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by kurthr 6mo ago
In Japan the cost of building the tunnels through mountains and undersea for Shinkansen ranges from $20-100M/km. Since there's no default ownership of subsurface land rights in CA it would be cheaper and faster to dig tunnels than
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by kurthr 6mo ago
See, there's your problem, introspection. https://youtube.com/shorts/b6Zw50f5jJk
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by kurthr 6mo ago
It's fairly hilarious in a dangerous way, how confident people are that neither they, nor their boomer parents could be fooled by a persistent LLM with access to their mail, text, voice, and that of their co-workers and supervisors. Th
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by kurthr 6mo ago
Can LLMs convince a human who has power over each and everyone of those things to use them for a(n unstated) prompts goal? Yeah, probably over 50% of the population already, and if not many of the rest soon.
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by kurthr 7mo ago
They compounded them, which just means buying the API, reconstituting it, adding another compound (Vit B6), and putting it in sterile vials. They did not make the peptides. They sourced them from China.
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by kurthr 7mo ago
It would be shocking to me if the large model trainers didn't have tools like this to analyze their outputs, but this is interesting work ! You can see who likely (post)trained/distilled their models or borrowed parameters from e
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by kurthr 7mo ago
Actually, you just described most of the tele-health and compounding pharmacies that carry GLP1s! Where do you think Hims, Ro, Brello, or the rest get the APIs they sell to their customers? They get them from grey market suppliers in China.
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by kurthr 7mo ago
Actually, at this moment, the top 3 parent posts are all about how people aren't responding positively enough to this event. I think it's really cool, and more people would be more exited, if there wasn't so much else going o
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by kurthr 7mo ago
The difference seems to be that Nixon may have been crooked, but he was largely competent. He operated on experience, expertise, and causal reality. Our current political situation is largely free of facts, knowledge, or causality. Much of
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by kurthr 7mo ago
Yep, nothing by even a subset of those authors. Closest paper from that Conference: Rethinking Attention-Model Explainability through Faithfulness Violation Test Yibing Liu, Haoliang Li, Yangyang Guo, Chenqi Kong, Jing Li, Shiqi Wang https
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by kurthr 7mo ago
The losing move is using missile interceptors. Whether it's high altitude drone swarms, terminally guided artillery munitions, hypersonic rail guns, or high energy laser defense, all are orders of magnitude cheaper than the interceptor
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by kurthr 7mo ago
Yes, since they didn't explicitly list the evaporative cooling when the coffee was poured into the cup, I suspect it was not included (as if the coffee started in the cup). That means that the starting temperature is off and screws up
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by kurthr 7mo ago
It looks like a lot of them are missing something big. I'd think the two big ones are the evaporative cooling as you pour into the cup, and heating up the cup (by convection) itself. The convective cooling to the air is tertiary, but i
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by kurthr 7mo ago
I agree and disagree with different parts of this article. I've read/seen a lot of the source documentation so I think there's plenty of hyperbole, even if there's a nugget of truth. Because the “The AI Bubble Is 17
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by kurthr 7mo ago
Can't speak to the OP, but lots of technical work (and frankly many trades are also technical) doesn't lend itself to text based documentation and teaching. Software, translation, non/fiction writing (like marketing and sales
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by kurthr 7mo ago
The number of characters changed (and emoji added) are shockingly few! Truly, expert advice.
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by kurthr 7mo ago
Wait, they can't even internally remember that they're the DoW (Department of War) and not DoD?
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by kurthr 7mo ago
Exactly my point.
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by kurthr 7mo ago
You're implying that insurance companies will allow prices to fall and lower their profits. That seems like a really unlikely event in the current economy. They fire a lot of doctors and nurses, but they won't lower prices.
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by kurthr 8mo ago
I'll offer a hopeful rejoinder. Perhaps, when AISlop generates enough of the same old story "guaranteed" hits for the mass market (and book covers to go with same), the editors will switch back to something that is novel an
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by kurthr 8mo ago
No accident. No move. No new vehicle. My car insurance went up 30%, in one year. Tried pricing around and it's not much better. Took an online "safety class" and got an 8% discount.
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by kurthr 8mo ago
The ammount of shrinkflation in the last year is just stunning. Sometimes they bother to make the bottle/box/can incrementally imperceptibly smaller. Sometimes they just put less in. I track macros so I'm always looking at we
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by kurthr 8mo ago
Sometimes, as in the bilsbi's top level comment, the solution is to use a free tool/library/product that already exists. The solution is not always to write new code, but the agent will happily do it. Maybe that's "
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by kurthr 8mo ago
Epstein class fits here, might as well use it.
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by kurthr 8mo ago
I hear all these words and try to imagine what useful tools could be written that didn't rapidly enshittify the commons where they were used, but all I see is a highly capable footgun. I feel fairly sure that clever folks will come up
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by kurthr 8mo ago
LOL! Well, somebody's gotta shave it!
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by kurthr 8mo ago
Next time someone is confused about the meaning of the word "Enshitification" just pull up Facebook.
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by kurthr 8mo ago
I agree for sleep. I prefer them because they focus better for me. Blue creates a halo around letters that is distracting with my declining vision. Also, Blue fluorescent OLED are ~50% less efficient than R/G phosphorescent OLED so you
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by kurthr 8mo ago
It's worth noting that the link on the page to the list of pictures contains a mis-transliteration in search of "banbutsu" for "banmotsu" leading to a blank result. Both are possible for 万物, but the prior is more co
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by kurthr 8mo ago
This is basically hilarious. Leaky Feeders are a few watts. and even a high powered multi-kW AM radio with 200m wavelength wouldn't resonate much in a rough walled tunnel multiple sq meters in cross section. It's both too large fo

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