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by vagabund 4y ago
As unsurprising as it is absurd if you're familiar with the petulant child that is James Dolan.
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Technical presentation by Helion CEO on fusion and their tech(mediacentral.princeton.edu)
4 points by vagabund 4y ago|0 comments
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by vagabund 4y ago
Here's my understanding: The main electricity-generating fusion reaction is aneutronic -- 3He-D fusion yields regular hydrogen and a proton. But a fuel mixture of 3He+D will inevitably produce some D-D fusion, which yields 50% T+p (tr
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by vagabund 4y ago
If you use Kagi for search, I'm assuming you've used their Orion browser [0], where you can set Kagi as default. Any reason why you didn't like it? [0] https://browser.kagi.com/
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by vagabund 4y ago
Completely anecdotal, but I got Covid ~2 weeks after quitting smoking (3 or 4 cigarettes a day), having had avoided it for months. Essentially everyone I know, save my brother who smokes heavily, has gotten it.
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by vagabund 4y ago
Wonder how far you could get by closing the loop and sending terminal outputs to GPT automatically. Prompt with a natural language description of a target program, instruct it to decompose the problem into increasingly small actionable step
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Interactive tool to split the US into sections of equal population(engaging-data.com)
6 points by vagabund 4y ago|0 comments
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by vagabund 4y ago
Yeah, Proust's works are almost meditations. For me it took a concerted effort to get into his rhythm and not tire, but once I did, I found it more rewarding than most of the fiction I've read. There's a deeply personal eff
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by vagabund 4y ago
They've recently hired McKinsey to conduct a 20 week study on the viability of containerization on the varying street sizes of Manhattan, and what that might look like [0]. My guess: they settle upon some aesthetically loud behemoth o
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by vagabund 4y ago
some version of releasing CRISPR-edited rats that sexually outcompete in the first generation but produce infertile offspring
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by vagabund 4y ago
This was originally a LessWrong post [0], but I linked to the colab for its interactivity, as the authors advise: "Please go to the colab for interactive viewing and playing with the phenomena. For space reasons, not all results includ
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Singular Value Decompositions of Transformer Matrices Are Highly Interpretable(colab.research.google.com)
4 points by vagabund 4y ago|1 comments
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by vagabund 4y ago
In no order, by no means exhaustive, and lazily copied from my following list, but these should surface a good deal of quality ML content on your timeline, both for the state of the literature, and for more speculative, forward-looking theo
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by vagabund 4y ago
I'd say this isn't the near future so much as it's the present. If you're on ML twitter you'll see countless examples of people hacking together prompts that power a google sheet or something similar. It just does
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by vagabund 4y ago
Seems reasonable enough
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ESM Metagenomic Atlas: first view of the ‘dark matter’ of the protein universe(ai.facebook.com)
7 points by vagabund 4y ago|0 comments
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The full Facebook red book(threadreaderapp.com)
2 points by vagabund 4y ago|0 comments
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by vagabund 4y ago
The fact that legal interpretation has changed over time is a feature; the essential point is that it is within the democratic institution of the judicial system that the debate over and enforcement of acceptable speech should occur. Yes, I
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by vagabund 4y ago
Sure, I agree Musk underestimates the scope of the challenge. I'm personally of the belief that network effects have granted Twitter a relatively unassailable cultural position, or at least enough of a moat to greatly reduce competitiv
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by vagabund 4y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer, I thought it'd be evident that I meant the legal understanding that emerged from the constitution, rather than the text itself. Of course I despise the vitriol spewed on twitter as much as anyone else
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by vagabund 4y ago
> there are certain minimum standards The American constitution has done a uniquely good job of enumerating those limits. It seems like a stretch to paint a de facto adherence to free speech (as outlined by the law of the land in a give
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by vagabund 4y ago
Pretty clear moral hazard here, not sure if I believe the number's that high.
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by vagabund 4y ago
2020 M1 Air (8GB/256GB) === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature:
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Phenaki: A model for generating minutes-long, changing-prompt videos from text(phenaki.video)
161 points by vagabund 4y ago|16 comments
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by vagabund 4y ago
Big result for the dream of federated machine learning without prohibitive latency overhead
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Merge weights of independently trained models with no cost to loss(twitter.com)
5 points by vagabund 4y ago|1 comments
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Stable Diffusion Photoshop Plug-In(twitter.com)
3 points by vagabund 4y ago|1 comments
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by vagabund 4y ago
https://www.getalpaca.io/ Not my work. Highlighting to show one example of many of how fast the ML/creative community is building atop a true foundation model.
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by vagabund 4y ago
It's worth mentioning there's a very vibrant piracy community that abuses heroku's free tier for torrent to direct-download bots and myriad other purposes. Thousands and thousands of fake accounts using the resources to th
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by vagabund 4y ago
Also true

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