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by sampo 4y ago
> bespoke Python apps that run on some kind of cloud container host like ECS. For this, you could use for example https://flyte.org/ , if you have platform engineers that could set it up for you. But I don't think th
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> You can't blame modern day particle physicists for being born late for the Unicorn chasing party... 1950s, 1950, 1970s, particle physics was a fast-moving field, theory and experiment moved hand in hand. Guided by the intuition of
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> The dataset it was trained on was 2770 images, minus 982 of those used for validation. I don't think you got that 2770 correct. Might be 9250 images, minus 982 (that one you got right). Then again, the paper is so badly written, I
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I don't know. I find the differential equations much easier to read than this corresponding electrical circuit. http://seti.harvard.edu/unusual_stuff/misc/lorenz.htm
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> Roger Penrose wrote a very complex book The Emperors New Mind, which says that consciousness cannot arise in our computers, because consciousness cannot be "computed" using our computing methods. The blog drops this as a matt
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> Why do you create a branch via the "git checkout" command? Now there is also `git switch --create` / `git switch -c` for this. Perhaps in time, there will appear different front end dialects for git. Like the statistics
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> why does the US actively support this cover up? If it was a lab leak from Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), it was likely from a research program partially funded by USA. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/
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> qbits have got massively better over the last few decades Progress has been rather slow: 2001: Shor's algorithm was used to factor 15 2012: Shor's algorithm was used to factor 21 2019: Shor's algorithm was attempted at f
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Always has.
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Plotting libraries should use larger fonts as default. The text in the plots in the post is so small, it's not readable.
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> I am Indian-American (born into a brahmin family if that matters) and personally haven't noticed casteism With a background in the highest-ranking caste, you would of course be the least able to notice those things.
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I guess the bananocalypse will eventually come some day. But it has been predicted to come for decades already. 2005: The Cavendish, the version of the banana that rests on top of American breakfast cereals, is "on a crash course towa
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> Some would argue ChatGPT isn't far off. > It's interesting how you resolve these without resolving to spiritual explanations. By pointing out that ChatGPT is still very far off.
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> To me, it seems unlikely because, as far as I understand, life immediately began as soon as Earth cooled. Yes. If life originated from panspermia, and right after the planet had cooled down, that would imply that there should be a more
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There is also 2022 Netflix series "Ancient Apocalypse", presenting a theory that there was a civilization (not industrial, but like Romans or Egyptians) living on the coastal areas during last ice age, but their traces have disap
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> Your eyes are exposed to the air. Surface area of lungs: 100 m². Surface area of eyes: 0.0004 m². Difference: 6 orders of magnitude.
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> It's a meta-review of 78 randomised control trials. If your only tool is meta-reviews of RCT studies, then condoms don't work either: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD
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> Extinction rebellion have a page on her You accuse someone to have a "cavalier attitude to science" and "being in cahoots with" parties you allege are suspicious and then you proceed to use Extinction Rebellion as
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> Quiet little apartment building in Manhattan, west-facing views of the East River. How can you view the East River if you're facing West?
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> Hersh reporting on this counts as significant new information This is from 2015: "The way to understand Hersh is to visualize most of his sources as Michael Scheuer-like individuals. It is not difficult to find such people in the
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> It's a great story, but it's all unsourced and could be a decent Tom Clancy story at best. You could probably write a similar one with Russia or German agents as the key players and be just as convincing. That's why ther
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WHO’s chief scientist regrets errors in debate over SARSCoV2 spread through air(science.org)
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Maybe you also cannot algorithm out of the position that algorithms took you in.
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> I get the sense that LLMs are trained on a very large data set all at once, but that it is difficult to incrementally update them with new data. In 2020, OpenAI wrote that training the 175B parameter GPT-3 took 3e23 fl-operations [1].
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> The server you join only effects The server you join effects who are the people who can ban you. Lately, mstdn.science has been banning scientists who have discussed the coronavirus lab leak theory.
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> perplexity.ai/ specifically uses web sources to construct natural language. I am going to guess that even though it uses the GPT language model, it works fundamentally differently than ChatGPT. My guess is, Perplexity AI is a trad
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> Can't cite their sources? Has there been research on neural nets who could cite their sources? In common cases, thousands or millions of items in the training set have contributed to the weights in the pathways that activate for a
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> it's a language model, not a paragon of truth Several comments have missed that the article is not about the underlying language model, but about the content moderation system that OpenAI put in front of the actual language model.
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If the gamma rays are at 662 keV [1], you'd need about 8cm of rock [2] to block 50%. For comparison, sunglasses typically block 70%-80% of visible light. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137 [2] https:&#
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> > It vanished between January 11 and January 16, but its loss was not reported for more than a week. > That doesn't seem that quick or professional to me... Wikipedia says they started to unload the shipment on 25th, found o

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