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Triton has an AMD backend, although work is still ongoing.

Schmidhuber has written about recursive self-improvement since his diploma thesis in the 80s: "Evolutionary principles in self-referential learning, or on learning how to learn: Th…

Poland will definitely accept them, they have publicly stated so.

Myocarditis isn't that dangerous, it's acute and can be managed. Infection is much more risky.

I wish that people who say things like "learn to live with it" actually meant it. We do indeed need to learn from the past two years, and that will result in something quite differ…

Zeynep has been wrong so many times during the pandemic that it hurts. She will not admit to it, though. She claimed that the Delta variant would end the pandemic, in the same way …

This seems very similar to the research program led by the late Patrick Henry Winton: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/index.html Besides, I wish that causality had been mentio…

They're processed foods, but not ultra-processed. Generally that means advanced factory processes and chemicals that are only used in industrial settings. Factory made bread is lik…

The smog is just the Chinese cloud.

Sounds like a case of Goodhart's law, "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."

Semantic Scholar exists, and does a decent job mostly, in my opinion.

If heavy consumers under-reported in an observational study, that would make drinking less seem worse than it really is.

But that amount is based on available research, so what is your point? See e.g. https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.07.710

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.06.054 What do you make of studies such as this? Their baseline was strictly lifetime abstainers, absolutely no people who stopped drin…

Lowering your expected lifetime probably also lowers your expected time until disease.

This is a very uneducated comment, considering available research. While some doubt can be cast on the J-shaped curve, we have a lot of evidence for all-cause mortality either decr…

That sounds about right, as I read it. The sources seem to be 9 (former?) employees, confirming a classified internal report from 2015.