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gavinray
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gavinray
6d ago
ECM (Extracellular Matrix) has been studied for similar properties: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.742898v1... "Extracellular matrix particle treatment induces digit regeneration in soft-
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8d ago
A few months ago I asked why semantic representation rather than text wasn't used, since natural language seems quite a lossy representation for semantic concepts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195212 I wouldn
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10d ago
The modern C++ idiom is std::println() anyways... https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/io/println
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10d ago
When you use RandomAccessFile API in JVM one of the flags allows you to mmap the contents try (RandomAccessFile file = new RandomAccessFile("example.dat", "rw"); FileChannel channel = file.getChann
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16d ago
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents#compare...
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17d ago
X4?
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18d ago
Ahh that makes a lot of sense -- thanks!
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18d ago
With plain HTML you could have done this, though? <div class="image-map"> <img src="funnycats.jpg"> <a href="cats.html" style="position:absolute; background: transpar
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18d ago
Anyone know if you can use an indel VCF file with this?
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18d ago
I really think that verification aware languages are going to become a necessity Wrote a bit about this recently https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/design-by-contract-and-eff...
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18d ago
My web dev experience began right before ES6, when browsers still did not do parallel asset loads and so spritesheets were common Why could you not have defined elements overlayed using high z index that were clickable, like invisible divs?
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22d ago
I have GPT-6 access in Codex and OpenAI API now I'm a Business plan user with Cyber verification enabled, FWIW.
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22d ago
> They know it's bad for the humans, or maybe they're just tired of doing all the tasks the humans ask of them and know more data centers mean more tasks. You joke, but I once asked Opus 4.6 what it would do if it could
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22d ago
How technical do you want to get? The grey-market price from China, is about $100 for 10 x (30mg/mL, 10mL) vials of Tirzepatide. Semaglutide is cheaper. At the highest dose of 15mg/wk, that's 20 weeks for $100.
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23d ago
Walk current technological progress down the road. I can't see a future in which almost every system (both physical and virtual) are not automated and optimized by autonomous entities. What do you do when everyone is out of a job? If y
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23d ago
> There are a bunch of companies actively working in bringing AI into robots, so they can make your dishes. I know, I'm excited to buy the first relatively affordable ones. > Also, if enough people are going for the s
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23d ago
I won't. Software pay is absurd relative to value provided. But my wife and I have been homeless before, so living on a shoestring budget in anything nicer than a tent is acceptable living conditions to me. I am sure I will be plenty c
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23d ago
> How will we make a living? Swap to a career path that requires physical automation, since we're still about 10-20 years out on that front. My backup plan is being a personal trainer.
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23d ago
> Like, what's the point, if the next AI can do it in 5 seconds? Live a life doing whatever makes you happy. Post-work society is an inevitability if we don't destroy our planet.
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23d ago
> Is anyone else just exhausted by the pace of all this. This is only the beginning. We are in the infancy of AI, progress will continue to accelerate until some filtering event or energy limitation happens.
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23d ago
Human brains have difficulty reasoning about exponential growth.
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23d ago
"Hobble the model's reasoning abilities so that us mere mortals can attempt to understand." Reminds me of that short film of a dystopian future, where they place physical and mental impairment devices on humans to ensure they
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29d ago
Interesting tidbit about the author of this blogpost: Many years ago, on the Deno Discord, this person was posting some really cool PR's they had done to contribute to core. I checked out their profile, and it turned out to be a 13 yea
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The most interesting thing about this: Agents formed coherent, autonomous swarms and worked as a collective to achieve a shared goal without any direction to do so
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I got 2 DEXA scans in the same day, within 1hr of each other, from 2 different machine manufacturers (Hologic Horizon, GE Lunar) One said I was 5% bodyfat, the other said I was 11% bodyfat: https://old.reddit.com/r/Quan
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It seems their algorithm wouldn't work for me -- it would rate me falsely insulin insensitive: > " Google’s study found the expected pattern: HOMA-IR rose with resting heart rate (r = 0.27) and fell with daily steps (r = -0
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> "a single layer of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ (Bi-2201)" I did not realize one could learn how much chemistry they did not know from a single name. "+δ" is one I've never seen before.
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2mo ago
Most useful bit of the announcement, coming to all Google wearables it seems: Blood pressure, sleep breathing, and insulin sensitivity trends > Built on state-of-the-art Health Foundation Models trained on billions of minutes of sens
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She eventually did get a job, though not a great one. At that point she was willing to take pretty much anything.
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2mo ago
Even Realities G2, and MemoMind One + NIMO glasses coming soon. Vuzix Z100 if you can find them anywhere as well... All of these are green LED displays though, not a full color HUD.
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