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Where are your weight figures coming from, they are not in the linked article. Packaged semiconductors are going to be more metal interconnect / plastic encapsulation / ceramic ins…

I was a volunteer for the rescue program in 2018. I am not sure what the exact criteria were, but dogs from the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been re-homed before. A few dogs which…

Although I was not involved in the study itself, I was a volunteer for the rescue program in Chernobyl in summer 2018 when a lot of the data was collected. I assisted with checking…

As a STEM PhD student I felt a bit jealous reading this. Then I remembered that law students pay tuition while many PhD projects are funded by companies in industry, often at a som…

The article states that only first party data collected by NYT is used for the model. They also use no demographic data. It seems that the only data that leaves is your previously …

Are there different variants of DALL-E Mini? Running prompts through both this version and the one hosted on huggingface gives noticeably different results. The one on huggingface …

The MIT 5th year masters program for EECS requires a thesis and for you to find a faculty thesis advisor that is separate from your academic advisor.

I took some glass blowing classes in undergrad and wanted to make something with uranium glass. I bought uranium glass frit from Gaffer glass and used it, none of the instructors o…

Does this behavior anger anyone else on a deep level? I get that its hard to buy GPUs right now, but this seems like such an attack on general purpose computing. Hardware manufactu…

The article is wrong. If you read the report its $30 - $50 million dollars, not billion. I was a bit perplexed as to why the total could be so large....

One of my friends got jabbed by a used needle in a pair of pants he bought from Dollar a Pound. It was not a fun experience for him... I liked the clothes I got from there though! …

Reading through the paper, I think the real buried lead here is that the reviewers discriminated in favor of selecting black and hispanic applicants, with a larger effect size than…

Its a material that basically gives electrons "inertia" which acts like an inductance derived from magnetic fields. There is a time constant to it, which determines at what frequen…

The medium article links to a nature article which explains in depth: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-017-0010-z This seems like an interesting development, but the performa…

The UC system has a common application and students rarely apply to only one school. The impacts of any outreach effort should be seen across the entire UC system and not just Berk…

Affirmative action in California is banned by Proposition 209, which passed in 1996. Its great they are making an effort to boost diversity, but I don't see how a single year jump …

I clicked on the article thinking it would be that. I got into electronics making little BEAM robot things from salvaged parts. BEAM robotics seems pretty accessible and has an int…

I am currently a PhD student and have been wanting to get into IC design so this seems immensely exciting. I do power electronics, so hopefully they post info on the analog parts o…

What are the near term implications of this? I was under the impression that this was always considered a pretty extreme option. Between this and the plans for the TSMC fab in the …

It's a shame that copyright works in such a way that it allows all these old and historic pictures to be sequestered away from the public long after all the original creators are g…

Again, there are many articles that argue either side of this. You can pick and choose quotes however you like. That being said, you don't believe that a lab that studies novel cor…

Fundamentally, you are not going to find any direct evidence that the virus came from a lab unless the virus has signs of being engineered (which seems to not be the case). Only in…

I really hate how the media keeps conflating the theories that the virus was engineered and that the virus escaped from a lab. Even the title of this article has been editorialized…

I have been meaning to try making my own bread. Now that I am on lockdown I have even more incentive. I like that all the recipes in the repo are FOSS. Got to break free from big b…