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Google's Project Astra uses your camera and AI to find noise makers and more(engadget.com)
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Gemini 1.5: Multimodal understanding across tokens of context(arxiv.org)
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Google teases new camera-powered AI feature one day ahead of I/O(engadget.com)
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by divbzero 2y ago
I don’t know what HN thinks, but you touch upon a good point that VCs do feel this need to differentiate. It reflects the broader shift where promising founders have more say and VCs aim to offer more than just money.
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by divbzero 2y ago
But likability is correlated with convincing successful startups to accept their investments.
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by divbzero 2y ago
I like how Acquired ventures beyond recent tech startups and discusses older and non-tech companies like Walmart [1] or Hermès [2]. Their interview with Charlie Munger [3] was a particular treat and ended up being one of his last intervie
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by divbzero 2y ago
The article doesn’t quite capture that a16z, in my memory, played a major role in popularizing podcasts as a direct media strategy. Fred Wilson, for example, was commenting on it way back in 2014 [1]. [1]: https://avc.com/20
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by divbzero 2y ago
The sky has been lighting up in North America too. I’ve heard reports of the aurora from New England and, here in the Pacific Northwest, it’s currently visible by naked eye and striking in long exposure shots. I always thought I would have
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by divbzero 2y ago
> “Beginning in the summer of 1838, there developed in Boston a remarkable vogue of using abbreviations. It might well be called a craze,” wrote the famed etymologist Allen Walker Read. Wait, you mean we weren’t the generation to make ac
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Walking to Taipei Through a Google Maps Glitch(bloomberg.com)
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There have been times in the past when usable technology surpassed our scientific understanding, and instead of being depressing it provided a map for scientific exploration. For example, the steam engine was developed by engineers in the 1
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by divbzero 2y ago
Also, given the love, why is it that HyperCard died out and nothing similar took its place?
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If this is a cloud deployment, there might be a recommended method native to your cloud if you search for <your cloud provider> synthetic monitoring or <your cloud provider> canary . For example, AWS recommends using CloudWat
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As a slight variation, you could send an alert to the PagerDuty API by replacing “Send email alert” with something like: # Send PagerDuty alert curl -X POST https://events.pagerduty.com/...
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by divbzero 2y ago
Reminds me of what my friend who studied classics said: that we don’t know for sure how Greek and Latin actually sounded like in ancient times.
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by divbzero 2y ago
> there’s recent uncertainty about the age of the universe, possibly by a factor of two Do you have a reference for this? Interesting if potentially true.
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National panel lowers mammogram screening age to 40(statnews.com)
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For a sense of scale, the Horsehead Nebula has a diameter of 7 light years which is greater than the distance of 4 light years from us to Proxima Centauri.
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To take full advantage, her daughter could book a ticket for her as a lap infant and fly her for free.
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Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked(vox.com)
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Cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms(theatlantic.com)
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H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread(statnews.com)
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Carbonized Herculaneum papyrus reveals Plato's burial place(archaeologymag.com)
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Amsterdam roofs that not only grow plants but also capture water for residents(wired.com)
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by divbzero 2y ago
The old school way still works too: 5. Listen to the radio.
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That’s pretty cool. Wolfram Alpha also yields approx. 0.134 c for 1 week of travel time: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=distance+to+voyager+1+÷... --- Perhaps targeting 100 weeks of travel time would be more plausib
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> The question is why a non governmental entity is inserted into the middle of transportation security, with a profit incentive. Reminds me of ID.me, the for-profit company that authenticates users for certain IRS services including IRS
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The substance of this news release is incredible, but its style is also admirable. The authors managed to convey in seven paragraphs a concise and comprehensible explanation of how the team resolved the technical issue.
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I’ve imagined a scene playing out, in sci-fi or for real in the distant future, where astronauts test out a new propulsion system by flying out towards Voyager 1 and catch up to it with ease. As they approach, they see the ancient probe gro
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Related: “The E-Book Wars” by Planet Money https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135639385/libraries-publishe...

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