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by mppm 7d ago
> On what legal footing does this recap feature stand? It's not a crime if you do it with AI.
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by mppm 15d ago
I have stopped reading Ed Zitron quite a while ago because of his long-winded and polemic style. But counting his failed predictions is maybe not that useful, in the sense that his core thesis is really just the AI Bubble. While it hasn&#x2
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by mppm 24d ago
Note to self and others who have read Richard Preston's "Hot Zone": The 1989 Reston (US) incident was NOT caused by a single-base mutation of Ebola, but by a distinct monkey virus. Preston seems to have made that up to dramat
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by mppm 1mo ago
Cheating and overfitting, as discussed in the article, are the most obvious problems with benchmarking LLMs. But there is also the aspect that, at least for closed models, the tokens still have to be sent to the provider's servers for
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by mppm 2mo ago
> OpenAI had argued that the word "open" has multiple possible meanings and that "OPENAI" is a coined term without a fixed meaning. Duh. The open in OpenAI isn't supposed to mean open . We've all been com
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by mppm 2mo ago
... which is entirely unsurprising given that exhaled air is about 50.000 ppm CO2 and can vary by several 10.000s depending on depth and rate of breathing. I actually consider the recent wave of findings that CO2 levels as low as 500-1000 p
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by mppm 3mo ago
This is cute, but here is the result I got by always clicking the longest answer, or the first one if two seemed equal: Scientific Estimate: 71,650 words "Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry in disguise?" Core Basics: 16&#x
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by mppm 4mo ago
> I remember when Microsoft was the new darling not many years ago, because of VS Code and WSL I was genuinely puzzled by that, actually. I thought it quite obvious from the start that Nadella is no longer interested in Windows and other
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by mppm 5mo ago
"A guy on HN told me one time, 'Don't let yourself get attached to any cloud services you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.'" -- Robert de Niro
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by mppm 6mo ago
Theoretically yes, practically no. The ECJ can order the revision of national laws, but the country in question is responsible for implementation, and can send plaintiffs on a multi-decade merry chase. Several countries have also taken the
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by mppm 6mo ago
Thank you for Making Minesweeper Great Again!
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by mppm 6mo ago
What you are seeing here is probably the effect of window size. BZip has to perform the BWT strictly block-wise and is quite memory-hungry, so `bzip2 -9` uses a window size of 900KB, if I recall correctly. Dictionary-based algorithms are mo
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by mppm 1y ago
> Every time you look up something related to Radon, it's always cited as "the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking" > I wonder if that's really true. That claim is in fact based on extremely poor rese
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by mppm 1y ago
Maybe a bit late to comment, but for what it's worth: There is no primer that could be actually useful, because the "tax optimization" landscape is fragmented and constantly shifting. Everything depends on where you live, whe
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by mppm 1y ago
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by mppm 1y ago
At the risk of stating the blatantly obvious, this will be a rebranded Chinese phone, if it happens at all. The photo on their website [1] is a quick and sloppy Photoshop job (note identical lenses and lack of flash), and the specs and pric
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by mppm 1y ago
It's legalized graft, not a subsidy. The tens of billions flowing into SLS do not bolster productive capability in the civilian or military aviation sector, they tie up engineers in a nonsensical, dead-end project, and totally mess up
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by mppm 1y ago
I think you are misusing Berkson's Paradox here. It applies when you sample two extremes, i.e. when you look at the richest 0.1% and the most moral 0.1% and notice that the two appear mutually exclusive, even though they might actual
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by mppm 1y ago
Yeah, seems I was wrong about that. Apparently most IFRS countries allow expensing R&D for tax purposes, regardless of accounting. Many even have an R&D superdeduction nowadays. Sorry for the noise :(
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by mppm 1y ago
Elsewhere in the world (under IFRS accounting rules) capitalization of R&D costs has been a firm requirement for a while. The US has been somewhat unique in allowing them to be expensed instead, until recently.
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by mppm 1y ago
If the business has some revenue, but is not yet profitable after deducting development costs, it can become profitable on paper (and owe tax) if R&D is capitalized instead.
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by mppm 1y ago
That depends on what kind of aviation we are talking about. An air taxi usable over 200km with 2 passengers is easy to achieve. But a minimally useful regional plane with 100+ passenger capacity is an entirely different matter, because it
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by mppm 1y ago
That's an interesting sentiment, coming from you. Is privacy officially over then? Should I stop pushing my friends to use Signal over WhatsApp?
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by mppm 1y ago
> Note: When I say “wheel” throughout this post, please replace it with whatever tool, protocol, service, technology, or other invention you’re personally interested in. How did we sink this low?
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by mppm 1y ago
> I could see a highly hydrophilic capillary restricting a vapor enough to where it has better entropy in a liquid state. My other comment here (and and a reply to a similar question) has more detail [1], but in short: this is true for c
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by mppm 1y ago
What you are referring to is called capillary condensation [1]. When you have a hydrophilic surface with thin capillaries or small pores, they can pull water from the air below 100% RH. However, this process requires an enclosed space with
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by mppm 1y ago
Keeping the temperature constant with a thermostat is not an issue here. That would only explain things if the surface were kept cooler than the surrounding air (below the dew point), but from the description in the paper that does not seem
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by mppm 1y ago
Unless they have buried some really important caveat somewhere in the paper [1], it really looks like they are making claims that are incompatible with the second law of thermodynamics. They claim that water droplets are condensing on their
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by mppm 1y ago
Zeus would like to file an injunction against the impostors associating his name with a something- equivalent ¹ something. The Zeus brand stands only for supreme dominance. Zeus would not object to an actual zettawatt laser being named afte
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by mppm 1y ago
> You'd get the same result if you asked a random student to fully translate a passage from Hamlet, sentence by sentence, with no prior context. Or asked a random CS student to explain a random snippet of source code from the Linux

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