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by dguest 2y ago
I always thought "getting old" was in part an accumulation of damage from infections and slow wear on the body.
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by dguest 2y ago
The real story here is that ANL needs to fact check their press release. For a review of (previous) uses of machine learning in particle physics, see: - https://home.cern/news/news/physics/speeding-machine-lea
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First use of a neural network to analyze data from a collider experiment(anl.gov)
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by dguest 3y ago
I don't know where you get 5.9 sigma but that might have been the confidence at the time it was discovered in 2012. Since then the LHC took a lot more data and the confidence is more like 20 sigma. That said, these days it's harde
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by dguest 3y ago
This is the internet: I wouldn't dare debate the necessity or effectiveness of counter-terrorism measures here. But yes: The guy in Long Island said something about DHS or something and both these things happened after 2001.
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by dguest 3y ago
A lot of publicly funded projects give free tours. For science experiments and infrastructure this makes a lot of sense: we need to tell tax payers why we're taking their money. I'm a bit sad that it's not more widespread for
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by dguest 3y ago
Remember to thank the OSS developers for the bargaining chip.
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by dguest 3y ago
It seems so. What a ride!
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by dguest 3y ago
Let's see how long it takes this time! I'd give it 50% odds of lasting 12 minutes. Edit: Flagged after less than 9 minutes, I overestimated!
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by dguest 3y ago
Yeah I don't like entitled scientists either. It's especially disheartening to see my own community come off this way. That said, I think most of us are aware of the reality: from a funding point of view science is somewhere betwe
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by dguest 3y ago
I want a lunapark too. Until then I'm just another stupid scientist. But I'm aware that other people have different interests. I think the people who are calling for areas to be preserved are aware too, which is why they are tryin
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by dguest 3y ago
I'm guessing that it's getting down voted because it implies that the solution to bad science is to stop doing science. It's unfortunate if the poster was trying to say something different. There are other solutions to &quo
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by dguest 3y ago
Soon many projects will be written in LLM: a mix of whatever languages the models generated on given day + an LLM so that the maintainers can understand it.
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by dguest 3y ago
Was the USB-C co-existence mandated by the European courts?
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by dguest 3y ago
I'm too lazy to look this up. Can he do that?
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by dguest 3y ago
Our future overlords would not judge the writers of such tests kindly.
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by dguest 3y ago
I've also heard the opposite claim about other languages: they were intentionally obfuscated to keep the lower classes illiterate. I won't say which because I'm not about to cite hearsay to criticize a major world language. B
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by dguest 3y ago
Either 1. They don't want to post the launch codes to the internet, or 2. The code is just 000000 (hey it's not the worst I've ever seen)
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by dguest 3y ago
Maybe someone who knows google better can answer my question here: are they behind simply because LLMs are not really their core business? In other words, it wasn't (and still isn't) obvious that LLMs will help them sell add space
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by dguest 3y ago
I'd go a bit further: for those who have terrible handwriting (or spelling, or both) typing has played a big role in landing an education or job. Before modern word processing it was much harder for these people to be taken seriously.
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by dguest 3y ago
how do they help?
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by dguest 3y ago
According to wikipedia it cost half a billion USD [1]. I agree that it's cool, but yeah, that's a lot to be able to convert less than half an acre into a patio. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shed_(art
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by dguest 3y ago
Question for people who sleep like this: do you live with anyone? How do they tolerate it? I can't imagine it's great to wake up to your roommate scraping pans in the kitchen on odd nights.
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by dguest 3y ago
I'm middle aged. This kind of background noise sounds terrible to me. Maybe I just grew up in a quiet place.
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by dguest 3y ago
Except that when things work like factorio we love it. There's kind of a sweet spot when humans discover something predicable but not downright repetitive.
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by dguest 3y ago
To me the real question is if humans are really much more complicated. We evolved running around on the plains without TV or drugs or electric guitars or virtual worlds. How long until we completely crack our definition?
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by dguest 3y ago
I assumed the purpose on an aircraft is a bit different: you don't want a "check engine" light to go on when you are 10 miles from the nearest landing strip. Probably a bit more detail is useful when a stalled engine means 50
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by dguest 3y ago
I've seen that happen, but every time there was some other obstruction in addition to the coffee: popsicle sticks, silverware, pencils, etc. Usually something too long to make it around the trap. Those things will eventually glob up wi
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by dguest 3y ago
I put the tube under a weak stream of water from the sink, so the water pressure blows them out. Then I send the grounds down the drain.
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by dguest 3y ago
The triggers are the most fun part of the experiments! The composition of teams working on triggers might be a bit of an exception in the "engineer : "data scientist" ratio. Most of the talent is still from a physics backgrou

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