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by oersted 3mo ago
Sounds cool but for such experimentation you would want relatively fast experimental iterations to get anywhere, and this would take literal ages. You can play around with growth speed of course but that’s a different question and might be
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by oersted 3mo ago
Well the point of the article is that water usage is much worse in the power plant capacity necessary to feed datacenters.
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by oersted 3mo ago
I feel like it’s never made clear in what way the water is used up in these cases. It’s not like it’s consumed like fuel. And it is not absorbed like in agriculture. But I understand it is not trivially recyclable either, the heat of the wa
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by oersted 3mo ago
What do you mean? Did you read the article? There’s so much evidence showing that it was the opposite. Their profits shot up 3x in 2023 and 5x in 2024. They had 70%-140% profit margins. They publicly said that the end of the flu was a risk
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by oersted 3mo ago
The chart is meant to show how absurd the conspiracy theory is, but it turns out it’s literally what happened this time around at least. Well they didn’t forget their greed of course, they just temporarily lost the ability to exercise it.
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by oersted 4mo ago
I assume that the PowerPoints can be absolute slop because they do not matter at all, the power is elsewhere. It all comes to names here. The world puts waaay too much faith in successful people being successful again, and too much of the s
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by oersted 4mo ago
I would be glad to learn if you are willing to explain, this what I found from trusted sources, but it would be great to know if there’s additional nuance.
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by oersted 4mo ago
To save others a search: > The akritai (singular akrites) is a term used in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th–11th centuries to denote the frontier soldiers guarding the Empire's eastern border, facing the Muslim states of the Middle
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by oersted 4mo ago
That sounds incredibly harsh. What kind of university was it? Is there more to the story? Kicking someone out and effectively voiding all progress just for failing one challenging final year class twice is completely mad. Was it rather that
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by oersted 4mo ago
If it is forced it is not what you would rather do.
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by oersted 4mo ago
What have the Romans ever done for us?
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by oersted 4mo ago
Such a cool article chock-full of cool facts! > Nearly every species of scorpion intensely fluoresces under UV light. […] Scorpions have photoreceptors in their tails, separate from their eyes. […] It is hypothesized that a scorpion uses
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by oersted 4mo ago
As far as I remember, from when I was closer to academia, in NL postdocs had to be offered a permanent contract after 3 temporary contracts, with a maximum of 1 year per temporary contract, or something like that. I believe this wasn’t excl
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by oersted 4mo ago
It must be more general than that, otherwise the cells wouldn’t be able to repair their area if the damage came from the wrong direction (repair is not center-out). The model generally learns to generate each pixel from its surroundings, ev
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by oersted 4mo ago
In EU there are laws that force universities to give researchers a permanent contract after a couple years. The result? Everyone gets fired every couple of years. In certain fields, this implies changing country every couple of years. Not t
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by oersted 4mo ago
To me, it is intriguing as a toy model for how cells are able to grow into complex tissue and organisms based only on local information, and how they are able to repair and recover harmed tissue. Of course, this is as close to cells, as neu
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by oersted 4mo ago
Oh scientists are leaving science in droves, certainly. Often becoming sales-people for deep-tech companies, which is rather sad. This is the most recent shock, and probably the biggest one, but academia has been becoming toxically metrics-
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by oersted 4mo ago
Never heard of that role, good to learn. I suppose the closest analogue I am aware of is substitute teachers.
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by oersted 4mo ago
Ah yes, of course, that's not what I meant. I would count you as fully dedicated, what you are describing is not too rare in EU in some professions. And I'd say that getting long vacations is quite a different dynamic than working
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by oersted 4mo ago
An employee is not a pure machine that converts money/time into results linearly. It bewilders management, because there's a very significant overhead involved in making sure an employee is properly synced on what needs to be done
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by oersted 4mo ago
I'm not sure how it might be with Fable in practice, but we are already not that far away from AI costing as much as a full-time professional, faster in some ways but considerably less independent. Perhaps not that close to US salaries
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by oersted 4mo ago
> Pricing for both models is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. The step-up in intelligence looks massive (we'll see in practice), but the price is getting to a point where it's making me question i
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by oersted 4mo ago
Prices have fallen dramatically over the last few years. It’s just that our standards have increased because we are using AI in ways that were not possible with worse models. But for the same level of “intelligence” as we had a couple years
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by oersted 4mo ago
There have been quite a few instances over the years of Zvezda requiring repairs that would have been impossible without resupply from Earth. I suppose that they were counting on the capability to resupply, otherwise they might have carried
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by oersted 4mo ago
This kind of immediate-mode rendering is quite standard for TUIs. Although immediate-mode rendering tends to be significantly simpler and use less memory than retained-mode rendering, at the cost of some redundant computation. So I am not s
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by oersted 5mo ago
This must have been inspired by Mass Effect :) (probably the other way around, but what's the fun in that) The Krogans got punitively infected with the genophage to drastically reduce successful births after their rebellion.
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by oersted 5mo ago
Sure of course, but that abstract sense applied to AI is rather new, and has become popular well after the founding of the company. Broadly it has always been used to indicate that something non-human has a human physical shape, such as rob
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by oersted 5mo ago
> anthropomorphism is literally in the company name No it's not... "anthropos" just means "human" in ancient Greek. "Anthropic" means "relating to humans", as in human oriented AI or AI design
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by oersted 5mo ago
For others: that's from the Pope's recent encyclical. Remarkably good description.
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by oersted 5mo ago
But are they really at the same level of disruption as any steel, chemical, nuclear, gas, manufacturing, recycling... plant? A mine? A port? Industrial farming? I get it though, they don't mind if it benefits the local community, that&

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