hangsi

5 ms·

1.
by hangsi 20d ago
To aid curious readers, the cell biology term for this (many genes to do X) is pleiotropy. The Wikipedia article [0] conveniently includes a discussion on its relevance in autism. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleio
2.
by hangsi 21d ago
It sounds like you might be a physicist who disagrees?
3.
by hangsi 4mo ago
This is from the interview on Hot Ones (released August 5, 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXma6K9mzo&t=816s > Sean Evans: > I think a scenario lots of viewers can relate to is sitting on the couch on a Fr
4.
by hangsi 11mo ago
There is a mechanism for this, internationally usually named some variant of a Law Commission [0]. The idea is to look for laws that are technically in effect but can rarely or never be applied. For example, the UK Law Commission boasts a r
5.
by hangsi 11mo ago
Divided we stand, United we fall.
6.
by hangsi 11mo ago
The almost-wrong simplification is that a nonlinear medium changes the wavelength of the light that passes through it. If you can control the nonlinearity, you can control the wavelength change and so change properties such as the angle of
7.
by hangsi 11mo ago
> can we not expect writers to just keep it brief? In essentially every situation, you cannot expect readers to read.
8.
by hangsi 1y ago
I recall from my own visit that the electrical transformers are supposedly original. So, the National Museum of Computing justifies calling its Colossus a rebuild rather than a replica, since it is made with some original parts.
9.
by hangsi 1y ago
This is excellent. I wonder how deep the roots of pre-20th century computing systems go. Babbage, Lovelace and the Difference engine are well catalogued, and I have seen a Jaccard loom in a museum with my own eyes. What comes before this th
10.
by hangsi 1y ago
This seems untrue, especially for reddit? Using the 1/9/90 split [0] for creators/commenters/readers, it seems farfetched to suggest that reddit accounts (which benefits readers making an account to curate subreddit subs
11.
by hangsi 1y ago
You are right. The grandparent post ironically uses word this in a cheapened, shallow way when they can use it freely in their own writing. You could argue this is the very sort of activity they were criticising when they posted! We are all
12.
by hangsi 2y ago
Tell that to the Pierce-Arrow company: makers of the first official cars for the white house, but they didn't survive cash flow problems from the great depression. Meanwhile, Ford survives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
13.
by hangsi 2y ago
You would think, but there are many "sea lochs" along the coast that are salt water inlets (lagoons?), and Loch Long is one of them. I think it's a grey area (and perhaps the West coast of Scotland in general is too).
14.
by hangsi 2y ago
Yeah, there should be some sort of world wide epoch shifting environmental change about 65 million years ago to show for it.
15.
by hangsi 2y ago
This seems to have an obvious counterexample? The name of the Streisand effect is from exactly the situation of a photo nobody cared about of Streisand's house from decades ago. The fact that it can be superficially referenced is evide
16.
by hangsi 2y ago
Nazis, traditionally. Typing it out makes the comparison feel weak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_ ...
17.
by hangsi 2y ago
Interesting to consider GPUs as the coal of the AI revolution. This is worth it for the mental image of heaping them into a boiler fire by the shovel load alone.
18.
by hangsi 2y ago
The common method for choosing the next output token for an LLM is sampling from a Boltzmann distribution. If you have seen the term "temperature" in the context of language models, that is a direct link to the statistical gas mec
19.
by hangsi 2y ago
Yes, but then it needs to be stored, and the price effects might encourage even more production. Previously this has led to events like the devastating Wisconsin butter flood [0] ("A firefighter reported flames 300 feet (91 m) high&quo
20.
by hangsi 2y ago
Arguably Crowdstrike's loss was due to a flaw in their product rather than PR. Disney's product (though not their core, I would argue) allegedly killed this poor woman - however it is the lawyers' behaviour, not the death its
21.
by hangsi 2y ago
Clues must be related to the semantic meaning of the cards, so irrelevant clues are technically banned. So, a "sausage" strategy would be illegal on many boards.
22.
by hangsi 2y ago
Yes, I agree completely - I realised something was off in an espirit de l'escalier way not long after I posted. This is great news for my proposed box redesign!
23.
by hangsi 2y ago
This is an interesting view of how random number based security is compromised for economic practicalities (though the meanings of "security" and "compromised" might be overstretched here). For completeness, I wondered h
24.
by hangsi 2y ago
The argument I can imagine is already around (like for many potential AI applications): even if you know the law, such as if you are a lawyer, you always get representation because judges and jurors are prejudiced to rate self-representing
25.
by hangsi 2y ago
3 throws per second is the rate of action required to perform juggling literally. The implication is that communicating between the miss that causes the fall and the event of dropping the ball must happen in less than 1 second. Translating
26.
by hangsi 2y ago
"Beautiful. Unethical. Dangerous." So says Morgan Freeman's character Lucius Fox in 2008 in The Dark Knight[0]. The rest of the tech imagined in that scene is plausible today too, considering the density of WiFi/5G and r
27.
by hangsi 2y ago
I think the parent comment was referring to something else. In the paper the tasks are only completed by GPT-4V. For a valid scientific investigation, there should be a control set completed by e.g. qualified doctors. When the panel of expe
28.
by hangsi 3y ago
Neural networks have two different compute costs: training and inference. These are roughly analogous to compile time vs runtime for compiled programming languages. Training is in general a more intensive task. However, in an ideal scenario
29.
by hangsi 3y ago
It's from The Elements, by Tom Lehrer (the final lyric of the song). https://youtu.be/qyNkrlwKs7c
30.
by hangsi 3y ago
This isn't really copyright - more the microeconomics of losing market share/control. Specifically, I think they are less concerned with (say) specific Excel code leaking than with the knock on effects of a cheap perfect substitut

More ›