kaonwarb

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by kaonwarb 2y ago
I don't think that matters to the observation being commented on, which is of the nature of "if one believes in X, it's surprising to me they won't also believe in Y."
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
I can't take seriously a review that includes the criticism "I found the paper to be written in a statistical analysis style, therefore not very accessible."
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"Heroin" was a trademark of Bayer(museum.dea.gov)
1 points by kaonwarb 2y ago|2 comments
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by kaonwarb 2y ago
It would be quite sad if metrics were the only acceptable means of conveying personal experience.
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Flamethrowing Robot Dog(throwflame.com)
1 points by kaonwarb 2y ago|1 comments
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Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results(pcworld.com)
2 points by kaonwarb 3y ago|0 comments
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by kaonwarb 3y ago
Dall-E and Whisper are both impressive on their own; neither are LLMs.
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by kaonwarb 3y ago
I find them exceptional for a somewhat narrow range of activities (I love going on a run or hike navigating by my Apple Watch while streaming whatever music I want in the world to my AirPods - no phone, nothing to carry), and only slightly
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by kaonwarb 3y ago
To each their own perspective! As for me, as a user at the time of fairly cutting-edge cell phones from other manufacturers, my first hands-on with the first iPhone was one of the most memorable technological experiences of my life. Just
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by kaonwarb 3y ago
List price of the medication is currently $26.5k annually: not obvious there will be net $ savings.
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by kaonwarb 3y ago
What of those who don't have a deep organic network and could benefit from additional exposure? (I'm personally grateful for a life-changing job brought in part by the algorithmic machinations of LinkedIn, for example.) Concerns a
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by kaonwarb 3y ago
Google Cloud has ~10% market share; I don't think this is an antitrust avoidance play. More likely, it's removing a concern companies might have with bringing workloads onto a relatively smaller player. Especially one that has a
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by kaonwarb 3y ago
On the truly lightweight end, I find Apple's Shortcuts to be effective for ad-hoc personalized creations. I wanted a simple journaling app which allowed me to just talk, transcribed what I said, and stored it with a timestamp in a text
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A Man Who Bought Stonehenge(history.com)
2 points by kaonwarb 3y ago|0 comments
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Kingdom of Redonda(en.wikipedia.org)
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by kaonwarb 3y ago
> Churches can be devastating to ones mental health. Do not recommend. No issue with your first clause: indeed, churches can be devastating to one's mental health (as can ~anything). That observation does not support your second cla
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by kaonwarb 3y ago
Your source on [2] does not quite support your interpretation: if you follow the Twitter thread from the beginning, or read Sanger's linked blog post [0], he makes no claims about his own beliefs. He's explicitly considering what
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The complex life cycle of salps(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kaonwarb 4y ago|0 comments
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Cuprous oxide produces Rydberg polaritons, hybrid particles of light and matter(phys.org)
2 points by kaonwarb 5y ago|0 comments
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The last known WWII Japanese soldier holdout did not surrender until 1974(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kaonwarb 5y ago|0 comments
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Criminal indictment imminent for former Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot(seattletimes.com)
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by kaonwarb 5y ago
"The average car has 30 to 50 different computers, and high-end cars have as many as 100, and they're accompanied by 60 to 100 different electronic sensors." [1] The median modern bicycle has 0 computers and sensors. [1] htt
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by kaonwarb 5y ago
From Amazon Unbound, p.344: > De Becker then commissioned an examination of Bezos’s iPhone X. The eventual report by Anthony Ferrante, a longtime colleague of de Becker’s and the former director for cyber incident response for the U.S. N
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Nielsen announces The Gauge to measure streaming viewing(nytimes.com)
1 points by kaonwarb 5y ago|0 comments
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The Golden Ratio – The Most Irrational Number(slate.com)
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by kaonwarb 5y ago
I would love to try this - and use it for calls with family, etc. I’m skeptical on its impact on the in-person vs. remote debate for work. What really distinguishes in-person for me is the potential for informality. Bump into somebody, have
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
Can you explain how you would be better off without ABS than with it on ice? Ice is precisely the type of situation ABS is built for.
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
In a college engineering class we produced (in teams) rockets emitting mach-diamond exhaust consisting of nothing more than HDPE rods bored in specific patterns, supplied with pure oxygen, and ignited.
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
For this critique to be meaningful, it should compare vs. alternative approaches of storing and transferring value - including cash, which can’t possibly be environmentally friendly. Not just in production, but storage, transfer (I wonder w
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by kaonwarb 6y ago
This was essentially my first job. As a 17-year-old I was hired for the summer by a large office to see how many working PCs I could get out of a large walk-in closet full of broken ones. Great work for a 17-year-old computer nerd: figure o

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