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> They think they can just unload to some sucker for a big payday. See also the entirety of cryptocurrency. That's also the entirety of the biotech VC industry, except even more so…

This is really cool! I'm wondering what data you're using and if you can impose a more precise coordinate system into the visualizations with ways to track a specific point (perhap…

It wouldn't have worked, period. You can't use capillary blood for the kind of blood tests they were claiming to. It's statistically impossible because the sample isn't big enough …

That's a well studied topic in military history/science called unit cohesion. The saying goes that morale gets the soldiers to the battlefield, cohesion is what keeps them there. I…

> And yet, no one's rushing to pick up Servo. Mozilla Firefox merged Servo's Stylo CSS engine into Firefox 57 in 2017 and their WebRender renderer into Firefox 67 in 2019. I guess …

> Ladybird has come much farther in a shorter amount of time. That's hardly a fair assessment when large parts of Servo were mainlined into Firefox years before Ladybird even exist…

The weights are in SRAM, so the LLM architecture is burned in but the weights can be updated.

The tokens per second performance numbers coming from Cerebrus/Talas are several orders of magnitude higher than models running on GPUs, which is such a huge step change that it wi…

Knob the Yob has a certain catch to it.

I think at that point the phrase "engineered soil" loses all utility. We've been engineering soil with domesticated herd animals since prehistory, bringing fertilizer from pasture …

That's my fault, I should have prefaced that I'm just talking about the US. I have no idea what the situation is like in Europe (for some reason I assumed biofuels weren't big ther…

The vast majority is grown on marginal land, just above pasture. They can't grow better crops without massive works of engineering and tons more fertilizer and energy use. The alte…

> So it's wasteful, not at all "Green", and inefficient, but do we have a replacement octane booster that wont poison people? I'm not sure it's all that wasteful. The waste product…

From the article: > DD6 is a second-generation nickel-based single-crystal superalloy developed by the institute with fully independent intellectual property. Its chief engineer, L…

When I ask it to tweak recipes and stuff, it frequently says stuff like "my favorite way to..." or "I really like [x]". I have a viscerally negative reaction to a machine claiming …

I remember working with the Pegasus at Caltech in the early 2010s for a tech demo that was never going to launch. I'm amazed it's still operational.

That's a very vague prediction that took decades to bear fruit. The concrete predictions behind the investments into companies like Pets.com and Webvan failed. It took the survivor…

> Because proteins famously aren't molecules. Tertiary and quaternary protein structures are much more complex than molecules and have emergent properties.