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by neltnerb 4y ago
Same, every time I run windows update on my lab with 22+ computers somehow (to no one's real surprise) OneDrive reappears, Edge keeps getting reset as my default PDF viewer on the regular (acrobat reader DC is installed), and lately th
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The article describes some pretty blatant negligence, though I suppose suggesting that a legislator might get involved implies ex-post facto lawmaking. Maybe the responsibility is too diffuse. But these "no one could have predicted thi
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I've never heard of the FDA funding a drug study, that is more a NIH thing. If the FDA were sending out requests for proposals I would expect them to be about: - testing food for contamination - inspecting food facilities and farms for
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by neltnerb 4y ago
It used to be the big differentiator was the ability to do symbolic math and actually solve equations. Maple could also do it, as could the TI89, so I never really got into it. It was just a huge difference from Matlab. But if I have an act
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I think a lot of this is the feeling that one's own case is special or that you will get a better than median outcome. I want treatment that, for median cases similar to mine, improves things with a high enough success rate and low eno
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I completely agree about the incentives for supplement studies. However, the FDA, critically, has totally different and vastly less difficult regulations for supplements as opposed to drugs. Where by drugs I mean things the manufacturer wan
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Honestly, I trust the FDA to mostly do a good job and would wait -- unless the time involved would mean that waiting would render the treatment moot. In that case it seems like there's more reason to try, at first, but there is a real
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I'm not going to judge anyone (I have MS) but it's extraordinarily difficult to analyze evidence when the disease progression is random flares. If I have a flare, is it because a medication isn't working? Or is it working jus
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It is worse than you probably think because of the fertilizer, transportation of crops (and operating farm machinery), drying of crops, fermentation to ethanol, and (perhaps most brutally) distillation to high enough grade to mix with hydro
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by neltnerb 4y ago
please no one say crypto ;-) but I definitely have the same question, I always deposit anything sent to me via paypal, venmo, whatever right away so there's zero balance. good luck telling a bank to un-authorize someone from being able
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by neltnerb 4y ago
As an experiment quite a few years ago I got a laptop with a special version of the Intel CPU that was not as fast but much more power efficient. ASUS UL30A-X5 Really an excellent computer, ran linux great (games didn't really exist ye
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by neltnerb 4y ago
I think you are assuming the danger is the beam hitting the ground, whereas the most obvious danger is the plane no longer having power? Different scale of course, but wireless power to a device that kills a hundred plus people if it loses
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by neltnerb 4y ago
If you're assuming hydrogen is green, you may as well assume you can simply make jet-fuel equivalent biochemicals. Right now most of the hydrogen comes from natural gas, so that's not so helpful. But fertilizers that might make bi
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What would be your guess? I'm reading this as describing straight line wing flight for long distances rapidly shifting to erratic motions if someone doesn't like it existing. I imagine it's much more efficient at that, assumi
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by neltnerb 4y ago
You don't like the UI? It feels like a core feature to me, the only serious friction I have is that I also use temporary containers which overrides my selection to open a certain site in a particular container. But you just tell it no
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Or at least seems that way in terms of coverage now suggesting it's statistically significant. I'm personally more worried about the Southwest not being able to agree to a way to not run out of water. Strange that it stopped being
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yes and... I would assume that it also takes a certain scale to be able to manage things well in this regard. There's a nasty gap in between one person and ten people, made far worse if the company needs to hit a milestone yesterday or
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Because it is conversational and appears to answers direct questions. The image generators accept a prompt, not a question, so we don't expect an answer. ChatGPT generates responses to prompts that make it sound like it is answering a
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Seems nearly certain that they'll end up with employees that have a deeper understanding of how Twitter works and how it is vulnerable to attack than Twitter itself.
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> But it’s especially surprising given how much creative work today exists outside the mainstream. See, the issue here may simply be that the author isn't aware of the central limit theorem. It is not at all strange that as you incr
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by neltnerb 4y ago
I agree, especially on the industrial design and manufacturing side. The concept has exited for ages, and I love decoupling power and energy density for all kinds of reasons (though I'm sure standard batteries are just tuned perfectly
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That the original post elided this point really stood out. I don't hear complaints about code getting used for training. I hear complaints about code being used in proprietary products in what appears at first and second glance to be a
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In this case it just meant I was being paid by someone else and convinced them to let me do stuff on their campus. But glad it made your smile ;-)
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I was only a guest scientist at LBL, but LBL is practically in Berkeley. But yeah, generally I assume this is true, though you may just find that you need a car and that if you have one it's not so bad. For instance, NREL (where I was
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I mostly see streetview stuff, but twice I've seen one that had stuff like "which one is a ladybug" or even "which one looks like a blah without a blah". This prompt of course could still be for classification of im
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by neltnerb 4y ago
I do often use a VPN, but not this time, I'm just connecting from MIT's network. As Dang says it sounds like it's just a short term attack mitigation, glad to hear it's not intended as a permanent feature.
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by neltnerb 4y ago
Lately I've seen captchas that ask me to identify things in images that are clearly generated with AI. Like frogs without backs. I think at this point it is clear we are not training image recognition so much as providing them with f
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I am not sure that's the "intent" but it sure is a suspiciously advantageous (for them) side effect. Like how I gave up using protonmail because my emails kept getting classified as spam by anyone using gmail or gmail-backed
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Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins?
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I mean, they explained why there's a hard cap and that eventually everyone will have a grade within a range of like 3.99 to 4.00 regardless of performance. But yeah, I didn't see anything about why it would necessarily come down.

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