marsissippi

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by marsissippi 3y ago
Lisa Randall's book "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs" has that vibe (not about passing stars, but about the solar system passing through an area of the galaxy thick with dark matter - but the imagined impact is the same).
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by marsissippi 3y ago
Great short article. Takeaway: because of ancient star flybys "the uncertainties of Earth’s past orbit make it difficult to be confident more than 50 million years. And that has a significant impact on paleoclimate studies."
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by marsissippi 3y ago
So cool! I made this thing that breaks down each image by fraction of each color used https://www.julyp.com/shared/018dae67-9ec0-7191-bd9f-7fe9c85... Looking at it like a source of color palettes, I really like Venture
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by marsissippi 3y ago
^ Underappreciated reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29105435
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by marsissippi 3y ago
Good short post. Good short quote: "You can also bet that a full stack js dev would rather buy your Kafka wrapper than learn Scala, which will do nothing for her career prospects." The implicit point is that we often abstract to t
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by marsissippi 3y ago
Certainly when a free neutron decays it releases a proton and an electron, but also (probably, hypothetically) an antineutrino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_neutron_decay
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by marsissippi 3y ago
Interesting Pull quote: GPT-4 needed about 50 gigawatt-hours of energy to train. Using our scaling factor of 30x, we expect GPT-5 to need 1,500, GPT-6 to need 45,000, and GPT-7 to need 1.3 million.
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Valentines Day Spending(julyp.com)
3 points by marsissippi 3y ago|1 comments
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by marsissippi 3y ago
In 2022, the largest share of Valentine's Day spending went to Jewelry (45.75%), followed by Evening Out (31.35%) and Clothing (21.46%). This indicates a strong preference for significant, lasting gifts and experiences over more tradit
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A curated history of UFO/UAP events on GitHub(github.com)
4 points by marsissippi 3y ago|1 comments
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by marsissippi 3y ago
Includes links to important FOIA responses
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by marsissippi 3y ago
Made a little dashboard of the last couple weeks' changes https://www.julyp.com/shared-widget/018d8a17-fc96-72b3-806f-...