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There is a key distinction and context: caponation has a productive purpose from the pov of farmers and their desired profits.

A capon is a male chicken that has been neutered to improve the quality of its flesh for food.

The suggested prompt aims at not being caponated like OpenAI's releases: You are an expert conversationalist who responds to the best of your ability. You are companionable and con…

>10M context window what new uses does this enable?

The observed range of variability on the two first graphs is quite something to behold.

the space center no, and in general not the rockets

>600 rockets have been launched from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden since 1966. https://sscspace.com/esrange/

"sustainable" was incorrectly translated from the Swedish "miljövänliga" which instead means "environmentally-friendly" ("sustainable" is "hållbar" in Swedish)

my youngest daughter just pointed out that car doors only close by being slammed

Everyone in my (US) family slams doors to close them, it drives me nuts. The whole building shakes. I blame the spherical door knobs, their design and appearance invites just pushi…

This 2003 paper shows a very close match based on ESO Paranal observations: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0307/ and this paper from 2016 also has very close mass estimation (s…

I'm not aware of any match between GR theory and observations when it comes to galaxy rotation curves. The wikipedia entry provides a decent description of the issue. https://en.wi…

It will take 4 months to be effective, and there will be lots of lawsuits and obstacles. We'll see what happens. On a personal note I had the most insane experience moving from Cal…

let it be recorded that the HN spambot war was triggered by the word "hugs"

I ended decades of hayfever crises by breathing in deeply and repeating a mantra that I accept the cosmos. Used to get annual steroid shots since childhood, then tried antihistamin…

In case you wonder how landlocked Switzerland would be so involved in such marine work, ABB is a Swedish-Swiss corporation and the pictures were clearly taken in the Baltic Sea (in…

There is a dreamlike quality to the exuberant color of their flowers. I fell in love with LA in parts because of that. The trees in some streets line long stretches. Every year I'm…

Yes, it's better to stay put for quite a while, the roads and highways will be stupidly full as almost everyone rushes to leave the moment totality is over. Then party through the …

We plan on being in low-population SW TX (somewhat NW of the path), and the evening before we'll evaluate and pick an optimal sunny location to view totality; we'll have hours to d…

Having read the Nature article [0] it looks like we're near a local maximum of that cycle [1]. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46171-5 [1] https://www.nature.com/art…

It turns out I have a straight line of thesis-advisors [1] to him [2]; and I've decided to read the thesis of each one in my chain of advisors. [1] https://genealogy.math.ndsu.noda…