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I'm guessing - probably some textual variation on Benford's law? [1]. Trivial for compute, painful for a human. - "Ensure distribution of vowels is in >99th percentile of human wor…

The image size of this camera is unbelievably huge in its coverage. Most telescopes take pictures of objects - this one takes pictures of the entire sky. And will do so in a time-l…

Also the fact that the president’s daughter, son in law, and his brother have a significant amount of their net worth invested in OpenAI via Thrive.

The administration is not known for taking into account second order effects. The instantaneous instinct to strike an opponent when one can is not much more contemplated than that.…

How much did Apple (via Google (via xAI (via SpaceX))) just crush their product? Seems an awful lot like Apple will commoditize the models that power Siri, and just “sherlocked” a …

A large and rapidly growing number. The largest commercial classes of multi-domain therapeutic proteins include the crispr (and similar) that drive gene therapies, and the chimeric…

I mean, the most cutting edge of iPhones, iPads and MacBook Pros _today_ are quite capable of running in realtime today’s high-end local LLMs. If you project out that hardware just…

1) Another OpenAI cofounder (Brockman) gave Trump’s superPAC the largest ever individual donation of $25m. 2) Trump’s son in law (Kushner) has most of his net worth wrapped up in O…

A representative idea: if you are the one to kill a deer to eat, you get a little bit of each cut - rib, loin, filet, heart, etc. When was the last time most people ate a filet mig…

What about the heterogeneity of the original cells?

Yep - cells would die. ...UNTIL they accrue enough dna damage to accidentally either: - create a new way to generate thymidine - fall into a proliferation strategy that no longer n…

And that’s why replies are helpful in these kind of explanations. My over-edits became wrong, and then an hour later, unfixable. bglazer is correct. AAVs, unlike Lentiviruses, do N…

If the DNA is in the cell's nucleus, the DNA will be utilized to produce whatever gene is encoded in the DNA. But if the DNA is just floating around on its own it will not survive …

Timestamp in the videos: 21:03-4:33 => 7.5hrs

There’s one law of physics difference here: (with a few exceptions) helium, because it’s lighter than air, will never replenish on our planet. There is currently most of what there…

and youtube video of the 'reveal': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n--zawliqvA

Indianapolis was too fast and hot that one year, one of the (two) tire manufactures disqualified their tires (and teams). So not even half the field ran the race. The Indy 500 cour…

Snowden also brought the goods (actual docs) so that the existing cases and inquiries could proceed without getting the Glomar response - “cannot answer the question of whether you…

You (at least) have 3 systems that are optimized in concert in a (our) DNA/Protein world. DNA base set, Amino acid set, Translation layer between DNA/Proteins. Currently, we've got…

BUT, if you look at the codon table, precisely because it's base-4 and not base-3, many base flips are silent when coded. By using base-4, there's enough space to permit lossiness …

Which is why an enormous number of people will be fired, furloughed or reduced to minimum wage on Monday if this isn’t resolved.

And in this case, tech savy individuals are willing to send $XXM in 6 clicks, 3min after getting a slack message. That's a pretty quick kind of run relative to old-school 'stand in…

The quotes seem to be OCR’d with 500 being 5oo, and punctuation in weird spots too.

It seems “simple” from a chemistry perspective. But as pointed out, the special part is that this is simple chemistry, _that also works in standard biological conditions_ without h…