hard rubber cutting board that I adore, to add to the list of reasonable materials. If you compost, your in-kitchen compost tote works really well to move near where you're trimming veggies.
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
I still sharpen my knives on a whetstone, but given the general cost trajectory of most manufactured items, I've decided that I'm okay if I wear out my knives. Buying a new chef's knife in 10 years is basically free on a per-
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
Except that those same people then complain about how many homeless people there are. Reagan's destruction of the mental health system was really awful. The system needed improvement and more accountability, but we need it. I had an ad
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
This is a misunderstanding of the job of a professor. (I have some experience here.) Our job is to teach well enough, to research well enough, and to handle administrative stuff well enough, in a context where any one of those could easily
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
This is exactly why you have it write code instead of analyzing the data. You can have tests, you can inspect then code, you know that the process will be deterministic. The chatbot LLMs are a bad match for bulk data analysis on regular, st
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
I think you're skipping part of the reason people are annoyed at her: she had consistently claimed that she's trying to advance the case of free speech (her publication was even called "the free press"). So there's
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
For me: I've only tried using it seriously a few times but my experience is that you have to juggle carefully when to start a fresh session. It can get really anchored on earlier versions of images. It was interesting balancing iterati
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by dgacmu 10mo ago
But not really? If you ask me a question about Thai grammar or how to build a jet turbine, I'm going to tell you that I don't have a clue. I have more of a meta-cognitive map of my own manifold of knowledge than an LLM does.
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
This seems like a weird subject on which to be so aggressive, or at least I'm interpreting your tone that way. DRAM manufacturers absolutely have engaged in illegal price fixing in the past (1998-2002 in particular). But they've a
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
I'd take the opposite bet on this. They're diverting wafer capacity from lower-profit items to things like HBM, but all indications are that wafer starts are up a bit. Just not up enough. For example: https://chipsandwa
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
In their defense, how many $20 billion fabs do you want to build in response to the AI ... (revolution|bubble|other words)? It seems very, very difficult to predict how long DRAM demand will remain this elevated. It's dangerous for the
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
I've used it a little for openscad with mixed results - sometimes it worked. But I'm a beginner at openscad and suspect if I were better it would have been faster to just code it. It took a lot of English to describe the shape - q
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
I'm not a big llm booster, but I will say that they're really good for proof of concepts, for turning detailed pseudocode into code, sometimes for getting debugging ideas. I'm a decade younger than you, but I've programm
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
I ran a corsi-rosenthal box 24/7 for a year during covid with 4 merv-13 filters and the airflow stayed pretty good. Depends of course - we don't have pets and were running the HVAC filter full time also so it was a pretty clean en
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
A deep merv-13 with a lot of pleats can have a very reasonable pressure drop - you just have to shop a little more carefully. I would stick with merv-13 because you'll get solid performance across a lot of things you might want to remo
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
99% safe with 1% unsafe mixed in is far, far better than 100k loc of c++ -- look at Google's experience with rust in Android. It's not perfect and they had one "almost vulnerability" but the rate of vulnerabilities is mu
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
The more correct and general answer is that: - EDAC is a term that encompasses anything used to detect and correct errors. While this almost always involves redundancy of some sort, _how_ it is done is unspecified. - The term ECC used stand
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
Agreed. The point I'm trying to make is that the breakdown of California's costs shows that it's not actually the generation cost, i.e., whether or not the generation is solar or fossil is not really the thing that's mak
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
As the above poster said. Generation costs are a small part of most consumers' bills, but particularly in CA. If you look at the location marginal pricing map from CA ISO: https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/price
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
Solar + battery + wind actually do pretty well. There's a bit of a de-correlation between solar and wind that makes the mix more resilient than either alone. We can't do 100% in most places yet, but it's pretty straightforwar
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by dgacmu 11mo ago
I mean, yes, if you're designing a microcontroller you need a clock source, but from the perspective of implementing a circuit as a more normal designer, the UC has it already. And lots of small UCs have an internal clock source so you

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