just_human

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The Mighty Simplex (2023)(galileo-unbound.blog)
33 points by just_human 10mo ago|5 comments
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Time series foundation models can be few-shot learners(research.google)
1 points by just_human 1y ago|1 comments
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by just_human 1y ago
Interesting new time series forecasting model from google research that can adapt using examples at inference time (like providing examples in the context prompt for an llm).
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The hunger strike to end AI(theverge.com)
4 points by just_human 1y ago|2 comments
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by just_human 1y ago
TL;DR: Protesters are conducting hunger strikes outside Anthropic (San Francisco) and Google DeepMind (London) offices to demand these companies stop racing toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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Water vapor could cool your next iPhone(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by just_human 1y ago|0 comments
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by just_human 1y ago
This seems like a premature reaction. The Trump administration has been known to anchor to extreme positions as a negotiation tactic. Given the complexity of forced platform migrations (user data transfer, algorithm preservation, creator mo
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AI is helping to decode animals' speech. Will it also let us talk with them?(nature.com)
4 points by just_human 1y ago|1 comments
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by just_human 1y ago
tl;dr: Recent research shows animal communication is more sophisticated than previously thought. Bonobos combine calls in multiple ways to create complex phrases with non-trivial compositionality (like human idioms). Sperm whales have their
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Ask HN: How do you stay on top of new research?
9 points by just_human 1y ago|9 comments
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Why did the Babylonians use a base 60 number system?(galileo-unbound.blog)
3 points by just_human 1y ago|1 comments
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by just_human 1y ago
No one knows why the Sumerians (later Babylonians) used base 60, but the leading theory is that 60 is highly divisible for a smaller number, making it much easier to do fractions and square roots by hand. Also interesting, YAML supported ba
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Source code for the X Recommendation Algorithm(github.com)
14 points by just_human 1y ago|7 comments
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by just_human 1y ago
Lots of interesting history here, but most relevant was that regulatory and process changes starting in the 80's made it increasingly expensive to build reactors. As a result, reactor construction companies (notably Westinghouse) went
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by just_human 1y ago
Recommend starting here: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/
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by just_human 1y ago
> The problem with nuclear energy is not the availability or the cost of the fuel but the capital cost of the reactor and the high level of financial and operational risk involved with the construction. Yes, in US and western Europe it&#
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by just_human 1y ago
This is somewhat of a clickbait headline. It always bothers me when market analysts are quoted with such definitive statements like "oil will next year fall to between $53 and $56 per barrel." There are so many dynamics to commodi
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Anthropic addresses Claude Code quality issues(twitter.com)
6 points by just_human 1y ago|2 comments
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by just_human 1y ago
"We’ve found and resolved two issues that were affecting quality in some Claude responses. We are continuing to monitor for any ongoing quality issues. We're grateful to the detailed community reports that helped us identify and i
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by just_human 1y ago
“… three agents: The first one develops the code based on a requirement, the second one reviews the code and the third one does the git handling (create a branch, checkout, commit)” - this seems to be an emerging pattern to have multiple ag
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by just_human 1y ago
This is a big deal, not because Microsoft wants to build reactors but because it highlights the real bottleneck: nuclear fuel. There’s already a growing uranium deficit, conversion and enrichment capacity are thin and geopolitically fragile
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Ask HN: Has Claude Code quality gotten worse?
5 points by just_human 1y ago|6 comments
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by just_human 1y ago
Interesting, even with a VPN on mobile safari on an iPhone over a carrier connection I get a uniqueness score of 100%. This is a neat tool, but I'm skeptical of its accuracy. I've run similar tests of uniqueness in the past and th
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by just_human 1y ago
Having worked in a (very) privacy-sensitive environment, the quality of the hosted foundation models are still vastly superior to any open weight model for practical tasks. The foundation model companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) are willing
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by just_human 1y ago
This is a cool idea! I think you need to find a way to seed more photos (are there any public archives by country/state you could use?), but I could see this being useful when traveling as a way to understand the history of a place. So
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by just_human 1y ago
Totally agree solar is awesome, but I always come back to the storage and grid reliability issue. That’s where I get frustrated. If nuclear were easier and faster to build, and built at the costs we see in places like South Korea or China,
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The Ping Pong Ball Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by just_human 1y ago|1 comments
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by just_human 1y ago
tl;dr: In the “ping pong ball paradox” you keep adding balls and removing one, faster and faster, finishing in a minute. Intuitively you’d expect infinitely many balls left, but depending on how you number/remove them, you can end with
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Ice gRPC toolkit and Protobuf alternative(github.com)
2 points by just_human 1y ago|0 comments
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Why it took so long to invent the wheel (2012)(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by just_human 1y ago|2 comments

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