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Bypassing the CUDA moat is, in fact, one of the major tasks Deepseek set for itself. Their efforts in this area are likely one of the main reasons for their slow release cadence, c…

That wouldn't explain why Deepseek is fast relative to other Chinese providers, especially considering that they're reportedly ahead of the curve among Chinese companies in moving …

Had they wanted a good ML relevant physics Nobel, the committee had decades to award a prize to Marshall and Arianna Rosenbluth for the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. Would have …

Reducing the levels of allergens in food very likely has the side effect of promoting food allergies in children, due to lack of exposure during development. That's a strong negati…

Not sure how this is "dishing it out and not taking it". They intend to "take it"; they will force Bytedance not to sell, and thereby lose its US business with no compensation.

I am old enough to remember US internet companies spamming users to support net neutrality, even those who aren't American and can't do anything about it. And net neutrality was he…

Beijing has a veto on the sale, and are likely to exercise it. From their point of view, allowing the US to force a Chinese company to sell itself off as soon as it achieves succes…

The trouble with doing that for Freakonomics is that the work on abortions reducing crime, which has been proven wrong, is the first chapter and the centerpiece of the book. It's t…

> Singapore operates at 15% but doesn't really try to field a military Singapore is one of the most militarized countries on the planet. For example, they currently operate more je…

> Xi’s security-first state employs Orwellian surveillance systems that vastly complicate spy operations inside the country. Grapes are probably real sour, anyway.

I mean, Plato argued for governance by philosopher-kings, not too different from the Confucian conception of governance. What's more interesting to me is the skeptical attitude tow…

The desktop client is basically a web app, little different from running it in the browser. As for the app, I have been pretty unimpressed by it; performance is sluggish, and email…

From Fig. 2, it looks like the "hazard ratio" is minimized at a total cholesterol level of around 230 mg/dL, with both higher and lower total cholesterol levels associated with hig…

It stands to reason that someone who can create his own file system can't possibly be guilty of murder.

That German lab should sell LK-99 crystals. I wouldn't mind buying a souvenir for this whole episode!

No, they were not careful about their claims. Putting aside the drama around the arxiv postings, they had previously explicitly made the "discovered a room temperature ambient pres…

I'd add that the 3-4 preprints that put the final nails in the coffin for LK-99 --- the ones that showed how ferromagnetic samples produce half-levitation, pointed out the Cu2S str…

Yes, I noticed that this article disproportionately quoted American scientists who played relatively minor roles in the replication efforts. I guess the reporter just found it more…

The thing is that there are now multiple independent lines of investigation pointing to LK-99 not being a superconductor, and explaining away the original "smoking guns" offered by…

The video really rubbed me the wrong way. I guess it's a persona he's putting on for the YouTube channel, but that "tough minded skeptic" bit is way over the top. He spent all his …

Yeah. I would argue that he displayed some bad science of his own. He kept harping on about how the LK-99 paper didn't show resistivity going down to exactly zero, but had a residu…

Yeah, it needs to be doped with a room temperature superconductor, lol.

> According to some of the new data, the resistivity of LK-99 increases as you lower the temperature, like some sort of anti-superconductor. The writer based this on a sarcastic tw…

Already woefully out of date by the time the video was put out.

I would argue that CMTC is acting here more like a twitter drama queen than a proper scientist.