p4coder

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by p4coder 3mo ago
Agreed! I had to do a double take and check the URL. I thought I am reading a press release rather than actual reporting.
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by p4coder 4mo ago
At the moment, I end up using AI mode only because the ads are not as prominent as the normal search.
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by p4coder 5mo ago
I am guessing that the Oman's share Homruz fees will also shared with Trump businesses (via loss making investments, or another plane etc)
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by p4coder 6mo ago
Today morning, I was checking TSA wait times. Guess what, they want you to install their app to get the wait time. [1] [1]( https://www.dhs.gov/check-wait-times )
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by p4coder 6mo ago
I also like doing that for topics that I am tangentially interested in. One minor thing that I find annoying is that the narrators switch roles in the middle of conversation. They start with the female voice explaining a concept to the male
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by p4coder 6mo ago
The nation is one terrorist attack away from rallying behind the president. And sadly the chances of that happening have gone up significantly in recent days.
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by p4coder 8mo ago
I think what we really need is Internet user's Bill of Rights. The power and information asymmetry is too great to obtain fair treatment for the user.
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by p4coder 8mo ago
Unfortunately it is not browser based (as in being local HTML+CSS+js). It is web based, where they get all your data.
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by p4coder 8mo ago
Yes, it is the unfortunate reality of the US. You either fork over all your data to tax preparation companies on the web or pay them to use windows/MacOS software. There is still paper filing by doing taxes by hand, but that's a b
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by p4coder 8mo ago
How do you do taxes in Linux? Install a windows VM? I don't want to use the web version. With Google docs being good enough, I don't really need windows for anything else. Last time I checked, the tax software didn't run unde
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by p4coder 1y ago
Only if you think living longer is bad. Till early 20th century, urban life expectancy was lower than rural life expectancy in Britain. It was dubbed urban penalty. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7186836/
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by p4coder 1y ago
Sometimes getting a second pair of eyes to look at the problem helps and is usually not a judgement of smartness of the first pair of eyes. Seems like it also applies to coding agents.
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by p4coder 1y ago
Today physical world is largely mechanized, we rarely walk, run lift heavy things for survival. So we grow fat and weak unless we exercise. Tomorrow vast majority of us will never think, create, investigate for earning a living. So we will
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by p4coder 1y ago
Hmm, works just fine on my pixel 6a in chrome.
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by p4coder 1y ago
It depends on your citizenship. Some European countries reject 50% Indian Schengen visa applicantions. https://www.cntraveller.in/story/these-3-countries-rejected-...
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by p4coder 2y ago
The future of AI might be layering of various capabilities: Generative+Lookup+Deductive. I think the human mind works in a similar way. First thought is reflected upon. We search our memory to get relevant information and often apply logic
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by p4coder 3y ago
One justification for dowry that people asking dowry used to give was till 2005, the hindu inheritance law did not have a claim for daughters. So dowry was a way to get that inheritance in advance.
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by p4coder 3y ago
After seeing ChatGPT and others hallucinate and make mistakes I was wondering if self-driving AI is inherently susceptible to similar behavior. Like hallucinating objects on the road and ignoring signs etc. If we can not fully understand th
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by p4coder 4y ago
I think the charging network is going to prove to be the iMessage of Tesla. By keeping it closed, they will be selling many more cars. In Europe where they had to use the standard port and open the network, there will be much stiffer compet
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by p4coder 4y ago
Rent increase has been one of the biggest contributor to core inflation [0]. That has caused fed to raised interest rate at a rapid clip and cause the market crash. So is an algorithm responsible for the blood on wall st? [0] https:/&
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by p4coder 5y ago
I think the following is much better paper on this topic. It discusses how the furin cleavage site occurs in lab and why ace2 binding could have emerged and why the virus was well adapted to ferrets right from the start. https:/&#x2F
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by p4coder 6y ago
Not exactly, but there is this [1] that shows how the binding strength varies with single amino acid change. [1] https://jbloomlab.github.io/SARS-CoV-2-RBD_DMS/
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by p4coder 6y ago
This is a great thread [1] that goes through the IFR estimation and relative risk of dying due to COVID for various age groups. Bad news for me (45-54 age group) my risk of dying goes up to 1.7x if I get covid. [1] https://twitte
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by p4coder 6y ago
I simply did percent_dead times num_dead/percent_cases times num_cases. That leads to ~0.5%. I agree with you that IFR is unknowable without very thorough sero-survey. So all we have is CFR to go on. The ratio depends on population age
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by p4coder 6y ago
My daughter's school has 2000 kids. 4000 parents. In Santa Clara county the death rate for 40-60 is .5% [1] That would mean 20 parents dead if everyone gets it. Many of the households in immigrant families are multi generational. That
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by p4coder 6y ago
TCP checksum is simples one's complement checksum. So if two bits are flipped in the same position in two different 16 bit word, they cancel each other out. If you look at all the diffs posted, they differ in even number of lines.
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by p4coder 6y ago
Talaq! Talaq!! Talaq!!!