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by mlsu 4y ago
What makes internet commerce any different from any other commerce? I will absolutely make this bet. We already see it. Countries who don't like to play by the rules of US trade -- those who resist signing trade agreements and using ou
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by mlsu 4y ago
The patents on lispro (the stuff that costs $300/vial) expired several years ago. The fact is, Lilly isn't even the largest profiteer. The insane margins of insulin are actually split between Lilly, PBMs (like optumRX and CareMark
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by mlsu 4y ago
There is plenty of gray market for insulin near both borders. No large players (just individuals going over the border to buy).
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by mlsu 4y ago
Now you have me thinking. What if we nuked the pyramids? I'm not saying we should , but I am saying like, you know, maybe. Nahhhh, we would never do something like that. It would be a travesty. But like, maybe, we could just like, ynk
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by mlsu 4y ago
You know, something interesting is happening to me here. I've never been upset about Stable Diffusion, because as you say, once upon a time, you had to physically paint an image to be visually creative. Never posted a comment about S
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by mlsu 4y ago
Yes, and I mean, while you could argue that jogging or riding bicycles is a form of self expression, I don't consider them so the same way I consider writing to be so. Cars help you get from point A to point B in a way that is qualitat
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by mlsu 4y ago
I cannot stand the idea of this. I know it's coming, I know I can't stop it, but it will be a catastrophic loss. Most people are bad at writing. This will make them "better" at writing, but only in a certain way. I love
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by mlsu 4y ago
If China invaded Taiwan it would be despite, not because of, the fabs there.
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by mlsu 4y ago
Indeed, why not. I couldn't possibly prove you wrong or right. That's why the hard problem does not exist and there is no line.
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by mlsu 4y ago
As an aside, you can trivially place the line above humans: + ??? + The Galaxy + The entire Biosphere + Regions of Space + Corporations + Humans
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by mlsu 4y ago
Really? + Human beings + Dogs + Bugs + Plants + Eukaryotes + Viruses + Proteins + Molecules + Atoms + Subatomic Particles + ??? + Pure Information, ones and zeros Here is a line (--------). Place it so that above it, things are conscious, a
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by mlsu 4y ago
Your comment reminded me of this video [1] They put an eye tracker on someone and captured their motion when walking in some rough terrain. You can sort of see that the person is focusing on the most likely place their foot will go next. [1
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by mlsu 4y ago
Clearly, attention really is all you need. Are GPU vendors (well, gpu vendor, as far as I can tell) focusing heavily on increasing VRAM? My understanding is that transformers are pretty quick to train, but have significant memory costs. Whe
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by mlsu 4y ago
Yes. Realistically, it is difficult to reach a bad end from a single, isolated hypo event. But I have myself made the mistake of underestimating hypoglycemia. Growing up, I always had issues of under-dosing insulin, because my bodyweight wa
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by mlsu 4y ago
Low BG is a nonstarter, because it immediately impairs you. You will crash your car. You will get confused and fight someone. You will pass out and not be able to reach glucose. That coma will cause brain damage. And, if you have back to ba
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by mlsu 4y ago
What you describe (sugar + insulin pump) is called a "dual hormone" pump. No such device exists on the open market. So that is yet another challenge. You can actuate in only one direction: pushing BG lower. PID does actually work
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by mlsu 4y ago
This statistic is often trotted out. It's in dollars, which is very misleading and forms an incomplete picture of the ecosystem required to have true manufacturing ability. We do final assembly on an automobile and that gets registered
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by mlsu 4y ago
Linkedin is an absolutely massive security hole. I'm surprised at the degree to which it hasn't been exploited.
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by mlsu 4y ago
inexorably, until it reaches 100%. If they can find a way to have us on the computer while sleeping, it will be done.
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by mlsu 4y ago
Zuck's Metaverse (tm) is very forward looking in some ways, and very backward looking in others. Although his particular vision is very weird and ugly, Zuck is on the right track: in the future, people will spend real time (not async t
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by mlsu 4y ago
True, but as you get further towards "A" average, the seeming difference between an A and a B gets more important. The only person I have ever known to have cried over grades was someone who cried over getting a B+ instead of an A
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by mlsu 4y ago
I heard a while back the idea that interest rates are a proxy for stability. That more stable societies support low interest rates, because in a stable society, money is more likely to be paid back 1, 5, or 10 years from now. Does the sharp
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by mlsu 4y ago
I used to follow a bunch of people on Twitter. I still do, but I used to, too.
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by mlsu 4y ago
This is great. At a fundamental level, it's entropy and energy. You need to expend some energy (1000/2000/5000/6 billion years of energy!) to organize your knowledge well enough to get that bit of entropy that tells you
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by mlsu 4y ago
That same trade off exists in an extreme form with the copter that flew on Mars! Same volume of air pushed through the props, much lower density, and as you say, much higher RPM.
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by mlsu 4y ago
The feedback control necessary to keep them in the air is done on board. Radio is used for very high level waypoint nav.
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by mlsu 4y ago
I understand that this is a hack project (so doing for the sake of doing). But if I were going to create an autonomous/RC anything, I would start with Ardupilot [0], which has off-the-shelf support for a lot of what's implemented
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by mlsu 4y ago
I have a dated 1070 with 8gb of vram, some of which also renders my desktop. I was able to obtain 256x512 images with this card using the standard model, but ran into OOM issues. I don't mind waiting, so now I am using the "fast&q
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by mlsu 4y ago
You may want to look carefully at the motives of some of those 1950s and 1960s planners. The phrases "White Flight," "Redlining," "Blockbusting," "Steering" would be a good place to begin.
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by mlsu 4y ago
I think mental is the wrong word for it. That’s rather anthrocentric. It would be more accurate to say that the universe is information itself. The entirety of the universe is only accessible as the solution to a massive (or maybe not, we m

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