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by sxp 8mo ago
> "White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site..." > "The site is not selling drugs directly to American patients..." Just another layer of middlemen. They should go with the proper free market option and all
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by sxp 8mo ago
Reading some of the other articles on that site, it's unclear how scientifically sound the original article is. A quick Google search gives different radiocarbon dating for the landslide https://www.sciencedirect.com/sc
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by sxp 9mo ago
Claude didn't follow your "Every line must earn its keep. Prefer readability over cleverness. We believe that if carefully designed, 10 lines can have the impact of 1000." from https://github.com/quantbagel&#x
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by sxp 9mo ago
> Naina Raisinghani, 00 needed a name for the new tool to complete the upload. It was 2:30 a.m., though, and nobody was around. So she just made one up, a mashup of two nicknames friends had given her: Nano Banana. Ah, that explains the
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by sxp 9mo ago
> And for San Franciscans, the price on the menu is rarely the price you pay. Add in sales tax, a default 18-20% tip on the tablet screen, an SF Mandate or Cost of Living Fee, and 8.625% sales tax. Soon that seemingly cheap $15 lunch mig
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by sxp 9mo ago
The AI bits look interesting, but the laws appear vague and toothless. E.g, "identify every specific artificial intelligence program used" means all the reports will say “This report was written either fully or in part using artif
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by sxp 9mo ago
There have been hedge funds and other investment groups that claim to use RV. (At least according to Google and pro-RV books.) They also claim to be able to beat the market. Based on those anecdotes, I think any hedge fund that thinks they
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by sxp 9mo ago
For those who want to consider the mundane explanation about remote viewing: remember that humans can still be surprised by the birthday paradox and other synchronicities that occur when sampling data at large scale. So across thousands of
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by sxp 9mo ago
One option is to find a good doctor/psychiatrist/therapist and try to get diagnosed. (You can also try to self-diagnose via the Interne, your favorite LLM, or just skimming the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DS
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by sxp 10mo ago
Between ffmpeg and qemu, I always think of https://xkcd.com/2347/ when I see Fabrice's work. Especially since ffmpeg provides the backbone of almost all video streaming systems today.
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by sxp 10mo ago
"Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) 530 points by dang_fan 15 hours ago | hide | 330 comments" Ha! Is Gemini suicidal?
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by sxp 10mo ago
> At a checkup a few years ago, a doctor told me I was deficient in vitamin D. But he wouldn’t write me a prescription for supplements, simply because, as he put it, everyone in the UK is deficient. Putting the entire population on vitam
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by sxp 10mo ago
The title sounds like speculative clickbait. From https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-ai... : Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense so
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US Energy Department Launches "Genesis Mission" to Transform Science Through AI(energy.gov)
9 points by sxp 10mo ago|1 comments
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by sxp 11mo ago
His previous show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Jon_Stewart was canceled by Apple because he wanted to criticize AI, Israel, and China. Unless he wants to go the route of a fully independent podcast (
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by sxp 11mo ago
Note that their paper includes p-hacking so this is proto-science rather than science. They didn't find data to match their hypothesis, but they were able to find a hypothesis to match their data. > Follow-up secondary analyses were
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by sxp 11mo ago
To put this in context, it takes about 1 gallon of water per 1g of almond [1]. And in California's dry climate, this water comes from groundwater that doesn't renew as fast as it's depleted. So the next time someone chastises
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by sxp 1y ago
Another option is to use MathJax and an online editor to convert LaTeX to SVG. E.g, https://latexeditor.lagrida.com/ And if you want to mix it with formatted text or HTML, Markdeep is my preferred system for docs: https:&#
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by sxp 1y ago
The large differences between gemini-2.5-pro and the gemini-X-flash and gemma models is surprising. It looks like distillation causes an ideological shift. Some, but not all of the other distilled models also show that shift.
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by sxp 1y ago
Another place where LLMs have a problem is when you ask them to do something that can't be done via duct taping a bunch of Stack Overflow posts together. E.g, I've been vibe coding in Typescript on Deno recently. For various reaso
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by sxp 1y ago
>Finally, one winter morning on the school bus, he turned on his tormentors. Curling his fingers in the shape of a pistol, he said, “I hope you all die.” > Mike Carinci, the school resource officer — a member of the sheriff’s office w
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by sxp 1y ago
There is a strong chance that there are no actual "drones" involved and these sightings are just due to random people mistaking airplanes as drones/UFOs: https://x.com/MickWest/status/197165671323027
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by sxp 1y ago
This seems completely unrelated to Google’s nano banana. Is it using the Google API or is it just piggybacking off the name?
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by sxp 1y ago
Only because of RLHF instructed them to do so. Prior ones without this training responded differently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA
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by sxp 1y ago
> Put simply, intelligence is all about doing things, while consciousness is about being or feeling. Unless one believes in p-zombies or a magical soul, robots & LLMs can "be" and "feel". We can distinguish LLMs w
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by sxp 1y ago
https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2025/02/03/2024-disen... says it's about 40% as good as a Waymo if you use disengagement as a metric.
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by sxp 1y ago
As far as I can tell, OP's argument is bullshit. I did a bunch of research into max contrast displays and haven't found any reason to not use them. There are reasons to not use max _brightness_ since a bright screen can be problem
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H1B Visa Overhaul: US Shifts to Wage-Based Model Amid Immigration Policy Reforms(ainvest.com)
1 points by sxp 1y ago|1 comments
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by sxp 1y ago
The problem with this is that the verifier (Bank, DMV, Government, etc) can track that you went to gambling.com. E.g, maybe the gambling.com string is "gambling.com-123". Or if it's a random number, maybe gambling.com is stor
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by sxp 1y ago
You're right. It's clear I should have had an LLM write my comment rather than do it myself before a cup of coffee. I've already spent an order of magnitude more energy thinking about this article compared to an LLM. Also, si

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