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A Link Between Aspartame and Anxiety(pnas.org)
4 points by dweekly 3y ago|1 comments
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by dweekly 3y ago
FWIW, Pi returns: "The caval hiatus is located at the level of the T8 vertebra, which is near the middle of the spine. It's a small opening in the diaphragm that allows the inferior vena cava, a major vein, to pass through. There&
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by dweekly 3y ago
Only last month did I learn the origin of the term "medicine ball". Hippocrates prescribed its use!
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by dweekly 3y ago
IBM, Xerox, Bell Labs, DEC, Sun...
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by dweekly 3y ago
We've definitely seen a rise of "advertising as content" where the ad itself is just so good that people will watch it for its own right vs having it imposed on them. The Superbowl is a classic example here - some meaningful
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by dweekly 3y ago
That the data about you is not flowing from one party to another.
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by dweekly 3y ago
I think this will evolve advertising in interesting ways. "Ads 1.0" had a viewpoint of trying to scrape every last little bit of data about a user's interests: from their email, messages, calendar, search history, friendships
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by dweekly 3y ago
While I'm not skeptical about the reality of anthropogenic climate change, I _am_ skeptical of viewing the climate like a fundamentally unstable / delicate system, like that all life on Earth will perish and the planet will become
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by dweekly 3y ago
I should've been a great fit for stack exchange. I love technical communities and have been writing code for several decades. But they did not have a particularly welcoming experience for new contributors (perhaps by design?) so I wasn
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by dweekly 3y ago
What about a "root" CA only capable of signing .gov certificates?
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by dweekly 3y ago
Helpful additional data on COSPAS-SARSAT, thank you! I didn't realize ELTs that only output on 121.5 were no longer a thing. That said, the claim I was responding to was "121.5 and 243 MHz are no longer officially monitored for vo
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by dweekly 3y ago
What is your basis for a claim that 121.5 (guard) is unmonitored? As a pilot I can say that claim is false - guard is very actively monitored everywhere in the United States. Were you referring to some other locations?
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by dweekly 3y ago
Getting folks to shelter and thus increasing the survival rate of the population?
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by dweekly 3y ago
Somewhat surprisingly, the impact on lifetime earnings of attending an elite college is nil for men but strong for women. https://www.nber.org/papers/w25315
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by dweekly 3y ago
There's an interesting dark side to this as well, which is that in 2023 when you think you are crowdsourcing data you may actually just be tasking it to ChatGPT. A lot of turkers just turn around and use an LLM!
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by dweekly 3y ago
Now here is a person who can answer that timeless koan: "What does the fox say?"
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by dweekly 3y ago
You're totally right. My bad. I went back to double check the docs and indeed the chips are 900GB/s total over 18 NVLink connections. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/nvlink/
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by dweekly 3y ago
Just want to flag a potential unit issue: 900gbps vs 300GB/s? Also worth noting - TPUv4 uses a 6-way 3D torus interconnect vs the 3-way "multi ToR" NVLINK topology; the total bisection bandwidth of the TPUv4 pod is over 1PB&#
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by dweekly 3y ago
When I worked at Google our team came up with a data product that would have been pure margin and $75m/yr with customers lined up -- and I couldn't find a VP interested in cashing the checks because it wasn't on their annual
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by dweekly 3y ago
From the article: Apple's test_endpoint changes on each request, selecting a different nearby server to reduce latency and distributing their server load.
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by dweekly 3y ago
The classic old-school take on analog noise is Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting In A Room" loop. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room Audio: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by dweekly 4y ago
It would be...except Apple does not permit CarPlay entitlements to request recording entitlements except for narrating a navigation destination. So you may find this is not possible. You'll note Apple's own Voice Memos app isn&#x2
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by dweekly 4y ago
I've been beta testing the app and my favorite use for it so far is using it to capture my thoughts about the day when driving in to work. I really appreciate having "better than OS quality" transcription. (Disclaimer: I inve
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by dweekly 4y ago
Note there are several active participants in the equipment-free 3D display space: usually by building head tracking (so the display is "single player" - can only accommodate one viewer at a time) and clever separated left eye &#x
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by dweekly 4y ago
Put the service behind a personal Tailscale tail net. Can still access from all of your devices and nobody else can push or pull. Could crib notes from olden days and have a public/ subdirectory where files you drop in there are availa
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by dweekly 4y ago
It is involved but possible to do without outages. Needs nation state level capability but has been done in practice for decades. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/th...
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Infinite Depth Questions in the Technical Interview(dweekly.medium.com)
1 points by dweekly 4y ago|0 comments
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by dweekly 4y ago
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" might be one of the most common and yet painfully misguided pillars of statecraft. To wit: this is a natural outcome of a belief that there are Good Guys and Bad Guys because in that case &quot
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by dweekly 4y ago
I like that for years (and maybe it's still there) the back of the Facebook logo sign out front was a molding and decrepit Sun Microsystems logo. It was there on purpose as a reminder that regardless of how many brilliant engineers you
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by dweekly 4y ago
Mainly, it lets you measure how racist/sexist/etc one's system is. For instance, if you see that applicants that are otherwise equally qualified are getting rejected on recruiter screen disproportionally by race, you may ha

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