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Ansto nuclear reactor marks 20 years of health and technology innovation(abc.net.au)
2 points by ggm 3d ago|0 comments
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Godfather of AI welcomes pause in development (interview with Hinton)(abc.net.au)
4 points by ggm 3d ago|1 comments
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The US is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes(spacedaily.com)
10 points by ggm 3d ago|0 comments
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by ggm 4d ago
I spent a bit of time haranguing Henry Spencer about why plywood was the perfect material to make satellites out of, in sci.space. I am not a materials scientist or a rocket scientist, and from memory he was the USENET admin at U Toronto d
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by ggm 5d ago
I'm finding the logic opposed to a mandatory kill switch slightly strange. I appreciate a belief it won't help adversarial use of AI outside your control, but in what way does it either hinder, or not help malbehaved AI in your di
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by ggm 5d ago
The most prolific self-references (to myself that is) I found were UUCP maps updates because I ran a node which was in the centrally coordinated catalog (iirc it drove honey-danber to convert a!b!c paths to user@c so you didn't have to
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by ggm 5d ago
I think this is a general truth alongside "take personal responsibility" as a pushback to material harms to society from corporate entities. I am not optimistic about aspects of the future, but the "doomer" distraction t
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by ggm 5d ago
To me, the "meaning" of proof is twofold. First is the understanding which is completely absent from a proof which depends on exhaustive iterations of instances or is asserted by fiat from myriad individually contestable paths. Th
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by ggm 7d ago
Please beware the false moral equivalence. Both sides is a position which advantages the incumbency. What is your intent, beyond cynicism?
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by ggm 7d ago
I don't think this is a killer logic either. If you consider that the apps were both running, both full screen on the folded state and alternate which is in view, and now can come into view side by side when you open, surely the "
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by ggm 7d ago
I think the person you are responding to is not thinking visually. They basically seem (to me) to think reformat-flowed fixes this, and that having the view of a web page alter because you open a book, is "not a bad thing" when yo
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by ggm 7d ago
I'm re-reading proust for bed-time, and if you want long run-on sentences you cannot go past it. But your point is well made: I could (and should) have made the useful punctuation changes for pauses in the flow.
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by ggm 8d ago
I wouldn't want to over state it, but from the point of view of a nation state excluded from a class of technology, acquiring it by means which look unusual and probably are is not inherently "wrong" -it probably breaks at l
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by ggm 9d ago
Always two sides to classification. Finding and Banning. It's tempting to ask if this is one, the other or both by the same people.
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'Global reckoning for big tech': Australia to force opt-out of social algs(theguardian.com)
32 points by ggm 9d ago|3 comments
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by ggm 9d ago
Thank you for starting this thread. Another lifetime plex pass user, interested in my choices. For now, I am happy on plex/plexamp. Good to know what jellyfin is at.
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by ggm 9d ago
The cost per bit is a doubling in time. So factoring a 512 RSA, compared to a 1024 RSA is significantly cheaper. The OP used contemporary hardware to do this. so, we'd have to ask if the orders of magnitude improvement in tech (QC asid
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by ggm 10d ago
I'm not talking about chiropractors. Physiotherapists I see, and have seen regularly for over 15 years all say the work includes physically demanding postural mechanics helping clients.
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by ggm 10d ago
> The museum also addressed questions regarding the relationship between the institution and the visitor. It was confirmed that the guest is not a donor to the museum and that no financial contributions were made by the individual or th
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by ggm 10d ago
Many early internet ISPs who were virtual providers over somebody else (much like an MVNO) learned to their cost that when 75% or more of your revenue passes through your hands to "somebody else" Then you are simply an agent selli
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by ggm 10d ago
"writing code" is a tiny part of what "a career in software" means. You haven't begun to understand the complexity of systems if you think the code part is the dominant part of this career space. coding is thinking.
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by ggm 10d ago
> We keep hearing that the latest LLMs are approaching AGI. A gentle reminder if you keep hearing this, it means AGI hasn't happened and so the accusations that "approaching AGI" become more like "fusion in 50 years
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by ggm 10d ago
Such a shame this is the University of Aveiro when Juan Ponce de León was Spanish..
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by ggm 10d ago
The real story is about lifetime earnings and related outcomes in pension/Roth/401k and in health benefits. Not that there's nothing here: Degree is over-valued as a life goal in a time where we no longer really value tertiar
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by ggm 10d ago
Yes. that has to be borne in mind, discussing social media as if HN was some other "more elevated" platform. What I have noticed is that doomscrolling is like MSG. It's a great hit on the appetite, but it doesn't last. M
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by ggm 11d ago
The argument is overstated and the metaphor includes the proof (of the pudding) where do they think the curry comb, the horse clippers, the blanket and the vets drugs come from? The horse is fragile. There is significantly more at play keep
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by ggm 11d ago
"The death of the diamond" Edward Jay Epstein (1983)
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by ggm 13d ago
96% of women who survived to marriageable age, were married fixes this. The 44% of women who die young don't marry. Obviously a high percentage of men have to die young too, to maintain rough parity or else there's a woman shortag
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by ggm 13d ago
In my defence this from TFA: Much like public debates over climate change, discussions about the role of heat stress in CKDu can be contentious. Some close observers, such as Glaser, have argued that heat alone is sufficient to cause CKDu.
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by ggm 13d ago
The Web thing which lets you drag a country or economy over any other and see how Mercator stuffs up their relative sizes is brilliant for getting a sense why people want this. Like a lot of "colour the empire pink" schooled peopl

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