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by tim333 6mo ago
There was some interesting research where they found "signs of fungal infection in all the [alzheimer's patients] samples and none of the controls". ( https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fungal-
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by tim333 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/j5FI7
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by tim333 6mo ago
I wonder if it'll actually work? At the moment you can pretty much go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis and download whatever.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Or maybe progress from Multivac-1 to Multivac-5.4-high?
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by tim333 6mo ago
Genesis 1:3 of the Bible, also the Torah >And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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by tim333 6mo ago
The US has mostly ended up quite prosperous if not that environmentally friendly.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Crypto's a funny one economically as while there are some real costs like mining, a lot of the money is just swapped around like A makes a coin, B pays A a million for some but the million isn't really spent, just swapped between
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by tim333 6mo ago
Some history: https://ocient.com/blog/the-history-of-hyperscale-in-computi... >The term “hyperscale” first emerged in the late 1990s, heralding a paradigm shift in the world of computing. It was primarily used to de
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by tim333 6mo ago
Government debt is different - mostly gets inflated away.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I think people were surprised to suddenly have a lot of demand for those.
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by tim333 6mo ago
Musk was also into the solar panels and EVs so it's not all trash the planet. Even if living on Mars or Venus isn't practical we might develop interesting tech trying.
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by tim333 6mo ago
I've got the 8GB M1 Air. It works fine for me memory wise. In some ways the Neo looks better than the Air for things I have had problems with in that it looks easier to replace bits - my battery and speakers are both kind of knackered.
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by tim333 7mo ago
I had a look out of curiosity. The book has: >“In the summer of 1812 there were no fewer than 12,000 troops in the disturbed counties, a greater force than Wellington had under his command in the Peninsula.” But for that year Wikipedia h
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by tim333 7mo ago
>For the first time since the 2000s, technology companies are confronting the limits of their supply chain. I thought there'd been a shortage of cheap GPUs since ChatGPT took off and also before that in various crypto booms. I'
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by tim333 7mo ago
Re. disease cures I am hoping more for AlphaFold type stuff and simulating cells in silico rather than ChatGPT type LLMs. There is some progress like >“There are people sitting in our office in King’s Cross, London, working, and collabor
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by tim333 7mo ago
The article skips the potential upsides of an AI future - like curing diseases, abundance, merge type immortality. I'm keen myself with nothing to do with the goals of the 0.001% really. I think the future generations will like the abo
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by tim333 7mo ago
Apple are pretty bad for this and I don't think it's the first time it's happened. A lot of the problem is if you search for some app in the iOS app store the top result is a paid ad and the established app you want is the se
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by tim333 7mo ago
I've found these more interesting since reading The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet in the nyt. You don't get that kind of thing on asteroids or Venus, they are mostly produced as a side effect of microbe
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by tim333 7mo ago
The act: >... mandates removing illegal content, restricting access to harmful material, and implementing age verification, with Ofcom enforcing compliance. Violations can result in massive fines of up to 10% of global turnover or £18 mi
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by tim333 7mo ago
Assuming we get smarter than human AI but keep control of the guidance and off switches we will be in the position of a king or rich person with servants smarter than themselves of which we have many historical examples. I figure it will go
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by tim333 7mo ago
The CEOs can be appointed or fired by the owners of the business, regardless of how they see themselves. At the moment we don't have human level AGI so owners are better with humans doing the job but it could change down the line.
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by tim333 7mo ago
I've got a free hosted one from Zo Computer which sends me a daily news summary but I can't say I really use it. https://zo.computer/ if you want to try. They had $100 free credits for the promo code 'clawcon
893.
by tim333 7mo ago
I don't think it's true there can only be one winner. Lots of industries have multiple successful large companies.
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by tim333 7mo ago
I saw Musk discussing that and his main argument in favour is there's unlimited solar power whereas on earth there are a lot of power constraints.
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by tim333 7mo ago
I've also not heard it, also a Brit. Dunno what the source is of someone saying there's no punt?
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by tim333 7mo ago
The term is used for gambling customers. As opposed to bookies who are professionals who take the bets.
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by tim333 7mo ago
Some people talk. I've been watching some of Lance Breitstein's videos. He made $100m trading but got stressed by it and figured he has enough money so now is teaching and the like https://www.youtube.com/@TheOneLa
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by tim333 7mo ago
>the originator of the term ... rather good science fiction I guess you are thinking of Vernor Vinge but the term first came up with John von Neumann in the 1950s: >...on the accelerating progress of technology and changes in human li
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by tim333 7mo ago
>Why is everyone so damn obsessed with the singularity? I don't think most are - it tends to regarded as rather cranky stuff, and a lot of people who use the term are a bit cranky. Even so AI maybe overtaking human intelligence is a
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by tim333 7mo ago
I wonder if Google will actually de rank them. Maybe a warning first for the big ones?

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