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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
It's a great demonstration of using AI to see signals that are not apparent to practicing clinicians, but I'm not sure how novel the algorithm is. Mayo Clinic was testing such an algorithm in field clinical trials already a coup
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
But the higher frequency waves detected by LIGO are not caused by two bodies orbiting their common center of mass at a distance, but rather by two much smaller masses - a few to a few tens times the mass of our sun - than the ones described
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
It's more accurate to say that plant genome sizes vary over an incrediblely larger range than that found in other eukaryotes, than that plant genomes are inherently large compared to animals'. Plants can have quite small genome
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Yes. Thanks.
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
My little "farm" covers 21 acres. The blades on this single turbine sweep an area equal to more than half of that. Amazing.
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
The GE Haliade X, smaller but not by a lot, maxes out at 7 rotations per minute, giving a rotor tip velocity in the vicinity of 80m/s. Generally noise considerations mean you don't aim for a tip velocity faster than that, althou
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Smalltalk was, and in many ways remains, my favorite programming language - as a language. But the image-based development environment, and the performance of the system, were both awful. As for message passing, and the potential for remo
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I don't know that limit is the key factor here, but I agree on the calculus part. The arguments that rely on Cavalieri's principle to relate the volume of the cone to the volume of a slice-by-slice identical pyramid, for example
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Maybe, but all that kind of assume you will only type on personal devices, or at least do 99.9% of your typing on personal devices. When I worked in Europe for roughly 1 week of every month, I was largely flummoxed by the occassional need t
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I have no doubt that the standard keyboard QWERTY layout is broken, but I really wonder whether it's broken in an way that's particularly important to most users of keyboards. I totally understand looking for a more ergonomic de
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Probably 99% of the time I look at, or use, a map, it's at a scale where the Mercator projection is entirely fair, and highly useful. For probably half of the uses I have for maps, whatever distortion relative to an actual globe it i
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I'm guessing a report stuck the word quantum in there, just because it seemed like a nice modifier. The CalTech video referenced indeed describes just classical wave interference controlled by a phased array transmitter, as you sugge
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I'd say the author nailed it, although in the era of youtube, he probably should have said a bit about how "talking about" the hobby or the kit becomes for many, watching other people talk about it. Avocations like woodturni
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
This could be a case where gene drive extinction solutions could work safely. There aren't any native species in the Americas with which either a feral pig, or a European wild boar, can interbreed, and controlling gene flow from wild
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
To be mobile and agile in a three dimensional world, a creature needs to be able to process information about its environment such as adjacency, and direction - that is, the relationship of different parts of space, or things in space, to o
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
It's not different, because the left-right flip by the lens is part of a rotationally symmetric image translation (that also flips up for down, e.g.), not a bilaterally symmetric reflection. With the rotation, there is no change in th
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Lanier is right that the phrase "artificial intelligence" isn't very useful for understanding what the recent progress in generative models actually means. I think, though, that's not much more than saying that while w
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
> Soon you're going to run out of land for your renewables. Plus renewables are extremely intermittent power sources. Nuclear solves both the land-use and consistency problems. I take no issue with people such as yourself advocating
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Any discussion of the iAPX 432 should mention IBM's earlier stab at building a minicomputer around a single-level object store hardware architecture - the System 38. It too struggled in the market, although being a sibling of the syst
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Google has to be freaked out at the rapidity with which OpenAI and Microsoft are taking their generative language models into various markets. Look at the way Microsoft is (fairly successfully) grabbing attention-share through the efforts
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I completely agree. I was involved as a tech executive at a large medical center trying to get collaborative work with both Google per se, and DeepMind, to a usable or product stage, and it was essentially impossible. DeepMind in particu
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Data is indeed often opaque, but it's the only way you can make a rigorous argument that something is characteristic of the natural world. To borrow a phrase, data driven conclusion on a hypothesis are the worst form of conclusion, e
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Exactly right. I can go 24 hours without eating with no ill effects, and while I am hungry, I'm not ravenous, and I can certainly keep going just fine. I have a neighbor and friend who can't get through a morning of moderate
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
So many comments here claiming to understand the effect of fasting on humans generally through personal experience. Come on, people - your experience is a datum, it's not data, and your entirely subjective conclusions drawn from that
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the truth is a mix of malicious compliance and inability, but I'd weight it heavily in favor of malicious compliance, especially for the insurance data. Insurers know their costs, and when and why they pay specif
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
> Many private banks with unlimited deposit insurance would simply play more fast and loose with your money because there's basically no risk. Why wouldn't you choose the bank that offers more % return on your money? You'r
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I make a clear distinction between depositors and investors. The holders of the bank's capital - it's equity and and subordinate bond debt, are at-risk investors, and should, as I said in my original post, take a 100% haircut (a
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I think Yellen is signalling the right approach, frankly. First, the balance between the bank's assets (its loans and the investments it made with depositors money, plus the bank's capital) and its liabilities, is such that SVB h
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I wonder though how big the risk is. SVB is, according to the business press, in trouble because they parked a large excess of deposits over loans in low interest rate US government debt. The mark to market value of that debt has fallen
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Chomsky says: The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer t

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