KurSix

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by KurSix 10d ago
If AI makes code more stylistically uniform, it might actually make those deeper choices more visible
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by KurSix 10d ago
If software becomes dramatically cheaper to produce, that may just give investors even more software to invest in
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by KurSix 11d ago
Japan is probably evidence that the surrounding food culture matters at least as much as the existence of UPFs. You can sell plenty of processed food without getting the same outcome if portion sizes, eating habits, school meals, and daily
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by KurSix 11d ago
Shelf-stable hummus and Doritos can both be "ultra-processed", but that doesn't tell you much about why one might encourage overconsumption. Hyperpalatability seems much closer to the actual claim the article is trying to mak
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by KurSix 20d ago
It's probably less "modern antidepressants are uniquely bad" and more "we got much better at starting people on safer drugs than we did at figuring out how to stop them"
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by KurSix 20d ago
For something prescribed to get someone through a temporary crisis, "how and when do we get you back off this safely?" should probably be discussed at the beginning, not years later when the patient decides to stop.
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by KurSix 20d ago
What seems most broken is that medicine apparently didn't have a great way to predict which group you’d fall into, or much of a plan for the people who had a really bad time stopping. Also, RIP the anti-spider benefits
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by KurSix 25d ago
The sound especially feels almost impossible to date
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by KurSix 25d ago
I wonder if part of that is that Blade Runner doesn't optimize for the first viewing. Once you already know where the plot is going, your attention is free to wander into the production design, sound, background activity
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by KurSix 25d ago
Wow... The venue almost adds another layer to the movie. You're watching a 1982 vision of 2019, accompanied by live electronic-orchestral music, inside a theater built a couple thousand years ago...
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by KurSix 25d ago
The sound is probably why the visuals feel so much larger than the sets actually were
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by KurSix 1mo ago
Soon the GPUs will just be the promotional gift you get for opening a sufficiently large Nvidia financing account
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by KurSix 1mo ago
I think they just mean "is expected to guarantee". Since the deal hasn't been signed, Reuters is hedging, but "may guarantee" is definitely awkward wording for something whose entire purpose is certainty...
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by KurSix 1mo ago
The permanent jobs number really puts it in perspective. You're not just dropping a giant data center into an existing community at that point, you're potentially reshaping the county around it
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by KurSix 1mo ago
The $500B number is hard to even contextualize. Calling it a "data center" almost undersells what is being proposed
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by KurSix 1mo ago
The numbers have become so large that normal corporate risk management starts looking quaint
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by KurSix 1mo ago
The harder test would be whether they can come up with the right invariants and abstraction in the first place
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by KurSix 1mo ago
"The market chose it" doesn't mean it was the best solution, just that it fit the incentives
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by KurSix 1mo ago
The problem may not be that LLM taste is bad, but that it is incredibly easy to converge on
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by KurSix 1mo ago
Yeah once taste can be fully reduced to rules, it stops being taste and becomes something you can optimize for
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by KurSix 1mo ago
Generating the first version is almost free now. Understanding why that version is subtly wrong, debugging it in production, maintaining it six months later and deciding whether the abstraction was a mistake are all still expensive...
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by KurSix 2mo ago
So like memey version is still pointing at the real mechanism
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by KurSix 2mo ago
A real flatulence event would probably qualify as a minor geological disturbance
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by KurSix 2mo ago
I want to meet the clinician who can keep a 40‑ton patient engaged
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by KurSix 2mo ago
I think this is just the eternal tension between catchy headlines and the underlying science
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by KurSix 2mo ago
I have a question... how many other "normal" animal behaviors are actually weird little hacks to deal with constraints we never think about?
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by KurSix 2mo ago
Simpler tissue makes it easier to see the core mechanics without blood vessels, inflammation and a lot of other processes happening at the same time
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by KurSix 2mo ago
Same. Somehow "the jellyfish is basically the flower" is the detail that stuck with me more than the wound healing
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by KurSix 2mo ago
But I would still be careful not to blur together wound healing, regeneration and rejuvenation. They may share some cellular machinery, but they are not the same process
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by KurSix 2mo ago
The article is pretty explicit that the interesting part is that some of the underlying epithelial repair mechanisms appear to be conserved across animals, including mammals

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