r_klancer

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by r_klancer 7mo ago
Well, well, then I have a paper for you (2014); https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscie... You might be interested in author #7. Some guy named Dario something.
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by r_klancer 1y ago
Though a local model I'm running (gemma-3-27b-it; https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/gemma-3-27b-it-GGU... ) just told me various correct sounding bits about his history with alcohol (correctly citing his al
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by r_klancer 1y ago
Gemini (2.5 Pro): "Yes, Paul Newman was widely known for being a heavy drinker, particularly of beer. He himself acknowledged his significant alcohol consumption." The answer I got ( https://gemini.google.com/share&
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by r_klancer 2y ago
Actually that would be kind of awesome.
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by r_klancer 2y ago
Can't speak for GP, but in my case it was an academic optometry center. Life changing. See my longer toplevel reply.
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by r_klancer 2y ago
I will say this: if you're not happy with your current prescription, there are ways to get a more intense workup and better outcomes by going to an academic optometry center. In my case, I went to the New England College of Optometry a
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by r_klancer 2y ago
Should be fixed soon! We decided at 6pm on Friday to reduce biomedical research centers' budgets by billions of dollars ($4B in Massachusetts alone), effective Monday. So in the future China will have to train its own scientists. Sadly
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by r_klancer 2y ago
After I installed a high-COP, cold-climate heat pump in my Boston area house in 2020, I figured the wintertime running cost was about half again the cost of gas heat. However, the cost was about the same as that of running the somewhat anc
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by r_klancer 2y ago
You can gain a lot of intuition for system behavior via particle models like this and their many, many other interactives. I also recommend looking at their library of learning resources that put these interactives into context: https:&#x2
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by r_klancer 2y ago
I worked there until 10 years ago and it was quite rewarding. (In fact this interactive uses some of the "lab" framework code I worked on.) The founder was inspired by Concord (Massachusetts)'s history of progressive educatio
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by r_klancer 2y ago
> Nobody wants China to take Taiwan, that's not something its possible to convince people of It's not about convincing them to want it but rather about sowing doubt and confusion at the critical moment. David French's NY
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by r_klancer 2y ago
> the US government has caused more harm to its own people than China has today; US spies on its citizens, unfairly enforces laws against people, Maybe, maybe not. But when the PRC decides the time is right to take Taiwan, it will have p
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by r_klancer 2y ago
I'd rephrase that as "the author is the author, Stephen Johnson, who is also one of the key people..." I've read many of his books over the last 20 some years (and even watched a PBS documentary series he hosted). I was
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by r_klancer 2y ago
I had this criterion too. Fortunately by last year the this Café (GE) double oven induction range was available here in the US: https://www.cafeappliances.com/appliance/Cafe-30-Smart-Slide... I have a few quibbles (mai
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by r_klancer 2y ago
Far too many to list here, but some interesting ones re the evolution of life might be the complexes responsible for transcription of genes and translation into proteins, such https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_polymeras
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by r_klancer 2y ago
From a quick skim: what's interesting about this study from an HN perspective is that they used Alphafold (or more specifically Alphafold-Multimer: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.04.463034v2..
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by r_klancer 2y ago
As an engineer who has worked on systems that handle sensitive data, it seems straightforwardly to me to be a statement about: 1. ACLs 2. The systems that provision those ACLs 3. The policies that determine the rules those systems follow. I
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by r_klancer 2y ago
There was a Soofa sign near my house across the river in Somerville that (now that I think about it) I haven't seen for a while now. The branding wasn't quite as prominent as the Brookline Bank sponsored one in the photo. As I rec
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by r_klancer 3y ago
Fun! This is the kind of thing I got back into programming for around 2010. Just to toot my own (and my former employer's) horn, I worked on a bunch of the underlying models behind the Concord Consortium activities here: https:/&
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by r_klancer 3y ago
That's not necessarily bad news. Everyone interested in this story should read Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve ( https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/stephen-greenblatt ). It traces the story of a Renaissance hum
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by r_klancer 3y ago
Ah, I worded that badly. Ultimately the pilot is the decider as you say. I was getting at the idea that (so I am told) the day to day experience of piloting is very much about working within a regimented system.
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by r_klancer 3y ago
Strong Towns is attempting to change that with the "Crash Analysis Studio": https://www.strongtowns.org/crash-studio I can think of many reasons it's difficult, though: * The fact that accident investigations
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by r_klancer 3y ago
Well the Bell Labs Holmdel complex is often used as an example of the death and creative reuse of the suburban office park, and I guess this is the flip side. In the long run I guess splendid isolation turned out to be no match for being in
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by r_klancer 3y ago
Well, statistics matter here and one thing insurance companies know about is statistics. If you brake hard once or twice, no biggie. But, for sure, my prior is that someone who frequently brakes hard on the road is someone who gets themselv
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by r_klancer 3y ago
The headline put me in mind of a different memory I had of the campus BBS from undergraduate days, and then I clicked through and realized that the author was actually the admin of that BBS! Anyway, in addition to the BBS there was also an
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by r_klancer 3y ago
(Sitting in Kendall Square right now). I'm not surprised, though we're saying the same thing. So. Much. Biotech. This is why the WFH revolution didn't make me panic when I discovered how much it would end up costing to reno
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by r_klancer 4y ago
Yes, yes, yes. My wife (who teaches humanities) keeps asking me if AI is going to take all the jobs. I keep saying society has already had to deal with the fact that not that many people are required to build the things and grow the food,
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by r_klancer 4y ago
Chatbot-based dating matchmaker/concierges. You have an ongoing, lighthearted chat with the bot (maybe it pings you now and then asking for updates.) Every once in a while it asks you more personal questions to switch things up and dee
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by r_klancer 4y ago
Plus, so many foods list what they "may contain" traces of X, but never really quantify how much of a trace. Which actually may be a good thing about intentionally adding sesame, because at least it makes the amount consistent.
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by r_klancer 4y ago
Can confirm. That was the life. (My Dad worked at Holmdel until the divestiture.) I still remember visiting on the Christmas Eve open house they would hold every year, with a brass band playing carols in the big atrium and all kinds of tech

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