kalimanzaro

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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
The tractor beam effect could be from the black phosphorus impurities in the sample. That's ferromagnetic so you have two kinds of forces on the flake. Earlier I joked to my friend that this Beijing expert doesn't understand what
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
The problem is that we dont have a net outflow of heat. Fossil fuels would not be a problem if we could dump that previously scurried away heat of ancient suns into space. The solution is to follow the modern greeks and paint every space f
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Archaeologists: Batavia's(1629) Landscape of Survival on H a Islands,W Australia(link.springer.com)
1 points by kalimanzaro 3y ago|0 comments
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
Ditto for Indonesia
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
It's not just everywhere, it's said to be a dominant form of government, acracy (as opposed to mere anarchy)
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
Comedians and (great) sci-fi authors: apex disruptors, intermittently disrupting the self-styled disruptor-disruptors (i.e., philosophers, or maybe more accurately, epistemologists)
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
They didn't misquote, that was copy-pasted directly from Wikipedia. Maybe raise the issue with Wikipedia?
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ChatGPT Confirms Data Breach, Raising Security Concerns(securityintelligence.com)
17 points by kalimanzaro 3y ago|4 comments
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
Love the parallels people these days draw between OpenAI and Oppenheimer (ok, the Manhattan Project, but maybe thats part why OpenAI call themselves that, to alliterate) Especially the part where Sama is trying to gather in one place the mo
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The Temperature Addition Paradox(youtube.com)
1 points by kalimanzaro 3y ago|0 comments
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
Relevant recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737862 (Beautiful branchless binary search)
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
You can check out the french wikipedia they leave out the de too unless disambiguating from his relatives, when they go de Tocqueville comte
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
Do you know of any good source of CAD files or even just schematics for DIY PXI modules out there in the wild wild internet?
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
I don't know about AI but Apple is definitely ahead in the quantum race (with their upcoming glucose tracking system)
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
even for macro trends, the E likes to cherry pick its data. The US PPP trend has been sad for a while now, (thats not even per capita) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-GDP-at-purchasing-pow... There was another E
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
even for macro trends, the E likes to cherry pick its graphs. The US PPP trend has been sad for a while now, (thats not even per capita) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-GDP-at-purchasing-pow... There was another
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
To each his antidepressant. He probably (rightly) thinks that these are more effective than an equivalent helping of SSRIs. When you cannot degrade him, pity him!
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
The oddest thing about all these anti-academic takes is that OpenAI insiders and even some informed outsiders like John Carmack think of OpenAI (and google before that) as an extension of academia. The paper posted here is more akin to lowe
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
Isn't this the age of the long tail. By some accounts, no cultural worker has to languish in poverty or obscurity anymore.. More precisely, I think the division is starker.. nobody at all these days will pay for any cultural artifact r
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
Apparently, the Cambodians too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Dutch_conflicts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Dutch_War
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by kalimanzaro 3y ago
Not the only one. The Chinese did it twice a century earlier. The naval one in the Taiwan straits. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Liaoluo_Bay
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Regrettable that academia didnt learn from industry how to deploy, only how to spin. When everything is framed as an "investment", researchers aren't incentivized to discover but to squeeze out "returns" even when t
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Hmm i read a tonne of RNN lit before 2020 and 'd never come across the term "hysteresis parameter" standing in for the hidden units. is it a recent trend? Google seem to suggest so
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Using deep learning to predict ideology from facial photographs-31 March))(nature.com)
2 points by kalimanzaro 4y ago|1 comments
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
If you felt that the featured article was weaseling, here is one with less ambiguous wording. They isolated 24 tonnes of contaminated dust, 70 personnel took blood tests. https://thethaiger.com/news/national/missin
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Not sure if the evidence is credible, but over at The Reg is an interesting thesis that women would rather go full darksider than flirt with vague immorality. https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/06/in_brief_se
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
In the frontpage footnote the author (who is himself a prof at Chicago) acknowledges all of the Chicago that went into the paper. The blogger is both Hoover and an exChicago prof. Pretty sure that phrasing is just backhanded compliments am
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
I found the books by David B. Wagner and Roman Maeder (who designed the language,btw) to be incredibly helpful.
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Previously: 2019 267 pts 59 cmts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20287486
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Wouldnt the following work in basic python: for a_k in 1 to n: for a_(k-1) in 1 to a_k: .... I'm a heavy user of Mma but there are better examples. Automating the rewriting of formulas to make them more concise is a big

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