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frud··on Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models
From the link: "The same exact GPU model and program versions must be used for compression and decompression". So it seems to me that you need a standardized and deterministic LLM execution model before this becomes useful.
frud··on You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery
The typical expected value of a lottery ticket is 50% of what you paid for it. That includes hitting the one-in-many-millions jackpot, which you could go many lifetimes without hitting. If it's given you don't hit the jackpot, then your expected value is much lower.
frud··on Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties
I think they kept those factors separate. From the abstract:

> Although there was a negative correlation between county altitude and all-cause mortality (r = −0.31, p < 0.001), there was a strong positive correlation between altitude and suicide rate (r = 0.50, p < 0.001).

frud··on Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm
Due to the chaotic nature of orbital mechanics, small changes in initial conditions become large observable differences in behavior over time. It's also helpful that there is essentially no turbulence in space so every observation over time results in more and more precise estimates for the true orbital parameters of the body under observation.
frud··on Battery-electric “Infinity Train” will charge itself using gravity (2022)
Now if only we could produce all resources on top of Mount Everest and consume them all in Death Valley.
frud··on Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)
Nature? Bah! How do you market nature? People can just get it for free! Get with the program, we need to exploit hedonism-seeking for the widest possible range of consumers to keep our numbers up! Keep them lusting after the next big thing, keep them confused and incompetent for as long as possible so they keep buying new versions of it. From us.
frud··on Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light
3/4 of the way down they finally give a half-ass description of the process:

While working in a lab in the Netherlands in the late 2000s, Strous noticed that a type of methane-feeding bacteria often found in lake sediments and wastewater sludges had a strange way of life. Instead of taking in oxygen from its surroundings like other aerobes, the bacteria created its own oxygen by using enzymes to break down the soluble compounds called nitrites (which contain a chemical group made of nitrogen and two oxygen atoms). The bacteria used the self-generated oxygen to split methane for energy.

frud··on French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People Through Their Cell Phones
It's not like they couldn't before. They just openly declared "Now we will allow ourselves to do it".
frud··on Show HN: Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve
Do people always spend increments of 15 minutes in a room? Can they run through a room to get to another room? That is, if the map is A-B-C, can they be in A from 9:30-9:45, run through B, then spend 9:45-10:00 in C?

    Dave said: "I saw nobody when I was leaving the living room at 10:30"
Does this mean no one was in the living room when he left it? Or does it mean no one was in the room he entered when he entered it? Or both?

What is to stop a person from being in multiple rooms within a 15 minute period?

If a person exits a room at the same time someone else enters it, does either see the other?

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