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I'll also add, most food products down there are "expired" already. When I was down there, it was often a challenge to find the oldest piece of food. I think we found 5 years + bey…

(creds: I was down to McMurdo as a researcher three times) I suspect this has to do with space and weight constraints, and probably a touch of old-school procurement practices. In …

My experiences were with the McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER program [1]. They have (things may have changed) a number of sites sending telemetry back to the states via the Iridium networ…

Having been in technology, antarctic research, and remote monitoring of environmental systems down there, my take: don't read into this this too much. This is mostly a PR piece, pr…

I'd argue, they aren't doing something future-proof right now because the fundamental architecture of the LLM makes it nearly impossible to guarantee the model will correctly respo…

This is interesting. Pondering about this, the vulnerability seems rooted in the very nature of the LLMs and how they work. They conflate instruct and data in a messy way. My first…

Is there an English version of the website? I just see the spanish version when I go to https://www.neuraan.com/ Also, as a former DSist in a service area of ecommerce, one challen…

Sorry, been a lurker too long. Added my email address to my profile. Also shot you an email to connect.

Actually, that's not my profile. My username doesn't align on github. My github profile is github.com/lawinslow

As I mentioned, long-time lurker. Added my email address in my profile.

I'm going to finally try to start my own company. Will it be a "startup"? I don't know. But it will be technical and it will go from 0-1 (or from 0-0). After years of lurking here,…

It was public knowledge. Further, there is no such thing as New Zealand territory (or anyone's territory for that matter) in Antarctica. There are existing territorial claims, but …

Hmmm, interesting. Any citation for that number? I've heard numbers like that thrown around, but I don't know where they come from.

This is super interesting and something I've never thought about. One other issue I have noticed with 401k's. Do 401k's exacerbate inter-generational income inequality? I know a nu…

I am a huge Tesla fan (and Elon fan). I own stock (shortly after IPO). I have a model 3 reservation. I have been singing their praises for a long time. Elon is an incredible vision…

I really wish there was much better details on costs on such large public projects (and institutions). Between the extreme costs of public works like these, healthcare, college edu…

This type of information is already largely relegated to the back of the library. I don't know a mechanic that has re-built a modern engine at this level. Reliability is so high an…

This is the kind of stuff that never makes into a journal article, but frequently gets cooked up by the university public relations/outreach staff. There is a huge incentive to mak…

In general, it seems like most larger companies opposed this move.

This is a super misleading visualization. I caught wind of this yesterday and started doing some digging. There are some broad issues with this. 1. As others have mentioned, this i…

This is a really interesting comparison. Probably a better comparison than Microsoft or Google, as is done in the article.