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Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood(news.ubc.ca)
183 points by throwaway2562 2y ago|73 comments
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Soon!
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Nigeria is a barely-functioning democracy, a wildly corrupt state: or is it ‘bias’ to say so? https://freedomhouse.org/country/nigeria https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/nigeria https
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Agreed
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
How long before the accursed crypto kids try to tokenise token generation with Exo clusters?
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
By analogy, there’s some loose link to be made between this and the Dark Forest Hypothesis. Given that the internet is filled with explicitly predatory algorithms and deceptive ‘dark patterns’ both trying to attract attention, thereby extra
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Pricing is uh, interesting. $250 ea. for devices, plus $75 mo. for ‘line’ rental OP, please don’t keep us in suspense any longer: who is this for?
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Indeed, a dimwitted article. The author seems keen to uncover ‘racist tropes’ and so on: ‘Challenging the notion of history’ appears to be the preferred route.
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
The contemptuous phrase ‘lifestyle business’ is just VCs saying the quiet part out loud. You want to run a company that feeds your family and provides some decent stable jobs, indefinitely? You must be a clown, they think. The other memorab
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
This makes me think of monkeys cheerfully building their own cage. Sorry, but I can’t just ‘cool-project-bro’ this one. Does nobody else have the faintest misgivings about where we’re at right now: human surveillance as just scratching a te
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LiteVAE: Lightweight and Efficient Variational Autoencoders for Diffusion Models(huggingface.co)
3 points by throwaway2562 2y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Shein is basically a polyester company, as well as an even more egregious design thief. This makes them faster than the rest, as well as environmentally and socially undesirable.
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
i-combinators https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Interaction-Combinator...
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Clickbait, deceptive title. What the author means is ‘get real about continuous learning’ Of course it takes money to run experiments you can actually learn from, and the article is bereft of practical advice about doing this on the cheap.
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Here’s hoping. Autism is pure hell for some families. Unless of course self-declared leaders of the ‘neurodivergent community’ declare such efforts to be genocidal, modern eugenics, and so on. Relatedly, I was struck to see the recent break
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Can anyone explain why hot water tastes different to cold water? Is taste not separable from temperature or is there another mechanism at work?
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
This.
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Roman object that has baffled experts to go on show at Lincoln Museum(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by throwaway2562 2y ago|2 comments
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Hey, HN - what do you think the dodecahedron is for, or alternatively: what would you use it for?
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
fLORA
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
I swear this guy is the pinnacle of cheap wisdom. There are VC’s who are worse, but Seth never fails to disappoint.
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Late response: thank you. Saved me some time thinking further on this.
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Bad trip-haver here. As a youth I was a moderate enthusiast for psychedelics (back when the goal was good clean fun, ie not spiritual enlightenment, cure for depression or modern mindfulness dingaling) but trust me, friends - you do not wa
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Hmmm. Very interesting. I wonder if you could speed up your clever approximation still further with this approach https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.09120.pdf
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
As an experienced pirate, I vow to attack this vessel and take her sweet cargo for mine own, you may depend upon it.
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by throwaway2562 2y ago
Very unsatisfactory discussion. Just a weird soup of all the current theoretical philosophical and neuroscientific models… with no ‘inevitable’ about any of it. If I’m missing something important here, let me know.
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by throwaway2562 3y ago
Correct. The UK regulator (Ofgem) and thus UK consumers are being taken for a ride by windfarmers, who made these deals a precondition of building farms. We will be paying them £2.5bn a year to not generate electricity by 2030 https:/
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by throwaway2562 3y ago
Agreed, this has nothing to do with passenger flight, and the pretense is gross. Thin vernier -> thin veneer btw
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by throwaway2562 3y ago
> Not sure what the solution is but we need fewer sheep in development and less permissive licenses so developers doing unglamorous work can capture more of the value. This is the nuts of it.
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by throwaway2562 3y ago
This is a great example of how bad nutrition data is, and why meta studies are to be treated with caution. They took 45 studies, but 90% of them were either low or very low quality. ‘Overall, using the GRADE framework, 22 pooled analyses w

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