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by pphysch 3y ago
The lede suggests that it is mainly for dark matter detection, but later on they say it is for interdisciplinary research including life sciences. Is this just due to the "ultra clean" capabilities, or are there other reasons why
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by pphysch 3y ago
Yitzhak Rabin had some good ideas, but extremist factions in Israel (now led by Netanyahu) killed him off.
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by pphysch 3y ago
There's so much (intentional) confusion around basic terms in this info war. Anti-Semitism, "antisemitism", anti-Judaism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israel are all different concepts. Semitic peoples include both Jews and Arabs.
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by pphysch 3y ago
What do you think about the historical evidence of Netanyahu promoting Hamas for this very reason? https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up... Anyway, we can make a similar argument about the Netanyahu r
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by pphysch 3y ago
I don't think there is a more potent example right now than the Israel Lobby. The Holocaust and Hitler basically define modern Western morality, and Zionism's claims to legitimacy are closely related to those concepts. Associating
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by pphysch 3y ago
Dead product jokes aside, it makes perfect sense that Google should build their media apps/services on top of the multimedia behemoth that is YouTube. Why should Google music, streams, podcasts, shorts, or movies be anything but a thin
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by pphysch 3y ago
Exactly. Corporate tech demo exaggerates actual capabilities and smoothes over rough edges? Impossible, this is unprecedented!! The Apple vs Google brand war is so tiresome. Let's focus on the tech.
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by pphysch 3y ago
Interesting fact: > In China, instant coffee accounts for more than 50% of the Chinese coffee market, compared to only around 8% in the U.S. https://thechinaproject.com/2022/12/29/chinas-instant-coffee...
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by pphysch 3y ago
> "was" Twitter/X is still the de facto global real-time news platform. If 5% of X's top users exited to a different platform, X users would just screenshot and redistribute their noteworthy content on X and it woul
1120.
by pphysch 3y ago
Hence ~
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by pphysch 3y ago
This is such a strange position for me. Do we not agree that corporate America and other special interest groups essentially control Washington via lobbying and corruption? Do we not agree that a US citizen has (nominally) more leverage ove
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by pphysch 3y ago
This isn't "tierificaton" or even premiumization. That may come later. Large AI models have tight resources requirements. You physically can't use X billion parameters without ~X billion ~bytes of memory. It makes comple
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by pphysch 3y ago
Why would you use <table> for layout in 2023? I've heard of no-JS users, but no-CSS users sounds like an April Fools joke. A few lines of <style> + appropriate usage of HTML content tags is almost certainly going to be less
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by pphysch 3y ago
All you really need is a decent built-in JSON de/serializer for Django models. It doesn't need to be an OOP monstrosity. Golang has that built-in to what is a simpler language than Python (e.g. no class inheritance). The complexit
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by pphysch 3y ago
I would point to two of the most popular plugins, Django Rest Framework (DRF) and Celery (a background task system that requires rabbitmq|kafka|redis|etc). Both add highly sought-after features, but I believe these implementations are quite
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by pphysch 3y ago
Harvard has over $50,000,000,000 in assets. It sure doesn't seem like it "needs" to raise another $500,000,000. It's greed through and through.
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by pphysch 3y ago
The authorization story in letting the client upload a new version of the application database (after a drop in connectivity) sounds like a total nightmare. I just don't think there are "embarrassingly client-side, but also needs
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by pphysch 3y ago
The neocons? Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Kagans, Nuland, Bolton, et al. In terms of stopping ongoing and future conflicts, this is the group we need to hold accountable. Not Kissinger, whom they hate(d), and hasn't been making p
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by pphysch 3y ago
What is "really bad faith" about saying "An ON bit indicates the value 'googolplex'?" Computing is fundamentally about decoding bit strings as different arbitrary representations that are meaningful to humans.
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by pphysch 3y ago
It's about as interesting as the other answers proposed in TFA, and it gets to the meat of it: they are all just representations invented by people, and there's nothing stopping us from inventing our own representations that fit i
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by pphysch 3y ago
If you're "not really looking at" LLM output, you are abusing it.
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by pphysch 3y ago
In a lot of cases it is necessary complexity, between overloading the dot operator, wrapping SQL, and supporting multiple database backends. There is a fair bit of bloat, though.
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by pphysch 3y ago
>> My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses If you know exactly what you are building, down to the datatypes, sure, use static typing. But
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by pphysch 3y ago
In Python, ... is an expression, so you can do def will_implement_later(): ... Which I prefer over "pass" in this case because the incompleteness is a little more intuitive. I think using asterisks for wildcardy-t
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by pphysch 3y ago
JavaScript's massive success has nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the fact that its embedded in every web browser. There were no alternatives.
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by pphysch 3y ago
I blame the SQL "standard". It's a massive, unnecessary abstraction layer that only complicates attempts to build bridges between code and relational databases (which I believe is the most general-purpose paradigm). Personall
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by pphysch 3y ago
They aren't there to strike anything. That would be disastrous for US forces. They are there to posture and prop up USA's image as the sole superpower, and to keep the security competition from deflating. Without this military sho
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by pphysch 3y ago
That is the digital economy of the future. Tagged credits, some with expirations and other constraints (perhaps geospatial). It's the only reasonable way to implement something like UBI: give everyone X "food credits" and Y &
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by pphysch 3y ago
Are these not official statements from gdb and sama? Where do they post the serious stuff?
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by pphysch 3y ago
What's with the lowercase? I think it's cute if someone is being deliberately low-effort, or trying to present that way, but IMO it's cringe to use it for consequential official statements like this.

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