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by dynm 10mo ago
Incidentally, this is not a blog that makes it easy to look at the archives! - No link to other posts - This post is at https://relaxing.run/blag/posts/top-gun-landing/ - https://relaxing.run/
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by dynm 11mo ago
Contrary to what many replies are telling you, the link clearly states that if you don't own a smartphone, you can check in online and then obtain a boarding pass for free at the airport. (Not sure how easy that will be or if they actu
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by dynm 11mo ago
I think this is the main content of the law. (Everything below is quoted.) --- Section 3. Right to compute Government actions that restrict the ability to privately own or make use of computational resources for lawful purposes, which inf
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by dynm 11mo ago
Strange, right? Take a look at figure 4 here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/... This is as in the abstract: 1. drinks/day declined in both groups and somewhat more in the tr
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by dynm 11mo ago
OK looking at the original abstract: > Semaglutide treatment did not affect average drinks per calendar day or number of drinking days, but significantly reduced drinks per drinking day (β, −0.41; 95% CI, −0.73 to −0.09; P = .04) So they
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by dynm 11mo ago
> A more recent RCT showed that low-dose semaglutide reduced laboratory alcohol self-administration, as well as drinks per drinking days and craving, in people with AUD [72]. I think this quote is... wrong? Or at least extremely misleadi
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by dynm 11mo ago
This paper states: > The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee and registered with the Clinical Trials Registry of India As far as I can tell, that registry is here: https://www.ctri.nic.in/Cli
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Giving Up on Privacy (2011)(jefftk.com)
1 points by dynm 1y ago|0 comments
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by dynm 1y ago
It seems like if anything the current model would end up paying obscure artists more? (If you assume that people who listen to obscure music tend to listen to more music overall, which would be my guess.)
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by dynm 1y ago
Hmmm, I use https://njal.la/ for DNS. Could spamhaus really just auto-mark every njalla user as suspicious?
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by dynm 1y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, the whole concept of "domain reputation" can be infuriating. For example, my blog has been marked as suspicious by spamhaus.org: https://check.spamhaus.org/results?query=dynomight.net A
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by dynm 1y ago
I think there is a "correct" answer to this question! The best book on Monte Carlo methods is this one: https://artowen.su.domains/mc/ It's not published yet, but already a classic. (Might be more interm
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by dynm 1y ago
You seem to be responding as if I claimed that population-level correlational studies are bad, or that I claimed that air pollution is not bad for you. But I did not claim either of those things. What I claimed is that this press release ta
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by dynm 1y ago
This article repeats the common mistake of conflating correlations and causality. The main results are (1) that PM2.5 exposure is correlated with dementia in humans, (2) some experimental results with mice. This does not establish causali
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by dynm 1y ago
FWIW, I think the wirecutter's quality for air purifiers is pretty bad, and likely more influenced by affiliate payments than science: https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/
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by dynm 1y ago
If you're wondering the most obvious thing: - Cost per mile: $4.72 - Minimum charge: $2296 There are also a huge number of other fees that I can't tell if you'd need to pay in practice, e.g.: - Additional Locomotive Fee (per
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by dynm 1y ago
I'm confused. Usually a "natural experiment" is a chance event that affects some random subset of a population. Here, they seem to be using "natural experiment" to refer to the event that someone decides to move to
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Heritability Puzzlers(dynomight.net)
2 points by dynm 1y ago|0 comments
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by dynm 1y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I submitted a request to spamhaus but it's an auto-responder black hole that tells me to contact my "IT department". (My personal blog, oddly enough, does not have one.) They don't explain w
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Should the Federal Government Sell Land?(construction-physics.com)
2 points by dynm 1y ago|0 comments
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Steganography in floating point data with NaN payloads(github.com)
5 points by dynm 1y ago|1 comments
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by dynm 1y ago
Just to be clear, these are hidden prompts put in papers by authors meant to be triggered only if a reviewer (unethically) uses AI to generate their review. I guess this is wrong, but I find it hard not to have some sympathy for the authors
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by dynm 1y ago
Maybe they have some light to show if they're on. But is everyone supposed to just know that? Pointing a video camera at everyone you talk to is an... interesting social choice. Glasses like these should be designed with a physical mec
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by dynm 1y ago
(author here) This wraps JAX and JAX's version of NumPy. It would surely require some development to keep up, although it's quite short and simple (only 700 lines), so I don't think it would be a big burden. That said, I shou
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by dynm 1y ago
From the title, I read this expecting another lame observational study which I would probably distrust on the basis that it doesn't show anything causal. It's not that! Rather, if I understand it, they (1) took mice and introduced
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by dynm 1y ago
By complicated and unstated rules, I meant sort of norms about how you talk about previous work, how you caption figures, what order you have for the sections, how self-congratulatory vs. humble you are, etc. Theoretically, there are no rul
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by dynm 1y ago
I think the example of how to "correctly" cite a paper actually makes this issue seem smaller than it is. In reality, these conferences have very complicated (and unstated) "rules" for how a paper is supposed to look. If
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by dynm 1y ago
The amount of text in books is surprisingly finite. My best estimate was that there are ~10¹³ tokens available in all books ( https://dynomight.net/scaling/#scaling-data ), which is less than frontier models are already
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by dynm 1y ago
There's absolutely no contradiction here. Currently less than 20% of Americans work in factories. All those 80% need to want is that the 20% of people who want to work in factories can do so.
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by dynm 1y ago
Yeah, it's quite disturbing that the differential entropy (unlike the discrete entropy) depends on the units. Even worse, the differential entropy can be negative! Interestingly, the differential KL-divergence (differential cross-entro

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