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by glial 2y ago
My layman understanding is that insulin is used to absorb blood glucose into muscle and fat cells, while fructose is processed by the liver into other things (which may include glucose), but that initial processing doesn't require insu
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by glial 2y ago
Probably this: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/280635
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by glial 2y ago
This is another reason that any federal investment in Intel should have strings attached.
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by glial 2y ago
I love quanta so much. I wish there were a print version.
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by glial 2y ago
FWIW, Kagi is a little better but not much. First results are: * cornbreadhemp.com * forbes.com * healthline.com
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by glial 2y ago
I bet the bulk of it is still super-fast Fortran code.
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by glial 2y ago
Interesting work. I'd be curious to know the timing relative to list comprehensions for similar queries, since that's the common standard library alternative for many of these examples.
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by glial 2y ago
For my work, ES's 'killer feature' was not the search, but rather complex aggregations over huge datasets (despite the crazy query syntax). Hard to see how vector databases would replace that.
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by glial 2y ago
I exclusively buy Toyotas because they are cheaper to maintain than American cars. Is your argument that I shouldn't have access to Japanese cars either? I understand the desire to have a strategic reserve of manufacturing capacity.
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by glial 2y ago
* Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): largest federal investment in climate action to date, allocating over $391 billion to reduce carbon emissions. * Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: investments in public transit and infrastructure, prom
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by glial 2y ago
No natural phenomena ever exactly fits any probability distribution.
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by glial 2y ago
I think self-consistency is a critical feature of LLMs or any AI that's currently missing. It's one of the core attributes of truth [1], in addition to the order and relationship of statements corresponding to the order and relat
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by glial 2y ago
Intel's gross profit margins have been over 50% for most of the past 15 years[1]. [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTC/intel/profit-...
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by glial 2y ago
Do you have a reference that explains this in more detail? I'd be curious to know.
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by glial 2y ago
> absolutely massive incentives At least where I live, solar is still roughly break even cost-wise with not installing solar over 20 years -- but it increases your home's complexity and makes updating your roof more complicated and
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by glial 2y ago
Well, at least it's not blockchain or Kubernetes.
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by glial 2y ago
It's not so clear to me -- the MIT Technology Review is already wringing its hands about energy being so cheap it causes problems with economics. [1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/14/1028461&#x
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by glial 2y ago
Same in Vienna: https://www.marketplace.org/2021/05/03/in-vienna-public-hous...
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by glial 2y ago
Despite this, there hasn't been much movement in MSFT recently, despite Microsoft owning a big chunk of OpenAI.
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by glial 2y ago
I doubt that's been done yet but I'd be surprised if it didn't happen soon using something like NEURON [1]. It would be telling to see how similar the simulation is to the living organism, since there is a lot going on insid
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by glial 2y ago
I mean, I wouldn't compound drugs for myself for the same reason I don't do maintenance on my car's transmission myself: I don't really know what I'm doing and would probably get myself killed. From what I understan
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by glial 2y ago
Sure - when I was a kid, I was speeding in a neighborhood (think 40 in a 30) and an annoyed cop charged me with reckless driving. The public defender recommended I plead guilty, pay a large fine and be put on probation for a year. I think a
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by glial 2y ago
Lawyers are the interface between the public and the justice system -- which would exist whether software did or not. It's an access and equity issue: people with money have access to the legal system. People without largely don't
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by glial 2y ago
Ideally the legal system wouldn't be byzantine and prohibitively expensive for mere mortals to engage with.
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by glial 2y ago
Therefore in one cycle of a 3GHz processor, light travels about 4 inches. Wild.
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by glial 2y ago
Here's an example[1] examining the functional role of gamma oscillations in the hippocampus: [1] https://www.jneurosci.org/content/15/1/47
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by glial 2y ago
All models are convenient fictions. I heard a neuroscientist once describe averaging as a low-pass filter. People know it hides high-frequency dynamics. But unless you have a way to interpret the high-frequency signal, it looks an awful lo
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by glial 2y ago
Are you able to share what functions or situations result in speedups? In my experience, vectorized numpy is already fast, so I'm very curious.
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by glial 2y ago
> Shame on you Apple. This is just annoying. It's not clear that Apple Intelligence runs well on older phones. Good LLM are notoriously slow on non-optimized hardware.
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by glial 2y ago
As another commenter pointed out, you could (and people surely did) make the same argument about lead or asbestos. That alone doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do.

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