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by killjoywashere 2y ago
More true than you might think: rat poison (coumadin) saves lives as an anticoagulant. Conversely, Tylenol can kill you. Very few non-smoking alcoholics have serious atherosclerosis on autopsy, but lots of people die of alcoholism. Life fin
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Pudding: Visual, Data-Driven Essays(pudding.cool)
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UsesThis is broken, hope waferbaby is ok(usesthis.com)
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Typing has a certain reward function to it: that snap-snap-snap is satisfying. I wonder if he just got addicted to it?
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Oral History Interview with Dr. Stephen Thomas Kent(conservancy.umn.edu)
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
> The UCSF group hypothesizes that this elevated level of orexin expression partially explains reduced sleep So, one possible line of investigation would be a table of mammals, their sleep cycles, their orexin levels, and the numbers of
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
The difference between theory and practice is that, in practice, all theoretical exponentials are eventually sigmoid and, in the very long run, bell-shaped.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
> This reveals the real problem: it is about jobs, not data. I think you're selling "it is about jobs, not data" a little short here. Let me start off by saying I work on AI for healthcare, my first IRB protocol that conte
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
> pro-free-cultural moral views Mike Montero would like a word "Who in this room is now, or has at some time, been in creative services? "Who here has, at some time, had trouble getting paid by a client for work they were doing
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
The new tab, the web's equivalent of a blank page. Staring at a blank page is sometimes associated with maddening frustration, but in most cases it's actually the possibility of something new that captures us. White label this and
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Line of sight might be an issue there. I'm thinking more high-end clandestine eavesdropping. Fun fact: curtains are a pretty good defeat for laser microphones, but if the building is really old and made of solid stone, you can point at
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
I wonder how well this would work with laser microphones on a pane of glass. Can you infer keystrokes with near infrared laser? That is, can you identify the heatmap of keystroke events to infer which keyboard they're using, then repla
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Evolutionarily, amphibians are somewhat simpler than mammals, they're smaller than a lot of mammals and they don't live as long, so I suspect some of this is simply that "things that aren't there". They wouldn&#x27
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
So, destabilized democracies seems to be the theme of the early 21st century: the UK (Brexit), the US (twice) and now rumbles from Germany. Great
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
There's a niche industry that works on that problem: looking for evidence of tampering down to the semiconductor level.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
There are multiple threat models where you can't trust yourself. Your future self definitely can't trust your past self. And vice versa. If your future self has a stroke tomorrow, did your past self remember to write a living will
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Ok, now, can you add a think sparkline graph down the left edge of the page, either a whisker plot or a line graph, illustrating the density? If the information becomes too dense, maybe spread out to a spectrograph? Interesting that the nex
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
How's that NYTimes vs OpenAI lawsuit going? Last I can find is things are hung up in discovery: OpenAI has requested potentially a century of NYTimes reporters' notes. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/open
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Human ovulation incidentally caught during laparoscopic hysterectomy procedure in 2008: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7447942.stm , and https://www.nature.com/articles/453965a.pdf Sep
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
This voice sounds like something that Mark Farina should be dubbing into his next album. But it's the first time I've heard this bit. Where did it come from? Is this a classic in engineering circles of some shit Rockwell actually
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
I find it hard to believe this will be durable, but best of luck
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
> weak ethical discussion followed by a one clause stone-throw. Irony? So, the major democracies are imperialist powers? Do you live in a small dictatorship? If not, to be consistent with the rock you just threw, you don't pay your
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
I write this while on a United IAD-SFO direct (a bit over 5 hours), sipping a scotch on the rocks. I've gotten the AVP demo at Apple HQ 3 times now, twice before release day. I really like it, can't imagine dropping $5000 of my ow
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
OMG, I love this. The one missing feature: a high quality camera. As soon as I saw the screen mount, I immediately thought of Continuity Camera, which is a great solution for people who want decent video without a full streamer rig.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
My wife runs her own occupational therapy business (OT is consistently assessed to be one of the jobs least likely to ever be automated). Credit card processors still rule her life.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Uh, who do I use if not Visa (1.15 to 2.4%) or Mastercard (1.15 to 2.5%)? Square (2.6 to 2.9%)? AMEX (up to 3.3%)? Paypal (3 to 3.5%)?
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
What this really tells me is that we have massive unreviewed data. This is imagery from decades ago still yielding fruit. We're getting close to having a replayable copy of history at centimeter resolution from multiple angles and th
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
How many sacrifices would you make for $30,000 a year?
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Love reading this while sitting in the MCO terminal waiting to go home after the fourth non-stop flight in a week.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Uh, can anybody read between the lines and infer which ISPs we're talking about? Comcast?

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