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by space_fountain 2y ago
I wonder how much of this is that LLMs are worse than human developers (they are much more error prone right now) and how much of this is that we want someone to blame. When the elevator operator closes a door on someone fingers that's
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by space_fountain 2y ago
It varies, but as the article says it can be used for things like drug discovery. Imagine there's a new virus running rampant. It works by using a very specific protein to latch onto a cells so it can pull itself in. You would like to
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by space_fountain 2y ago
These facilities were designed to be hardened so as to survive a nuclear war. The air intakes were presumably needed to provide cooling for the communication equipment inside and decontamination was for any workers who needed to visit after
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by space_fountain 2y ago
Yes, but no airlines use this boarding flow. Most do more or less the worst boarding flow. They board front to back. Here's an article claiming southwest wins in the real world ( https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/16&
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by space_fountain 2y ago
I've definitely heard claims that not having assigned seats speeds up boarding. There's some logic to both positions to me. Do you have any hard numbers?
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by space_fountain 2y ago
I think that's a bit unclear. They have this standard where things that are part of a presidents "core constitutional powers" enjoy absolute immunity and anything else enjoys "at least presumptive immunity". I think
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by space_fountain 2y ago
I also think this is an interesting contrast with the decision to overrule Chevron from just a few days ago. There it was decided that executive agencies have no authority to interpret unclear statutes, under the constitution this was kind
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by space_fountain 2y ago
No the court was clear that motivation can not be used to divide official and unofficial behavior: > In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives. Such a “highly intrusive” inquiry wou
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by space_fountain 2y ago
Obama briefly pitched the idea of this. A lot of people worried that the government providing services with the ability to verify identities would kill anomenlty online and it died.
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by space_fountain 2y ago
Yes I agree that's the intent, but I think it can often be used by people who think the thing being "virtue" signaled about isn't important. People who think that corporations aren't going far enough in support of t
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by space_fountain 2y ago
It's interesting how we dismiss anyone caring about things other than profit as virtue signally. Anthropic was founded by people who seemed to legitimately care about AI safety. It's possible the current conglomeration that is the
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by space_fountain 2y ago
Well Tesla might be the single worst actor in the entire AI space, but I do somewhat understand your point. The lake of predictable failures is a huge problem with AI, I'm not sure that understandability is by itself. I will never unde
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by space_fountain 2y ago
Yes, but I think the other lesson might be that those black box machine translations have ended up being more valuable? It sucks when things don't always work, but that is also kind of life and if the AI version worked more often that
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by space_fountain 3y ago
I think this might be wrong. The article ends with quotes from Jacob Berv. It says: > Jacob Berv, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan who was not involved in the study, said that it illustrated state-of-the-art method
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by space_fountain 3y ago
The crazy cheap ones are, but I live in an apartment I found on there. Just don’t put money down without visiting
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by space_fountain 3y ago
Generally apartments.com had the more premium newer buildings in SF. It’s better to look at Craigslist for a fuller picture
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by space_fountain 3y ago
Or you can pay aws 54 U.S. dollars a month maybe as much as 100x that and it still comes out much cheaper than a large space and staff to manage digital files. Maybe to be safe keep some magnetic tapes around too
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by space_fountain 3y ago
Or you could put it all in like 15 terabytes and store it for like 54 U.S. dollars a month in s3 or buy a few big hard drives
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by space_fountain 3y ago
Idk, it's likely very expensive to maintain the physical copies. It's easy to say that the government should just do everything, but spending money to maintain an archive that probably is very rarely used isn't a good use of
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by space_fountain 3y ago
I think disputing the predictive power of things like GPA is pretty common. I'm not sure many people dispute this effect where I think downstream impacts are harder to quantify
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by space_fountain 3y ago
Have there been follow up studies finding this?
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by space_fountain 3y ago
I read up on this a bit. It seems that it is diet. Captive primates eat a more grain rich diet while the wild ones get most of their sugar from fruit
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by space_fountain 3y ago
Oh interesting. I didn't realize. Are there theories on what causes that difference? Is it diet?
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by space_fountain 3y ago
So to be specific what you're skeptical of here is that S. mutans can outcompete other bacteria without its ability to generate acid If this engineered version can stay in the mouth it should be able to live in the exact same lesions t
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by space_fountain 3y ago
A part of the story that has always made the claim more plausible to me is the claim that apes tend not to get cavities at the same rate we do. Since they have teeth that are as susceptible to acid as ours the story goes their diet tends to
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by space_fountain 3y ago
I think the problem I was most interested in solving is maybe only somewhat related to this. I was frustrated that no one actually ever looks at TOS and so there is very little real informed choice happening. With a small fixed number it wo
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by space_fountain 3y ago
Is that true? Often ToS seem to mostly consist of boilerplate that's copied from business to business
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by space_fountain 3y ago
I like this idea, but I think it's not flexible enough. Instead my over complicated dream is to allow companies to propose new TOS in a similar way to new top level domains. They can put in a lot of money and add TOS language to the ap
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by space_fountain 3y ago
This is set to change, but right now iPhones only support the most basic form of text messaging with android phones. Texting between iPhones just works better. The images are higher quality, reacting to messages works right you can can repl
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by space_fountain 3y ago
I think the newspaper would have actually been responsible if you tried to sell something illegal through them, it happened, sure, but still. Regardless Amazon is a lot more than FB marketplace or Craigslist. It provides the kind of polishe

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