asplake

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Introducing wrapture(grahamdumpleton.me)
1 points by asplake 16d ago|1 comments
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by asplake 26d ago
> 3. Why the Obvious Answer Fails: The Center-of-Mass Trap
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Half of vaccines are binned – 'fridge-free' versions could change that(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by asplake 1mo ago|0 comments
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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (2011)(gist.github.com)
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by asplake 2mo ago
You can @decorate a for-loop? I wish there were easier ways to play with syntax in Python, but there we are.
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The little type that could too much(raphael-proust.gitlab.io)
1 points by asplake 2mo ago|0 comments
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by asplake 2mo ago
My take (several years old now) https://www.agendashift.com/done
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A mirror universe might tell a simpler story: Neil Turok (2023)(perimeterinstitute.ca)
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by asplake 3mo ago
> It’s one of the ways you can tell the true lover of the emdash from an LLM Quite apart from this tiresome and unreliable LLM detector, it’s also a way tell an American from a Brit. We Brits use spaces (and endashes).
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by asplake 3mo ago
Michel Barnier (EU's Brexit negotiator and later PM of France) suggests otherwise. Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’" https://www.theguard
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by asplake 3mo ago
Via (with a rather more ironic headline) Paul Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-champion-of-...
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Trump administration to pay £765M to cancel 4 more wind projects(nytimes.com)
5 points by asplake 3mo ago|1 comments
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by asplake 3mo ago
Via the BBC: Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621z28z138o
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Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24(thelancet.com)
4 points by asplake 3mo ago|1 comments
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by asplake 3mo ago
Reminds me of Ackoff’s Idealised Design [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_planning#Idealized...
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Israeli tech firm accused of targeting First Minister in election(bbc.co.uk)
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Open Semantic Interchange: The Universal Standard for Semantic Data(open-semantic-interchange.org)
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by asplake 3mo ago
Not a core tenet [note 1] at all - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessationism_versus_continuati... [note 1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/tenant-vs-tenet-diff...
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by asplake 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415217
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by asplake 4mo ago
> For years, people have tried hard to get websites to build accessibility affordances. Now developers are willingly building them for AI.
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Affordances for Me, but Not for Thee(werd.io)
3 points by asplake 4mo ago|2 comments
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Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks(arstechnica.com)
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by asplake 4mo ago
“Kettle lead” is definitely good here too. It is, after all, more than just a plug.
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by asplake 4mo ago
Is transposition a common enough operation that it might be better to avoid it by having versions of the operations/functions that take matrices that do the necessary transpositions implicitly?
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by asplake 4mo ago
I
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UK scientists developing new Ebola vaccine that could be ready in months(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by asplake 4mo ago|1 comments
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by asplake 4mo ago
And now you have 84,689 problems
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by asplake 4mo ago
In practice, it can be very relevant. With my own household solar/battery system, I am sometimes frustrated more by limits on how much current I can draw, not by capacity. I could add more batteries, but it seems that the inverter is t
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by asplake 4mo ago
Another old person here. At an office in Zurich I saw a layer of smoke filling the upper reaches of the atrium. I wondered how many working (i.e. smoking) hours it would take before it reached the balcony on which I was standing.
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by asplake 4mo ago
“Friday next week”. Sorted.

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