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- civilitty parentTwitter is not a public outlet of free speech and you'd have to be an absolutely batshit lunatic to claim it is after everything that's happened with Musk's acquisition.
- It’s far more than reasonable, it might be Google’s saving grace.
I wasn’t going to bother even testing Google’s AI products unless everyone started gushing about how much better they are than GPT4 but with 60 free queries per minute? That’s worth exploring even if only to find out shortly that it’s not worth paying for.
- TSMC doesn’t have a real monopoly, they’re just a few years ahead of everyone else in integrating ASML’s latest tech. Samsung and Intel aren’t very far behind. The more money TSMC charges the more incentive the others have to catch up but they can only move so fast. GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics seem stuck in the double digits.
It makes a big difference to a few competitive customers so TSMC gets paid well for that first mover advantage, but yeah it’s not well secured monopoly.
- > They are solitary creatures
They're not. Feral cats form colonies with complex social structures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat#Colonies
House cats are much more solitary creatures that are very jealous of their human slaves' relationships.
- The best part is how it's marked as a tourist attraction on Google Maps with 14 5 star reviews, despite only one person ever visiting it.
The article kind of glosses over how inaccessible this place is. Rob Mark got extraordinarily lucky that the water level got high enough to boat to the area because unlike the jungle, the water is way too cold to survive for very long even during the summer and there's no solid ground for miles at a time like in a tropical jungle. It's all bog and peatland as far as the eye can see.
Unless the government clears helicopters to rappel people down, he might be the last person to visit the area given climate change.
- We're not talking about a war on drugs that "didn't completely solve the problem", we're talking about one that made the problem ten times worse and fucked up society in the process.
It doesn't matter if it had any positive impact, the negative impact outweigh them so much it's a downright crime against humanity that imprisoned millions of people in a system that constitutes modern day slave labor.
- The whole concept of different human species may be a taxonomic error of historic proportions despite the morphological differences we see in the fossil record. Information on the genome of archaic humans is a very recent development in a centuries old field so it is still catching up, especially at the level of educational material.
Based on my reading of the paper about the sequenced neanderthal bone [1] and a global genetic variation study [2], the difference between neanderthals and modern humans isn't that much bigger than the natural variation within the modern human genome. That difference is much smaller (on the order of 10-40x) than the difference between modern humans and chimpanzees and given the multiple genetic bottleneck events in our evolution, I think it's much more accurate to look at all the different species of archaic humans as breeds of modern humans that happen to show a larger difference with older samples because of the limited founding population and the diversity of our ancestors (of which we have very few biased samples).
Where to draw the line in speciation is always controversial but my theory is that once tool use really got going by the second stone industry, early humans started artificially self-selecting for intelligence just like we later did with dogs and eventually the modern human "breed" was born. By the million year ago mark, roughly the time evidence of fire started showing up in the archaeological record, I think the species that is modern humans was already long spreading and out competing other apes. I think shortly after this point is when we started developing clothing and moving into the colder climates, leaving evidence at places like Atapuerca.
[1] https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/nature128...
- > Ounce for ounce, a wafer of a top end NVIDIA chips is the most valuable substance on earth.
I think that would still be Californium. Even if NVIDIA could fit 300 H100 on a 300mm wafer at $40,000 a GPU a wafer would be worth $12,000,000 which would be in the same ballpark as a single gram of Californium.
Technically anti-matter would cost orders of magnitude more but there's no demand for it so it's not really valuable, whereas Californium is tightly rationed for scientific research. </silly-nitpick>
- In a technical sense most video is compressed using motion prediction algorithms so the preprocessing on the data is already significantly different to static images, containing more compressed information. Only the key frames are actually full images and they only make up 1-5% of the frames.
On top of that the video container usually provides synchronized audio packets.
- > These types of things always give me a sad, disconnected feeling... What traditions are forever gone?
You're in luck, I've got an altar to sell you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice
- When’s the last time an executive was charged with Contempt of Congress?
Clapper just straight up bald face lied multiple times about the US surveillance aparatus during the Snowden revelations and faced absolutely zero consequences. Altman could ignore the summons or just dodge questions endlessly and Congress wouldn’t lift a finger except to grandstand for their respective peanut galleries.
- Tigers eat grass and small animals like termites just like domesticated cats do so I don't think their diet has been selected for as much as you think. They more likely became popular as pets because of what they eat.
Avoid evolutionary arguments, they're "just so" explanations that can be twisted to fit any narrative.
- > At the same time, I'd also love to learn more about more "down to earth" tutorials/examples/exercises/courses to build practical UI skills. Something above "react tutorials", but something below Victor's "Magic Ink"
I have no recommendations for UI in general but for practical UI skills I really like Every Layout [1] which covers common page layouts and how to make them responsive beyond just media queries.
- > Oviraptorosaur nests typically contained at least 30 or more eggs. With such large broods, “you could imagine, at certain times of year, depending upon the species and when their breeding season is, this would not be an uncommon prey for predators,” Zelenitsky says. That’s why she isn’t surprised to find remains of this species in this Gorgosaurus’ stomach, especially because she “can’t see the adults going after these tiny little chicken-sized or turkey-sized dinosaurs.”
I'm curious why they assume the adult tyrannosaurids wouldn't eat the oviraptorosaurs because that makes no sense to me. My cats will chase down and eat flies and mosquitos so is there some sort of size threshold for agility that the tyrannosaurids pass through that makes it impractical to hunt small prey? They are believed to be warm blooded so it's not like they could really ignore easy prey at that size.
- It’s not a dead end per se because cockroaches are used as a model organism in neuroscience experiments. They’re just not very useful outside of academic research for the same reason that they’re useful in the lab: their brains are very simple.
I think this application would only work if they were released as a swarm, using basic triangulation of the mesh network to get them to spread out throughout the rubble, exploiting their natural ability to crawl all over the place in great numbers.
- Yes but scientists have only recently managed to use implants to study navigation in fish [1], so we don’t know how to control them. Fish brains are significantly more complex than cockroaches so it might not be feasible.
[1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/cyborg-fish-solves-brain-s...
- Same. When I think of “pirates” I think of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ju_10NkGY
- They’re simple enough that you can fork an open source extension and review the source with relative ease, freezing it.
I have my own omni extension made up of copy pasted open source extensions. I normally wouldn’t go through the effort but web browsing is crucial and frequent enough to be worth it and it took less than a weekend to get it up and running, especially with Plasmo. It’s also another reason to prefer Firefox and MV2
- Kagi search is great and totally worth the $10/mo (I pay for Ultimate to get access to the assistant features but I'm not yet sure if they're worth it, though I'm happy to support the company).
Custom bangs alone are worth the price: I have them set up for LibGen, all my torrent sites, archive.ph, and their summarizer (which I recently discovered is !sum by default, no need for a custom bang).
But my favorite is a custom bang that points back at localhost (via Tailscale hostname so its available on mobile too) running a custom terminal emulator web app. Just using the bang alone opens a new terminal tab in the browser but when using it in combination with a URL allows writing commands like "curl [...url...] | ~/scripts/crawl.sh"