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by sdenton4 3y ago
Also addressed in TFA, it turns out. GI symptoms are pretty mild in the universe of cancer drug side effects, and the aspirin slows metastatic cancer spread considerably, so seems like a no brainer.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
On the other hand, global warming (methane emissions from beef), water crisis (water to grow feed, instead of water to grow food), and wanton animal cruelty (most meat and eggs are industrially farmed and ethically dubious). It's a die
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by sdenton4 3y ago
25% market share is a bit lackluster, though? Podcasting has also been called the slowest growing new medium in the history of new media. I can't imagine it's earning its keep, relative to those big initial payouts. Meanwhile, the
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by sdenton4 3y ago
No, but consumer spending on black Friday is the top-line metric reported in the article. And my point is that not spending on houses (combined with the bonus of fixed rate mortgages for those who got them before the rate hikes) means there
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by sdenton4 3y ago
(also seems kinda weird to measure this with black Friday sales... Which could simply be an indicator of people trying to get further with the money they have by spending less during non sale periods. But I assume there's more evidence
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Tell me why I'm wrong... The federal interest rate applies to loans, so the main first order effect for consumers is via mortgage rates and car loans. However, home sales are low because prices have been sticky despite the higher inter
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by sdenton4 3y ago
There's a couple rules for the a2o in conservation. First, it provides a baseline that we can compare other data collection against - lots of projects will be shorter lived our very local in scope, and so the nearest station can provid
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Show HN: Australian Acoustic Observatory Search(search.acousticobservatory.org)
53 points by sdenton4 3y ago|4 comments
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Australian Bioacoustic Search(search.acousticobservatory.org)
2 points by sdenton4 3y ago|0 comments
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Yes there's very good theoretical reasons for skip connections. If your initial matrix M is noise centered at 0, then 1+M is a noisy identity operation, while 0+M is a noisy deletion... It's better to do nothing if you don't
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Correct - math departments are doing fine. Not quite as fine as CS departments, which get showered with piles of money and their grad students poached to make money in industry. But so long as other university departments want their student
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Earlier today someone wrote that there are only 500 people on the Internet, since 2002... I was reminded of this late April fools joke from metafilter in (it turns out) 2001, where the very popular site just displayed this message, implying
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It's Time to Come Clean (2001)(metafilter.com)
5 points by sdenton4 3y ago|2 comments
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Reminds me of a 2001 Metafilter april fool's joke: https://www.metafilter.com/there_is_no_spoon.mefi Which really seems quite prescient, 22 years later.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Truly the act of falling is simply the release of potential energy, stored by whoever lifted the thing up in the first place.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Alexandra David-Neel was a force of nature. There's an English translation of 'My Journey to Lhasa' that is well worth tracking down. You'll never look at a border guard the same way again. https://en.m.wikipe
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I've used LLMs chat for finding statistics references many times; the important part is often surfacing the missing keyword or jargon needed to find the actual literature on a topic. If there's actual literature, you find it, and
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by sdenton4 3y ago
/even of a simple beattle./ So, more Ringo than Lenon?
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by sdenton4 3y ago
The uniqueness of the physical object being moved around plays a real role, though. I can also imagine the print out accumulating notes as it gets passed around.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
As someone who writes copious little todo lists on post-it notes with little check boxes I can X out when they're done... I kinda love this. Not really remote-work friendly, though.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
And then commenters will complain that the company doesn't make anything, and just acquires good ideas...
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Eh, YouTube was going to crash and burn hard without an acquisition. It was acquired in 2006, and was built into something sustainable by integrating with Google infrastructure.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Kids often bring out the worst level of 'fuck you, got mine' politicking in humans. All that school segregation stuff in the 60's? Parents 'protecting' their children. Same for the school segregation stuff in the 20
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Or set off a new bidding war for both the researchers that quit and the pile of new startups... There's no rule that stays M$ would have to be the only bidder for the new venture(s).
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by sdenton4 3y ago
You need perf measurements to understand the impact. It sounds like you're saying that it's a massive time stick to fix the problems, so it had better be a measurable impact to understand the ROI. I've definitely seen careful
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Maxwell's Daemon? Or just a stand in for Matt Damon?
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I'm still not totally sure what the issue is. Jax uses program transformations to compile programs to run on a variety of hardware, for example, using XLA for TPUs. It can also run cuda ops for Nvidia gpus without issue: https:/&
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by sdenton4 3y ago
/CUDA knowledge doesn’t port to JAX and vice-versa./ These are completely orthogonal? Jax can execute on GPU, TPU, or CPU pretty seamlessly, by design.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
We understand how to run faster, through a combination of hard work and favorable morphology. We're don't understand what will make a startup successful. But we do know that easy and obvious ways to make money are already being do
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by sdenton4 3y ago
For elephants you can simply wait for them to die of natural causes.

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