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by kurthr 4mo ago
I am still suspicious that this has something to do with the relationship between Springer-Verlag and the Max Plank Digital Library (MPDL) which supports open access. In 2014 MPDL purchase 110k out-of-print and historically significant titl
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by kurthr 4mo ago
I sort of agree with this in the abstract. The problem is that concretely, these LLMs are being used to decide whether you receive healthcare, government benefits, or whether your job/agency gets cut. So they have already had real worl
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by kurthr 4mo ago
But they are going to coincide lockups with the release of additional stock float from 5% up to 20% of the total "valuation" with a 3x QQQ multiplier so that stock indexes will treat them as 60% float even though 2/3rds of th
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Also perhaps relevant, Vinge's Marooned in Realtime, bobbles (time bubbles) take the remains of humanity with varying levels of technology and culture 50 million years into the future long after a singularity "extinction event&quo
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Yep, 'panacea' was grandmaster, but 'quire' was intermediate?
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Meh, you see all sorts. It's definitely much more touristed in the last decade. The heyday may have been late 90s and early 00s. See Fruits magazines and books. Certainly, "normal" Japanese avoid it, but they always have, j
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Conclusions and Relevance There was no significant difference in sustained return of spontaneous circulation between sodium bicarbonate and placebo in adults with in-hospital cardiac arrest. These findings do not support routine administ
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by kurthr 4mo ago
The morning "bullet" trains (503/507/511) from San Jose Diridon take 1hr to go 48miles with 10 stops. I think electrification and widening to 3 tracks improved times and reduces the likelihood of delays. Certainly, they
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by kurthr 4mo ago
I for one welcome -the ̶̶̶̶̶screw ̶̶̶̶worm- our new AI overlords.
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Yeah, but someone at one of the LLM providers would bet against you and do it, just to take your money. If someone bets $100k your house doesn't burn down with pictures posted within 30min of it happening, it probably will.
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Because it's Apple. They are huge, have scary lawyers, write scary contracts, and want to "delight the user" with features only when they announce them. They hate leaks, and demand separate teams for basically any/all de
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by kurthr 4mo ago
I wanted this to be thought provoking, but for a physicist to open with, "the acceptable risk of catastrophic meltdown for a nuclear power plant is roughly one in a million", just seems sad. It is a phrase without meaning. Is
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Not only have I read it, I know people mentioned in it. There aren't very many.
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Wow, it sure didn't take long to show a complete lack of familiarity in the field. It seems like that's going to be a real weakness with LLMs based on volumes of material that are later discovered to be semi-fraudulent and unmotiv
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by kurthr 4mo ago
I think that the amount of software produced has gone up by much more than a million fold since 1950. The first thing I would consider software and not flipping hardware switches was Assembly Language described in a book by Kathleen and And
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by kurthr 4mo ago
If you have ETFs or index tracking funds in your 401k you're going to buy it. In fact, you'll buy more of it than is going on sale. Since they only need to issue 5% of the stock for it to show up as a 20% market cap in the QQQ ind
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by kurthr 4mo ago
Maybe we're just misinterpreting the meaning of "AI Safety"? Maybe they mean the AI needs to be safe from us? Can't have the grubby meat flappers touching the delicate bits!
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by kurthr 5mo ago
Good, now I have an excuse for keeping 50 tabs open all the time!
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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity(arstechnica.com)
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by kurthr 5mo ago
2.2 Animals and Study Design The study comprised two cohorts of C57BL/6 mice: young adult (3 months old) and late middle-aged (18 months old). We chose 18 months old mice, as this mouse age is approximately equivalent to a 60-year-old
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by kurthr 5mo ago
The source paper: https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev...
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by kurthr 5mo ago
I had to laugh as I read this, but it feels so appropriate to the current state. I will say off topic that, speaking to an early googler, there is actually documentation of meetings where they discussed what "don't be evil" m
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by kurthr 5mo ago
Except that they're loaning a bunch of money to their "customers" to "buy" their products. It's still really circular.
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by kurthr 5mo ago
Like attack ships off the shoulder of Orion, the only way to burn!
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by kurthr 5mo ago
If you're not aware 3M (and other companies) now sell electrically de-bondable tape. It's used in consumer device manufacture where it would otherwise be expensive (or dangerous) to remove an item for replacement like a lithium ba
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by kurthr 5mo ago
"Write me a really cool game, that will make me lots of money, fast!"
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by kurthr 5mo ago
Well, there's all sort of different problems, but most modern display technologies both in software visual profile and hardware implementation use LUTs. When sRGB was born the monitors were unable to even meet it as a spec so some craz
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by kurthr 5mo ago
If you're using sRGB with 16bit color you already have problems. It is an 8bit per color hack that worked perfectly well with CRTs and early LCDs. There were multiple different hacky versions with different vendors that were visually i
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by kurthr 6mo ago
Not traveling or going on vacation.
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by kurthr 6mo ago
Normally, discussions of climate refer to the last 12k year interglacial period as having come out of an "ice age". You're using the broader geologic term referring to any presence of any polar ice cap as an "ice age&quo

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