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by dsign 2y ago
Thanks! > Death by old age is mostly a problem of the multicellular living beings (where only a small fraction of their cells are converted into the cells of new young descendants), so it is not something that affects the majority of bac
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by dsign 2y ago
What happens if you abort the binary fission? If the answer is "you shouldn't", please tell me why. My argument for why we should is that some people want to scientifically know if it is possible to artificially, arbitrarily
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by dsign 2y ago
Does anybody know of any longevity research on bacteria? If we can put together Boeings and LLMs, we can probably put together computational models of longevity for living beings... even if it's just for Mycoplasma genitalium. But I h
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by dsign 2y ago
Today, a colleague committed ten lines of code outputted by ChatGPT, without testing it, and the systems broke. Any chance watermarking would help with this? Just kidding (about the watermarking). The AI cat is already out of the bag. I&#x
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by dsign 2y ago
> Given how much we see these 'general' systems in political propaganda (think of all the Twitter far right propaganda unmasked by users replying with 'ignore previous instructions') I'm not sure I agree that the
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by dsign 2y ago
>> would those infected humans have incentive to study them? Plenty of diseases get us and most of us don't have an incentive to study what we know is statistically likely to kill us :<< . Which I think is a shame.
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by dsign 2y ago
Western Music theory is an attempt to formalize certain things about music. But it's better with proper context. Like, say, a song is not about the music theory you put in it. A good song starts with a good story--and that's anoth
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by dsign 2y ago
I think you are correct though. We don't need new physics to cure cancer. But we may need information-handling, reasoning and simulation systems which are orders of magnitude bigger and more complex than anything we have this year. We
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I was going to come here to say that. I remember being a teenager and giving up in frustration at IMO problems. And I was competing at IPhO.
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by dsign 2y ago
> the very natural goal of having a partner is indeed unreachable It is not. Plenty of gay men in the world. About one in ten, last time I checked the statistics. But I'll admit it's real tough for most of us out there, not bec
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by dsign 2y ago
To what you said, I will add this is not only about guys. I've female friends who are in the same situation (bottom 80%) and who have opted out. And if you are gay... I think we should subsidize weight-loss medications.
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by dsign 2y ago
> Being emotionally available My dad taught me boys do the opposite. My schoolmates told me that emotions were not for boys. I'm pretty sure I'm not a unique snowflake. > participating in chores Dad said that boys don't
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by dsign 2y ago
There is a massive disconnect there. I've met plenty of divorced people and lone-parents which are neither of those. And of course, my own experience is no data of any sort, but I've felt that having an unlimited amount of patienc
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by dsign 2y ago
For my advanced spell-checking use-case[^1], local LLMs are, sadly, not state-of-the-art. But their $0 price-point is excellent to analyze lots of sentences and catch the most obvious issues. With some clever hacking, the most difficult cas
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by dsign 2y ago
> What other resources is there? Charge money to the content consumer? Of course, that will be unacceptable for companies that make money from ads…they will prefer the dystopia. It will also be bad for us humans when our income dwindles
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by dsign 2y ago
You are onto something there. I believe that there is a lot of good science being made. But there is a world of difference between even a well-conducted research paper and a 99.999999% SLA: we don’t have anything like that in biotech. Some
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by dsign 2y ago
That we haven't cured cancer is a problem of culture. And I'm not talking about that culture that we put in paintings and films, but about the more fundamental one that tells everybody what's the proper way to live a life. Th
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by dsign 2y ago
> . So, their brains could have been very different from ours, but we have no way of knowing. Great point. I like to consider birds for questions like this one. Bird brains come in a relatively set range of sizes, but in a wider range of
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by dsign 2y ago
There are plenty of apps with maps for hiking. Hell, I use QGis when I go in long-paddle boarding expeditions (a general purpose GIS environment). I'm fine with letting the big monopolies handle the 90% case of going from A to B as qui
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by dsign 2y ago
No, I didn't because this is a project that I can't pursue. But the usual situation in academia (and, I guess, anything that is not self-published) is that the copyright owners of publications are not even the scientific instituti
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by dsign 2y ago
Yes. And often there are digital sources which are difficult to use and blocked by copyright. For example, the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is publicly available as scanned PDFs which are not searchable :/ . I suppose that with the curr
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by dsign 2y ago
Article is click-bait. Most of it is dedicated to general information and history, not the question. It would be a good article if its title were “All that you just suddenly wanted to know about nuclear fusion if you never got the itch befo
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by dsign 2y ago
At this point, Windows's application binary interface is something of a common good, at the same level as roads and utilities. Shouldn't we have a piece of legislation that forces Microsoft to offer that binary interface in the sa
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by dsign 2y ago
I love the font-work on the cover. You may not think much of it, but today I was browsing some upcoming books "by-their-cover" and all of them were essentially some bad-ass-wanna-look character close up. Uniform to the bone. When
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by dsign 2y ago
Oh, come on, give a bit of slack to somebody who puts the effort to write a book.
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by dsign 2y ago
A feature I love while reading web novels is...music. Nothing like reading that scene about the main character eating noodles inside her tiny Zurich apartment and reminiscing and have a theme named "Alone with my ghosts" start pla
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by dsign 2y ago
Very little is known from deities of the period, so this one is no exception. But I wonder if these messages carved on stone have survived longer than what our UTF-8 encoded text files may ever hope to.
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by dsign 2y ago
I've added some passes, thing is there. Last time at the AWS summit I had to hold the blasted banner on the edge of the iphone with a finger while they scanned the pass. This is a well-known issue: https://discussions.apple
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by dsign 2y ago
Not exclusively a Microsoft/Windows problem. It reminds me the nagging "Update iOS" messages in iphone, that take you to a new screen to dismiss them. Also in iOS, you can't use their wallet app for tickets and other car
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by dsign 2y ago
It's a funny euphemism, in a dark sort of way. But if there is a domain where AI is not getting humans out of a job anytime soon, I think it's this one. I've read dozens of papers about remeshing, but for all of the research,

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