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by kurthr 1y ago
I don't know why it "Sounds toxic as s*t". It's a reactive salt. LD50 is ~1gram so don't swallow or get it in your eyes or nose. It seems comparable in hazard to commonly available cleaning compounds like ammonia an
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by kurthr 1y ago
Actually, no. Anyone can be "creeped the Fuck out" about anything anywhere. It's their right. That's "just like uh, your opinion, man". One can be annoyed by business processes, vaguely offended by decor, or th
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And yet, there are much more pernicious elements to dystopia Google has become and ways that it perpetuates them through the efforts of people just like this so that they can literally have a "free lunch". These are the type of co
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I clearly can't write without,
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You can't write clearly, without an adverb.
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Well, if you're big enough to be TBTF, then you can lever up stablecoin risk because you know you'll be bailed out after they let the little guys tank.
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by kurthr 1y ago
It's just another kind of leverage. There's no problem, until there is, and then it's bigger than it would have been. Once all of their sales are leasebacks, you'll know it's about to go boom (of course they won&#x2
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by kurthr 1y ago
Yeah, LOL it definitely won't be AR like this with compute in the cloud: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/05/glass-redux-google-ai...
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by kurthr 1y ago
Interesting, if true. Love to be able to see it to compare. I'm surprised the summarization would be that bad.
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by kurthr 1y ago
I don't know, man. I also find AI slop to be uncanny and strangely repulsive, but the other side is that, if there's not enough information in your API and documentation for an LLM, then there's a clever intern that will get
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by kurthr 1y ago
Yeah, yeah, they just mumble mumble diophantine mumble mumble elliptic curve mumble mumble Weierstrass form mumble mumble like your boring old uncle at Christmas. GET TO THE ANSWER! 154476802108746166441951315019919837485664325
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by kurthr 1y ago
I didn't actually read as much AI doomerism in the article as you did. I saw his conclusion being that it wasn't that hard to go back to teaching/learning in the old ways. It's more of a human element that limits it. Whe
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by kurthr 1y ago
Well, there's another aspect which is that the original authors and pop-sci journalists don't seem to be able to understand where they went wrong or how outrageous their claims are, precisely because their jobs depend on not under
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Naw, this is Hawking Radiation a "quantum phenomena" that in the original paper doesn't conserve mass/baryons. It's weird that it was originally published (fantastic claims require fantastic evidence). I don't
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It seems like the steel data comes from larger database on hardness/toughness/corrosion? Can you say where that data is coming from or if it's your own measurements? If you could show the data (eg HRC) that supports the radar
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This shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the current process. One could argue about risk-reward tradeoffs for statins, but showing weird science graphs and double blind study arguments is useless. If you want to save lives, think l
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I guess I'm looking for the target of this finding. This might be interesting for foveated rendering techniques, and certainly it's interesting to know how the eye responds to "real" visual input, but it doesn't see
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by kurthr 1y ago
Naw. Just look at the plots over the last hundred years. Lately, it's become just as financialized at bitcoin or any of the other "stores of value". https://www.5yearcharts.com/historical-gold-price-chart-how-
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and divides were worse. (1 cycle add, 10 cycle mult, 60 cycle div)
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It's called unsafe driving and it's definitely ticketable.
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And driving in the "slow" lane where every single driver has to go past you to get on/off the road isn't generally safe either. On a 2 lane road you don't have much choice, but on a busy 3 lane road, probably not a
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by kurthr 1y ago
Yeah, unless you're taking a class like ph236 covering the material it's just absurd. I hadn't realized it, but it looks like this new book is for ph136 the junior level (1st year grad) general rel prep class. https:/&#
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With or without a LLM "partner"?
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There has always been commentary that the size (over 1300 pages) of the General Rel book Gravitation by Meisner Thorne and Wheeler was done for demonstration purposes. Apparently, modern versions are only 2.5" thick which leads me to
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The word "can" is doing a lot of work here. The idea that any of the current "open weights" LLMs are outside the capitalist framework stretches the bounds of credulity. Choose the least capitalist of: OpenAI, Google, M
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"Habemus Papam, iter faciet"
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Similarly, I was just forced to talk to an insurance company and the only way I got any response was by talking to a human. The more robotic they are, instead of working around known issues, the more likely we are to get to a satisfactory s
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For a simple example try twisting a ductile aluminum bolt (or clay), twisting a brittle piece of chalk (or concrete), or twisting a composite (twig). They all fail differently (and the first two at 45deg to each other. Mohr's circle is
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Um, No True Journalist?

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