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by thewopr 3y ago
I'll also add, most food products down there are "expired" already. When I was down there, it was often a challenge to find the oldest piece of food. I think we found 5 years + beyond the Best By date. Best by dates for shelf
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by thewopr 3y ago
(creds: I was down to McMurdo as a researcher three times) I suspect this has to do with space and weight constraints, and probably a touch of old-school procurement practices. In the not-too-distant past, basically everything was flown to
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by thewopr 4y ago
My experiences were with the McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER program [1]. They have (things may have changed) a number of sites sending telemetry back to the states via the Iridium network. Nothing too fancy. It worked. Biggest challenge really wa
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by thewopr 4y ago
Having been in technology, antarctic research, and remote monitoring of environmental systems down there, my take: don't read into this this too much. This is mostly a PR piece, probably pushed by the university or non-profit researche
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Slack Search – A Reverse Network Effect(blog.capturelabs.ai)
1 points by thewopr 4y ago|0 comments
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by thewopr 4y ago
I'd argue, they aren't doing something future-proof right now because the fundamental architecture of the LLM makes it nearly impossible to guarantee the model will correctly respond event to special [system] tokens. In your SQL
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by thewopr 4y ago
This is interesting. Pondering about this, the vulnerability seems rooted in the very nature of the LLMs and how they work. They conflate instruct and data in a messy way. My first thought here was to somehow separate instruct and data
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by thewopr 4y ago
Is there an English version of the website? I just see the spanish version when I go to https://www.neuraan.com/ Also, as a former DSist in a service area of ecommerce, one challenge with automated service interactions are
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by thewopr 4y ago
Sorry, been a lurker too long. Added my email address to my profile. Also shot you an email to connect.
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by thewopr 4y ago
Actually, that's not my profile. My username doesn't align on github. My github profile is github.com/lawinslow
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by thewopr 4y ago
As I mentioned, long-time lurker. Added my email address in my profile.
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by thewopr 4y ago
I'm going to finally try to start my own company. Will it be a "startup"? I don't know. But it will be technical and it will go from 0-1 (or from 0-0). After years of lurking here, watching on the sidelines, working for
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by thewopr 5y ago
It was public knowledge. Further, there is no such thing as New Zealand territory (or anyone's territory for that matter) in Antarctica. There are existing territorial claims, but they are overlapping and basically nullified by the Ant
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by thewopr 8y ago
Hmmm, interesting. Any citation for that number? I've heard numbers like that thrown around, but I don't know where they come from.
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by thewopr 8y ago
This is super interesting and something I've never thought about. One other issue I have noticed with 401k's. Do 401k's exacerbate inter-generational income inequality? I know a number of people who are going to, in the next
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by thewopr 8y ago
I am a huge Tesla fan (and Elon fan). I own stock (shortly after IPO). I have a model 3 reservation. I have been singing their praises for a long time. Elon is an incredible visionary and probably an incredible engineer. This is a great com
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by thewopr 9y ago
I really wish there was much better details on costs on such large public projects (and institutions). Between the extreme costs of public works like these, healthcare, college education, there is a cost disease that needs to be figured out
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by thewopr 9y ago
This type of information is already largely relegated to the back of the library. I don't know a mechanic that has re-built a modern engine at this level. Reliability is so high and failure modes are probably generally more catastrophi
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by thewopr 9y ago
This is the kind of stuff that never makes into a journal article, but frequently gets cooked up by the university public relations/outreach staff. There is a huge incentive to make every piece of work as flashy as possible. I'll
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Take a Dip into the Internet of Lakes – Motherboard(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by thewopr 9y ago|0 comments
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by thewopr 9y ago
In general, it seems like most larger companies opposed this move.
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by thewopr 9y ago
This is a super misleading visualization. I caught wind of this yesterday and started doing some digging. There are some broad issues with this. 1. As others have mentioned, this is them playing with not true misspellings, but the phrase &q
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by thewopr 10y ago
This is a really interesting comparison. Probably a better comparison than Microsoft or Google, as is done in the article.
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by thewopr 10y ago
Or almost now $969 for premium specs. http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-7/5.5-inch-displ...
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by thewopr 10y ago
Yeah, that's actually kinda my point. A sequel is kinda the same as additional seasons (or episodes) of a TV show. With a TV show, additional seasons are basically assumed unless it doesn't do well with the target market. But movi
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by thewopr 10y ago
Maybe. But the author of the article at least does make it fairly clear what he's arguing for. Not that his diet is the perfect one, but that we need far more research into the hunger drive, not the chemistry of food and sustenance. Wh
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by thewopr 10y ago
But what's interesting is that TV is having such a different trajectory (TV as in video packaged as episodes, the lines have blurred). Netflix and the like. I often wonder if TV is winning because it has built-in sequels. If a series d
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by thewopr 10y ago
Hmmm, I didn't know that. Will have to read. Thanks.
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by thewopr 10y ago
I am not an insider but wow, this really resonated with me. > We pursued a potentially great summer movie like Edge of Tomorrow and completely botched its release. Edge of Tomorrow was a pretty solid movie. I would absolutely have gone t
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by thewopr 10y ago
I generally agree. I've seen a few challenges to this perspective. 1) Some agencies do not think using 3rd party services like github is allowed. 2) Different groups make the initial code release pretty time consuming (as, in part, it

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