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by pcrh 8d ago
This is frankly quite worrisome for democracy. Imagine this kind of method being deployed at scale to influence elections... no doubt it is already happening...
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by pcrh 8d ago
Did you read the article? It claims that LLMs lie more convincingly than humans.
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by pcrh 22d ago
People who ...
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by pcrh 29d ago
You remind me that France had (maybe still does?) national dictation competitions (championnat national de dictées). Much of French orthography is silent, so can be a real challenge!
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by pcrh 29d ago
Here are a few additional reports: >1. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors versus placebo in patients with major depressive disorder. A systematic review with meta-analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis. Conclusions: SSRIs might ha
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Science magazine casts doubt on genes hailed as warding-off Alzheimer's disease(science.org)
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by pcrh 1mo ago
Inventorship of patents has a clear legal basis, and is quite different from the basis of scientific authorship. The system disincentifies adding "ghost" inventors since incorrect listing of the inventors can invalidate a patent.
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by pcrh 1mo ago
The changes to old.reddit mean I've started using redlib.catsarch for simple browsing.
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by pcrh 1mo ago
The EU won't take anyone to the ECHR. EU laws are adjudicated by the Court of Justice of the European Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice
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by pcrh 1mo ago
Complaining about the ECHR in the same breath as the EU is one of the telltale signs of psyops influence. The ECHR has nothing to do with the EU.
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by pcrh 1mo ago
Interesting article! I was curious as to the debate surrounding the authenticity of the Ram Khamhaeng stele, but with a quick search was not able to find a definitive answer...
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by pcrh 1mo ago
Such verbal offers can be binding in law, but fortunately for Derek Nolan he didn't mention a price. Otherwise he might have found himself in the same hot water as Elon Musk did when he offered to buy Twitter.
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by pcrh 1mo ago
Link to the original study below, free to access [0]. The key data appear to be this: >At baseline, 184 (14%) of 1280 children with successful FEV1 measurement in London had a clinically low FEV1 (pre-bronchodilator FEV1 <80% of predi
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by pcrh 1mo ago
I wonder how the court became aware of this attempt? It might be as simple as a clerk doing "select all" and noticing the extra selection? Or what else?
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by pcrh 2mo ago
That's the source of emission by the cow or steer. Industrial processing of the dung produces vastly more. Table 3 in this source [0] shows enteric vs manure methane emissions are 158 vs 137 kg CH4/yr for dairy cows, who are mostl
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by pcrh 2mo ago
Animal-emitted CO2 isn't the problem, but methane. The CO2 captured by plants and eaten by livestock gets converted in part to methane, a more more potent greenhouse gas. This does eventually degrade back to the original CO2, but on a
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by pcrh 2mo ago
Stockyards are the worst offenders. This is due to how the dung is processed, which releases a lot of methane. Grass-fed cattle have much lower net emissions of greenhouse gasses.
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by pcrh 2mo ago
It isn't the "cow farts" that produce most methane, but rather the anaerobic processing of cow dung emanating from feed lots, dairy operations, etc. Grass-fed beef cattle whose dung is "recycled" in a more natural w
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by pcrh 2mo ago
Agreed. The audience here tends towards functional/technical writing rather than expressive writing. On the other hand, should an article about typography be posted, then there will be many comments regarding the nuances of serifs, ker
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by pcrh 2mo ago
Browsing that site, The SETI Institute appears to have expanded beyond its original goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence into astrobiology and more. Perhaps the first attempts at detecting alien radio signals hoped too much? I have
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by pcrh 2mo ago
Related, I recently read an article about staghorn corals surviving in Miami of all places [1]. They resisted bleaching, pollution and inundations with fresh water. The origin of this resistance is apparently colonization by a different spe
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by pcrh 2mo ago
>I can't imagine that the same factors aren't at play in the scientific research community I can't speak for the entire scientific research community, but I can say that for basic biomedical research (not clinical research
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by pcrh 3mo ago
>“We can do neuroscience on A.I. systems in a way that we kind of can’t with humans,” Mr. Long said, in that they “don’t have skulls.” The three jobs Eleos was hiring for would all be machine-learning research scientists who could design
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by pcrh 3mo ago
I would have thought that the right to privacy as a fundamental human right would have been sufficient. But apparently not.... Equally, there is abundant precedent for forbidding interference with old-fashioned postal communications, that
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by pcrh 3mo ago
There's a risk of echos of Theranos here. A paper apparently describing this ultrasound approach has been uploaded to arXiv [0]. If so, the resolution demonstrated is nowhere near sufficient to detect small changes to anatomy, let alon
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by pcrh 3mo ago
This prompted me to check out rental rates in my old haunt of Inner Sunset. I remember the Craigslist offices on 9th and Judah... It's shocking that a 1 bedroom apartment now rents for $4-5k/month....
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by pcrh 3mo ago
You will notice that the criticism this judgement receives if not for finding Song guilty, even if the sentence is inordinately long for a non-lethal crime with minor wider repercussions. The criticism this judgement receives is the fact th
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by pcrh 3mo ago
It's kind of fact-based that "antifa" is not an organization in the real world. It's as real as claiming that "pro-gun" is an organization, or "anti-pollution" is an organization. The zines are only e
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by pcrh 3mo ago
First, there's no "terrorist organization". Antifa doesn't exist as an organization. Second, the zines cannot be evidence of the crimes committed, i.e. setting off fireworks, and injuring an officer.
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by pcrh 3mo ago
The crimes here are the injuring of an officer, and causing a disturbance near the ICE facility. How could the zines be evidence for those crimes?

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