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by lr1970 2y ago
> Maybe those same TLAs found a guy with a grudge and nudged him up to take care of a witness who might testify to something they didn't want public, or maybe some of their superiors were just upset about the $25B in lost shareholde
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Conference probably had a hotel block they were booking and a link to book so you know which hotel to camp. In this case it was Hilton. And if the CEO stayed at Hilton he had no reason to be on the street outside the hotel where the ki
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by lr1970 2y ago
Neither of your theories answer the question -- how did he know that the CEO was staying in a hotel other than Hilton (conference venue) and would arrive by foot 1 hour and 15 minutes before conference opens at 8am (CEOs do not typically ar
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by lr1970 2y ago
> was just that it would have to be shown than the overtime was medically necessary. And then the insurance paid medical adjudicators will find it "not medically necessary". And the vicious cycle continues -- deny, delay, defe
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by lr1970 2y ago
An Anesthesiologist does not determine the duration of an operation. It depends on the type of operation, how sick the patient is and how fast or slow is the surgeon. Anesthesiologist provides anesthesia for the full duration of the surgery
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by lr1970 2y ago
My friend is a boat captain in Florida.He says that Starlink on his boat changed his life.
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by lr1970 2y ago
Sir Andre Geim [0], the only person in the world who received both the real Nobel prize in Physics and the Ig Nobel prize co-authored one of his articles [1] with his hamster Tisha. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An
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by lr1970 2y ago
> We have extended the model’s context length from 128k to 1M, which is approximately 1 million English words Actually English language tokenizers map on average 3 words into 4 tokens. Hence 1M tokens is about 750K English words not a mi
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by lr1970 2y ago
There is fundamental limit (Shannon limit) on decoding a signal Eb/No = -1.6dB [0] where Eb is energy received per bit of information and No is noise spectral density. This makes it paramount to collect as much energy per bit (Eb) as p
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by lr1970 2y ago
> As a physicist, the moment when everything just clicked was when I realised that connected Feynman diagrams were basically the cumulants of that distribution. And the generating function of the cumulants is the logarithm of the generat
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by lr1970 2y ago
when metric becomes the target it ceases to be a good metric. when discovered how it works developers will type the first character immediately after opening the log. edit: typo
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by lr1970 2y ago
I am curious why "upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet" instead of simply Claude 3.6 Sonnet? Minor version increment is a standard way of versioning update. Am i missing something or it is just Anthropic marketing?
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by lr1970 2y ago
How come they missed Justin Gilmer? He did most of the original work [0]. [0] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h... EDIT: typos
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by lr1970 2y ago
In 1939 Claude Shannon won the "wrong" Nobel prize -- The Alfred Noble Prize award presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers [0]. It causes a lot of confusion. Claude Shannon never won a "real Nobel". [0] htt
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by lr1970 2y ago
By this definition Claude Shannon (the father of Information Theory) clearly deserves a Nobel in Physics. The central concept in Information Theory is Entropy which is defined literally the same way as in Physics. And Shannon's Informa
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by lr1970 2y ago
Honestly, I am stunned by today's Nobel committee announcement. Hinton's Boltzmann machine is a clever construct that nobody, repeat nobody, in the AI and ML is using anymore in actual practice. EDIT: add minor clarification.
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by lr1970 2y ago
User swappable batteries will extend the life of mobile devices big time. I am old enough to remember that you could easily pop any phone's back cover and swap the battery.
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by lr1970 2y ago
Again from signal processing: depending on position of the poles in z-transformed filter transfer function the output of IIR has a narrow stability region that is typically carefully designed for. Otherwise IIR filters either exponentially
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by lr1970 2y ago
From the documentation you linked above: > extensions may be collecting their own usage data and are not controlled by the telemetry.telemetryLevel setting. Consult the specific extension's documentation to learn about its telemetry
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by lr1970 2y ago
Several thousands of "modified" portable communication devices were distributed in Lebanon about half a year ago. I am curios how many of those explosive gadgets the unsuspecting owners were bringing to the airplanes through airpo
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by lr1970 2y ago
> It should also be noted that while NT as a product is much newer than Unicies, it's history is rooted in VMS fundamentals thanks to it's core team of ex-Digital devs lead by David Cutler. WNT = VMS + 1 (next letter in alphabe
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by lr1970 2y ago
Starbucks commitment to sustainability is a total BS if their CEO commutes from home to work 1000 miles (almost) daily on a private jet. What is his carbon footprint anyway?
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International and wife Judy Bloomer. I am curious, was Morgan Stanley International on that HP deal with Mr Lynch in some capacity?
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by lr1970 2y ago
> A "theory" without predictions is just a bunch of words and numbers hanging out together. A famous example in Physics is String Theory. It has been around since at least 1980s and still no definitive way to prove or disprove
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Why don’t they have an age limit on the president In fact there is an age limit for an American president. They should be >= 35 y.o. We need to augment it with an upper limit. My choice would be <= 75 y.o.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Why did they update everything all at once? This is beyond hospital IT control. Clownstrike (sorry, Crowdstrike) unconditionally force-updates the hosts.
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by lr1970 2y ago
There are problems with getting lab results, X-rays, CT and MRI scans. They do not have paper-based Plan B. IT outage in a modern hospital is a major risk to life and health of their patients.
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by lr1970 2y ago
> Social media is left leaning because people under 40 are left leaning. Attributed to Winston Churchill: "If you are not a liberal when twenty - you have no heart, if you are not conservative when forty - you have no brains."
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by lr1970 2y ago
This is known as the Gell-Mann amnesia effect [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Crichto...
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by lr1970 2y ago
Wh/L is energy per unit of volume. I am curios what is energy per unit of mass Wh/kg, or alternatively what is the density of the solid-state battery?

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