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by inasio 1y ago
Beyond efficacy, having a drug that only needs to be taken twice per year is a huge deal. Adherence is critical for treatments to succeed, and it's much easier to ensure that patients are on their meds twice per year. It's also mu
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by inasio 1y ago
This came from funding from the following DARPA program: [0] (I did a google search on the acknowledged grant in the paper, no connection) [0] https://sam.gov/opp/e0fb2b2466cd470481b0ca5cab3d210d/view
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by inasio 1y ago
I've also heard that sous-vide is typically banned in BBQ competitions. A quick google search did find some examples to support it: https://www.texoassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/O...
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by inasio 1y ago
HOMM3 is a perfect game. I've gotten people hooked on it in the 2020's. I still have an original CD of the linux port, a lot of nostalgia there
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by inasio 1y ago
Membership filters are very efficient filters that guarantee no false negatives, but false positives are possible (how much and how many can be adjusted based on the dataset and filter's parameters). An obvious application could someth
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by inasio 1y ago
For reference, 400 kg of Uranium amounts to 21 liters, or a little over 5 gallons
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by inasio 1y ago
I see some parallels with magnetic resonance imaging. I worked on a project optimizing MRI scans a few years back. I remember the PI in the project essentially acknowledging that analyzing single MRI images is absolutely more art than scien
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by inasio 1y ago
There's something strangely beautiful about this video, similar to the Hindenburg video perhaps, so much detail everywhere
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by inasio 1y ago
I regret making that comment, even if right now the NFT craze appears over I'll have nightmares if it comes back and someone starts burning Bob Ross paintings (or anything else really)
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by inasio 1y ago
“It’s a lot easier to send a power beam directly up or down relative to the ground because there is so much less atmosphere to fight through,” Jaffe explains. “For PRAD, we wanted to test under the maximum impact of atmospheric effects.” Su
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by inasio 1y ago
These paintings sound almost perfect for an NFT art project (burn it and turn it into digital tokens), given that the quality of the art pieces is not super high, but there's huge cultural resonance. To be fair the idea is much older (
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by inasio 1y ago
Life goes full circle sometimes. I remember that Numpy roughly came out of the amalgamation of the Numeric and Numarray libraries; I want to imagine that the Numarray people kept fighting these past 20 years to prove they were the right sol
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by inasio 1y ago
It sounds to me like a hyperparameter optimizer (fast evaluator) guided by AI; I wonder if it's related to Google's Vizier
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by inasio 1y ago
The solver generates a relaxed lower bound that indicates how far they could be from the global optimal solution. The moment that the lower bound improves enough to match a path they can guarantee that it's the global optimum
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by inasio 1y ago
Proof in this case is that the upper bound and the lower bound of the solver converged. This is not like a SAT solver where the solution itself can be trivially evaluated to verify the solution, it requires trusting that the solver does wha
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by inasio 1y ago
Not sure what you expected to get. The Concorde TSP solver is an exact solver that uses branch and bound search, it will return either a solution with a specified bound or the optimal bound. They provide the dataset and the solution they fo
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by inasio 1y ago
It would be great if it would be able to limit the max speed based on the heading, right now the slider allows the same max speed for any heading. On this boats I suspect max speed is achieved going on a beam reach (90 degrees to the wind)
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by inasio 2y ago
I had an old Suunto from before they went to crap, by far my favourite function was vertical speed, and it relied only on the accelerometer (the watch had GPS, but turning it on killed battery life). I still tried a couple of newer models b
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by inasio 2y ago
(I'm sure this is in the book) John Napier, the father of logarithms (the N in ln), basically had a sweatshop of human calculators making log tables over something like 20 years - critical for celestial navigation. There was a huge pri
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by inasio 2y ago
There used to be practical value to be able to do some basic back of the envelope log calculations in your head (no calculators, this was how you did fast multiplications/divisions or exponents). There's a story in Feyman's S
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by inasio 2y ago
My daughter uses one of my old 2017 Macbook pros (nice hardware, everything works fine). I learned yesterday that she cannot use Pages because OSX cannot be upgraded to 10.14, which is a requirement for Pages (I suspect the same thing will
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by inasio 2y ago
I remember going on a boat ride to a hotsprings cove on the Pacific side of Vancouver island, and seeing 50+ bald eagles in a small bay flying around a fishing boat. At the time I still thought bald eagles were endangered. They're pret
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by inasio 2y ago
A lot of custom optimization solvers (e.g. Ising Machines) these days benchmark on XOR problems. It's a bit useless in practice because solving a bunch of XOR clauses can be done in polynomial time with Gaussian elimination, yet the so
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by inasio 2y ago
There's a Mexican sculptor (Sebastian [0]) that has made massive flexagons (or something similar, cube-based) out of sheet metal. At some point he sold books and kits for making them out of cardboard, I had one or two, super cool stuff
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by inasio 2y ago
Says David Lynch as John Ford [0]: When the horizon's at the bottom, it's interesting. When the horizon's at the top, it's interesting. When the horizon's in the middle, it's boring as shit! [0] https:/&#
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by inasio 2y ago
This is what he replied when asked about the backdated comments: > The backdated answers were an internal test. We conceived of a bot that would provide a quality answer to a thread without a reply after 1+ years. That too also failed. I
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by inasio 2y ago
Talk about burying the lede! Near the bottom of the story the site owner confirms that it was him that added the backdated AI comments (perhaps it should have been obvious...)
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by inasio 2y ago
This is great! I'm pretty sure it's because the training corpus has a bunch of "strawberry spelled with two R's" and it's using that
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by inasio 2y ago
One often unappreciated and amazing thing about the GPS-on-cellphones era is that nowadays everyone has the exact time. Up to the late 20th century it wasn't trivial to have the right time, in fact there was a three digit phone number
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by inasio 2y ago
They showed a logical qubit that can last entangled for an hour, but to do that they had to combine their hundred or so physical qubits into a single one, so in some sense they have, right now, a single (logical) qubit

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