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by sampo 3y ago
> The repo isn't even linked in the X post It's a thread of 4 tweets. Twitter has a limit of 280 characters per tweet, so usually people split their text into multiple tweets. The link is in the 4th one, as you might expect. h
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Summary: prosecraft.io counted word occurrences and presented statistics about them. I don't think you even need fair use for this, because this is something you obviously are allowed to do, without any permissions. This is not generat
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> Which is not how masks are supposed to work (we were told to mask to protect others) A well fitting N95 / FFP2, or better, respirator mask protects the wearer to a large extent, even if others don't mask. The "protect th
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> However, when they tried writing content for us, it was dull, repetitive, error-ridden, and superficial. This might work for companies that are not able, on their own, to add any text content to their website? I would guess, even badly
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So? Just keep building the infrastructure at the same pace as you let people build themselves new homes. USA Population growth rate is now at about the lowest it has ever been. All the previous generations had to also build houses and the s
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> The production method is so poorly documented only a fraction of the samples being made shows any interesting properties. I have understood that rather, the production method is poorly known even to the Koreans themselves, and also the
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You'd think smaller towns could just let people build some more houses. Adding more people to e.g. Manhattan is tricky because land is scarce. But a small town should have some adjacent land available, that could be allocated for build
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> a thread on Twitter If you are not logged in to Twitter, Twitter doesn't show the thread, just the first post alone. But you can use nitter.net, if you don't want to log in to Twitter: https://nitter.net/Error
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> the Science article It's a blog post. Not a Science article.
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I put a high value on inverter compressor, so the fridge's heat pump can run at low power all the time. Instead of being regulated on and off, with that loud "thunk" sound.
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> During quantization we find that values in the network vary from 0->5000, but 95% of values are <100. Quantizing this to 8bits would mean that our values would be in increments of about 20. Instead of using an 8bit integer with e
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These two talks are for a less mathematical audience. The first explains the problem of measuring ecological diversity, and the problem with old, traditional measures like Shannon entropy or Gini-Simpson index. The second introduces the spe
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> J. Robert Oppenheimer might be the most important physicist to have ever lived What about Maxwell inventing electromagnetic theory, whoever invented the transistor, and Francis Crick co-discovering the structure of DNA?
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Talc is a clay mineral, and sometimes is co-occurs with asbestos ore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc#Association_with_asbestos
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> If the speed of light is changed by gravitational waves. The speed of light through space is constant. But the space itself can stretch and contract.
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> all it takes is for someone with 2% of the vote to pull out of the coalition to bring the government down If you have a proportional voting system with 5% electoral threshold, they you don't have any 2% parties in the parliament,
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> Having grown up in a country with a vibrant multi party system, I can tell you it's no panacea. In Sweden, the multiple parties self-organized into 2 blocks, so for a while it was effectively like a 2-party system. But occasionall
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> As a mod don’t you earn a lot of karma or gold? You earn karma by posting popular content. You can do that whether you are a mod or not. (Well, in some cases a jealous mod might remove your posts, and then re-post them as their own. So
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> Would this be halal or kosher? Jewis law: "Pigs should not be eaten because they don't chew their cud." I guess you could go both ways: Soybeans don't have cud to chew, so allowed. Or: Soybeans don't chew cud
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bin day = In the UK, the day when you have to take your garbage dumpster to streetside for the garbage truck to collect it. Nothing to do with binary.
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Soya beans made more meat-like by adding genes for pig proteins(newscientist.com)
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Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381 km(commons.wikimedia.org)
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> Ok, so Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton or Max Tegmark aren't able to comprehend or speculate about this? I am genuinely amazed how even educated and intelligent people (or maybe predominantly them) have fallen into this, what I see
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Fun fact: In some statistics on the safety of different forms of electricity generation, the largest dam failure [1] is left out, which brings hydropower down to same level of safety as nuclear, wind and solar. Our World in Data is an hones
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Michigan budget includes $150M toward Palisades Nuclear Power Plant project(wwmt.com)
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> The WHO’s cancer division (IARC - International Agency for Research on Cancer) IARC is only nominally under WHO. It is a weird French agency founded by some French activists and politicians in the 1960's. They use a 5 class classi
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> Factoring out the (ridiculous) 3 months it took for the relocation agency to prepare and submit my work permit application Taking that long, brings into mind the possibility that you used an incompetent agency. Thus, maybe they also fi
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"Canada prepares to expand its euthanasia law to include those with mental illness" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64004329
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> Wondering how it compares to the rest of the lot: sktime It's a fork of sktime. Last common commit before the fork is on Jan 30, 2023.
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Here is a little about it: https://astrojuanlu.substack.com/p/episodio-70

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