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by lmc 9mo ago
> The death of scientific twitter, and the failure to establish any replacement In my field it's mostly in LinkedIn now.
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by lmc 9mo ago
"the real problem is a feeling that my computer isn't mine, that I am somehow renting this thing I put together with my own two hands from an AI corporation in Redmond." I've installed Windows on all the PCs I've bu
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by lmc 9mo ago
Cool, thanks for the perspective.
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by lmc 9mo ago
Interesting, thanks for the reply. I wasn't aware grad students were so heavily involved in the review process, thought it was more postdocs.
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by lmc 9mo ago
> paying the reviewers just seems like a bad idea? Reviewers need to be skeptical AF Sorry, it's not obvious to me - how might payment for reviewers affect their decision making?
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by lmc 9mo ago
And Austria https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000268965/vom-retter-zu...
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by lmc 10mo ago
> No one is being forced do fly with them Sometimes they are the only option :-/
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by lmc 10mo ago
It didn't read as LLM-generated to me. And having some experience with CMS development, the article has plenty of substance. You can check previous blog articles from the same author far predating LLMs - here's one from 2018: htt
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by lmc 10mo ago
Any idea who is behind RustFS?
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by lmc 10mo ago
I just checked my go-to stores in Europe. Holy shit. I bought a 5200-speed 16GB DDR5 kit in October for 55 eur. Now it's selling for 240 eur. The 6000-speed model is now 390 eur.
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by lmc 10mo ago
Typically you will get an image pair for an area every 6-12 days. The phase used in interferometry is massively affected by atmospheric conditions, which can vary a lot in this time, and are difficult to correct for. So, one pair is often n
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by lmc 10mo ago
What you can get in a single image are 5.5cm wavelength microwave backscatter - this means surface materials can be differentiated by looking at texture differences at that scale. So - tarmac vs a ploughed field, for example. There's 2
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by lmc 11mo ago
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/virustotal_data_expos...
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by lmc 11mo ago
Ah yes, somehow I missed this :-S. Would edit my comment if I could.
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by lmc 11mo ago
The title is very misleading. The technique (RTK) depends on using a second receiver, not just a smartwatch on its own.
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by lmc 1y ago
> With AI systems, almost all bad behaviour originates from the data that’s used to train them Careful with this - even with perfect data (and training), models will still get stuff wrong.
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Tell HN: VSCode Copilot completions have been turned on without notice
1 points by lmc 1y ago|0 comments
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by lmc 1y ago
> I'll personally attest: LLM's have been absolutely incredible to self learn new things post graduation. How do you know when it's bullshitting you though?
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by lmc 1y ago
I honestly don't know how they convince employees to make features like this - like, they must dogfood and see how wrong the models can be sometimes. Yet there's a conscious choice to not only release this to, but actively target,
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by lmc 1y ago
In my code these days, I have: TODO SHOULDDO COULDDO The TODOs generally don't make it to main , the others sometimes get picked up eventually.
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'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'(bbc.com)
4 points by lmc 1y ago|0 comments
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Exploring the Dangers of AI in Mental Health Care(hai.stanford.edu)
4 points by lmc 1y ago|1 comments
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by lmc 1y ago
Neon's blogpost: https://neon.tech/blog/neon-and-databricks WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-to-buy-startup-neon-...
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ESA Biomass P-Band SAR satellite launched(esa.int)
2 points by lmc 1y ago|0 comments
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by lmc 2y ago
> I will be happy to continue the discussion on what is a good prediction or not. I have mapped a lot of swimming pools myself and edited and removed a lot of (presumably) human contributed polygons that looked worse (too my eyes) than t
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by lmc 2y ago
Beautiful... 3rd party dependency exploit thwarted by its own 3rd party dependency.
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by lmc 2y ago
Apple seem to be holding the line ok: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-investors-reject-pr... https://news.sky.com/story/apple-removes-end-to-end-security...
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U.S. foreign aid freeze derails efforts to stem proliferation risks(science.org)
18 points by lmc 2y ago|9 comments
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by lmc 2y ago
> Just to clarify, GDPR has nothing to do with cookies. Not strictly true, they are highlighted as a potential source of PII. https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
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by lmc 2y ago
> The walrus might say something like, "We have the biggest catch in town," while the pelican adds a line about not catching any fish recently. It should've stopped there :D

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