joak

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by joak 2y ago
"consciousness" is often an alias for soul with a scientific flavor. That's why "machines cannot be conscious" despite the fact that humans obey to the same physical rules. Once you define consciousness it might be
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by joak 2y ago
A friend of mine 23 years died of glioblastoma. Completely undetected, he went to bed with a mild headache and died during his sleep. If we find a cure for glioblastoma the challenge would be detection before it's too late.
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by joak 2y ago
I like it because: - I can handle many many tabs in a clean, efficient and organized way - web pages show by default full screen, without: window bar, tool bar, url box, status bar, ... - integration with AI tools - it can handle several id
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by joak 2y ago
Still waiting for Android
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by joak 2y ago
«the AI industry is forecast to expand “exponentially” and consume at least 10 times its 2023 demand by 2026, said the IEA» 10x in 3 years! If it keeps growing at this rate AI will soon account for most of energy needs.
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by joak 3y ago
Oral history: First torrent was uploaded circa 2002 by Bram Cohen's brother. It was a video of his metal band playing live. But BitTorrent really took off when redhat played this dirty trick: their distro was free to distribute but you
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Florida divers go deep with sonar to find sunken cars, solve cold-case mysteries(tampabay.com)
1 points by joak 3y ago|0 comments
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by joak 3y ago
I prefer this one https://terraformindustries.com/ Less PR and more doing.
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by joak 3y ago
Photosynthesis is at least an order of magnitude less efficient than photovoltaics in converting light into chemical energy.
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by joak 3y ago
I cannot agree more. Having a better energy efficiency can only improve opex but capex makes probably most of the cost. And energy is probably free. Let me explain: if we install solar panels at scale only a fraction of the energy produced
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Google is bringing satellite messaging to Android 15(theverge.com)
35 points by joak 3y ago|29 comments
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Untangling Religion from Our AI Debates(noemamag.com)
2 points by joak 3y ago|0 comments
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by joak 3y ago
A lot of "companies" start as individual developers that don't want to have their personal address and phone number made public.
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by joak 3y ago
I just found this clause but I don't even know if I'm "trader" or not. But I'm not going to publish my personal address and phone number.
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by joak 3y ago
They cannot land when it's windy
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by joak 3y ago
Thanks, super interesting. Actually the Amazon basin and the Orinoco basin are connected by the Casiquiare river (that flows in either directions depending on the rain). That's why the newly identified Anaconda species is in both basin
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by joak 3y ago
The whole thing is confusing, where did they find it? In Ecuador or in the Orinoco basin? There no overlap between the two...
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by joak 3y ago
I don't know, the geographic mess is everywhere: «A giant anaconda species captured recently in the Amazon of Ecuador» The Orinoco basin doesn't reach Ecuador... The Orinoco basin is within Colombia and Venezuela (and touches Braz
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by joak 3y ago
«The Orinoco basin of the Amazon» ?! This is a geographic mistake, the Orinoco river is not a tributary of the Amazon, it's an independent river and one of the biggest. According to wikipedia it is the third or fourth largest river in
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by joak 3y ago
>Easy eh. So why isn't it happening? It is happening, that is my point. Look at the link I posted, what's being installed are 4 hours batteries on GW scale.
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by joak 3y ago
You are right, my bad. I should have said: The account is not suspended (anymore). Does someone knows how long it was suspended?
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by joak 3y ago
But now the media are flooded with the news of the account being suspended, even if it's not true anymore. I don't think there will be wave the same amplitude saying that it has been restored short after.
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by joak 3y ago
Grid-scale lithium batteries are being built in Australia and California. With enough PV they are profitable today. Costs of batteries have been exponentially going down by 13% every year (halving in 5 years) for 3 decades. They are already
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by joak 3y ago
Fake news, the account is not suspended. https://twitter.com/yulia_navalnaya
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Artificial intelligence is not 'hyped enough'(economictimes.com)
1 points by joak 3y ago|0 comments
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by joak 3y ago
Gemini 1.5 Pro is not yet released: «Starting today, we’re offering a limited preview of 1.5 Pro to developers and enterprise customers via AI Studio and Vertex AI» Something like an alpha version. Limited preview in their jargon.
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by joak 3y ago
Their 10M tokens demo is impressive though. They "released" a demo. Confusing...
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by joak 3y ago
«We’ll also introduce 1.5 Pro with a standard 128,000 token context window when the model is ready for a wider release» So actually they are lagging: their 128k model is yet to be released while OpenAI released theirs some months ago.
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by joak 3y ago
Just tried blip after reading this comment, works pretty well. Super fast and easy. Only 500dl in Android so far, wish them success.
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by joak 3y ago
I dunno, the Mac Plus was there several years before windows 3.1, and lot more consistent. You must be confused...

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