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by djoldman 9mo ago
> biomedical progress, especially in therapeutics, has become less productive despite staggering advances in basic science. > the inflation-adjusted cost to bring a new drug to market roughly doubles every nine years: a trend that has
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by djoldman 9mo ago
That raises an interesting question: if 10 people in a room request ubers without confirming the ride-hail, does the price go up for successive requests?
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by djoldman 9mo ago
Wheel Impact Load Detector. It measures vertical forces in kips - (kilo-pounds-force, 1 KIP = 1,000 lbs) They have these in the USA.
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by djoldman 9mo ago
> Medical AI: In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton—the “father of modern AI”—predicted that radiologists would be replaced within five years. We are now a decade past that prediction, and radiologists are as essential as ever. This one is instructiv
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by djoldman 9mo ago
> ALL UNMANNED ACFT ARE PROHIBITED FROM FLYING WITHIN A STAND-OFF DISTANCE OF 3000FT ... LATERALLY AND 1000FT ABOVE ... > TO: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD), DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE), AND DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) FACILITIE
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Passipedia – The Passive House Resource(passipedia.org)
3 points by djoldman 9mo ago|0 comments
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by djoldman 9mo ago
(2007) MUCH has changed since then.
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by djoldman 9mo ago
> ... if asked This is blurring of fact drives click bait. The origin of this is a Forbes article[0] where the quote is: "Microsoft confirmed to Forbes that it does provide BitLocker recovery keys if it receives a valid legal order
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by djoldman 9mo ago
I would love to see this analysis run on pre-GPT era papers.
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by djoldman 9mo ago
This professor's capacity for empathy and compassion for his students is off the charts. You can tell he puts a lot of thought and effort into helping his students learn. Bravo. Also, the take on AI is a stark contrast to much of what
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by djoldman 9mo ago
> Second, I learned that cheating, however lightly, is now considered a major crime. It might result in the student being banned from any university in the country for three years. Discussing exam with someone who has yet to pass it migh
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by djoldman 9mo ago
I'm thinking protip was sarcasm :)
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by djoldman 9mo ago
> _canonicalize_table = str.maketrans( "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz--", ) > ... > value = name.translate(_canonicalize_table) > while "--" in value: > v
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by djoldman 9mo ago
Many people would require an intelligent entity to successfully complete tasks with non-deterministic outputs.
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by djoldman 9mo ago
Does this mean they won't have the option to buy from "Other sellers on Amazon"?
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by djoldman 9mo ago
For other science buffs out there, https://www.youtube.com/@MassSpecEverything is a great resource. He breaks down lots of the things you might be interested in.
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by djoldman 9mo ago
Looks like the data is available here: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-... I'm surprised to see this granularity (# of applicants/admitted/enrolled to a college broken out by
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by djoldman 9mo ago
Can someone explain why the main screen in iOS weather, below the current temperature, shows the high temperature to the left of the low temperature? In all other places in the app, the low is to the left of high.
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by djoldman 9mo ago
Probably not in Illinois! https://www.aclu-il.org/en/campaigns/biometric-information-p...
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by djoldman 9mo ago
This page seems to be the most "design-forward" federal .gov website I've ever seen. Does anyone have other examples?
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by djoldman 9mo ago
Alternate link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/how-google-got-its-gro...
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by djoldman 9mo ago
> I'm gradually tuning out Hacker News, because it persistently tries to ignore the politics that are destroying the United States and freedom of enquiry. There are many places that focus on, allow, or encourage political content. H
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by djoldman 9mo ago
English word, clause, sentence, and paragraph boundaries do not always match characters. How does the software handle these: Mrs. Blue went to the sea shore with Mr. Black. "What's for dinner?" Mrs. Blue asked.
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President Trump orders divestment in $2.9M chips deal to protect US(apnews.com)
6 points by djoldman 10mo ago|0 comments
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by djoldman 10mo ago
> Gemini lowered its grades by an average of 2 points after seeing Claude's and OpenAI's more rigorous assessments. It couldn't justify giving 17s when Claude was pointing to specific gaps in the experimentation discussion
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by djoldman 10mo ago
Intuitively, it seems like the Correct™ feature to handle the concepts of "issues" and "discussions" would be to have only one place to go to comment on a project. There doesn't seem to be enough of a separation bet
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by djoldman 10mo ago
These seem like great examples of features with minuscule benefits on average: > Imagine: > Your thermostat adjusting the temperature automatically as you enter the room. > Your TV resuming your favorite show that you were watching
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by djoldman 10mo ago
It took a bit of digging but it looks like the ship can operate for 90 minutes without recharging: > ... the batteries will power eight axial-flow water jets driven by permanent magnet electric motors. These will be able to keep the ship
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by djoldman 10mo ago
Some cool pics of construction components: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/incat-launches-worlds...
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Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence(techdirt.com)
81 points by djoldman 10mo ago|101 comments

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