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by beautifulfreak 5mo ago
Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511
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by beautifulfreak 10mo ago
News aggregator The Drudge Report recently started using archive.is links to articles. That might have angered some publishers.
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by beautifulfreak 11mo ago
The article says 400C
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by beautifulfreak 1y ago
Maybe bismuth oxyselenide https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-univ...
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by beautifulfreak 1y ago
Reminds me of the photos of Vivian Maier, discovered in a storage locker after her death. The documentary "Finding Vivian Maier" tells the story. Amazing photos! https://www.vivianmaier.com
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
No one has mentioned China's uptake of coffee drinking, or their long term contracts with coffee growers, buying up whole crops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aR4RCqw-gg
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
You must have missed this: "In the end Laplace transforms, easier to use with a more rigorous structure and incorporating the powerful tool of convolution, overtook the operational calculus of Heaviside, and his methods largely fell vi
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber#Credit...
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
"Double down" has a similar chart, another annoying phrase.
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
China is actually dumping US treasuries, as of the start of 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbzefh0VEM They've found new ways to trade in dollars without using US or European banks, so their assets can't be
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
Who makes the real profit on Ozempic/Wegovy? In the US, that would be Pharmacy Benefit Managers, who are middlemen between drugmakers and US health insurance companies. They have no shame in the exorbitant amounts they mark up prices.
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
https://archive.ph/QfrcT
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
It didn't just replace the sky and background, it replaced the trees. That wasn't part of the instructions.
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
I'd like to see an overlay showing which red areas are also college towns. Did easy student loans help fuel the increase in rents? That's what happened where I live, where dormitories are mainly for new undergrads. After a year or
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
~2.6 teraflops FP32 (CPU) for the M3 Max.
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by beautifulfreak 2y ago
That's from Body Heat, said by Mickey Rourke to William Hurt. "...you got fifty ways you're gonna fuck up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you're a genius - and you ain't no genius." (But a million so
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
So it's increased from 2.6 to 4 trillion transistors over the previous version.
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
Perhaps you meant... DM = Dark Matter, BAO = Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, CMB = Cosmic Background Radiation, MOND = Modified Newtonian Dynamics
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
It's mentioned briefly in the article, "History of Personal Computers," which gives some links to external content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
A phys.org article goes into more detail about its cost effectiveness: https://phys.org/news/2024-02-team-green-steel-toxic-red.htm...
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
I was more impressed by the Science article from two weeks ago about cost effectively making iron from the toxic residue of aluminum refining: https://www.science.org/content/article/zapping-red-mud-plas...
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
That conflation is what Baudrillard addressed in Simulacra and Simulation (a book that the cast of the Matrix were required to read before filming started). When environments are designed, the blueprint is what one experiences in those envi
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Electric Field in Cells Stop Nanoparticles Entering Membrane(azonano.com)
2 points by beautifulfreak 3y ago|1 comments
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
"The electric field right near a membrane in a salty solution like our bodies produce can be astoundingly strong. Its strength falls off rapidly with distance, creating large field gradients that we figured might repel nearby particles
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
The iPad Death Watch is pretty funny: http://aaplinvestors.net/stats/ipad/ipaddeathwatch/
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
I've used it to interpret messages in the Mac console app. I wish it could explain what causes certain messages to appear over and over.
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
Emmanuelle Charpentier
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
Before him there was John Mack, the Harvard professor who turned serious attention toward alien abduction stories and was the world's leading authority on them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Mack#Psychology
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
The Brainstorm/Green-Needle auditory illusion is more noticeable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g88BXUhR2a4
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by beautifulfreak 3y ago
DailyMail says the asking price is $100,000. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12081261/West-Texas...

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