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by jbotz 7d ago
Apple killed the iPhone mini because it only had a 4-6% share of sales of all iPhone models. While some people may really want this, I can't imaging that it'll get more than 5% of iPhone sales (after maybe an initial higher novel
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by jbotz 7d ago
Apples, oranges. Those Devialet look interesting, but aren't "open ear" (they're plugs) and cost twice as much. edit: almost four times as much.
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by jbotz 11d ago
We're actually heating the earth in two ways... one is by increasing the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The other is simply by using energy; any use of energy means moving something to higher entropy and thus producing heat, even
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Psychedelics align brain activity with context(nature.com)
8 points by jbotz 18d ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 22d ago
We've done similar things probably since before we were even homo sapiens... or at least as long as we've had control of fire. Setting fire to large areas in order to drive a herd of mammoths of a cliff, for example. Convenient,
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by jbotz 28d ago
In a paper and blog post from earlier this year (March 2026, I think) Anthropic said basically: "You're not interacting with an LLM, you're interacting with a fictional human character (the 'helpful agent') created
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by jbotz 1mo ago
It's unclear that this is an advantage, certainly not in terms of "logic vs syntax". First of all programs written in curly-brace languages still also have indentation to indicate statement grouping / blocks / sco
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by jbotz 1mo ago
Incus[0] is one. [0] https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
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ConlangCrafter: Constructing Languages with a Multi-Hop LLM Pipeline(github.com)
2 points by jbotz 2mo ago|1 comments
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by jbotz 2mo ago
Link is to GitHub repo, in the repo are links to a paper and the project page.
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by jbotz 2mo ago
That's Julian Jaynes' bicameral mind theory[0]. Personally I don't buy it because we haven't seen convincing evidence of it in pre-civilization populations that still existed in isolated places on earth until recently.
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by jbotz 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia#Funding_a... Construction on Sagrada Familia is not supported by any government or official church sources. Private patrons funded the initial stages. Money from tick
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by jbotz 2mo ago
I wish I had had this when I was a 5-year-old. Few of my teachers really understood the things I wanted to learn, my peers weren't interested in the nerdy things I was, and my parents certainly didn't have the wealth to provide m
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by jbotz 2mo ago
It's rather full of "it's not X, it's Y" and expository paragraph followed by short sentence counter-point, and "read that again". But no, I don't think it's AI, I think it's just written in
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by jbotz 3mo ago
A translation of a book to a different language is a derivative work. So a translation of a computer program to a different programming language is also. But if in the translation of the book you start altering the plot and the personalit
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by jbotz 3mo ago
Actually, no. We don't know anything about the "population" because there are no attempts here to look at what percentage of living people/children were affected. We only know that of those children who died, a lot of
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by jbotz 3mo ago
A rather more considered take on the posibility of LLM consciousness than Ted Chiang's recent "absolutely not", by someone who actually qualifies as an expert in the field.
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Don't Dethrone Consciousness(theintrinsicperspective.com)
1 points by jbotz 3mo ago|1 comments
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by jbotz 4mo ago
I don't think LLMs are conscious. But of course to say that definitively you have to define consciousness, and then you quickly dig yourself into a deep hole, which is why I can't say anything but "meh" to someone who i
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Moderate caffein use alters sleep-related EEG(mdpi.com)
4 points by jbotz 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 4mo ago
Actually, in an ancient and venerable markup language that's still in wide use in certain not-unimportant communities: - = hyphen -- = n-dash --- = m-dash
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Fixing LLM Writing with Distribution Fine Tuning(rosmine.ai)
3 points by jbotz 4mo ago|1 comments
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by jbotz 4mo ago
"...He'd make a pile and leave it for a week or so..." You're saying that your greyhound wasn't just getting drunk, but actually making his own booze? Not that I don't believe that its possible, but that'
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by jbotz 5mo ago
The answer that seems to be emerging from several different lines of research is that a) they always had fairly low fertility and b) they didn't really go extinct as such, they just intermixed with Homo Sapiens Sapiens and because the
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by jbotz 5mo ago
Actual quote from a Silicon Valley executive: "You can't even buy a decent house in the Bay Area for less than 50 million."
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Exploration of Consciousness in Insects(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by jbotz 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jbotz 6mo ago
Open Source implementation: https://github.com/scionproto/scion And that patent looks like it is for an optimization, not a necessary component of SCiON.
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by jbotz 7mo ago
> Has the climate collapsed? There are still glaciers in Glacier Nation Park. The Maldives remain islands, not seamounts. Just to really quickly call out these tired old straw-men... all of these "predicted disasters" are far f
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by jbotz 7mo ago
Yes, in mice, but human cancer cells: "When we systemically administered our nanoagent in mice bearing human breast cancer cells, it efficiently accumulated in tumors, robustly generated reactive oxygen species and completely eradicate
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Cheaper and greener way to make high-quality graphene from waste peanut shells(unsw.edu.au)
2 points by jbotz 7mo ago|0 comments

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