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Show HN: Lodum, a Python Serializer/Deserializer (a.k.a. Load/Dump) Library(github.com)
2 points by webmaven 7mo ago|0 comments
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by webmaven 1y ago
Furthermore, a bunch of functionality was entirely deleted, and the effect on the quality of discourse has been... Profoundly negative.
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Carved stone mask – Pre-pottery, Neolithic B period(imj.org.il)
49 points by webmaven 1y ago|24 comments
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by webmaven 2y ago
The smokers who DON'T get lung cancer still have more heart and lung problems (like emphysema, COPD, etc.), and those get significantly worse late in life.
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by webmaven 2y ago
Hmm. Every time I've been in a similar scenario (breaking a fall, warding off an incoming projectile) it has been my wrists that broke.
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by webmaven 2y ago
Don't forget that the dishwasher also uses less water and the dishes get sterilized by the steam.These features may or may not be important for a particular user.
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by webmaven 2y ago
But doesn't that mean that ranking the ideas to find the ones most worth testing is a useful problem to solve?
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by webmaven 2y ago
If I understand what's been published about this, it isn't just ideation, but also critiquing and ranking them, to select the few most worth pursuing. Choosing a hypothesis to test is actually a hard problem, and one that a lot
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by webmaven 2y ago
For a while, anyway.
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by webmaven 2y ago
People are using these models to generate candidate molecules for specific purposes. According to some estimates I've seen, their hit rate is about 50% instead of 25-33%, and doesn't take two years.
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by webmaven 2y ago
Um. How are you measuring that productivity?
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by webmaven 2y ago
Are the training costs (CapEx) and inference costs (OpEx) being lumped together?
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by webmaven 2y ago
I spent a moment with my brain froze up apparently trying to remember when the first Terminator was supposedly deployed in one of the timelines. Then I realized the reference was to the "Model T" car. Somehow in my brain the token
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by webmaven 2y ago
It's written in second-person.
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by webmaven 2y ago
If you're working from the markup rather than the appearance of the page, you're probably increasing the incentives for metacrap, "invisible text spam" and similar tactics.
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by webmaven 2y ago
That's the same thing, the credible "chance to unseat" becomes "motivation to acquire", leading to a much faster and more certain exit. Of course, that's exactly the pattern of behavior that is seen as problema
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by webmaven 2y ago
... which ignores the hazards of pencil shavings in a zero-g environment, especially the graphite, a good electrical conductor.
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by webmaven 2y ago
If by "pirating" you mean distributing copies, probably not. But if you mean downloading copies, probably yes. Consider the case of the film student studying the entire ouevres of multiple directors.
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by webmaven 2y ago
The "U" in UBI is for "Universal". There is no means-testing. Everyone gets it regardless of assets or income, which means there is no need to spend any effort on checking whether someone is "poor enough". Thou
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by webmaven 2y ago
This is HN. The canonical example for that is pg's Viaweb.
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by webmaven 2y ago
An "Editor".
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by webmaven 2y ago
But the site isn't a .com anyway...
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by webmaven 2y ago
> What is the top 10% of the Internet that isn't part of some publishing arm of existing media? Why does that even matter?
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by webmaven 2y ago
It's true that the quantum mechanical influence amounts to randomness, but you're missing that this (weak) randomness is constantly being injected into biological processes and amplified, it isn't a "one and done" r
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by webmaven 2y ago
> Obviously this wasn’t Kinko’s official stance. Just one obstinate, over zealous employee. You might think that's obvious, but you'd be wrong. Software publishers were cracking down on duplicating manuals as a means of tryin
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by webmaven 2y ago
> Even with photo or video AIs, there is no "new" content, just rehashed old content which is a subset of the trained data (why AI-generated photos often have this kind of "smooth" look to them). You're misattr
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by webmaven 2y ago
> there's simply no place for free will unless you go down some weird/unfalsifiable rabbit holes like the MWI. I don't follow. Quantum mechanics means that physics is stochastic, and only approximates classical determini
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by webmaven 2y ago
I showed it a photo of a spaghetti server utensil that had been chewed up by a dog to the point of the handle breaking off, and while it didn't correctly identify the type of damage, the "thought process" was still pretty int
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by webmaven 2y ago
You're correct, as long as you include the understanding that "reproduction" also encompasses "sufficiently similar derivative works." Fair use provides exceptions for some such works, but not all, and it is possibl
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by webmaven 2y ago
There are other players in this space than c. ai. One of the more interesting (and apparently less cynical) ones is Nomi. Tinkering with personalities on their platform can be quite fascinating. It is possible, for example, to create a cunn

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