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by gwerbret 28d ago
The article is a clickbaity rehash of a Tom's Hardware article, which is a rehash of this Reddit post [0], in which it clearly indicates the extra stick was shipped back to the customer. 0: https://old.reddit.com/r&#x
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by gwerbret 3mo ago
The article was written, from soup to nuts, by AI. I suspect the person who threw his byline on it barely glanced at the text.
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by gwerbret 3mo ago
Unfortunately, the equipment and reagent vendors in the very unregulated life sciences/biomedical research world constitute a racket. Serial buyouts over the last 10 - 15 years have led to a ridiculous degree of consolidation -- the so
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by gwerbret 4mo ago
NMDA receptor encephalitis is usually associated with a particular ovarian tumor, so the first thing I did on seeing this article was to check if the author is male or female (he's male). It is the habit of certain cancers to present w
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by gwerbret 4mo ago
> Can you elaborate? What's unique about the nations for which democracy isn't the best form of government? What's unique about their people? Not the person you responded to, but functional democracies require either an al
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Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You (2020)(steve-yegge.medium.com)
5 points by gwerbret 4mo ago|1 comments
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by gwerbret 4mo ago
Well, mainly in the fact that Anna's has several orders of magnitude more books, and includes research publications and more, ah, contemporary materials to boot.
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by gwerbret 4mo ago
I love Project Gutenberg, don't get me wrong... but frankly, Anna's is better.
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by gwerbret 4mo ago
Methinks someone's experimenting with a botnet -- "can we bypass HN's checks and balances to get an entirely-irrelevant topic to the front page, and keep it there for x hours?"
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by gwerbret 5mo ago
Somewhat ironically, he'd spent the last years of his life working on prolonging life [1], and was selling a $25,000 "proactive healthcare service" consultation to anyone who could afford it [2]. 1: The company's website
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USB Cheat Sheet (2022)(fabiensanglard.net)
514 points by gwerbret 5mo ago|87 comments
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by gwerbret 5mo ago
In case anyone wondered, the title is a play on the Isaac Asimov book "The End of Eternity": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity
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by gwerbret 6mo ago
You've had enough arguments with people in both this thread and the previous that I'm pretty sure you understand what the issue is with your use of the word "free". What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a dem
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by gwerbret 6mo ago
As do most of the associated comments. I think we're surrounded by bots.
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by gwerbret 7mo ago
I really wish those offering speech-to-text models provided transcription benchmarks specific to particular fields of endeavor. I imagine performance would vary wildly when using jargon peculiar to software development, medicine, physics, a
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by gwerbret 8mo ago
The actual paper (open access): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
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by gwerbret 10mo ago
> These are the important bits for the non medical folks Also significantly: "vaccinated individuals consistently had a lower risk of death, regardless of the cause."
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by gwerbret 10mo ago
A bit tangential and pedantic, but: > At the heart of the problem is the tendency for AI language models to confabulate, which means they may confidently generate a false output that is stated as being factual. "Confabulate" is
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by gwerbret 10mo ago
> I'm happy to see the move. Codeberg is probably a more stable/long-term solution than SourceHut as the founder is slightly unhinged What's this about?
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by gwerbret 10mo ago
Some thoughts regarding Mozilla's leadership. Certain aspects of human nature, as they apply to the corporate world, can be acknowledged and understood, even if they're not excuses when they lead to the downfall of a prominent org
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Artificial Intelligence and Origin of Life Prize, $10M USD(herox.com)
3 points by gwerbret 10mo ago|0 comments
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by gwerbret 10mo ago
Interesting work. Some thoughts: First, your business model isn't really clear, as what you've described so far sounds more like a research project than a go-to-market premise. Computational pathology is a crowded market, and the
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by gwerbret 11mo ago
Heh...this is a shady study if I ever saw one. -- Exactly 400 study participants recruited. -- Exactly 193 of 200 participants completing the study in each group (which, for a study administered in a community setting, is an essentially imp
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by gwerbret 11mo ago
A little bit off topic, but even after years of active interest, I'm still amazed by the complexity of the human immune system. Imagine this: we are all born with a functional immune system which is pre-programmed with knowledge of wha
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by gwerbret 11mo ago
From one of the reviews: > You also pay 15 dollars after the first 60 minutes [for] another 15 min. Really? 1-900-CALL-SANTA, only $1 a minute, must be under 18 and have stolen your parent's credit card, no refunds whatsoever? Merry
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by gwerbret 11mo ago
Thank you. This is the sort of contextual overview that should really float to the top of discussions like this.
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by gwerbret 1y ago
Q: how does Mozilla plan to diversify revenue away from Google's Search engine Deal in future? with Mozilla currently shutting down Pocket, Fakespot and other potential revenue sources? Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, Firefox General Manager: Ri
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by gwerbret 1y ago
This study's pretty wild -- but this approach has a major downside that they only mentioned in passing in the actual report in the New England Journal of Medicine (paywalled, unfortunately). To gene-edit these cells, they had to use
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by gwerbret 1y ago
> What is the source that the healthcare costs are growing "exponentially" and are outstripping growth in GDP? See here, in particular the first figure: https://www.cihi.ca/en/national-health-expenditure-tr
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by gwerbret 1y ago
> There are lots of examples of MAID being pushed upon people that do have other options and made to feel like it's the only one. I'm not really surprised. It looks like Canada's healthcare costs are growing exponentially,

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