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by mapmeld 6mo ago
Sounds like a combination of 'can it be geocoded?' and 'is their location precise enough?' There is some progress on resolving human-written locations in cities ( https://www.danvk.org/2026/03/0
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by mapmeld 6mo ago
I've also noticed that iNaturalist also fuzzes exact locations for some species within a geographic grid (example: zebra) even the ranch zebra in California.
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by mapmeld 6mo ago
It's strange. I'm sure that he talked to experts who would immediately say, yes many programming languages exist. But two cryptographers who wrote money systems both using C++ is not informative. Today maybe we could expect one to
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by mapmeld 6mo ago
This section stood out to me because it started out explaining PGP to a layman like this, but then the author gets overly excited that a cryptographer would be interested in... basic cryptography > I’d learned enough by then to know that
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by mapmeld 6mo ago
I think it's an AI-generated response.
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by mapmeld 6mo ago
According to an article from last year, .su might get retired by 2030 Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351793
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by mapmeld 7mo ago
People have tried to suss this out on the ML subreddit, and it is confusing. Most of the worst messages from Tay were just people discovering a "repeat after me: __" function, so it's hard just to figure out which Tay mess
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by mapmeld 7mo ago
My problem with this is less that it's perpetual engagement, but that I use ChatGPT for direct programming outputs, like "go through a geojson file and if the feature is within 150 miles of X, keep and record the distance in miles
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by mapmeld 7mo ago
If you participate in certain online communities where posts used to generally share real ideas and ask real beginner questions, you get tired of it. I am especially tired of seeing "it's not X - it's Y" on /r/
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by mapmeld 7mo ago
Reminds me of Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook releasing similarly-worded statements denying that they would share information with NSA PRISM, despite the Snowden docs
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by mapmeld 8mo ago
I don't think carbon capture / sequestration is going to do enough, but if we continue slipping into this trajectory I think there will be more support for changing reflectivity (spraying sea water, or putting particles in the str
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by mapmeld 8mo ago
In an industry of big bets, especially considering the company has poured resources and renamed itself to secure a place in the VR world... staking your reputation on everyone's LLMs having peaked and shifting focus to finding a new pa
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by mapmeld 9mo ago
Especially since every movement up and down from space is expensive and risks the life of the crew, it'd be a bad idea for NASA to name the astronaut ahead of time.
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by mapmeld 9mo ago
I did some bike touring for a few days at a time, and lived out of monthly Airbnbs for years. I was helped out several times, but my objective was to only accept when I was in a pinch. It's when you're relying on other people as a
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by mapmeld 9mo ago
The US example that I would give would be the Articles of Confederation being turned over and replaced with our Constitution. In the article I read this to mean: they designed a power structure thinking it should be fully open and flat, lik
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by mapmeld 9mo ago
I am also frustrated with Wikidata. The one practical use I've seen is a lot of OpenStreetMap places' multilingual names are locked to Wikidata, which makes it harder for a troll to drop in and rename something, and may encourage
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by mapmeld 9mo ago
I had this same mindset, and when I travel to somewhere less-traveled, I always like to post photos on iNaturalist and map parks and trails on OpenStreetMap to contribute to the open tech ecosystem. A year or so ago someone asked Reddit for
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by mapmeld 9mo ago
I'm seeing a much less sophisticated campaign for this on my city's subreddits recently... Someone will ask a weird or generic question, and either poster or the top comment is a throwaway account with a spiel about checking $site
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by mapmeld 9mo ago
Horizontal gene transfer is looking a lot more common than we learned in biology class. Fungi have a class of proteins (Starships) which transfer hundreds of genes, beetles picked up cellulose-digesting proteins from bacteria in their diges
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by mapmeld 10mo ago
I went back to their posts in November for this > One of my AirTags is inexplicably 1600 miles away in Texas. It's one of my floating ones that I throw into bags when traveling as needed. > Maybe it dropped out of my bag only to
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by mapmeld 10mo ago
Well that's sort of the point, does it have a positive effect for that cohort of kids years later? The OLPC hardware was looking rough several years ago and Uruguay's Plan Ceibal and other projects aren't using their hardware
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by mapmeld 10mo ago
Well we have the idea and the next best thing to official code, but if this was a big revelation where are all of the Titan models? If this were public, I think we'd have a few attempts at variants (all of the Mamba SSMs, etc.) and get
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by mapmeld 10mo ago
Further, if I use AI-written citations to back some claim or fact, what are the actual claims or facts based on? These started happening in law because someone writes the text and then wishes there was a source that was relevant and actuall
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by mapmeld 10mo ago
Well it's cool that they released a paper, but at this point it's been 11 months and you can't download a Titans-architecture model code or weights anywhere. That would put a lot of companies up ahead of them (Meta's Lla
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by mapmeld 10mo ago
Meta already teased making this ("Vibes") in September. Also OpenAI's homepage for their Sora tool is a bunch of AI video shorts.
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PatchDNA: Flexible and Biologically-Informed Alternative to Tokenization for DNA(biorxiv.org)
1 points by mapmeld 10mo ago|0 comments
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by mapmeld 10mo ago
Humans have two copies of each chromosome. Plants in nature can have many more, and some can be induced to duplicate their chromosomes which sometimes gives them larger seeds and resilience to environmental conditions. Similar to hybrid cro
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The dream to fill the American desert with exotic animals [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mapmeld 11mo ago|0 comments
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by mapmeld 11mo ago
IBM challenged that the 2019 case could be handled by a supercomputer [1]. The main issue is that these algorithms where today's early quantum computers have an advantage were specifically designed to be demonstration problems. All of
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by mapmeld 11mo ago
What OS are televisions using to run all of their streaming media apps? It's not iOS.

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