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by bkfunk 1y ago
> I get people are sad if they get forced out of their homes for this Wow, what a way to dismiss the humanity and worth of millions of people. First of all, in some cases it actually IS a surprise: historical flood data was often quite l
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by bkfunk 1y ago
If moving millions of people—functionally including entire metro areas like…oh I don’t know…Miami and New Orleans and large swathes of NYC—by forcing them to abandon their homes (with no insurance they are now unsalable) and then buy/r
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by bkfunk 1y ago
Once I started learning more about biology, I realized that everything is just so complex. The body repurposes chemicals a lot, so you have things like serotonin being a key neurotransmitter in the brain, but also in the gut. And you have e
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by bkfunk 1y ago
> off-patent Well there’s your problem: no one can make money off of it, unless they develop a new delivery mechanism, etc. Patents encourage developing new medicines, but not developing new knowledge about (never mind use of) old medici
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by bkfunk 2y ago
If you have termites, you don’t just light the house on fire. So many tech people try to solve all the problems of Gov tech in the executive branch, which is intentionally slow and conservative. And yet, watch any Congressional hearing abou
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by bkfunk 2y ago
“That today Microsoft is a giant company is irrelevant...” I am not too young to remember the old Microsoft. To say that Microsoft is “irrelevant” is so myopic. Despite Tesla, GM is still relevant. Despite AWS, DB2 mainframes are still rele
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by bkfunk 2y ago
The number of EOs is a poor measure of the extent of executive power. There are many other ways to concentrate executive power; for example OMB (part of the Executive Office of the President) issues “M-memos” (“M” for “management”) to the h
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Pre-pandemic artificial MERS analog of SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site unique(bmcgenomdata.biomedcentral.com)
4 points by bkfunk 2y ago|0 comments
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Michael Levin: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System (2018)(youtube.com)
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by bkfunk 2y ago
Unless you want to “write a Shakespearean sonnet about Bayes’ rule”. Here’s what Claude sonnet (ahem) came up with: "Bayes's Revelation" What knowledge held before new facts arrive, Our prior thoughts, though incomplete
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by bkfunk 2y ago
This is a study of people in their 70s. The vast majority of people with hearing loss in their 70s lost it late in life; they have no Deaf/HH community, they almost never learn to sign, and they often struggle to adjust for their loss
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by bkfunk 2y ago
Or you could read the article and use common sense? > At first, AirWayBill’s managing director, Khaled Sehly, declined to discuss whether the app could be breaking any TSA regulations, asking to go off the record. (I refused.) He then as
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by bkfunk 2y ago
But this wouldn’t be in orbit; it would be in what NASA calls “deep space”, which relies on the Deep Space Network [1]. The DSN is severely bandwidth constrained, due primarily to a lack of ground antennas. Indeed, for instruments that are
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Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture(youtube.com)
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by bkfunk 2y ago
It’s very rare in the West , but speakers of tonal languages seem to be much more likely to be able to do it https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519172202.h...
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by bkfunk 4y ago
Suppose: 1. An AI model, which works simply by predicting the best next word given a particular context (context which obviously includes whatever prompts it was given), becomes sufficiently sophisticated that, given some particular context
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by bkfunk 4y ago
Note that TFA says that the man in question lived in England at some point in his 20s, so not that “far away”, in terms of amount of exposure to various Irish accents. Also, it doesn’t say whether it was an accurate or consistent accent
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by bkfunk 4y ago
“Biological” does not mean “genetic”. I believe parent is musing whether there is a neurodevelopmental basis, which of course there is, by all evidence; if you do not hear certain sounds by a young age, you will never be able to speak a lan
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The site was hosted by my local ISP sover.net(nichaelcramer.com)
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Optical components for matrix processing (2019)(medium.com)
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by bkfunk 4y ago
I believe parent is saying that PTSD is precisely a situation where memories act like perceptions; EMDR as a therapeutic modality with at least some evidence for efficacy is premised on the idea that it helps to make traumatic memories feel
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How cybercriminals have been affected by the war in Ukraine(economist.com)
52 points by bkfunk 4y ago|29 comments
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by bkfunk 4y ago
The issue is, can myapp know that it was set that way, vs being set somewhere else? The command line argument uses syntactical constraints to ensure that the value of the argument was set specifically with the intention of using it in myapp
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Build Graceful Systems(youtube.com)
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by bkfunk 4y ago
If Random House declines to publish your book because they don’t think it will sell, is that censorship? If I run a sci-fi bookstore, and I choose not to stock your book about political philosophy, is that censorship? If it write an article
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by bkfunk 4y ago
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, this is literally a theory discussed in TFA: > "This kind of quirky idea was that their arms were small enough that they didn't get in the way of all these guys fighting over food with g
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by bkfunk 4y ago
Not cheap, but check out https://www.levelshealth.com/
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by bkfunk 4y ago
People (understandably) often lament how hard it is to make an impact in the world. Being a juror can have far more impact than every vote you’ll ever cast.
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Accidental discovery that scallops love ‘disco’ lights(theguardian.com)
4 points by bkfunk 4y ago|0 comments
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A Student-T Model of Long-Tailed Distributions(allendowney.com)
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