Viewing profile — marsissippi

Lisa Randall's book "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs" has that vibe (not about passing stars, but about the solar system passing through an area of the galaxy thick with dark matter …

Great short article. Takeaway: because of ancient star flybys "the uncertainties of Earth’s past orbit make it difficult to be confident more than 50 million years. And that has a …

So cool! I made this thing that breaks down each image by fraction of each color used https://www.julyp.com/shared/018dae67-9ec0-7191-bd9f-7fe9c85... Looking at it like a source of…

^ Underappreciated reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29105435

Good short post. Good short quote: "You can also bet that a full stack js dev would rather buy your Kafka wrapper than learn Scala, which will do nothing for her career prospects."…

Certainly when a free neutron decays it releases a proton and an electron, but also (probably, hypothetically) an antineutrino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_neutron_decay

Interesting Pull quote: GPT-4 needed about 50 gigawatt-hours of energy to train. Using our scaling factor of 30x, we expect GPT-5 to need 1,500, GPT-6 to need 45,000, and GPT-7 to …

In 2022, the largest share of Valentine's Day spending went to Jewelry (45.75%), followed by Evening Out (31.35%) and Clothing (21.46%). This indicates a strong preference for sign…

Includes links to important FOIA responses

Made a little dashboard of the last couple weeks' changes https://www.julyp.com/shared-widget/018d8a17-fc96-72b3-806f-...