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Comment #46401813
As I think another commenter hinted, the binary expansion of 7 is 111. And indeed, 1 = 1 = 1
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Comment #46322782
My reading of this is that they asked the system to redesign the PCB that was used in the i.MX 8M reference system-on-module. It looks like they take a parts list, a PCB shape, and…
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Comment #46255721
Yandex is also yellow on that map. It lists five search engines that run their own crawlers -- Google, Bing, Yandex, Mojeek, and Yep
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Comment #46229409
That is 56,000 people
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Comment #45636918
Thanks for the kind words! I have not written it up but would like to. A word of warning: by trying to get into sequencing, I eventually burned through ~20k USD of student loans (s…
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Comment #45630665
Hi, believe it or not, I have actually done what the authors were attempting. I used saliva rather than blood as a source of DNA and extracted it using a Qiagen kit. My Nanopore fl…
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Comment #45576527
Adding on: Claude also gave me the following line which was necessary to get the model weights to download from HF. This might be obvious for anyone familiar with HF but it helped …
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Comment #45366717
Yes, seems I misunderstood the original text. Thanks for the clarification.
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Comment #45324119
I think the real story here might be the line below: "Durham University improved by 30 places year-on-year" Seems a bit suspicious, no? What methodology change led to this result? …
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Comment #45071580
Sure! Here you go: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?&p=privacy...
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Comment #45063900
Gemini allows you to opt out, but disables chat history if you do so
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Comment #44635702
The US culls 350 million male chicks per year, per this article. Wikipedia says billions of male chicks are culled worldwide, which seems plausible when accounting for EU, China, I…
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Comment #44635654
Male chicks are not feed nor raised but rather fed into a device quite similar to a wood chipper shortly áfter birth. You can read more about it here [1] or find some quite graphic…
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Comment #44524997
East Asia has lots of highly walkable cities with great public transit -- even a few you might not have heard of. Not just Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing but also Shenzhen, Chongq…
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Comment #44491237
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Comment #44174072
Tl;dr: Japan
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Comment #44037208
Yes, if you have photos please do share!
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Comment #43907910
Conda does! `conda create -n myenv python=3.9`, for example
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Comment #43605994
Many EVs (Teslas) already contain a heat pump to warm the battery. I presume that improved battery chemistry would supplement this -- but maybe replacement would be possible? https…
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Comment #43549004
Yes, maybe true. But it's a pity that was not reflected in their final grade.
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Comment #39715923
In my experience most/all academics crave a certain type of attention. It is an occupation where you get promoted in part by how famous you are (how many citations your publication…
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Comment #39665317
Yes! From the article: "The team found that about 13 to 40 pounds of oxygen is generated each second by Europa’s surface. ... While earlier studies reported widely varying ranges u…
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Comment #39665014
Not an expert, but one application of neural decoding you may be aware of is brain machine interfaces (eg Neuralink). By decoding motor intent we can create devices which offer mov…