JDEW

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Introducing Plan A(astralcodexten.com)
6 points by JDEW 2mo ago|1 comments
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by JDEW 6mo ago
> Like my Dyson… Which is wild because a Dyson has a premium price tag.
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by JDEW 6mo ago
CDG shows yellow (“minor issues”), 65% of planes arrive on time, 0% cancelled. FRA shows green (“normal operations”) 59% of planes arrive on time, 4% cancelled. Surely that’s wrong?
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by JDEW 7mo ago
> by the other countries That makes zero sense. You mean “by lowering the profit margin on the goods sold to the US by that specific company”. Countries don’t pay tarrifs (bar state intervention), companies do. But yes, it’s probably a m
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by JDEW 9mo ago
> The motivation for making school more rewarding and less stultifying should not primarily be its effect on outcomes later in life, but rather that childhood is itself part of life, a very important part. Almost makes me tear up. 1000 t
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by JDEW 9mo ago
Nice! The entry for Abundance [0] is listed as another book (An Abundance of Katherines [1]) [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176444106-abundance [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show
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by JDEW 9mo ago
> …undisputed evidence… do not cause problems… This is unworkable in practice; nothing will ever be completely safe. Instead, we need a public regulatory body that makes reasonable risk/reward tradeoffs when approving necessary chem
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by JDEW 9mo ago
Beautiful site. Also very pleased to see the mitochondrion being referred to as the powerhouse of the cell, as is law.
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by JDEW 11mo ago
> 1/800 users mentioning suicide… “conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.” Sounds like more than just mentioning suicide. Also it’s per week, which is a pretty short time interval.
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Rebuilding the Architecture of Science(catalyzernd.substack.com)
1 points by JDEW 11mo ago|0 comments
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by JDEW 11mo ago
> Therefore, grains are cheap and people eat too much of them. People only overeat themselves into obesity once you process those carbs into high fructose corn syrup etc. Seems like a very different problem.
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by JDEW 11mo ago
To blame abundant food for obesity and not the fact that we make everything ultra addictive [0] seems like inverse logic to me. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-025-01143-7
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Microsoft Amplifier(github.com)
262 points by JDEW 11mo ago|150 comments
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by JDEW 1y ago
“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine?
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by JDEW 1y ago
> The laissez-faire approach gave people happy, low-stress, and materially rich lives. The usual schtick conveniently ignoring the absolute marauding of resources from non-western countries and the effective slave labor extracted from As
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by JDEW 1y ago
> “Our algorithm right now is provably faster, in theory,” Ahmadi said. He’s hopeful, he added, that in 10 to 20 years, it will also be so in practice.
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by JDEW 2y ago
Also the “highschool poem”-type writing style is quite jarring but forgiven when he acknowledged it at the end of the article. > Also I decided to try writing this thread in the style of a linkedin influencer lol, sorry about that.
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I Built an Omni-Directional Ball-Wheeled Bike [video](youtube.com)
2 points by JDEW 2y ago|0 comments
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by JDEW 2y ago
> Are “identity politics” just a status game that economically advantaged elites play? Yes. But it's a disgrace that we're throwing the baby (genuine progress, like the slow acceptance of non-binary people) out with the bathwat
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by JDEW 2y ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the article, but I find it baffling that they don’t mention the simple fact that the “best” professors have access to the “best” students. Especially early in career students. Never mind the fact that great school
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by JDEW 2y ago
Maybe that's how they came up with the idea.
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by JDEW 2y ago
Agreed, the experience the author describes with a Honeycrisp at the beginning of the article is something I recently had with a Cosmic. Let’s hope it lasts.
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End-to-End Quantum Simulation of a Chemical System(arxiv.org)
2 points by JDEW 2y ago|0 comments
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by JDEW 2y ago
> I don't think it costs 15kcals to carry 1KG of mass 1km on a bicycle. Not to be pedantic, but you’re off by a factor of 100 :)
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The Crescendo Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak Attack(crescendo-the-multiturn-jailbreak.github.io)
16 points by JDEW 2y ago|11 comments
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A Headset That Helps Treat Depression(bbc.com)
3 points by JDEW 2y ago|1 comments
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by JDEW 2y ago
> It has been demonstrated that KC(x), can be reasonably estimated by the number of bits required to encode x using a compressor C (such as gzip) Talk about a cliffhanger :) Using [0] you get 32B for Alice and 40B for Bob. [0] It has bee
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by JDEW 2y ago
The “everything is a chemical” ‘argument’ is an isolated demand for rigor imo. Everybody can reasonably squint their eyes, assuming good faith, and see that a compound created in a lab that has no nutritional value or is engineered to be ov
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by JDEW 3y ago
> I don't recognize anyone's right to devalue the product of my labor… This bit I agree with, although I would add that salary (i.e. plain cash) alone as the fruit of labour is insufficient and unfair, and amounts to wage slave
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by JDEW 3y ago
Then they just shouldn’t? There’s plenty of universities, cooperatives, and passionate growers who have developed crops and seeds in the past and will surely continue to do so in the future. The patent system is useful to address very speci

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