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Reliability of LLM medical assistants for the general public: a randomized study(nature.com)
2 points by zzzeek 8mo ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 8mo ago
I'm 57 and wrote my first line of BASIC in 1980, so while I can still chime in on this specific demographic I feel that I ought to. So im like this guy, but like a lot of other people in my specific demographic we aren't writing
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National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin's 'ability to kill cancer cells'(statnews.com)
4 points by zzzeek 8mo ago|1 comments
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'Black' Banned from Flyers for FAMU College of Law Black History Month Event(clickorlando.com)
5 points by zzzeek 9mo ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
and they're all controlled by (poorly compensated) humans anyway [1] [2] [1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/i-tried-the-robot-tha... [2] https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/wa
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
Lots of familiar things here except for this UNLOGGED table as a cache thing. That's totally new to me. Has someone benched this approach against memcached and redis ? I'm extremely skeptical PGs query / protocol overhea
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
> Hegseth said his vision for military AI systems means that they operate "without ideological constraints that limit lawful military applications," before adding that the Pentagon's "AI will not be woke." "
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Pentagon embraces Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry(pbs.org)
4 points by zzzeek 9mo ago|2 comments
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
well it's my lab machine and all 192G + 24 cores are mine all mine, problem solved
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
I used Sublime for years and VSCode is vastly better (the breaking straw was how they'd silo off critical bug fixes in new versions that were pay-only, upon finding vscode I felt silly for not switching sooner, it was so much easier to
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
my story of this is Atari Macro Assembler. The floppy had a specific sector that was damaged, and the loader would test this sector to ensure it was in fact damaged. this was obvious becuase whenever loading the floppy, you had to wait f
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
it would have helped a lot ! we'd not have an insurrectionist as president, which is illegal!
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
laws need to be enforced. that's it. 90% of trump horror goes away with just that simple thing
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
the secretary of transportation gained his fame and notoriety by being a star in an MTV reality show in the 1990s and that's why Trump likes him. Not because he got a law degree or used his dad's influence to become a prosecuto
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
oh hacker news, never change. "crashes 3x as much as human driven cars" but is that REALLY bad? who knows? pure gold
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
and i mentioned this being about the guys age exactly where
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
I guess you kids have no idea who the Secretary of Transportation is
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
this guy is super great but wow do the juvenile sexist comments he makes (over and over again, tripling down on them) detract from the overall value of the video. Would female engineering students really appreciate all that? I think no
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
I think platforms like Bluesky are better suited towards this and that's what people should be using
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Moderna Won't Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US(biospace.com)
7 points by zzzeek 9mo ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
tiktok always censored, it's just now it censors anti-Trump content instead of anti-CCP content [1] both are bad, I liked when tiktok was supposed to be just "banned". it's always been a tool for repressive government
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
so how do you put that fire out? or was "So now, people like Phil assume that the government is just waiting them out. Once they’re gone, putting out the fire will be easy enough" referring to how the locals think the government
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
is it just me or would "Microsoft refuses to comply with a legal search warrant" be an actual, surprising news story? like of course MSFT is going to hand over to authorities whatever they ask for if there's a warrant, imagi
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
the endless issue with coding policy statements like this is that the people who need to read them the most are the ones who couldn't care less and don't read anything.
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
> everything starts as discussions - only maintainers create issues, and PRs can only come from issues. would be so awesome if github supported all that. probably kills their business model though
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
> If the argument is sustainability of training, that is the argument, yes. Claude clearly got an enormous amount of its content from Stackoverflow. Which has mostly ceased to be a source of new content. However unlike the author I d
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
> My apologies. But are you really saying that we're not even able to try to be rational, or to improve? not at all > "Perfect rationality" sounds like "perfect knowledge", it's a mind-boggling concept be
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
see that? you didnt even read what I wrote and responded to something else. then I'm not able to not be snarky about it.
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by zzzeek 9mo ago
there are two facets to "is rationalism good". one is, "is there a rational description of the universe, the world, humanity, etc.". Some people think there isn't, but I would like to think that the universe does
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Why Americans Can't Buy the Best Electric Car(nytimes.com)
9 points by zzzeek 9mo ago|4 comments

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