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photon_lines
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Comment #48709101
Eating ultra processed foods with added sugar / loads of calories. A huge reason why they're so destructive is because they lack fibre (which keep our microbiomes healthy) and lack…
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Comment #48708923
So I can show you why it works algebraically -- I'm not sure if it will help you though. Kinetic energy is the work needed to accelerate something from rest to speed v (velocity). …
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Comment #48706791
I was going to comment on this too: the style and format of this writing screams 'written by ChatGPT' to me. The funny part is that the AI actually does a good job in making the ar…
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Comment #48535490
- Visual Guide to Number Theory: write up which explains the field of number theory in a visual manner. - Reenvision technologies: simple software. Local first - no added complexit…
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Comment #48531934
There is an alternative: 1) limit how much descendants can inherit. Allow them only a maximum amount of let's say: 10 million and make sure that either the founder finds a way to r…
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Comment #48530117
I agree with most of what you're saying -- but just wanted to add some notes here: 1) founders should start companies where equity is distributed to the early employees much more e…
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Comment #47705133
There is a chance - yes, but there's a lot of other evidence that he was involved in its creation (not just the 10+ years he talked about bit-gold prior to bitcoin). Bit-gold = bit…
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Comment #47703600
I'm almost 100% certain he's the creator of Bitcoin. I didn't need to see his technical chops to suspect it -- all I needed was to read his article from 2002 which discusses the wh…
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Comment #47531807
Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful (and that others did too)!!
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Comment #47517724
The whole goal of quantisation is to put the data into 'bins' so that it can easily be 'packed' so that you can represent it using less bits (less information). You can think of it…
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Comment #47054916
Thank you Chase -- I was an early Watsi supporter (and still am actually) but you just reminded me I need to donate soon haha :) Either way fantastic work and thank you!
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Comment #46627446
I don't have a personal site at the moment, but I do have a blog: https://photonlines.substack.com/ Some of my projects: https://github.com/photonlines
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Comment #46627432
I love your website. Very clear and to the point.
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Comment #46519537
You do understand that you can run these tools locally right? The code is fully available and open source: https://github.com/blgardner/prism.tools
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Comment #46519509
Ahhh OK - that makes sense - thank you.
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Comment #46513657
I love what you have here. Thank you for open sourcing your work -- but why the custom license? Why not just do a standard MIT license?
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Comment #46193766
If anyone is curious to see what Watson actually was you can find it here (it was nowhere near to a generalized large langue model -- mostly made for winning in Jeopardy): https://…
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Comment #46193230
Why in the world would economists need to study this? It's been known that large bureaucracies have been dysfunctional for over a couple of decades now if not centuries. The large …
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Comment #46072940
Exciting stuff from a fantastic team.
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Comment #46072828
Happy Thanksgiving everyone -- I've mostly been a lurker here over the last 20 years and I'm thankful for being able to interact with such a bright and vibrant community full of th…
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Comment #45910532
So if your endocrinologist was found to have ran a concentration camp in the past, it would have no effect on your decision on whether you wanted to use them as your doctor? Runnin…
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Comment #45910190
She blamed the research fraud on her assistant when she was initially accused of it and denied all liabilities. She only admitted to it after they had her cornered. I had her as my…