jl6

12 ms·

241.
by jl6 1y ago
Exactly the book that came to my mind when I saw this headline.
242.
by jl6 1y ago
I believe you are referring to comments made about the hepatitis B vaccine, not HPV.
243.
by jl6 1y ago
The headline before/after image is astonishing, almost in-credible. I can't see how the left image was restored into the right. It looks like there is substantial new detail on the right that I can't see anywhere on the left.
244.
by jl6 1y ago
Is this intended to be competitive with h.266/VVC? And is it?
245.
by jl6 1y ago
I feel sorry for the Gemini protocol project that Google named their AI Gemini.
246.
by jl6 1y ago
I think readability is helped a lot by the low entropy of English words and sentences, i.e. if you can’t make out one letter, you’ll probably get it anyway from the context. It’s not so readable if you test it with random strings.
247.
by jl6 1y ago
> cost less than 10% of the Russian systems destroyed One wonders how they have managed that, or how they know.
248.
by jl6 1y ago
Not sure where the UK stands on enviable results, but education is a devolved matter where the constituent countries can make independent decisions as opposed to there being a central government department that makes all decisions nationall
249.
by jl6 1y ago
I get the thinness. My current iPhone is perfectly thin enough on its own, but when you add a case… yeah, the whole package could stand to be thinner. Not sure if that is achieved given the bump.
250.
by jl6 1y ago
Modularity could work on mainframes too but it mostly didn’t. Mainframe cost per transaction can be very low, and yet here we are. Tech at scale always passes through a cheap/worse is better phase.
251.
by jl6 1y ago
I see a lot of skepticism in the comments, but if you’re going to gamble, SMRs seem like a pretty good bet. Nuclear is still in its mainframe era, where everything is bespoke and costly. Modularization enables repeatability, which is the he
252.
by jl6 1y ago
Do we see reducing rates of dementia in cities like London which have dramatically improved their air quality over the last ~80 years?
253.
by jl6 1y ago
> current brains
254.
by jl6 1y ago
It’s not that light speed is too slow, it’s that our lives are too short. If you can solve mortality, you just hop on board your 17km/s ship, turn YouTube on (all of it), and spend a relaxing 72,000 years getting to Alpha Centauri.
255.
by jl6 1y ago
I can’t count how many times I’ve heard “Wikipedia is unreliable because it can be edited by anyone”. I tend to think that Wikipedia converges on reliable because it can be edited by anyone.
256.
by jl6 1y ago
No, because media literacy is not about sorting the world into “reliable” and “unreliable”, it’s about understanding a text in its full context.
257.
by jl6 1y ago
Wikipedia is fabulous. I wish educators would stop telling people that it’s not reliable, and start using it to teach media literacy - which, for wiki purposes, is essentially to read the talk page to see what viewpoints have been included
258.
by jl6 1y ago
Humans are moored to their social web: having to exist amongst others continually pulls you towards the average feelings/views/activities of the people you are connected to. Change is slow. When humans become unmoored from this we
259.
by jl6 1y ago
The US being imperfect, or currently on an authoritarian swing, in no way makes it equivalent to countries that are all-in on authoritarianism. The US is still among the very best places in the world to be a minority, politically active, or
260.
by jl6 1y ago
> As today’s world faces rising sea levels driven by climate change, the researchers hope to shed light on how Stone Age societies adapted to shifting coastlines more than eight millennia ago. Unfortunately I don't expect there is a
261.
by jl6 1y ago
> Not BlueSky specific, but I am getting ready to nuke my accounts on social media This is the way, folks.
262.
by jl6 1y ago
But I’d happily accept some of that bitter lesson if the “worse specialist” ran way faster (or at all, given memory limits).
263.
by jl6 1y ago
Feels like there should be value in building smaller, more specialized models - maybe even doing so on-demand. I don’t always want a model that knows Polish and astrophysics and Shakespeare, I want one that runs really fast and is laser-foc
264.
by jl6 1y ago
My mobile OS dream has always been to have a phone that I can plug into a docking cradle (or maybe just a USB-C cable these days) to connect it to a full size monitor, keyboard and mouse, and then use it as a regular PC, and then unplug it
265.
by jl6 1y ago
> Various privacy considerations are made with each LFR deployment in the UK, the cops say. These include notifying the public about when, where, and for how long LFR will be used in a given area, allowing them to exercise their right no
266.
by jl6 1y ago
I don’t think it’s just (or even particularly) bad axioms, I think it’s that people tend to build up “logical” conclusions where they think each step is a watertight necessity that follows inevitably from its antecedents, but actually each
267.
by jl6 1y ago
Yes, water is a renewable resource, and like other renewable resources the thing we should be concerned about is not the fact that it’s used at all, but how and where it is used. Water usage matters in water-stressed regions. In other regio
268.
by jl6 1y ago
Data centers don't really "use" water; it gets released back into the environment one way or another. What matters is whether the data center is in a water-stressed region. According to the article: > The remaining areas a
269.
by jl6 1y ago
Seems unrelated to the original Buy Nothing Day campaign from AdBusters? https://www.adbusters.org/buy-nothing-day
270.
by jl6 1y ago
If the explanation really is, as many comments here suggest, that prompts can be run in parallel in batches at low marginal additional cost, then that feels like bad news for the democratization and/or local running of LLMs. If it’s on

More ›