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CRISPR-GPT for agentic automation of gene-editing experiments(nature.com)
1 points by instagraham 1y ago|0 comments
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The Economist on NotebookLM(notebooklm.google.com)
2 points by instagraham 1y ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 1y ago
I'm surprised that smoking didn't make the list
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Interactive Cancer Risk Matrix(wcrf.org)
49 points by instagraham 1y ago|6 comments
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by instagraham 1y ago
https://archive.ph/h7qDU
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Doge Has Achieved Its Final Form(wired.com)
14 points by instagraham 1y ago|2 comments
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Record Number of Americans Apply for British Citizenship(nytimes.com)
7 points by instagraham 1y ago|0 comments
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The Lost Art of Tech Demos [video](youtube.com)
3 points by instagraham 1y ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 1y ago
obsequious is such a nice word for this context, only possible in the AI age. i'd find the same word improper to describe human beings - other words like plaintive, obedient and compliant often do the job better and are less obscure. h
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by instagraham 1y ago
> it’s openly available under an MIT license and can run on CPUs, including Apple’s M2. Weird comparison? The M2 already runs 7 or 13gb LLama and Mistral models with relative ease. The M-series and Macbooks are so ubiquitous that perhaps
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by instagraham 1y ago
At what point do investors lose confidence that the US govt will be able to make these bond payments in 10 years? Whatever was considered 'business as usual' through decades of republican/democratic presidents is chucked to t
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Flying Along on a Cushion of Grease (2023)(flyingmag.com)
2 points by instagraham 2y ago|0 comments
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James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise(smithsonianmag.com)
356 points by instagraham 2y ago|310 comments
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by instagraham 2y ago
If population level estimates are systematically off, does this also skew any prevalence data or ratios derived from these datasets? For example disease prevalence, lifestyle condition differences between rural and urban, etc
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by instagraham 2y ago
Perhaps, but FakeGuard flags the site for me for the following reasons: -Poor rating from customers - Multiple eCommerce scam experiences detected - Poor customer service
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by instagraham 2y ago
I noticed that these models very quickly start to underperform regular search like Perplexity Pro 3x. It might be somewhat thorough in how it goes line by line, but it's not very cognizant of good sources - you might ask for academic s
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by instagraham 2y ago
>But if software quality continues to decline, this value proposition becomes increasingly difficult to defend. If software quality keeps declining, this proposition isn’t just difficult to defend — it’s indefensible and an insult to con
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by instagraham 2y ago
> So, Vowles blasts Excel, variously describing it as "a joke" and "useless." However, some might argue that this office software doesn't have issues managing a 20,000-item parts list, and an expert Excel wrangle
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by instagraham 2y ago
This feels like one of those comments you hear in a tech stack meeting—something that doesn’t change the discussion but fills space, like a “nothing from my end.” “So, <language x> gives us 1% faster load times, but <language y>
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by instagraham 2y ago
At the same time, GIMP is remarkably not-geared at serious designers/non-codey folk. A simple fix would be to ask professionals using the Adobe suite what they would like in an open source tool that could get them to switch. Viewed at
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by instagraham 2y ago
I have no programming expertise but I'm looking for ideas that use YOLO to detect stuff like this. I was thinking of a way of automatically tagging and collecting data from my daily commute dashcam/GoPro footage - number of EVs, d
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Ancient copper industry in King Solomon's mines did not pollute environment(eurekalert.org)
18 points by instagraham 2y ago|4 comments
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Chrome extension gateway to build AI helpers(github.com)
2 points by instagraham 2y ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 2y ago
interesting comment - made me look up the stock and it just jumped. Propelled by this news perhaps?
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by instagraham 2y ago
a lot of what made X worse since Musk is not easily quantifiable. fewer high-quality posts, much higher spam, next to zero moderation, more misinfo - while it's possible to get some data on this, it's subjective enough that the fa
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by instagraham 2y ago
If one didn't have access to Adobe in those days and had to instead make do with Paint.net or GIMP, a lot of people wouldn't have made it into media and publishing today (where they now, as you pointed out, bill their companies $1
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by instagraham 2y ago
Much of the piece leans on the right's habit of "refuting" leftist academia by merely repeating its summed-up headline form in a sneering voice, without offering a real counterargument. This is not to say that I don't th
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AI recipes for personalised health, taste and sustainability(happiesthealth.com)
1 points by instagraham 2y ago|0 comments
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by instagraham 2y ago
Just curious but what makes a non-Photoshop photo-editor tool "good"? Aside from AI fill, it seems like the fundamentals of this space haven't changed much since CS6 for 90% of design usecases. If you have a workflow that inc
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by instagraham 2y ago
Relevant xkcd, though one imagines that successful standards form despite the lack of choice in how standards are formed https://xkcd.com/927/

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