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by gradus_ad 6d ago
It may not be one electron but it is one field.
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by gradus_ad 6d ago
The only letter capitalized is "I"... Telling
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by gradus_ad 7d ago
The weather affects all crops
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by gradus_ad 7d ago
Irrelevancy? The opinions I expressed are ascendent and accelerating across the Western world. Constructive, reasoned discussions on migration are precisely what have not occurred due to the dominant ideology stifling all contrary opinion.
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by gradus_ad 7d ago
What's the equivalent of closed source?
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by gradus_ad 7d ago
Are you saying the only conceivable policy positions are genocide and unchecked migration?
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by gradus_ad 7d ago
Their experiments in cultural erosion are merely a few decades old, and accelerating only recently. You're basically pointing at a smoker who started a year ago and concluding because they don't have cancer yet cigarettes don&#x27
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by gradus_ad 7d ago
The simple truth many have come to realize is a European leadership that insists mass migration is not a problem and head-in-the-sand denies the critical importance of cultural unity and shared identity for the maintenance of stable and lib
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AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400k Reddit posts(sciencedaily.com)
6 points by gradus_ad 8d ago|1 comments
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by gradus_ad 8d ago
There must always be a hegemon. Will it be Europe? No, too weak and divided..will it be China? No, too authoritarian.. The US remains the best option among a mixed field of weak, corrupt, divided and authoritarian alternatives.
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by gradus_ad 11d ago
Debt is easy to deal with for a sovereign. Just dilute the currency. That will obviously happen before a debt crisis is allowed to materialize. And so the rich will get richer. The real problem is not the debt, but the social instability ca
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Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations(academic.oup.com)
21 points by gradus_ad 11d ago|20 comments
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Physicists can't agree on how the Universe works(sciencedaily.com)
7 points by gradus_ad 12d ago|2 comments
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Scientists find Semaglutide may slow aging itself(sciencedaily.com)
4 points by gradus_ad 14d ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 15d ago
If people want to collaborate, they will. If collaboration makes people more effective, they will want to collaborate. The novelty of any new technology is exciting and disrupting to existing habits but as the years pass we will reflect on
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Derveni Papyrus(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gradus_ad 15d ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 18d ago
>"While it may be technically infeasible to completely prohibit the use of automated tools to perform indiscriminate solution extraction, I believe that we can still designate many classes of problems as being desirous of a careful
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by gradus_ad 19d ago
To be fair NYC has taken the opposite approach and rents are extremely high there as well
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by gradus_ad 20d ago
The sad reality of AI labs needing to one up each other ahead of IPO's and escaping a sandbox being the new capability frontier.
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Ask HN: Model sycophancy benchmarks?
5 points by gradus_ad 20d ago|2 comments
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by gradus_ad 20d ago
We have complete access to every "neuron" and "synapse" (crude analogies...) of these models, so in theory we don't need to be so reliant on CoT traces right? I say this not to minimize the difficulty of interpretin
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80k-year-old "arrowheads" rewrite human history(sciencedaily.com)
4 points by gradus_ad 20d ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 23d ago
I think it's working as intended. The year is simply a randomly chosen year not related to the density of births in that year. It would be a boring tool if it actually chose "random year based on random birth" because almost
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by gradus_ad 24d ago
If we look at the demand side: 1. Conversational AI - this is ubiquitous now, but not sure it's increasing at any significant rate. At least my personal usage has leveled off. Also probably not a significant driver of per token demand
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Solar Overtakes Coal as China's Largest Power Source(oilprice.com)
10 points by gradus_ad 24d ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 26d ago
4chan is still thriving
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Ask HN: Is Gemini Having Issues?
1 points by gradus_ad 29d ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 1mo ago
So you're saying dark skinned people reside in the south and lighter skinned people predominate in the north?
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by gradus_ad 1mo ago
When everyone is the same (genetics, background, culture, etc) there is very little structural inequality in a competitive market. In an empire like the US, so many groups exist in a hierarchy that government support is required. In such an
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by gradus_ad 1mo ago
Eh, government should not be in the business of maintaining digital infrastructure, regardless of how capable it might be. As much of it as possible should be contracted out to 3rd parties.

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