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by opprobium 2y ago
TX seems to be heavily investing in solar: https://archive.is/0V3zK
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by opprobium 2y ago
A secular trend is an ongoing directional shift, in contrast to a cyclical change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_variation
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by opprobium 3y ago
A great track, but if I really had to pick only one I'd choose Lush 3. Also... I think Halcyon+On+On is amazing, but it's based so heavily on Opus III's cover of It's a Fine Day that it borders on being a (fantastic) rem
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by opprobium 3y ago
Re 3) Even if you don't care about long context length, Mamba is much cheaper per token of auto-regressive output. Each token has to only compute the next step of a linear RNN, the transformer has to attend back over all previous outpu
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by opprobium 3y ago
I agree with your logic that if they got surprisingly good efficacy results they would have reported it, but the Phase I participants received a much smaller dose than the planned actual treatment. It would have been great if the treatment
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by opprobium 3y ago
Parent is referring to rate of inflation (> 100% currently in AR, not remotely comparable to US), not to national debt.
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by opprobium 3y ago
I never said anything about the likely safety of the technology, so I'm not sure what that has to do with it? The genetic mix from parents is randomized. Always. Both good and bad results are equally the result of a random process init
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by opprobium 3y ago
Of course they are: The parent's genes are mixed randomly. Every child is the non-consenting participant in a randomized trial. That the structure of the experiment being run is standardized does nothing to change this fundamentally un
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by opprobium 3y ago
Mixing two parents genes randomly and then seeing what happens (ie, normal human reproduction) is also experimenting on a future human without their consent. Applications of ideas around consent to human reproduction are confusing and self-
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by opprobium 3y ago
The claim seems to be that exercise adaptation includes shutting down other metabolic activity to keep energy use stable. And that this could explain some of the beneficial effects of exercises because some of those activities that could be
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by opprobium 3y ago
Totally agree that it has to be ethically possible.
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by opprobium 3y ago
The parent's comment is referencing the availability of highly effective PREP ( https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html ), not treatment after infection. The ethical issue is that to study people taking an unp
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by opprobium 3y ago
My guess is that handling bots, spam and abuse is one of the harder parts of the app at this point. It's a constant moving adversary that only gets worse the more popular your social app is, and not handling the problem can really driv
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by opprobium 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa "In linguistics, mama and papa are considered a special case of false cognates. In many languages of the world, sequences of sounds similar to /mama/ and &#x2F