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The Current Environment(science.org)
3 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
Could be nice with some artificial pressure to use more efficient algorithms though. The current game of just throwing in more data centers and power plants may be kind of convenient for those who can afford it, but it's also intellect
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by etiam 2y ago
Pure hyperbole is pure hyperbole. If you want to shun me for not loudly enough pronouncing how great some sort of special privileges for certain ostensibly oppressed classes is, or for not jumping enthusiastically enough though hoops refere
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by etiam 2y ago
I was hoping for slightly more of an Asimov echo in this than it actually seems to present :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround_(story)
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by etiam 2y ago
I think we're more at the point (or beyond) of it being deliberately obnoxious as a failed attempt at humor. But maybe I'm underestimating just how idolized that original paper is. At any rate, by now I'm erring on the side o
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by etiam 2y ago
It's a compelling picture, but it seems like it would be rather harmful for real whales, and if chances are it's a drone rather than a whale, several actors might choose to fire regardless and find out later. Not that whales are t
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by etiam 2y ago
"case of severe malaria in the form of a respiratory illness" Does Plasmodium do that? Sure was news to me! I guess the main question then becomes, is it spreading in a highly unorthodox manner, by respiratory droplets, or are
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Congo's health ministry says unknown disease is severe malaria(reuters.com)
4 points by etiam 2y ago|1 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
Very reputable and trustworthy historically. After the authoritarianization of Hong Kong in 2020 I trust it less specifically on topics the Beijing regime would have enough propaganda interest in to bother threatening the editorial staff ov
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by etiam 2y ago
The discrepancy I find more interesting is that the Italian traveler doesn't seem like the sort of person to be severely malnourished. Assuming it really is the same disease, it's one small indication that the 'trivial infect
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by etiam 2y ago
I like the picture, but I'd be more impressed with the exploration argument if we were collectively actually doing a good job giving recognition to original and substantial works that already exist. It'd be of greater service in t
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by etiam 2y ago
Glad you managed to get it to wider attention, and thanks for the acknowledgement!
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by etiam 2y ago
The 2024 Physics Prize is not being awarded for backpropagation but “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. They seem to be focusing on energy function, statistical mechani
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by etiam 2y ago
Catchy! And a really good point. Seems like there could be room for a couple of special situations with caveats though? With the GAN formulation your generator can be practically as good as your discriminator and your discriminator can prob
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by etiam 2y ago
I don't exactly want to dispute that, but I would like to remark it's not entirely clear-cut. SARS-CoV-2 response could be as rapid as it was in no small part because two decades of research on SARS-CoV more or less was applicable
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by etiam 2y ago
Thanks. So basically, if it's any of numerous reasonably well-known but very local diseases a fluid's probably going to go colored in some field test kit and say which one, else it could be something known (and often of known subs
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by etiam 2y ago
Are you willing to hazard a guess how long it will take to get material analyzed to determine which of your categories this is in?
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Health officials investigate mystery disease in southwest Congo after 143 deaths(apnews.com)
6 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
I mostly agree with what you say, but I'm concerned about the middle point. By a curious geographical coincidence, neither North Korea nor North China nor North Post-USSR are known for their independent reality-based reporting and I ta
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by etiam 2y ago
They've worked a fair bit at it already and if they intend to keep maintaining it indefinitely without possibility for further sales it could be nice to actually get money for it at this point. Also, I'm not sure what they might b
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by etiam 2y ago
Are you sure that's a worst case scenario? Pyongyang has clearly decided to get their troops current live combat experience and is soliciting military assistance from a larger aggressive dictatorship, which is however very busy elsewhe
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by etiam 2y ago
Interesting! I didn't know the the name or the history, but since you mention them almost entirely in the past tense, I'd like to add that they are not entirely gone from use. (Also in the Wikipedia article) See https:/&#x2F
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How the bullet train transformed Japan(bbc.com)
2 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI(theconversation.com)
20 points by etiam 2y ago|2 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
It's an opinion piece to some extent of course, and usually I'm not too keen on some sort of Nobel laureate whataboutism, but it's interesting history which is probably really not as widely known as it should be. I didn'
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What does the US Himars deployment to southern Japan mean for China?(scmp.com)
1 points by etiam 2y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
Mostly for the lulz for once to be honest, but it would be genuinely interesting to read HN's take on this.
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Global AI Vibrancy Tool: Which Countries Are Leading in AI?(aiindex.stanford.edu)
1 points by etiam 2y ago|1 comments
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by etiam 2y ago
Rich countries may well have stock of H5N1 vaccine following the dangerous situation in the 00s. For now it's believed that the antibodies those vaccines induce would be somewhat useful against the current virus, at least one could hop
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by etiam 2y ago
The rest of the World won't have it skipped and I expect that US entities will not be banned outright from importing vaccines, though maybe with cost penalties added. So even in a bad case scenario you shouldn't be cut off complet

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