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Science.org: Trump Tracker(science.org)
1 points by beginning_end 2y ago|0 comments
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by beginning_end 2y ago
Any advice on what to do if you might be a victim to this?
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by beginning_end 2y ago
I think it's pretty clear by now that the owner of X is using it as a political tool, so discussing technical details of the site seems pointless. I did like the new anti-toxicity features on Bluesky though: https://www.thev
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by beginning_end 2y ago
Bluesky has become really good over the last few months, there's really no reason to support X anymore.
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by beginning_end 2y ago
It's been really fun seeing the growth over the last year. Tons of people and fun/interesting posts. Feels like the early days of Twitter.
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by beginning_end 2y ago
Is "decripto.org" really a reliable source?
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Study: Generative AI Can Harm Learning(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by beginning_end 2y ago|0 comments
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by beginning_end 2y ago
See also https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-m...
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by beginning_end 2y ago
There's so much cool stuff these days, like interstellar iron: https://physicsworld.com/a/antarctic-snow-yields-interstella...
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by beginning_end 2y ago
The disclaimer really should be much tougher: "Every LLM consistently makes mistakes. The mistakes will often look very plausible. NEVER TRUST ANY LLM OUTPUT."
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by beginning_end 3y ago
Until this point in history there has been a reasonable correlation between the quality of writing and the "quality" of the underlying work in most text. If effort was put into the writing (and learning to write), that in itself u
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by beginning_end 3y ago
Hoping for Kessler syndrome :)
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by beginning_end 3y ago
I've been thinking the same thing. It'll be interesting to see if we end up with prompt-injecting ads
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by beginning_end 3y ago
That was a truly horrible web-page. Does anyone have a link to the actual technology?
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by beginning_end 3y ago
This perspective on regulation was interesting: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/12/28/how-to-regulate-... "Congress should declare that big-data AI models do not infringe copyright, but are i
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by beginning_end 3y ago
1) Sigh 2) Firefox still works great though, I'm a very happy user!
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by beginning_end 3y ago
I really liked the interview with the three scientists in the "Decoding the Gurus" podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-with-worobey... (Interview starts roughly 33 min into the episo
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by beginning_end 3y ago
Am I the only one who thinks ads (including non-tracking/privacy-respecting ads) are universally bad & should be regulated much harder than today? And mostly helps bad products and large companies?
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by beginning_end 3y ago
I was referring to the latest results using pulsars.
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by beginning_end 3y ago
I'm curious what the amplitude of these waves are: what's the (order of magnitude) change in the distance to a 1000 light year distant pulsar, as the gravitational wave passes through? Edit: Being told by @Dr_CMingarelli on twitte
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The Salt Diaspora(edconway.substack.com)
3 points by beginning_end 4y ago|0 comments
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by beginning_end 4y ago
What on earth is this doing on Hackernews?
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by beginning_end 4y ago
FT is good and seems to be getting better.
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by beginning_end 4y ago
Really sad to see the state of Hacker News comments — ultra right wing conspiracy theories are now the norm :(
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by beginning_end 4y ago
Good points from Stross in the comments: "The problem is that in practice a solution requires the political elite to collectively admit the falsehood of the axioms they built their entire careers on."
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by beginning_end 4y ago
IMO Portfolio123 is the best option for nonprofessionals.
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by beginning_end 4y ago
"This paper reports my memories of being a beginning graduate student in physics at Caltech and working on the team producing The Feynman Lectures on Physics" : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.05210.pdf
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Scuba Diving in a Neutrino Detector – “Two Thousand Feet Below Lake Erie”(www-personal.umich.edu)
1 points by beginning_end 5y ago|0 comments
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by beginning_end 5y ago
"Come, Thou Tortoise", by Jessica Grant.
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by beginning_end 5y ago
I found Adam Tooze's overview very interesting: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-68-putins-challen...

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