Osmium

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by Osmium 1y ago
It’s actually a very reasonable approximation within a certain regime: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4057 There’s a reason people without training in sciences sometimes have the intuition that heavier things fall faster.
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by Osmium 2y ago
Can you expand on this? I was only ever taught the "turn around" explanation.
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by Osmium 2y ago
Overall energy usage, from the perspective that energy usage is the primary immediate harm of AI. This is a thesis, not an opinion.
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by Osmium 2y ago
What would regulation look like if it was based on energy usage rather than capabilities? A guardrail on mass deployment that is not linked to specific model size or aspects of model performance that are difficult to quantify.
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by Osmium 2y ago
Good, the ad was really disturbing. An ad is just an ad and not the biggest deal in the scheme of things but that was really unpleasant to watch. For me, it was the visual of needless destruction and waste as much as the meta-message.
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by Osmium 2y ago
> “only creating 3 comics a week” As if this is not an absolutely breathtaking creative accomplishment, especially so consistently and after so many years! I agree with another commenter that it probably does get easier with experience,
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by Osmium 2y ago
Or better regulation. Treating refined sugar as the addictive substance it is, and keeping those products in a separate part of the store rather than at the checkout line. Removing subsidies for unhealthy ingredients, subsidising healthier
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by Osmium 2y ago
It's interesting that this analysis implies intentionality on behalf of TikTok, and does not allow for the case that its users genuinely enjoy the service and therefore do not want to see it banned.
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by Osmium 2y ago
It was profoundly different. This is all a matter of public record of course, Ars Technica had a very good write up on it at the time it happened. HFS+ was the legacy file system, from 1998, itself based on HFS from 1985. APFS was a wholly
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by Osmium 3y ago
For all the reasons that this might not take off, what a thrill that people are trying something new--and it looks really nicely designed too. I think this is easy to dismiss at first glance, but I genuinely believe they're trying to t
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by Osmium 3y ago
I am really glad arXiv is getting more funding. It is an essential resource. For me personally, it’ll be really interesting to see if the frontend changes. No doubt there are some important improvements that can be made (a website can alway
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by Osmium 3y ago
Scientists already have well-defined terminology for many of the crystal structures described, the LK-99 is just a shorthand for this synthesis product (and a convenient one at that, for anyone trying to keep up with the latest). I wouldn’t
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by Osmium 3y ago
> calling Nature (Nature!) an "online sensational clickbait magazine" Not far from the truth, talking as someone who is in the field. Unlike Science, which is published by AAAS, a non-profit, Nature is a for-profit publication.
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by Osmium 4y ago
I think it's important for discussions about this to distinguish between how things are and how things should be . How things are is that grad student labor is critical to the running of the university: critical for teaching of un
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by Osmium 4y ago
For people who've been around longer, is it wise to take a new job with a company that's undergoing layoffs?
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by Osmium 4y ago
What is the distinction between adaptation and evolution here?
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by Osmium 4y ago
This is not entirely new; microwave synthesis has been used in lab settings for a while, even with off-the-shelf consumer microwaves.
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by Osmium 4y ago
Bystander impression from other comments I've read on DuckDuckGo posts recently: they have good intentions but behind-the-scenes are a bit less rigorous on privacy than would be ideal. Is this an accurate impression from anyone who kno
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by Osmium 4y ago
1. Your mind is also part of the world. Changing your perceptions is changing part of the world. 2. All human minds are only capable of perceiving a small fraction of the total information content of the world, and most of our perceptions a
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by Osmium 4y ago
Regardless of exposure, you have to consider wavelength. There are some things JWST can see that are completely invisible to Hubble, or, similarly, there are objects that are opaque to Hubble that JWST can see right through. Just look at al
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by Osmium 4y ago
This infographic does a nice job showing which are from the struts and which from the mirrors: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01G529MX46J7... Of course, the JWST without its struts and its mi
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by Osmium 4y ago
In fairness, some of the criticism isn't armchair: some of us work in science, may know what good science communication can look like, and can then be fairly critical of what is a wonderful opportunity for effective communication with
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by Osmium 4y ago
While you’re not wrong, in the sense that this wouldn’t hold up as a piece of journalism, anyone who’s been in academia will read it differently: this is an emotional, honest account of a problem common enough that even if this one case wer
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by Osmium 5y ago
TikTok has a very good algorithm for suggesting content for users, and this can end up with different users being exposed to radically different subsets of content offered through TikTok: in scientific terms, it’s very easy to get stuck in
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by Osmium 5y ago
> I'm in my mid-40s: there's nothing deep or mysterious to "get" about TikTok. It's short-form video snips/vignettes, mainly of people showing off for their friends, trying to cash in on short-lived audio tr
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by Osmium 5y ago
> The biggest problem I have with the idea of student loan forgiveness is that it punishes people First, I completely get how some people feel this way. It's valid. However, as someone who's almost paid off their own student lo
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by Osmium 5y ago
Thanks so much for the comprehensive reply! Very interesting to read the process.
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by Osmium 5y ago
I wonder, could you talk about the process of getting this published? Was this your first book, did you have a pre-existing relationship with the publisher?
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by Osmium 5y ago
Looks like a beautiful book. Maybe worth putting a prominent NSFW label on the link to the excerpt however? Was not what I was expecting to see when reading this!
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by Osmium 5y ago
> His legacy is a deep stain on the design industry This is a rather extreme statement. A person's career can be long and complex, involve many projects, not all of which will be successful. We all learn. From the outside, it seems

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