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by mac3n 3d ago
"the fish stinks from the head down"
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by mac3n 5d ago
I'm afraid trust and OpenAI are inconsistent. After all, they're on a mission from Roko's Basilisk!
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by mac3n 6d ago
i think it's dark _energy_ that's used to explain accelerating expansion.
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by mac3n 19d ago
"SBF and the Effective Altruists" could make a good punk band name
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by mac3n 19d ago
Did this all begin with SBF and Effective Altruism? Looks like here's a lot of overlap in the cast of characters.
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by mac3n 23d ago
wait until you find about the Yana River people! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_Rhinoceros_Horn_Site
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by mac3n 27d ago
see also their Most Unwanted Music (revised 2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCWuRJOaltY their Most Wanted Music is unlistenable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGOvA20kiBg
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by mac3n 1mo ago
> I am a composer with a prolithic output Rock music, you say?
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by mac3n 1mo ago
In the "Hollerith Tabulator/Sorter, 1890", the machine counts and chooses an output tray. The operator acts solely as card transport.
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by mac3n 2mo ago
> predicting the electronic ground-state energies of FLiBe molecular clusters this looks like a problem for quantum annealing, rather than digital qbits. Maybe D-wave can help.
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by mac3n 2mo ago
but, are they pear-shaped boffins?
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by mac3n 2mo ago
search greatly improved in the past couple years. try it again?
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by mac3n 2mo ago
pi^2 ~ 10, well known to anyone who used slide rules.
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by mac3n 3mo ago
It: the McRib? cuteoverload.com? Ska? Art Deco? VB6? that Heisenbug? $3 gasoline? Nixon?
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by mac3n 3mo ago
I've always disliked snake-case. Maybe it's because the teletype backarrow would have been a more useful character than underscore, but it got replaced by underscore sometime in the 1960s.
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by mac3n 3mo ago
going in the opposite direction, as few as two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preon
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by mac3n 3mo ago
the AI app we knew we didn't need
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by mac3n 3mo ago
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
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by mac3n 3mo ago
Guess it went pear-shaped! > Majorana particles, subatomic particles that scientists have not observed directly. i expect they're looking for Majorana quasi particles
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by mac3n 3mo ago
As a graduate student, I used to rent my body to Science, by participating in medical school experiments. Nothing injected, but blood drawn. I spent an afternoon in an iron lung, and a couple nights in the hospital, trying to sleep while me
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by mac3n 3mo ago
of course, you're also harvesting credentials from these laptops
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by mac3n 3mo ago
"cattle, not pets"
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by mac3n 3mo ago
Nothing beats coming home from work, chopping something into pieces, and setting it on fire.
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by mac3n 3mo ago
been using this since System 7. Still doesn't suck.
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by mac3n 3mo ago
> "Our hope is that our model can play a role in a thoughtful data-driven conversation about one of the most societally and personally important decisions any person can make,” he says. good luck with that!
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by mac3n 3mo ago
Unisea Inn in Dutch Harbor AK https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g30980-d112936-Revi...
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by mac3n 4mo ago
http://knuthlab.org/courses/2025/AdvancedPhysicsLab/resource...
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by mac3n 4mo ago
who could have forseen this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082#48087331
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by mac3n 4mo ago
only started?
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by mac3n 4mo ago
the story goes, when the first Edison wax cylinder recording came out, they were indistinguishable from a live performance. these days we can hear the noise, crackles, and lack of dynamic range.

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