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by z2 1y ago
Reminded me of this unfortunate incident. The answer to "How much contamination can a radiotherapy machine cause?" is unfortunately quite a bit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
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by z2 1y ago
Mistral's model was terrible when I tested it on non Latin characters and on anything that isn't neat printed text (i.e. handwriting)
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by z2 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14944613 This was from 2017, and it made such an impression on me that I could find it on my first search attempt!
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by z2 1y ago
I'm not a "real coder" either, but it sounds like the "No True Scotsman" trap when people say, “AI can’t be a real coder,” and then redefine “real coder” to mean something AI can’t currently do (like full autonomy o
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by z2 1y ago
Tangential, but it seems this will also accelerate the move to even more flimsy plastics in everything from appliances to construction materials to cars.
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by z2 1y ago
The true way to impose your will on others is to set music ringbacks (the sound the caller hears while they wait for you to pick up). Still popular in India and China, I hear.
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by z2 1y ago
At least it's transparent, like all the other things coming from the executive branch lately. And maybe that makes the damage more lasting, because people can see that US is so mired in populism that it cannot grasp how the SDGs of red
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by z2 1y ago
As yes, my school in the US did that (sporadically) and awarded medals based on tiers. I remember thinking the silver one looked the nicer, and so was careful not to read too much over the summer.
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by z2 1y ago
Yeah, and with LLMs the thing I can't shake, however, is that this time it's pretty strongly (maybe parasitically) latched onto the aggregate progress of Moore's law. Few other technologies have enjoyed such relatively unfett
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by z2 1y ago
In the region, it feels like Saudi Arabia and Turkey are going to be watching this very closely closely.
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by z2 1y ago
Yeah, 1984 and its source material tend to reduce everything to monolithic dystopias, which indeed was relevant and happens when top down power bends truth. But maybe enough pent-up bottom up emotion can also override reason and decay truth
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by z2 1y ago
I'm reminded of this famous quote from the Nuremberg Diary, and the casualness of how it seems to have been stated: Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a w
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by z2 1y ago
Same thing happened to me, and the support system automatically decided nothing was wrong whatsoever despite my phone certainly sending a very different location from the driver. And the madness was I couldn't even book another ride as
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by z2 1y ago
Agree, and I have no idea what's the optimal way for research to be done. My claim is that the way research is done today works for fairly small impact on taxpayer burden, and without natural experiments with other countries with spend
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by z2 1y ago
The developers in the paper only require a small flash of local heat to turn black, which is why thermal printers can print so fast given the time it takes to heat up and cool down the print head. Friction produces enough heat to do that. Y
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by z2 1y ago
I mean this in the best faith, but I feel this is still sidestepping the core issue: foundational science and applied development are just not fungible. The kind of research NIH funds: long-horizon, high-risk, mechanism-level discovery, is
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by z2 1y ago
I think this is the right approach, speaking as someone who went down the rabbit-hole of looking at alternative non-bisphenol or non-phenol image developers. The very little research on the new ones tend to conclude "we don't know
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by z2 1y ago
Can you quantify how much happens today vs NIH funding, and how much will happen if the free money stops?
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by z2 1y ago
For the applied (not fundamental) research that ultimately goes toward supporting clinical trials where on average 90% of the R&D costs lie. I'm not saying the balance has to be this way or even should be this way, but you don&#x27
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by z2 1y ago
This is a major oversimplification and misses the difference between basic research and applied development. The university and public side is where most basic science happens. It's the high-risk, not-immediately-profitable work of fig
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by z2 1y ago
My takeaway is that by leaving it open with the word "including" the scope is a superset encompassing potentially all Chinese nationals, beyond the usual red scare and theft accusations.
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by z2 1y ago
Hardware: any computer from the last 20 or so years. Software: client of choice to https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528 Sorry I'm being cheeky here, but realistically unless you want to shell out 10k fo
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by z2 1y ago
There's a table here showing some "Overall" and "Median" score, but no context on what exactly was tested. It appears to be in the ballpark as the latest models, but with some cost advantages with the downside of be
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by z2 1y ago
Starting recipe for a revolution of a more cultural nature, from a half-dozen historical cases: - Target schools as centers of dissent and either co-opt or failing that, dismantle them. - Portray 'intellectuals' as enemies of the
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by z2 1y ago
I figure it's a matter of stacking/charging the laser in that loop with a lot of pulses, then letting that all out at once? Like, what if we shot pulses into the orbit of a mini black hole, but then managed to unwind it back out i
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by z2 1y ago
As a another data point, on E4B, my Pixel 6 Pro (Tensor v1, Oct 2021) is getting about 4.4 t/s decode on a picture of a glass of milk, and over 6 t/s on text chat. It's amazing, I never dreamed I'd be viably running an 8
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by z2 1y ago
Not at all familiar with animation or the broader industry but could they have at least offered the potential for royalties or some sort of sales based bonuses?
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by z2 1y ago
I would really like to see a fusion guidebook of mental tricks that work for humans and just as well for AI. Or humorously, perhaps prompt-engineering tricks that are also great mental hacks for better or clearer human thinking.
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by z2 2y ago
As controversial as Larry Summers might be himself, he's got a good quote: "It’s now clear that the [...] Administration computed reciprocal tariffs without using tariff data. This is to economics what creationism is to biology, a
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by z2 2y ago
Exactly, you will not be able to register it in the US and completely import it because as there is no market here, BYD has not gone through safety and compliance testing in the US. For such cars, legally importing it would require you to b

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