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by gravescale 2y ago
Last I heard it was the back of the plane that was statistically safer. Most people still seem to want the front because it gets you off the plane faster and puts you at the front of the passport queue. Especially on larger planes going to
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by gravescale 2y ago
At the top nodes and volumes, indeed there is no competition. They have a huge headstart handed to them basically by Japan screwing it up in the 90s and no one else being able to step (get it?) up quickly before the gap opened. However, if
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by gravescale 2y ago
Anyone is a stretch, not everyone is so keen to take the US side in the trade war at their own expense. South American and African trade is still pretty brisk and growing as far as I know. Mostly they don't have the possibility of on
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by gravescale 2y ago
What's nuts to me is the time scale on the bottom. That is not a lot of time for something so complex. Then again, if they do an Intel 10nm+++++ and fail to maintain velocity even for a couple of years, their competition will close tha
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by gravescale 2y ago
Sounds like the UK too. All my school friend doing non-STEM courses would ask me how many "contact hours" we had per week. I can't remember exactly how many, but once you included lectures, scheduled labs and tutorials, was n
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by gravescale 2y ago
As a lifelong addict, I literally cannot live without my regular dihydrogen oxide. Even a day without is painful.
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by gravescale 2y ago
My prediction: a country which has the political and technical ability to do so and is located somewhere where global warming starts being a major threat to it. Likely candidates: India and neighbors (wet bulb events depopulating large area
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by gravescale 2y ago
Don't look now, but humans dump a lot of oxides in the atmosphere. Millions and millions of tonnes. Gigatonnes if you incude di oxides.
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by gravescale 2y ago
Normal capacitors have to have absurdly thin dielectrics to get any appreciable charge storage. An aluminium electrolytic capacitor (the can shaped ones) use just thickness of an aluminium oxide layer. Any sandwich thickness that would be p
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by gravescale 2y ago
Models can be trained more and fine tuned, though, if we're going to stick to the analogy. But in the context of the analogy, the LLM won't be materially updated between two prompts in roughly the way that telling you that the ans
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by gravescale 2y ago
Big things have to be expensive (houses and cars, they're working hard on education and health) or money will pool up down here and won't trickle back up to where it belongs.
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by gravescale 2y ago
I don't understand the distinction. If the book archive is electronic, like many in fact are, why can you not get a copy of the book with a given ISBN without altering anything? Even if it's not electronic, does the acquisition of
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by gravescale 2y ago
You can go and fetch the book from a book store using the information. Fundamentally there's not much difference between that and "fetching" the output from some model using the matching prompt. In both cases there some kind
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by gravescale 2y ago
Indeed you can losslessly "compress" an LLM's spew into just the prompt (plus any other inputs like values of random variables). But you can also compress a book's entire content into just its ISBN. It's just that b
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by gravescale 2y ago
"Best X of YYYY" articles have been (mostly? fully?) automated mashups of tech specs for years too.
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by gravescale 2y ago
Or hacker for that matter. Actually "engineer" as well in countries where it's not protected. Though the confused look on my German housemate's face when an "engineer" turned up to connect the cable broadband c
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by gravescale 2y ago
I do wonder how investors who are supposed to be savvy so easily get scammed by BS that wouldn't survive even the table of contents of the due diligence. Then I remember they probably know full well it's a scam but are planning on
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by gravescale 2y ago
Maybe not the best source considering his own hubris got him killed. To paraphrase another 2023 film: "That Russian a-hole is going down. What's he gonna do, snow on me?" -- Napoleon
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by gravescale 2y ago
Scamminess and hype notwithstanding, I'm still endlessly impressed that a natural language prompt like that actually does work at all.
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by gravescale 2y ago
Right, if this is true (possible I guess, but does sound a bit Syndrome-from-The-Incredibles), even if there's really no technical way at all to terraform Mars it's hardly the end of the world, uh, planet. Not least, terraforming
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by gravescale 2y ago
Falcon 9s have 2 failures and one partial from 354 launches, so they're proving to be an extremely reliable vehicle on the scale of rockets. The current model is 289 of them and has a perfect record so far. That's substantially mo
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by gravescale 2y ago
Indeed, I'll believe a company isn't up to some repugnantly slimy shenanigans the moment they volunteer to accurately and carefully explain what data they want, why they think it's useful, how they'll look after it and w
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by gravescale 2y ago
Come to think of it, the mobile operators themselves have a large national network of radio receivers with lots of fancy time-of-flight, phased array multi-path, multi-band capabilities. Maybe these days Ofcom can just ask them if they are
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by gravescale 2y ago
You can't send a phishing SMS from a receive-only device. Any mobile tower must have an active transmitter (at the very least, so the handset knows what network it thinks it's connected to!). Transmitting on a licensed mobile serv
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by gravescale 2y ago
I don't know if it was involved here, but "spectrum monitoring" (that's the keyword for more information about equipment you can get and who the expected customers are) is definitely a thing that is done in many places,
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by gravescale 2y ago
That's a pretty clever way to be very stupid! Anyone who reports the message (forward it to 7726, spells SPAM) to a network tips the network off that messages are landing on subscribers devices that didn't come through their syste
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by gravescale 2y ago
In the relativistic inertial frame of the thrown baseball, it'll not be accelerating, at first. But it will be accelerating at 9.81m/s² (along with the Earth's surface, and hopefully you) after it lands and is just sitting
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by gravescale 2y ago
Which also means that if a hypothetical company is indeed pivoting to AI, an AI-skeptical senior might be considering moving on anyway about now and a blunt-force RTO is one of the straws.
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by gravescale 2y ago
> Finding AI talent, which more and more companies are going to need, is already a search for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Adding strict RTO policies to that scenario won’t make the talent search easier. Putting that question-beg
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by gravescale 2y ago
In the UK, only people on certain treatments or under non-interventional observation that require it or private patients. Regular blood tests for normal children and adults (other than the elderly perhaps?) on a purely speculative basis are

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