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by webmaven 4y ago
Russia conquering Ukraine is now highly unlikely, but defeating Ukraine (essentially by obliterating it) remains very much within Russia's capabilities, unfortunately. Whether Putin could see such a Pyrrhic victory as his least-bad o
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by webmaven 4y ago
Same. BTW, I purchased the discounted "sponsored" version that shows ads but employed a minor "hack" to turn off the promotional messages. I also don't purchase any ebooks from the Kindle store (which makes those pr
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Black holes resolve paradoxes by destroying quantum states(sciencenews.org)
16 points by webmaven 4y ago|6 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
Pandora's Star has a direct sequel: Judas Unchained, and Peter F. Hamilton has other books in that (The Commonwealth) millieu. Additional authors you might enjoy are Neal Asher, Iain M. Banks, Alistair Reynolds, and Jack McDevitt.
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ActivityPub is the next big thing in social networks(theverge.com)
8 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet(theverge.com)
7 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
(2022)
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Police Arrested a Tech Executive over the Stabbing Death of Bob Lee(buzzfeednews.com)
78 points by webmaven 4y ago|4 comments
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Goddard Space Flight Center's new boss swears in on holy Pale Blue Dot(theregister.com)
2 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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MIT CSAIL researchers discuss frontiers of generative AI(news.mit.edu)
1 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
https://archive.md/zXyg2
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by webmaven 4y ago
https://archive.md/HQy7d
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New Mexico is losing a form of Spanish spoken nowhere else(nytimes.com)
108 points by webmaven 4y ago|117 comments
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New allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein(theguardian.com)
104 points by webmaven 4y ago|117 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
Note that cyanoacrylates have some downsides: the activating glue can get hot enough to blister skin (esp. in larger amounts, or in reaction to natural fibers like cotton), and the fumes released are quite toxic.
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Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research(bair.berkeley.edu)
5 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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Why Lego Won(kottke.org)
4 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
I don't have specific feedback for you, but if you want to improve your value proposition and your messaging, I can recommend some books in the O'Reilly "Lean" series, specifically Ash Maurya's "Running Lean&qu
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by webmaven 4y ago
That's a bit of a non-sequitur, isn't it?
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Publishing genetic code of viruses could cause disaster(statnews.com)
3 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
https://archive.md/sZ1d1
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No, teaching AI to copy an artist's style isn't 'democratization'(sfchronicle.com)
5 points by webmaven 4y ago|4 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
I have a feeling that this move would just accelerate the adoption of the newer high temperature superconductor magnets (of the sort that have recently been upending fusion reactor designs).
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by webmaven 4y ago
> Except that Musk's Twitter in no way supports freedom of speech. It seems to be supporting Musk's freedom of speech just fine.
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by webmaven 4y ago
All that can really be conveyed is the "truth" that the model produced the output in response to the input. Given the other vulnerabilities of neural networks (biases, opaqueness, etc.) this is a bit like worrying about a MITM att
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Elon Musk said 'violent crime in SF is horrific'. What does the data show?(sfchronicle.com)
7 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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GPT-4 Was Deeply Racist Before OpenAI Muzzled It(futurism.com)
8 points by webmaven 4y ago|4 comments
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Google chip design team moves IT workloads to Google Cloud Platform(datacenterdynamics.com)
9 points by webmaven 4y ago|2 comments
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Radar, AI identify Alaska Native Spanish flu victims burial site(news.cornell.edu)
1 points by webmaven 4y ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 4y ago
You might also be interested in exploring the parallel between evolutionary punctuated equilibrium and Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma", which is the result of a bottom up incremental improvement in capabilities creat

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