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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 1y ago
> The modern software industry is built on the assumption that we need developers to act as middlemen between us and computers. They translate our desires into code and abstract it away from us behind simple, one-size-fits-all interfaces
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 2y ago
This looks like a revised paper for the project announced Feb 19: https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakth...
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 2y ago
Maybe an evolutionary / structuralist lens is helpful here: terms that rapidly diffuse through discourse are those that people like most, and most people like to anthropomorphize, so "hallucination" has come to take on a new
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 2y ago
What guarantees do services like egg freezing provide, e.g. if the power goes out for their -80 freezer, or if they go bankrupt? What happens to your cells? What about with this service?
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 2y ago
With the news that Apple and OpenAI are closing / just closed a deal for iOS 18, it's easy to speculate we might be hearing about that exciting new model at WWDC...
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 4y ago
Ed Tong’s recent release, An Immense World, is an exploration of the unique sensory worlds of creatures throughout the animal kingdom. I enjoyed listening to it while my sensory world was confined to a car.
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 4y ago
Don’t forget that Qualcomm purchased Nuvia (ex Apple chip designers) last year. Will they be playing catch-up with apple’s CPUs? Maybe. But maybe there’s a connectivity/ communications and Qualcomm can play to its strengths - e.g. lapt
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 5y ago
As with COVID-related outcomes, focusing only on fatalities ignores other meaningful negative outcomes. Based on personal experience after living SF/Oakland ~ 10 years, I'd also take measurements like "in pedestrian cross-wal
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 5y ago
Original paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107454?query=fe... This is the first published IV-administration of a gene-editing CRISPR payload. Interesting convergence with the nanoparticles u
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 6y ago
Majority of global doses actually expected to be provided by AstraZeneca. See orders per large country here: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/11/13/a-vaccin...
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 7y ago
Thinking of the encoded genetic information developing over time as simply "training" the neural network of the brain doesn't quite capture development; proteins are manufactured and move in space as the brain is growing in s
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 7y ago
One interesting hypothesis, re: lithium isotopes in Posner molecules: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/users/mpaf/p17...
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by hmmmhmmmhmmm 7y ago
Facebook has 10+ years of data about people and their friendships and relationships unfolding through time (tagged pictures, relationship status, updates, likes, etc.). It's hard to tell if they've built and deployed such a model