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Anthropic Set to Preview Powerful 'Mythos' Model to Ward Off AI Cyberthreats(wsj.com)
2 points by bengebre 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 6y ago
Yeah that's definitely a day-of-week/reporting dump effect making that spike. The 7 day rolling data for deaths shows CA is only 6% below the most recent peak: https://www.deptofnumbers.com/covid19/california
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by bengebre 6y ago
15 days ago was a different universe of testing capacity. Oregon had done less than 500 tests then and was still using the initial (semi-flawed) CDC tests. We've done almost 13,000 tests since then (I live in Oregon). Not to say we&
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by bengebre 6y ago
Kudos to NYT, but I think the COVID Tracking Project data is probably better because it attempts to measures total testing as well (positives and negatives). I've been using it to report state-level testing statistics and new case&#x2
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by bengebre 6y ago
Detecting moving objects (asteroids, TNOs) in TESS data: https://www.benengebreth.org/dynamic-sky/TESS/sedna/
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A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine(quantamagazine.org)
5 points by bengebre 8y ago|0 comments
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Forbes Website Used to Hack Readers(blogs.wsj.com)
3 points by bengebre 12y ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 13y ago
As someone with an High Deductible Healthcare Plan, I pay most medical costs out of pocket up to an annual limit. It's crazy that for such expensive services I NEVER know what my bill is going to be until months after the procedure ha
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by bengebre 15y ago
First I've seen on completion stats for the Stanford online courses: "Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning (104,000 registered, and 13,000 completed the course), and I
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America's Best Weather Forecast(slate.com)
1 points by bengebre 15y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk on SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket Plans(popularmechanics.com)
5 points by bengebre 15y ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 15y ago
I see the title "Delete profile and Google+ features" but no link to an actual action when I visit here: https://www.google.com/settings/general My guess is it's going away for everyone, but I guess that's speculation.
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by bengebre 15y ago
The "Delete profile and Google+ features" link in the Google "Account Overview" has also been removed, so it looks like you can no longer get rid of your Google+ account after the fact as outlined here: http://www.troublefixers.com/how-to-
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Elon Musk: The Future of Human Spaceflight(c-span.org)
2 points by bengebre 15y ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 15y ago
Have any of you signed up for the service yet? It looks quite slick. I've tipped a couple of people as well as verified my own website so that I can claim tips that people leave for me. The really neat thing (as the ERE post mentions) is
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Support Your Favorite Stuff Online: A New Approach to Micropayments(tiptheweb.org)
2 points by bengebre 15y ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 15y ago
Having just listened to the "When Patents Attack!" podcast today ( http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138576167/when-pat... ), I question how this addresses what I saw as the fundamental challenge with patent trolls -- shell corporat
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Scientists Find an Achilles' Heel in AIDS Virus (Using Random Matrix Theory)(online.wsj.com)
3 points by bengebre 15y ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 15y ago
The BLS doesn't report the data monthly, but it does occasionally break out the unemployment rate for higher levels of education. http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm In short, yes, the trend continues.
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by bengebre 15y ago
Here's the unemployment rate data by education level in chart form: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/unemployment/demographics/ It's interesting to observe the structural nature of these series. At no time (in the visible history of the char
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by bengebre 15y ago
This stood out to me: "a spectacular last hurrah for Fermilab’s Tevatron, once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it." I d
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by bengebre 15y ago
Boy, there are certainly much easier ways around it than this. The thing is, I'd really like to not have to use them. I'd love to give the Times $5 a month for access to something more than 20 articles but less than infinity. Sadly that'
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by bengebre 16y ago
A lot of us New Yorkers use the Freelancers Union for health insurance. It solved this exact problem for me. They're more of a service platform for independent workers than a union. They've got health, dental and 401k plans. http://www.
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by bengebre 16y ago
I'm always amazed by how many people claim to have learned so little in college. It's not that I don't believe them; I just had the complete opposite experience. Perhaps I'm just slower than most here, but I studied science and engineerin
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by bengebre 16y ago
It kinda makes you long for the days where the exit was a speculative IPO. At least some of the resources went to founders that way and they often retained a sizable chunk of equity (i.e. control of the product). Related (Why Ten Million D
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by bengebre 16y ago
The benefits of finding these folks are many: http://kottke.org/11/01/controlling-healthcare-costs-by-focu...
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Education Still Pays(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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by bengebre 16y ago
I noticed they are using "listing prices" instead of sale prices or any kind of constant quality index to calculate their ratios. That's probably not ideal, but since price series are hard to find for homes it's at least understandable (th
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A New Way of Gauging Prices(online.wsj.com)
1 points by bengebre 16y ago|0 comments
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Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP(kottke.org)
338 points by bengebre 16y ago|83 comments

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