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by ghostcluster 7mo ago
OpenAI has the best cross-thread memory system in ChatGPT amongst all the frontier LLMs and it's not even close.
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by ghostcluster 2y ago
It's not just weight loss that Ozempic and the other GLP-1 drugs encourage. They also help people stop drinking to excess, and help lower pangs for other harmful drugs like heroin. I believe that these attributes are so promising, that
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by ghostcluster 2y ago
It feels to me like another one of Elon's stubborn whims. Sometimes these result in great innovations, like Tesla's giant car part 'gigacasting'. Other times, they result in deciding to rename Twitter "X" and f
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by ghostcluster 4y ago
My guess is that most of their ad business relations are managed out of their New York offices, and ads being the overwhelming majority of Twitter revenue, that's where he is now.
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by ghostcluster 4y ago
Pretty gruesome reading. I had never heard of this either: > During the final months of World War II, codenamed Cherry Blossoms at Night, the plan of Unit 731 was to use kamikaze pilots to infest San Diego, California, with the plague. T
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by ghostcluster 5y ago
Staffing humans on the moon requires efficiencies and innovation in rocket launches, landing, inhospitable settlement, and transport of goods and people between the Earth's surface and the moon. It is a good stepping stone towards furt
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by ghostcluster 5y ago
My great hope in these cold war-esque times of tension between China, Russia, and the US is that the field of battle becomes competition in Great Achievements for science, engineering, and space exploration. Permanent human-staffed moonbase
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by ghostcluster 5y ago
Chrome is still the most popular desktop browser in China by far, and has a significant chunk of the mobile market. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/china
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by ghostcluster 5y ago
MIT Technology Review interviewed the new CEO recently: > Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment , but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation and our moves are reflective of things that we believe lead to a healt
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by ghostcluster 5y ago
> Around the same time that Kambhampati’s latest application was turned down, another arm of the government, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, gave Dr. Lana Ray, a professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., a $1.2-m
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by ghostcluster 5y ago
By way of comparison, China has administered at least 2,232,088,000 doses of COVID vaccines so far https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
And Xi has consolidated power and purged all competent up-and-coming potential successors that threaten this power. He shepherded through a modification in Chinese law to allow him to serve for life. Previously, the vaunted governing expert
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
China's carbon emissions are still growing and even by their own forecasts won't stop for at least another ten years. I think it's premature to take them at their word when they've been so publicly dishonest in other are
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
The problem is a benevolent dictator only lasts part of one lifetime. Then you have to deal with the problem of succession, which in a dictatorship likely means unpredictable chaos
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
China isn't ignoring climate change in their rhetoric . What they are actually doing is building record amounts of coal power plants, right now, this year. https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-still-building-an-in
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
Nuclear Winter was the scenario most widely used to justify a hypothetical total worldwide collapse, but we now know that this particular scenario is unlikely, even in the case of the most violent possible global exchange.
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
In my mind, the most likely candidate for a nuclear war right now comes in a chaotic escalation of the conflict between Pakistan and India. I think this scenario would be horrible, but its damage to the rest of the world's supply chain
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
Between the Kuwaiti oil fires of the first gulf war, and many more country-sized forest fire events, we've learned that Nuclear Winter is not a likely scenario. In fact, the very scientists who coined the term in the 1980s have backed
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
It is not the present social dynamic that creates these "preferences". This set of characteristics has evolved over millions of years, beginning before humans had even branched off the evolutionary tree. > In a study of 34 rhes
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
It seems these researchers have potentially zeroed in on the specific neural regulatory system behind the adage that 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks'. That they are able to administer drugs to manipulate the gradual d
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
The debt is real. > US$300 billion was estimated to have been financed via public and publicly guaranteed debt. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3093218/b...
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
This is the kind of hyprocisy that chips away at a brand's hard earned reputation. You may notice it's currently the top post on Hacker News. It was also the top post on /r/Apple/ earlier today, surely a haven of so
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
This is geopolitically interesting, as Pakistan is heavily indebted to China for infrastructure projects as part of China's Belt and Road initiative. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Belt-and-Road/Squeezed-by
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
You've got to just hope that Apple realizes how bad this would blow up in their face if they worked with police in Belarus to identify democratic protestors, especially given their emphasis on "privacy" in their marketing.
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
From his Wikipedia page: > In September 2020, two days after Nikola established ties with General Motors, short seller Hindenburg Research released a report accusing Milton of making false statements and characterizing Nikola Motor Compa
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
> Commerce officials said they will not bar additional technical transactions for TikTok until Nov. 12, which gives the company additional time to see if ByteDance can reach a deal for its U.S. operations. "The basic TikTok will sta
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
He's only been there 3 months. I suspect there's a deeper story, but it's anyone's guess right now.
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
It's not amazing sounding. Sounds like phone-quality audio like you would expect, and the production isn't very good either. Find myself in disagreement with Pitchfork on this one.
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
Fukushima would be a better metaphor because it was triggered by a natural disaster
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by ghostcluster 6y ago
Breaking up US tech companies will cede power to their Chinese competitors. Alibaba will have the advantage. And breaking up the phone company didn't improve anything. We just got AT&T again from their well-performing Texas shard.

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