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Reducing the R^2 value to ~1.5 excludes skin colors that are extremely blue, green and purple. That seems to be a happy medium between including real outliers and excluding colors …

Public investment was responsible for Apollo, so there was no expectation of profitability. Private investment is largely responsible for the AI buildout, and private investment is…

We carry ketamine on our ambulance where I work part-time. I wouldn't be surprised if some people were legally receiving drug therapy for depression

It is a commodity product and the price is everywhere you go. It's just a low effort topic to talk about, like the weather or the local sports team

Directionally, that's why companies are getting rid of token leaderboards and imposing limits on LLM costs. There's a diminishing marginal return to tokens

There's limited research on readability of monospaced font. But this study suggests monospace is weakly more readable than variable-width font: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/…

People forget that LLM code cannot be covered by copyright. So LLM code cannot be placed under an open source license

AI or not, the government would benefit from investing more money in improving digital services. Merely slapping an AI onto the existing system will only make things worse. Try usi…

wanderlog is a separate web service https://wanderlog.com/

"Me" in this case being a stand-in for the principal owner, which could be a corporation, individual, or group of individuals

Honestly, there should be laws against gen AI models creating fake media with real individuals. We're going to end up with a massive mess on our hands once the video starts looking…

I've had my ham license for ten years, but I've only ever used a basic car-based mobile setup and my handhelds. My morse code speed is abysmal. QRP and all that are really cool, bu…

High quality CPR includes AED usage. 30 compressions to two ventilations. After 2 minutes of CPR, perform a rhythm check with AED and shock if advised. There are existing robots th…

Masimo sells a health monitoring watch. [1] There is direct competition here. [1]. https://www.masimo.com/products/monitors/masimo-w1-medical-w...

Google Assistant is/was pretty good...for Google apps. It's useless for anything else. The new Gemini powered version is actually a regression imo

Certainly there's an element of personal choice. I currently live in a town of 3,000 in a rural state that was previously served by trains. Once cars became accessible to the masse…

They have an entire webpage/associated github repository. It doesn't seem like they've published anything terribly well-known, but good on them for releasing some tooling https://o…

Because there's a better way for bots to get the data via the wikipedia database dump. Sending some large zip archives is a lot cheaper than individually serving every page on Wiki…

To clear things up: the throttle used to be a physical cable, like on an affordable bicycle with rim brakes. It is still a cable on most motorcycles.

"tyre" is just UK English

To be fair, the Protestants had the printing press and significant political support on their side

Did the US have any subways shut down? I know there are some metros like Cincinnati that abandoned an unfinished subway

That seems unlikely. The play store lists it at 10m+ downloads and it's still a very Chinese app. I checked it out myself. This is people trying to troll the US government

I'd love to see free movement of people and goods between US and Canada, EU-style. That's unlikely to happen anytime soon though

That's where grid-scale energy storage comes in then. Or at least a less volatile battery chemistry. Not every solution has to be individual unit sized