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Comment #43981432
I suppose many products were initially invented to get value or of an underutilized by-product, but as soon as there's a market and people want to buy it, the byproduct is no longe…
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Comment #43890809
hahahaha Judge Lem. Bring it back
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Comment #43851801
This made me wonder - do any cloud compute systems have an option to time jobs or use physical resources geographically based on surplus power availability to minimise emissions? I…
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Comment #43769630
> Modern sailing vessels always sail into the wind, because they're always going faster than the wind blows. Maybe state of the art hydrofoiling boats, cats and some quite large mo…
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Comment #43686661
You don't tend to hear about it and not that there isn't still progress to be made, but there has been tonnes of progress on fisheries interactions with protected bycatch species. …
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Comment #43444676
We had one on a yacht I crewed that did ecotour sorta sails. When we'd catch a small tuna, after the trips I'd butterfly it and George Foreman it. No added oil just right on the Te…
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Comment #43263616
I'm not sure it's that unique of a situation though, most prey organisms have some antipredator adaptations but rarely are they foolproof, just like rarely are predatory adaptation…
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Comment #43155884
Oh yeah, 'charging up' your wetsuit is great. The replacement is fairly limited with a good suit especially if you have booties and a hood, but who cares, people pay a lot of money…
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Comment #43111713
I bet all of these researchers involved had a long list of candidates they'd like to test and have a very good idea what the lowest hanging fruit are, sometimes for more interestin…
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Comment #43111541
I'm sure the scientists involved had a wish list of dozens of drug candidates to repurpose to test based on various hypotheses. Ideas are cheap, time is not. In this case they actu…
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Comment #43075315
The very first recipient, Ida May Fuller, would be 150 years old currently.
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Comment #43066535
That's incredible. Looks like they leased a building to the hostelers and it was shut down because it violated sanctions, but amazing that the $42,000 a month lease is worth it to …
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Comment #43066474
You aren't coming off very well here.
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Comment #43053186
Have you ever done any of these controlled experiments with giant helmets or blindfolds and elaborate movements to defeat orientation though?
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Comment #42170696
'could' is doing a whole lot of work in that sentence, I'm being charitable. Reality is LLMs are being crammed in places where it isn't very sensible under thin justifications, jus…
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Comment #42162252
> require a restart or get stuck on some uninterruptible process and requires forcing killing it at least once a day. Yes, I think I've been trained by crashes to subconsciously li…
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Comment #42158614
> by and large, the processes people are scrambling to place LLMs in are ones that typical machines struggle or fail I'm pretty sure they are scrambling to put them absolutely anyw…
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Comment #42158576
> Writing is complex, LLMs once had subhuman performance, And now they can easily replace mediocre human performance, and since they are tuned to provide answers that appeal to hum…
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Comment #42074431
One camp is a high specificity camp, the other is a high sensitivity camp. You definitely know what camp you are in if you are only making the argument you can detect true cases of…
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Comment #42070690
The makeup is a great analogu. I can bet with 99.9% that when I say a woman is wearing makeup that I'm correct (or it is tattoed on or similar). When it's obvious, it's obvious. Ho…
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Comment #42070392
Let's make one of your breakfast foods eggs. Sometimes you won't notice from the walk if they just had normal eggs. However, when they are also rotten and were over indulged in, yo…
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Comment #42069446
If the oatmeal hadn't sat in old milk for a week, yes, it would not likely cause gi distress
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Comment #42069185
If the cornflakes had been sitting in old milk for a week, then yes, I would believe you could tell by how they walk, either hunched over with a cramping stomach or with shit pants…
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Comment #42060658
Probably not entirely fair. e.g. After enough sentences it is trivially easy to identify LLM output. So you repeatedly get the opportunity to test a sentence or two, guess the prov…