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by etiam 4y ago
How does it ever help to panic, but it's a pertinent fact that smallpox is highly contagious, with true airborne being one among its modes of transmission. In my opinion there was real cause for concern, with modest probability but ver
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by etiam 4y ago
JPLeRouzic's point about indiscriminate expression is significant though. The tiny lipid bubbles used to introduce the (recent mRNA-)vaccines should introduce foreign nucleic acids (RNA,DNA) just on the basis of there being a cell me
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Why Indian military’s embrace of AI risks sparking nuclear disaster(scmp.com)
3 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
I'm certainly not a physical chemist, but at that sort of energy levels wouldn't it rather be liable to drive the gas mix towards some sort of equilibrium? I'd imagine it breaks down molecular oxygen (some of which goes on to
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Molnupiravir Mutations in the Wild(science.org)
63 points by etiam 4y ago|28 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
Well described. There are viruses which affect other viruses with arguably more than a side effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virophage ), but for natural reasons it seems a bit off from fully analogous to bacteri
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by etiam 4y ago
I haven't been updated on this in a while, but the prevailing idea early on seemed to be that the reduction is achieved through shortening the infectious time, not so much by doing anything about the level of transmission before it&#x2
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Thoughts on ChatGPT and Its Ilk(science.org)
1 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
I'd say... Keep taking adequate levels of care of your health and financial situation. Maintain activity outside of work. Preferably something engaging enough that you're not inclined to ruminate much while you're in the acti
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by etiam 4y ago
You're saying plagiarism isn't if one mostly swaps a couple of things in the expression of the content?
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by etiam 4y ago
Is that something you think is a good analogy for ChatGPT use of it's data sources? To me it looks more like memorizing enough of other employees' project contributions to try passing it all off as your own achievements in perform
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The War for Iron(science.org)
137 points by etiam 4y ago|44 comments
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Security Economics Course(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
2 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
Yes, I agree. Some of the particulars look a bit different here, but the spirit of it is the same. One thing it fits well with is progression through the Demoralization, and possibly Destabilization, phase(s) of ideological subversion as de
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by etiam 4y ago
I had just been primed with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525750 and arrived expecting artistic calligraphy... That's probably a lot to ask. Has anybody got tips about interesting datasets in that space?
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Aging and Retroviruses(science.org)
1 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
I don't think I can see an actual argument in this. Could it be summarized as approximately 'The current PhD system has good points but it's several decades old, you learn from someone who actually knows the stuff in practice
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Expanding the Brain. Literally.(science.org)
2 points by etiam 4y ago|1 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
There are costs to excessive time spent on it of course, but there are more interesting things to check out than there's time to go through with, and many of them you'd never locate again in reasonable effort with just faded memor
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by etiam 4y ago
The impact is definitely here already. I found it slightly absurd to read the motivation ”this work is important, because it opens up a huge toolbox for creating better CRISPR systems.” considering CRISPR as biotechnology was still a marg
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Male wasps use spikes to ward off predators, say scientists in Japan(scmp.com)
1 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
Aside from the particular percentages I don't exactly disagree with your observation about the odds of being right or wrong in the respective cases, but I think the skepticism being due to an lazy pursuit of this smugness and self-cong
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by etiam 4y ago
"Knowledge" is a bit of a shorthand term in a case like this, yes, but not in itself much more wrong than going looking for "knowledge" in a book for instance (though arguably the ML context is more prone to misunderstan
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Joint fighter plan with Britain and Italy ‘highlights Tokyo’s Taiwan concerns’(scmp.com)
2 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
That would be very meta, but already quite tiresome.
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Bacteria and Cancer: It's Not Random(science.org)
3 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 4y ago
"Flat" "design" arrives at tangible consumer products?
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by etiam 4y ago
I wish I could upvote comment by user "Meh" under the article. This is not a problem. This is a brief hiccough that will literally evolve out in a generation or two. That "trend" is measurable in decades, against millio
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by etiam 4y ago
You seem to imply that the reaction is unreasonable, but if one is invited to ask anything it seems a fair expectation that the reply should be an actual answer, rather than plausible-sounding noises superficially associated with the contex
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We will see a completely new type of computer, says AI pioneer Geoff Hinton(zdnet.com)
2 points by etiam 4y ago|0 comments

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