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by pcrh 4y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34389041
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by pcrh 4y ago
Awesome! It reminds me of time-lapse movies in developmental biology, showing, for example, the various shapes an organism has as it develops.
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by pcrh 4y ago
The more AI-generated art I see the more convinced I am that it will generate entire new modes of art creation, rather than make creative work redundant. I'm now waiting for a creation that could not have been done without AI, the labo
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by pcrh 4y ago
As a researcher, I would expect any researcher to be able to generate fake abstracts. However, I suspect that generating a whole paper that had any interest would be nigh on impossible for AI to do. An interesting paper would have to have n
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by pcrh 4y ago
>Happiness is overrated. I had fun once. It was awful.
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by pcrh 4y ago
The difference has maybe always been in the interaction between the artist and the market. Even very competent and painstaking replicas of "great works" that are indistinguishable to most command a small fraction of the price of t
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by pcrh 4y ago
Quite. Then I realized that most art has always been cheap (c.f. "starving artist"), so maybe AI doesn't make _that_ much difference in the end?
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by pcrh 4y ago
On the topic of AI vs "real" art, I visited /r/artcommissions. I was surprised at how little people are asking, many in the range of $5-$50 for original work.
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by pcrh 4y ago
Sounds like a lot of undergraduate parties...
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by pcrh 4y ago
If such proposals would result in reduced expenditure on administration, it would obviously be beneficial. However, I note that your comments largely remark on an insufficient attention given to administration. The trend in Universities ove
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by pcrh 4y ago
Universities already waste vast sums of money of vice-provosts, middle management, administration, etc. There's no need to encourage them to start treating their mission as one of data mining in order to "capture" more value
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by pcrh 4y ago
>Liberals think men can get pregnant... No they don't.
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by pcrh 4y ago
So intuitive and simple, it's hard to imagine this representation of time zones hasn't been conceived of before. But perhaps that's the definition of "genius"...
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by pcrh 4y ago
> "Reality has a well-known liberal bias" Stephen Colbert
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by pcrh 4y ago
They select based on salesmanship, "polish" and "pedigree".
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by pcrh 4y ago
Hilarious. It really goes to show how little intelligence or innovative thinking is needed for entry-level positions in McKinsey, BCG, etc.
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by pcrh 4y ago
While petrichor is pleasant after a rain, according to the wiki article on geosmin it appears to also indicate poor water quality [0]. So perhaps the evolved sensitivity is to avoid stagnant water, rather than to seek recent rainfall. After
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by pcrh 4y ago
Frankly, this is an illustration why punitive action against senior executives is the best way to prevent corporate malfeasance.
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by pcrh 4y ago
I'm not a programmer, but does this look like software? i.e. extensive and detailed instructions.
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by pcrh 4y ago
Indeed. Detroit isn't looking too good these days. Heavy industry did pretty badly in the 1970's and 1980's. Most people appear to complain about high housing costs in SF, but that's a consequence of many factors. Filli
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by pcrh 4y ago
That isn't "neutrality" that you're referring to, but banking secrecy.
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by pcrh 4y ago
That's a very interesting site! Thanks! This was interesting: >The incandescent (glowing) period of a meteor is only a few seconds as it passes through the upper atmosphere. Although the exterior gets hot enough to melt during the i
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by pcrh 4y ago
Nice! Apparently one organism can use L-glucose, Pseudomonas caryophylli [0]. It's a plant pathogen [1]. No doubt other micro-organisms can as well. So would be a great reset of evolution back to the Cambrian era? [0] https:/&#x2
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by pcrh 4y ago
Is the difference in price between Europe and the US down to shipping costs?
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by pcrh 4y ago
Agreed. Perhaps it's due to the people who frequent HN, but it's amusing to see so many think they can "algorithm" their way into the relationship(s) they want. Some even proposing blockchain solutions!
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by pcrh 4y ago
Horizontal gene transfer is generally the transfer of functional genes between unrelated organisms, so it's a bit mis-leading to call the transfer of BovB horizontal gene transfer. BovB is a transposon, in essence a small piece of semi
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by pcrh 4y ago
I looked that up. It appears that glyphosphate resistance in Palmer amaranth and some other species is due to duplication of their own EPSPS genes, not horizontal transfer from genetically engineered crops. _Glyphosate Resistance and EPSPS
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by pcrh 4y ago
The gulf stream may well stop (under some scenarios), but the effect of that on N. European climate will not be to make it like Siberia. It would more likely be like the Pacific Northwest. For example Seattle and Vancouver are at similar la
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by pcrh 4y ago
>The climate being warmer on average is perhaps better understood as the climate being more energetic. Thanks for this perspective; otherwise I hadn't previously understood why the weather was expected to become more severe with glo
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by pcrh 4y ago
What about advice based on the extensive experience and wisdom of researchers?

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