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support.google.com 1mo ago

Google releases fitbit air specs

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www.pcgamer.com 1y ago

Initiative aims to require EU game publishers to make retired games playable

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

Non-Google search engines blocked from showing Reddit results

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retractionwatch.com 2y ago

Journal hijackers still infiltrate Scopus despite its efforts

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celltypes.brain-map.org 2y ago

1.3k recordings and trace drawings of neurons

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www.theatlantic.com 2y ago

The Burden of Proof Is on the Language Police

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Mr. Trash Wheel

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What happens when you click [X] on a cookies popup?

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

NASA supercomputer simulation sheds light on Moon's origin

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soundlogo.wikimedia.org 3y ago

Wikimedia Sound Logo Contest

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www.nature.com 3y ago

DeepMind’s AlphaFold predicts shape of nearly every known protein

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slashdot.org 5y ago

Amazon Argues Users Don't Own Purchased Prime Video Content

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www.reddit.com 6y ago

Reddit bans 2000 communities including The_Donald

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Links to Free Books on Programming

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storymaps.arcgis.com 6y ago

Age and Social Vulnerability in the Context of Coronavirus

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docs.google.com 6y ago

Massively Parallel Covid-19 Diagnostic Assay for Testing 19200 Samples

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crowdfightcovid19.org 6y ago

Crowdfight Covid-19

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 6y ago

Simple Respiratory Mask (2006)

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Ship of Theseus

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ohmyz.sh 6y ago

Oh My Zsh: an open source community-driven framework for managing Zsh configs

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youtu.be 6y ago

Do you want to develop an app?

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www.pewresearch.org 6y ago

Striking Findings from 2019

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Is a Toilet a Chair?

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www.forbes.com 6y ago

Huawei Warns Trump: 'You Don't Want to Make Us Fight Google'

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Is there any potential risks to using an Airbnb host's “free home WiFi”

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www.the-scientist.com 7y ago

Discovery stirs controversy and pushes feather origins back 80M years

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www.nature.com 7y ago

Baby Gene Edits Could Affect a Range of Traits

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www.cnet.com 7y ago

Scientists predict a 'dark matter hurricane' will collide with the Earth

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack

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www.nature.com 8y ago

AI recreates activity patterns that brain cells use in navigation

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Fox to buy Roku 1 month ago

Why would this be more likely? The current remotes already have a Netflix button, a Hulu button, a Sling button and a Disney+ button. Roku sells dedicated buttons on their remotes to the highest bidder.

In theory, quantum computers could provide dramatic speedups for certain linear algebra operations (eg. matrix inversion, eigenvalue estimation). The catch is that many NN training algorithms need all the data to be stored in qRAM so the QC can access matrices efficiently. Loading in a massive dataset will likely be more difficult than the computations, eliminating the quantum advantage. This is analogous to having an extraordinarily fast processor attached to a slow af hard drive inside a neutrino storm.

The U.S. Navy did not blockade Japan or “prevent oil being shipped” by closing the seas. The U.S. imposed an oil embargo and froze Japanese assets after Japan expanded its war in China and moved to invade other pacific countries. Surely you can understand why that was a good thing.

Why would you post such nonsense given how easy it is these days to determine bullshit? By the time of Pearl Harbor, Japan was formally aligned with Nazi Germany. Japan, Germany, and Italy signed the Tripartite Pact in Sept 1940 creating the Axis alliance. Pearl Harbor happened in Dec 1941, so Japan had been formally tied to Germany for more than a year.

“The American navy closed international waters.” Not in the Pearl Harbor context. Before Pearl Harbor the U.S. was not conducting a naval blockade of Japan that closed international waters. The U.S. cut off Japan from US oil in July 1941. That is not the same thing as the U.S. Navy closing the Pacific.

“The USA blockade was the reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.” False. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because it wanted to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet while Japan seized the "Southern Resource Area”, especially oil-rich East Indies, Malaya and other regions in the pacific. The U.S. oil embargo might have played a small factor, but that wasn't a US-only thing; various countries were increasingly unwilling to sell oil and other resources to Nazi-aligned Japan while they were attempting to conquer China and most of the Southeast Pacific.

Because the NY Post ran an article that said

"The CIA used a futuristic new tool called “Ghost Murmur” to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned. The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic signal of a human heartbeat"

Note, I agree that it was probably some novel beacon technology. Just answering your question about why people are debating whether it was a device that could detect a human heartbeat from long range.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 3 months ago

Are you asking if the 10 seconds it takes AI to generate an image is more costly to the environment than a commissioned graphics artist using a laptop for 5-6 hours, or a painter who uses physical media sourced from all over the world?

From the Wikipedia article...

For planning Operation Epic Fury, the US military utilized the Maven Smart System, an artificial intelligence software designed to streamline the targeting process and greatly reduce the amount of personnel involved in it. Capable of producing 1,000 target packages in one hour, with the use of the system the US military said it had struck 6,000 targets in Iran during the first two weeks of the war.

...it goes on to say...

The [NYT] inquiry suggested that the school was likely targeted due to outdated coordinates provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency

Advanced rockets bolted onto mainframes guided by data from Palantir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Maven#Technology

The image and the text don't match. The image is talking about gloves, but in the narrative he says "when i visited REI this weekend to find running shoes for my partner, i took a picture of the shoe and sent it to clawdbot to remind myself to buy them later in a different color not available in store."

I was flying out of Chicago and I had a big metal bolt that was hollowed out to store pills inside. They showed me the scanned image, and you could see everything clear as day - steel bolt, hollow core, Xanax.

But most of what you are suggesting could be automated without the LLM. The price and categorical condition (new, great, good, fair, etc.) could be evaluated for a search query without getting LLM agents involved. I'm just surprised that an LLM evaluation of the written product description is the tipping point (often those descriptions are empty or contain irrelevant information), where people would switch from reviewing their carts to allowing autonomous transactions without in-the-loop supervisory control.