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yummybrainz

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    Comment #49100254

    Many Kindles have backlights for night-time reading!

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    Comment #48919572

    Pretty sure it's the former!

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    Comment #48518025

    ESC on tap, CTRL on hold is the way!

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    Comment #48506923

    FYI NewPipe allows up to 4x playback; PipePipe up to 10x! And both block ads, while PipePipe also integrates Sponsorblock.

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    Comment #48506804

    Do you think (or care) about the ethics of this sort of behavior? Do you consider it unethical and if you do, under what conditions would you decide to do it anyway?

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    Comment #48465398

    Yeah, completely unintentional on my part, but I do be dumb sometimes.

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    Comment #48465388

    Welp, I done goofed. Fuck it, just have a great day :P

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    Comment #48447365

    You go, girl!

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    Comment #48445325

    Username doesn't check out :P

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    Comment #48393776

    Wow, thanks for all the details! Maybe I really have to give spicy water another try...

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    Comment #48383612

    > We were waterlogged men. I laughed, thank you. Fun article, from someone who detests sparkling water (water shouldn't be spicy!)

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    Comment #48357172

    > Startup time really is an issue with Python, because import is super slow. Python has lazy imports coming soon in 3.15! Source: https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html#wh…

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    Comment #48341241

    I frequently visit your website to get design inspiration for my own. Thanks for being so detail-oriented and all your writing in general! Edit: Actually, while I have you here: do…

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    Comment #48330942

    > I’d rather fight for collective ownership of the machines. I would love if we could force the big tech companies to release their models + weights since they're fundamentally pro…

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    Comment #48302923

    "I took their free carrots and now several years later, their carrots are a global ~monoculture that have been modified to grow faster but taste much worse. I don't like their carr…

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    Comment #48280104

    It's getting real hard to apply Hanlon's razor ("assume ignorance before malice") when it comes to egregious incompetence like this. I wonder if this particular backdoor (front doo…

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    Comment #48178729

    The reference [1], for the lucky ten thousand [2]: [1]: https://xkcd.com/1172/ [2]: https://xkcd.com/1053/

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    Comment #48152090

    I'd say you're right about any given individual channel: the activation of a single voxel doesn't tell us much about all the fancy computation happening in that ~1 mm^3 of tissue. …

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    Comment #48152064

    Caveat: brain-computer interfaces are not quite my field, but I think the consensus is (judging from some conversations with folks who know more): Neuralink is doing interesting BC…

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    Comment #48150038

    Yeah, there's a ton of criticism of fMRI as a method, largely because of a lot of results that are statistically unsound (to say the least)! I tend to think of fMRI data as some hi…

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    Comment #48149781

    If folks are interested, I recently published a paper [1] demonstrating that fMRI activity in the visual cortex is remarkably high-dimensional! Specifically, using a linear approac…

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    Comment #48097451

    As a recent grad who also refused to use LLMs, the last sentence in the article was one of the primary reasons why: > “I’m here to learn how to do things,” she adds. “I don’t think…

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    Comment #48049847

    Interesting! Does it also occur for other (similar) types of surgery?

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    Comment #48035284

    I'm assuming the intended meaning is that this was the first time the approach led to "realistic" sound?