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by SaberTail 10d ago
If the AI wrote the article, and with no code, how do we know this even happened?
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by SaberTail 14d ago
They have a lot of shielding for the detector, and also if there were a significant source of neutrons they'd expect to see other evidence, both in the detector and in the separate "veto" detector that surrounds the main dete
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by SaberTail 14d ago
Detectors like this work on exposure. They're always on (except for calibration and maintenance), waiting for events to happen. This paper was written with 2.8 tonne-years of data. That is, 4.7 tonnes of liquid xenon for a little mmore
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by SaberTail 14d ago
In one sense anything that passed all their background rejection is a WIMP. To interact with a nucleus through so much matter, it's not interacting electromagnetically. The main candidate for a strong force interaction would be a neutr
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by SaberTail 14d ago
To start with, they do a lot of work to eliminate radioactive backgrounds in the materials they're using, and they put the detector deep underground to shield from cosmic rays. Additionally, when a particle interacts with the nucleus,
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by SaberTail 14d ago
I read their preprint[1] and they did a thorough job. They investigated a number of the things I'd suspect if I were looking for mis-reconstructed events or weird backgrounds. So it's certainly interesting! That said, particle phy
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by SaberTail 1mo ago
It's mostly about signal-to-noise. The drawback to those detectors is that because the nuclei are heavy, when the neutrino interacts with them, they don't end up moving very fast and so there isn't much of a signal produced i
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by SaberTail 2mo ago
The name is misleading. The glyphs are showing individual chord shapes. I can't write out a song using this. At best I can use this at the top of a tab to remind myself how the chords are meant to be shaped. But that doesn't appea
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by SaberTail 6mo ago
I said to a few friends that the recent trailer felt like it could be for a House of Leaves movie. Different overall setting, but the "found footage" aspects, and the narrative over it, felt like they could be right out of the Nav
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by SaberTail 6mo ago
The term I've heard for this sort of thing is "Physical Neural Networks" or "PNN"s. My impression is that one of the big things holding them back is that because we can't manufacture components to perfect toler
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by SaberTail 7mo ago
The "figure out what you want to say" is key. I've started to think of LLMs, at least in a business setting, as misunderstanding amplifiers. How many times at work have you been talking to someone else where they're usin
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by SaberTail 7mo ago
as far as MSHA is concerned it is. They take salt out of the ground to make room for the waste.
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by SaberTail 7mo ago
This doesn't seem to be complete. It's missing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, for example, which should be southeast of Carlsbad, NM. It's a underground salt (metal/non-metal) mine, and MSHA definitely regulates it
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by SaberTail 7mo ago
The poetry you quoted is originally by Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire .
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by SaberTail 7mo ago
I'd speculate we had a few factors working against us that made us hit the "limit" sooner. Several different engineering teams from different parts of the company had to come together for this, and the overall architecture wa
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by SaberTail 7mo ago
I was on a greenfield project late last year with a team that was very enthusiastic about coding agents. I would personally call it a failure, and the project is quietly being wound down after only a few months. It went in a few stages: At
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by SaberTail 10mo ago
And then they'll start feeding in data like gaze tracking, and adjust the generated content in real time to personalize it to be maximally addictive for each viewer.
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by SaberTail 10mo ago
It's most notes, and for EU and US notes (as well as some others), it's based on a certain pattern on the bills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
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by SaberTail 11mo ago
And meanwhile today you can get more power than the Cray-1 (or Cray-2) from a single chip a fraction of the size of that coin. Very quickly: a dollar coin is about 550 mm^2 on a face the Cray-1 could do 160 MFLOPS an M1 chip has a d
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by SaberTail 1y ago
The last line about "simplifying approximations within the literature[...] applied outside of their intended context" makes me think the author has an issue with the way other theoreticians are using LIGO data in their analyses.
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by SaberTail 1y ago
I'd suggest a better analogy would be telecommunications fiber[1]. [1] https://internethistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OSA_B...
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by SaberTail 1y ago
California requires a warning a month in advance for anything a year or longer. Pointing out this law has gotten me a few refunds from services that failed to comply and renewed my subscription without telling me. https://leginfo
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by SaberTail 1y ago
Currently, domain specific languages written in YAML. I see these everywhere, from configuring individual utilities to managing giant architectural stacks. People get in their heads that YAML is more easily written and read than code, and s
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by SaberTail 1y ago
CFIT is not necessarily pilot error. For example, if ATC vectored a plane without ground proximity warnings into the side of a mountain, that would also be CFIT.
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by SaberTail 1y ago
On the one hand, it sounds very stressful. On the other hand, if you screwed up, you wouldn't even notice because your brain would be obliterated before it would register.
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by SaberTail 1y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127739
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by SaberTail 1y ago
You can search the official python docs on DDG with !python. So if you search for "!python sum", it takes you right there. They have a lot of other "bangs" that work really well, too: https://duckduckgo.com&#x
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by SaberTail 2y ago
I got my PhD at Stanford. There were a few things that made me choose it over others. First, there are effectively 3 physics departments, between physics, SLAC, and applied physics (which is a different program, but still the resources are
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by SaberTail 2y ago
You're now entangled with the system, and so we will need someone else to observe you.
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by SaberTail 2y ago
The control is daylight, where countless species of life survive on a daily basis. You are comparing the hypothesis that life can survive with very little light to the hypothesis that it needs normal amounts of light to survive.

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