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Toward nanoscale DNA writers: Unlocking scalable DNA data writing technology(microsoft.com)
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by vagabund 5y ago
This study measures the rate of de novo (not inherited) HbS mutation, and finds it occurs at significantly greater than random chance in populations where malaria is prevalent. So there is a survivorship bias, but not just for the inherita
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I don't know if it's the scrolling per se, so much as the more general psychological relationship we have with phones whose hardware and OS are designed to tantalize and distract. The majority of our prior experiences on the devi
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This article is about reaching just a level of proficiency in the technical aspects of your company and product that helps you excel in your non-technical role. The author specifically advises against learning to code because of the time a
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by vagabund 5y ago
I'm not sure how well this will be received on HN, but if you're looking for a meeting place with folks that generally skew toward more community integration / more vibrant social lives, and which doesn't require already
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by vagabund 5y ago
I think manipulating people into believing something that's not true is a bad thing, even if it improves the bottom line. To think otherwise, I submit, is the truly cynical view.
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I tried a couple of the prompts from the WebGPT paper: "How do trains turn?", "How do neural networks work?", "Why was the Suez Canal blocked in March 2021?" and got a 'No Relevant Answer' response on
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Real Time Renderable NeRFs trained in seconds(nvlabs.github.io)
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Ask HN: Any way to use social media without sharing account with phone contacts?
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Twitter automatically reselects sharing of phone number during signup [video](streamable.com)
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Probably not feasible but I've always thought an app that graded your ability to sing along to your favorite music would be fun. Being able to automate the isolation of the vocal track to judge the user against would obviously be requ
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It's disingenuous for the author to present instances where some level of trusted actors is required in the near-term to make a service operational as voiding any claim of decentralization; obviously, the centralization of a network ex
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Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation(annebonnypirate.org)
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BlenderBot 2.0: A chatbot that builds long-term memory and searches the internet(ai.facebook.com)
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Why is it more reasonable to expect that the human individual is typical among intelligent lifeforms and thus belongs to an atypical, larger-than-median population and planet, than to expect that earth is a typical habitable planet and that