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Well, well, then I have a paper for you (2014); https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscie... You might be interested in author #7. Some guy named Dario something…

Though a local model I'm running (gemma-3-27b-it; https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/gemma-3-27b-it-GGU... ) just told me various correct sounding bits about his history wit…

Gemini (2.5 Pro): "Yes, Paul Newman was widely known for being a heavy drinker, particularly of beer. He himself acknowledged his significant alcohol consumption." The answer I got…

Actually that would be kind of awesome.

Can't speak for GP, but in my case it was an academic optometry center. Life changing. See my longer toplevel reply.

I will say this: if you're not happy with your current prescription, there are ways to get a more intense workup and better outcomes by going to an academic optometry center. In my…

Should be fixed soon! We decided at 6pm on Friday to reduce biomedical research centers' budgets by billions of dollars ($4B in Massachusetts alone), effective Monday. So in the fu…

After I installed a high-COP, cold-climate heat pump in my Boston area house in 2020, I figured the wintertime running cost was about half again the cost of gas heat. However, the …

You can gain a lot of intuition for system behavior via particle models like this and their many, many other interactives. I also recommend looking at their library of learning res…

I worked there until 10 years ago and it was quite rewarding. (In fact this interactive uses some of the "lab" framework code I worked on.) The founder was inspired by Concord (Mas…

> Nobody wants China to take Taiwan, that's not something its possible to convince people of It's not about convincing them to want it but rather about sowing doubt and confusion a…

> the US government has caused more harm to its own people than China has today; US spies on its citizens, unfairly enforces laws against people, Maybe, maybe not. But when the PRC…

I'd rephrase that as "the author is the author, Stephen Johnson, who is also one of the key people..." I've read many of his books over the last 20 some years (and even watched a P…

I had this criterion too. Fortunately by last year the this Café (GE) double oven induction range was available here in the US: https://www.cafeappliances.com/appliance/Cafe-30-Sma…

Far too many to list here, but some interesting ones re the evolution of life might be the complexes responsible for transcription of genes and translation into proteins, such http…

From a quick skim: what's interesting about this study from an HN perspective is that they used Alphafold (or more specifically Alphafold-Multimer: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/…

As an engineer who has worked on systems that handle sensitive data, it seems straightforwardly to me to be a statement about: 1. ACLs 2. The systems that provision those ACLs 3. T…

There was a Soofa sign near my house across the river in Somerville that (now that I think about it) I haven't seen for a while now. The branding wasn't quite as prominent as the B…

Fun! This is the kind of thing I got back into programming for around 2010. Just to toot my own (and my former employer's) horn, I worked on a bunch of the underlying models behind…

That's not necessarily bad news. Everyone interested in this story should read Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve ( https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/stephen-greenblatt ). It traces th…

Ah, I worded that badly. Ultimately the pilot is the decider as you say. I was getting at the idea that (so I am told) the day to day experience of piloting is very much about work…

Strong Towns is attempting to change that with the "Crash Analysis Studio": https://www.strongtowns.org/crash-studio I can think of many reasons it's difficult, though: * The fact …

Well the Bell Labs Holmdel complex is often used as an example of the death and creative reuse of the suburban office park, and I guess this is the flip side. In the long run I gue…

Well, statistics matter here and one thing insurance companies know about is statistics. If you brake hard once or twice, no biggie. But, for sure, my prior is that someone who fre…

The headline put me in mind of a different memory I had of the campus BBS from undergraduate days, and then I clicked through and realized that the author was actually the admin of…