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by devindotcom 5y ago
Original info here: https://www.schmidtfutures.com/schmidt-futures-launches-ai20... Looks like more to come on this re application, nomination, etc.
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Oh yes I pay for Colab - didn't see this linked from the other page, or rather wasn't sure where to find it in the various notebooks. This is exactly what I was looking for - setting up to do a run now. Thanks very much.
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I was just looking at some of her stuff yesterday, very cool. I'm even more of a noob though, since I'm not sure how to get this code (similar to other notebooks I've played with) into Colab to test out. If there's an ob
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As a "general" recommendation I think "The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster (1909) is an especially interesting read today. Extremely prescient and a fun, short book. For someone more ambitious I might recommend "The
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by devindotcom 5y ago
What a strange assertion! As a journalist myself, and having met many in my profession, I can tell you this is not at all true.
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You may choose to believe the press release. The NPR article is more than the mask anecdote, that is just the intro. The reporter cites sources familiar and her editors stand by the sourcing. I imagine the truth is somewhat messier than the
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by devindotcom 5y ago
This was addressed by NPR's public editor. It was not "made up." https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2022/01/20/1074540...
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It cites a professor who recently wrote a book on the topic: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/news-for-the-rich-white-an...
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This article doesn't really report on the reporting, just says how some prominent Republicans didn't like one article. I don't see how a rather straightforward news post on the then President's comments makes NPR look pe
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Nice, I've been adding fonts to Kobo and Boox devices for quite a while and crowing about it, glad it's happening on Kindle too now.
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I have a related habit - when I start a new book on an e-reader, I mess around with the font settings until I get the right feel for that book. Sometimes it's just a basic match: a 19th-century novel will need a heavier serif, while re
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by devindotcom 5y ago
Modern digital cinema capture has nearly film-like dynamic range. It's gotten pretty good. Film is the gold standard but it's not always worth the trade-off in cost and complexity. And ultimately a lot of it comes down to good gra
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This is a really misguided comment. Africa, as far as an entire continent can be generalized, is not as you describe and hasn't been in a long time. Nations there face many challenges, but nakedness is not among them. And this is not e
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This is the original report by investigative reporter John Archibald: https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-... Some notable points collected by a commenter on another site: - "...j
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All three are the targets of federal investigations and suits. It would be hard to say which was "first" as all have been ongoing for years and reach various milestones at different times depending on court schedules, commissioner
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This fellow has explained it better than I ever could.
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Having a C for webcams is really over the top! The qualities of a digital cinema camera are wasted on such a compressed stream. A mirrorless and basic prime will give you the same effect for 1/10 the price. That said it's entirely
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There's a lot of rental but the real scarcity is in certain lenses, which don't really become obsolete in the same way. Arri puts out a new Alexa and you can maybe get one if you have a hundred grand in your pocket, but there are
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Beat me to it by seconds... I was immediately reminded of that.
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If you missed this entry, it's a wild one: https://if50.substack.com/p/1992-silverwolf An anachronistic set of quasi-Victorians possibly pulling an elaborate joke but putting out compelling text adventures at the
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by devindotcom 5y ago
I'm no expert, but this article seems misleading in several ways. >Myth number one is that specific parts of the human brain have specific psychological jobs. Your brain is both very compartmentalized and generalized. The neocortex
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This is difficult to judge either way, since on one hand Genshin is a deplorable gacha-style addiction machine and the worst of what gaming has to offer. Gambling-powered GaaS is a pretty scary combo. But on the other, it's a fabulousl
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Really? I was under the impression that the glass isn't a fully enclosed "bulb" so to speak, but is cut off at one end to accommodate the rest of the necessary hardware, and glue completes the seal. Perhaps you're right.
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As I understand it the issue with ordinary incandescents is that the alternating heat and cold from being used eventually causes the glue attaching the glass to the metal part to crack, which lets air into the bulb (ordinarily a vacuum&#x2F
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I saw this article when it was published and downloaded a copy from Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37775 It's really interesting how once you sort of clear out the works we are now familiar with
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Interesting. Found it here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7089 I'm reminded of the fictional book quoted in Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary" entitled "The Lunarian Astonished" or the
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The story of the fake album of Galileo's moon illustrations was a truly fascinating one: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/16/a-very-rare-bo... and one of my favorite stories of all time, a
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I'd never heard of this, how interesting. I'll save this for a rainy day (and there are lots coming). Thank you.
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UCLA has been working with them for quite a while on this: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-launches-major-menta... It's creepy in a way, but monitoring activity and expressions could result in some valuabl
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This is great. It's useful to be able to not just visualize this but to go from nations/territories to individual treaties, which are then linked to tribal sites describing those treaties and (very often) how the U.S. government h

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