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_qua

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About _qua

An MD who's interested in tech mostly as a hobbyist

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    Comment #48858847

    I can imagine truly horrifying images coming out of this. Many people who have spent a lot of time online have come across unfortunate gore images that they may have seen for only …

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    Comment #48460533

    The diagrams definitely look like LLM output as well

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    Comment #48261704

    I absolutely love the graphs that were used in old medical physiology papers. Something about the hand-drawn nature makes you appreciate both the underlying concept the graph is tr…

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    Comment #47711917

    I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.

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    Comment #47437935

    Damn, that case took a long time to resolve. You know what they say about justice delayed...

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    Comment #47295979

    For roughly equivalent memory sizes, how does one choose between the bit depth and the model size?

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    Comment #46936399

    Some infections cause cancer-like growths or masses though they're not actually cancer. Though off the top of my head none that I would suspect would survive a trip through stomach…

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    Comment #46917450

    Would there be liability lawsuits for this happening on public land? Might it be more a matter of them not wanting to do body clean up once a week?

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    Comment #46903989

    Interesting how the concept of a clean room implementation changes when the agent has been trained on the entire internet already

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    Comment #46886680

    "...the requested warrants would permit law enforcement personnel to (1) press or swipe the fingers (including thumbs) of the subject to the fingerprint scanner of the devices..."

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    Comment #46886547

    What do you think warrants are? You think they get a warrant and they say, "Can you put your finger on the device?" You say, "No," and that's it? If all they wanted to do was ask y…

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    Comment #46814946

    B1FF sounds like he would have been right at home on weird Twitter

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    Comment #46568984

    Presumably they'd be doing inspections for the power company, who probably don't care if some minuscule amounts of power are consumed directly during operations.

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    Comment #46566180

    Well, I've really love being protected from cookies. Has done wonders for my experience on the web.

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    Comment #46565958

    If you lived in the US and you didn't like this product, you can just choose to not use it. What benefit do you as a citizen of Europe derive from having this withheld from you?

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    Comment #46561483

    You came in, you told a doctor that she ate a specific food and immediately got a rash and GI upset and the ED doctor did not diagnose anaphylaxis?

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    Comment #46534134

    > Most doctor advice boil down to drink some water and take a painkiller Forgive my brusqueness here, but this could only be written by someone who has not yet been seriously ill.

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    Comment #46534066

    The most important dietary intervention most people need is just eating less. The content of what they eat is secondary. It's not unimportant, it just matters less when you are sti…

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    Comment #46506938

    This is the first anti-fly paper take I've ever seen on the basis of morality.

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    Comment #46497584

    I've never really understood the "spiders protect you from pests" argument. Yeah, sure they eat flies. But I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me and get stuck to some fly paper t…

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    Comment #46413219

    I personally think it's more of a https://c25k.com/ time of year.

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    Comment #46270146

    This is cool but why is DARPA funding it?

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    Comment #45915066

    They have hundreds of new voices in their library

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    Comment #45708592

    Not a good place to be a klutz!