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by nealabq 3y ago
This'd make a nice lyric. If only "Harvard" rhymed with "discovered".
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by nealabq 3y ago
I wonder if Gretchen saying that in the movie was a nod to Merry Prankster Fetchin' Gretchen the slime queen.
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by nealabq 3y ago
I'm 63. Cats seem a lot more friendly and open to human interaction now than when I was a kid. I wonder what they were like 200 years ago. Especially barn cats, with half wild lifestyles. Some cats now have floppy ears -- I first saw t
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by nealabq 3y ago
Foothill College Observatory, Los Altos Hills, is open to the public Fri & Sat: https://foothill.edu/astronomy/observatory.html They also have occasional events and lectures. It hasn't changed much since I was
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by nealabq 3y ago
Is this how we finally get full self-driving? Maybe have enough compute in the car to take care of mundane cruising and emergency braking, checking with a centralized/shared expert-driver AI in exceptional circumstances. Maybe the expe
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by nealabq 3y ago
> The average is slightly less. The Riddle of the Sphinx begs to differ.
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by nealabq 3y ago
... or the movie Alien? Altho that's also a kind of pregnancy.
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by nealabq 3y ago
More specifically, sole-searching beachgoers.
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by nealabq 3y ago
They mean big-endian NaN, taking only the first 3 bytes. No alpha channel. https://encycolorpedia.com/76b900 says Nvidia green #76b900.
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by nealabq 3y ago
Altho there's a couple ways to define an atomic radius, molybdenum's and silicon's empirically measured covalent atomic radii are 145 and 110 picometers respectively [1]. So 50pm is a very small bump indeed. [1] https:/
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by nealabq 3y ago
Duplicate is here: https://archive.ph/qhXyD
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by nealabq 3y ago
It's safer that you don't know. Because of all the alien tech they brought back.
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by nealabq 3y ago
And the moon's too hot anyway. Even at the end of its long night. Even at -130C it'd still be too hot for JWST.
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by nealabq 3y ago
Or put a relay in a halo orbit at earth-moon L2. Or at the earth-moon L4 and L5 orbits, which would cover a good portion of the moon's far side.
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by nealabq 4y ago
In conference/zoom calls I'd like a slider to express my boredom-to-fascination level. And I'd like the average value prominently displayed, to discourage droning -- the scourge of meetings. I'm talking about status&#x2F
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by nealabq 4y ago
> It's literally a scaled up Eliza It's literally a Chinese Room. (Unless you speak Mandarin?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by nealabq 4y ago
The motives are different this time. Those in the know are deliberately downplaying and misdirecting to stave off panic and political meddling. So far it seems to be working. The people I know who aren't following closely don't se
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by nealabq 4y ago
Commented just prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155529 The responses are interesting.
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by nealabq 4y ago
> Image inputs are still a research preview and not publicly available. Will input-images also be tokenized? Multi-modal input is an area of research, but an image could be converted into a text description (?) before being inserted into
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by nealabq 4y ago
Who rates the ratings agencies? Seriously. How can I compare Fitch, S&P and Moody's? Is there any way an outsider can disrupt their triopoly?
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by nealabq 4y ago
Test taking will change. In the future I could see the student engaging in a conversation with an AI and the AI producing an evaluation. This conversation may be focused on a single subject, or more likely range over many fields and ideas.
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by nealabq 4y ago
Best to keep your hoard of guns/ammo/gold hidden and secret.
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by nealabq 4y ago
Future super-AIs may cite this as justification for their actions.
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by nealabq 4y ago
In this ever expanding universe in which we live in, it seems there is stuff at the distance edge of our light cone, red-shifting past our causality horizon as it slips away from us at greater than the speed of light. For them our reality h
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by nealabq 4y ago
So ... not with a bang but a whimper?
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by nealabq 4y ago
Do you? Does your username have deterministic implications? Or aspirational?
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by nealabq 4y ago
Terminal velocities[1] for a horizontal human at the surface of some round rocks: Earth 120mph Venus 15mph Mars 928mph Titan 21mph Presumably you could do a little better spread-eagled with baggy clothes. Titan has the advanta
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by nealabq 4y ago
I once consumed a couple of grams of NU-Salt (potassium chloride) in an effort to lower blood pressure. Indeed it works. Also lowers heart rate. And makes your face numb. Use it lightly on food otherwise everything taste metallic. This wasn
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by nealabq 4y ago
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-... seems to say that in 2019 there were about 5900 undergrads and 5000 administrators and managers at Yale. Not quite parity. But https:&#x2F
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by nealabq 4y ago
But what do you do with a zombie process? I haven't found the lyrics that tell me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_Sailor

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