jeffwass

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Why 'sleepmaxxing' could be making your sleep worse(bbc.co.uk)
11 points by jeffwass 10d ago|3 comments
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How Scared Should We Be of A.I.?(nytimes.com)
4 points by jeffwass 11d ago|0 comments
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by jeffwass 2mo ago
An interesting statistical example if you haven’t seen it before is the Anscombe Quartet : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet Four sets of X,Y datapoints that have exactly (or very close) common statist
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by jeffwass 3mo ago
It's the simplest AI nihilist!
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Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system(nytimes.com)
107 points by jeffwass 4mo ago|113 comments
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by jeffwass 4mo ago
FYI - The actual BBC title is “Cherry Kearton: The eccentric influence on a young Sir David Attenborough” but I felt this wasn’t descriptive enough. The article subtitle is “As a child, Sir David Attenborough was transfixed by the work of C
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Cherry Kearton – groundbreaking 19th-century nature photographer(bbc.com)
3 points by jeffwass 4mo ago|1 comments
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by jeffwass 5mo ago
This submission is currently the main HN submission. As of now the submission title is simply “Copy Fail”. Given the severity of the exploit, can we edit the Title to add some context that it’s a major Linux vulnerability? Eg the other subm
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by jeffwass 5mo ago
This is a terrible take, and I say this having a PhD in Physics. Many physicists have written popular articles and books for the general population. Eg Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox. Improving accessibility of advanced concepts is no
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Google is Hollowing out Waze, and that's a Problem for Apple(builtformars.com)
2 points by jeffwass 5mo ago|1 comments
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by jeffwass 5mo ago
Somehow I got a 7 out of 9, even though I felt like I was mostly guessing. Surface vs deep lines have more rumble but that’s about it that I consciously knew of.
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The ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour(bbc.com)
2 points by jeffwass 6mo ago|1 comments
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Horror Novel 'Shy Girl' Canceled over Suspected A.I. Use(nytimes.com)
10 points by jeffwass 6mo ago|0 comments
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Surfers in Munich (Yes, Munich) Just Want Their Wave Back(nytimes.com)
1 points by jeffwass 6mo ago|0 comments
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by jeffwass 6mo ago
I did a bunch of research on similar Tc superconductors back during my PhD. 7K is considered “warm” from a cryogenics point-of-view because you can just dunk your sample into a dewar of liquid helium at 4.2K. You can even get it cooler, dow
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by jeffwass 7mo ago
FYI link is below, for the off-chance someone is curious. (not sure what are the unwritten rules of self-promotion here, but hopefully providing a link in a sub-comment instead of the comment itself makes it okay-ish?) https://ww
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by jeffwass 7mo ago
Lol, my band (London-based) has a song and YouTube music video called "Streets Of London". I had a minor panic/WTF moment when I saw the submission saying : "Streets of London [video] (youtube.com)".
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SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by jeffwass 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jeffwass 7mo ago
Does annybody worry about sabotage if you don’t tip? Eg the cashier does something to your food? “Nice muffin you got there, I’d hate for it to get accidentally sneezed on.” I recently bought my mom flowers for her birthday. Despite the pri
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by jeffwass 7mo ago
Some of Robert Tinney's artwork is still available for sale at his website, limited edition runs of several of the Byte covers and other art. https://tinney.net/
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by jeffwass 8mo ago
I was wondering this actually, why not just skip past the check entirely instead of going through the effort to pass the check without the dongle?
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by jeffwass 8mo ago
Really interesting read, wonder how many other installs are using (and trapped into continuing to use) such obscure legacy software.
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by jeffwass 8mo ago
Two thoughts on situations where the 555 may be preferable, if anyone has experience how these compare : 1. Low-noise applications. I’d naively expect the 555 to be less noisy than a clocked digital microcontroller, though it’s been awhile
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by jeffwass 8mo ago
At my cousin’s company there are TV’s in the lobby. They used to show news channels. He said clients would come in all stressed out. So they changed to a home improvement channel.
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by jeffwass 8mo ago
Even in your own car dropping off your friends or family at a UK airport (at least the London ones) requires paying a £6 fee now. Just to get to the dropoff area, even for 30 seconds as you say. But hey, at least the luggage carts are free…
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by jeffwass 8mo ago
“The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.” - Brian Kernighan
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by jeffwass 8mo ago
This is pretty cool project. Have you been able to track satellites with it, eg an ISS flyover?
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by jeffwass 9mo ago
They’ve been doing this for over a century, it’s probably the top deaf school in the UK, and has the support of nearly the entire deaf community. Most of the students have either some degree of hearing or use cochlear implants. I think near
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by jeffwass 9mo ago
My daughter is deaf and goes to a specialist deaf secondary school in the UK. Five years ago ARISS-UK pre-arranged a connection between the school and astronaut Mark Vande Hei on one of the ISS flyovers. Various students got to ask question
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by jeffwass 9mo ago
This was going on long before LLMs. When I took quantum mechanics in grad school, I struggled through the weekly (and intense) homework sets. My TA was a hardass, I’d spend hours on some problem, several few pages of math work just for one

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