r58lf

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by r58lf 22d ago
weird fact. there's no refineries in florida. All the gasoline in south florida comes in via ship/barge.
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by r58lf 2mo ago
The rumor is Gemini 3.5 pro will be released next week. It had previously been announced (at Google I/O) to be released in June, but it got pushed back. Why? Rumors range from they are having trouble to they scrapped an old framework
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by r58lf 3mo ago
It's not as great as you might think, despite all the stories you see like this one. That's because most of the stories are in cells (this one) or mice. The big success story, about 20 years old now, is testicular cancer. You ca
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by r58lf 5mo ago
It's not a SQUID. There is new technology (quantum magnetometry) that measures slight shifts in molecular energy levels inside defects in synthetic diamonds. One of the google/alphabet spinouts from their quantum computing resea
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by r58lf 9mo ago
that's the work site. The residential town is about 10km SW of that marker.
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by r58lf 1y ago
For elementary school age kids, maybe even middle school, try getting them started with the app "Euclidea". They won't think of it as math. It's gamified geometric constructions. Starts simple, "how do you bisect
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by r58lf 1y ago
Yeah, people underestimate how hard it is to get a movie into a theatre AND get people to pay for a ticket. Hollywood can barely get any well made movies past $100 million these days unless it's based on some well known franchise (mine
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by r58lf 2y ago
PBRs have contracts with medical insurance. They get paid based on how much money they "save" the insurance company. "Save" is defined as list price minus contracted price that the insurance pays for the drug. PBRs manip
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by r58lf 2y ago
Technically they want to limit indirect costs to 15%. This currently ranges from 50%-100%. Indirect costs have two components, facilities and administration. Facilites are the cost of buildings, electricity, janitorial service, etc. Think
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by r58lf 2y ago
I think part of the problem is that universities have lots of people who do one job and that job is not everyday. For instance, where I'm at we have two people in charge of summer enrollment. That seems to be it. They are way way ov
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by r58lf 2y ago
Same with siliconinvestor.com It was an early stock discussion forum. It grew rapidly when search engines started indexing everything and this forum had a URL for each message that was easily indexable. It's still around, but nothing