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asm.org 2y ago

How and Why Do Flesh-Eating Bacteria "Eat" Flesh?

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

A Lucrative Surgery Took Off Online and Disfigured Patients

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www.fpl.fs.fed.us 5y ago

History of Yard Lumber Size Standards (1964) [pdf]

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asm.org 5y ago

Three reasons fungi are not plants

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www.vox.com 6y ago

The case for a 4-day workweek

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

In Defense of Sea Gulls: They’re Smart, and They Co-Parent, 50/50 All the Way

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

Binary Prefix

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www.washingtonpost.com 7y ago

The new plan to remove a trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

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www.wunderground.com 7y ago

Earth Had Its 4th Warmest Year on Record in 2018, Say NOAA and Nasa

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docs.google.com 7y ago

Hours worked vs. GDP (data from 2017)

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500daysinthewild.com 7y ago

500 Days in the Wild

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sfleischman105.github.io 8y ago

Plucking Hairs and Jumping Down the Turtles: Why Did I Learn Rust?

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vorner.github.io 8y ago

Why is Rust difficult?

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medium.com 8y ago

Web scraping in rust

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github.com 8y ago

A library for interoperating JavaScript and Rust code

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doc.rust-lang.org 8y ago

Rust vector guarantees

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internals.rust-lang.org 8y ago

State of WebAssembly and Rust

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antoyo.ml 8y ago

TQL, a proc-macro ORM in rust

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clrnd.com.ar 8y ago

Sorting pixels in rust

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alistair.cockburn.us 8y ago

The Walking Skeleton (2008)

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medium.com 8y ago

Rust, let’s get it started

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abc7.com 8y ago

Heat wave leaves thousands without power

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github.com 9y ago

Add cannabis terms to faker-gem

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github.com 10y ago

The list of languages that compile to JavaScript

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Microsoft Plumbs Ocean’s Depths to Test Underwater Data Center

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 10y ago

Are humans still evolving?

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I did this for two weeks on a side project and still ended up in a situation where I did not have a mental model of the codebase.

There’s no way build that model without building it yourself. I’m more convinced then ever of this.

Crypto investors are migrated to the newest unregulated speculative asset: the stock market.

I don’t know for certain but the amount of retail investing on vibes around AI companies and metals feels just like the crypto peaks. Just the other day Marvell jumped on the words of Jensen Huang and metal ETFs randomly lost tons of investment earlier this year.

Without a lot of the guardrails of the US regulatory apparatus that has been gutted by the current administration, the market is riff with manipulation. Truly another gilded age.

My best guess is that Gemini was trained on the textbooks that the questions are meant to test against, thus they are probably better at explicit recall of those questions or related questions.

This is a pretty limited introductory course based on what it says in the methods of the paper itself.

Isseven 4 months ago

Well then, I won’t be a paying customer then.

Actually, yea, I do a lot of mental calculations to avoid losing my edge on thinking about numbers. I avoid gps navigators for similar reasons.

But the analogy doesn’t actually hold up anyhow because the calculator and the navigator are deterministic. I can rely on their output.

LLMs have a probabilistic output that absolutely needs verification every time. I cannot trust them the same way I can trust a calculator.

Stop Sloppypasta 4 months ago

When you must remind someone to “think” when using a technology because the least resistant path is to not think… it feels like the technology isn’t really helping.

They are stealing our work, turning it into a model, and then renting our decisions to less intelligent people.

They (tech companies) don’t want us to be smart any more. They are commodifying intelligence.

This is cool but I’m sorry, that’s not a vaccine - it’s a prophylactic.

A vaccine or inoculation is named because it creates a sustained adaptation to a targeted antigen. Something that boosts immune response is not an acquired adaptation! This would need to be re-upped every month or so.

Good for travel and brief encounters. Not an actual immunization.

Not too mention boosting cell growth factors can have unintended side effects like cancer! There are immune system cancers and I would be concerned about risks there.

Common AI blog posts that seem generated:

1. State problem created by AI

2. Provide simple solution

3. State it cannot work and AI won’t help

4. Describe another way to solve for AI with more work

This feels like at least the third blog I’ve read that follow this pattern and have the hallmarks of generated text.

People are playing LLM slot machine for engagement blogs.

Starcloud 1 year ago

Not to mention the benefit of directly harming extremely vulnerable ecosystems! Win-win

They are just very very slow. It does happen but the turnover is not fast and certainly not every 7 years.