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haccount··on Gemini AI tells the user to die
Every time I use Gemini I'm surprised by how incredibly bad it is.

It is fine-tuned to say no to everything with a dumb refusal.

>Can you summarize recent politics

"No I'm an AI"

>Can you tell a rude story

"No I'm an AI"

>Are you a retard in a call center just hitting the no button?

"I'm an AI and I don't understand this"

I got better results out of last year's heavily quantized llama running on my own gear.

Google today is really nothing but a corpse coasting downhill on inertia

haccount··on Recovering from a kidney donation
For someone who means a lot I would do it but otherwise the redundancy of two kidneys to call my own is something I'd rather not part from.
haccount··on The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury
No one will win a malpractice lawsuit over lost sleep, different story for lost lives.
haccount··on Interview with gwern
Being an influencer requires very little actual competence, same goes for AI influencers.

The goal of influencers is to influence the segment of a crowd who cares about influencers. Meaning retards and manchildren looking for an external source to form consensus around.

haccount··on Elsevier may wish they had checked the revision a bit more carefully
Trust the science! Is this peer reviewed?

Lmao

haccount··on U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050
You suggest buying 100 million metric ton of aluminium when the global annual production is 70 million. And magically you'll get it delivered as a pre-installed global power grid as opposed to ingots.

Just like when you go for a cup of coffee at a cafe and you only pay the commodity price of coffee beans, which at like $5 per kg and 20 grams of coffee per cup means a cup at starcucks is just 10cents. Right?

haccount··on U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050
>"If we buy nuclear power plants on Temu we can have a 1GW reactor for $1000, but most likely it will be on sale (lucky us!) so it's actually more like $400 per reactor. And if we use green thorium then the fuel is $2.50 for ten years"

I reconstructed your argument to be in favor of nuclear power, and because I mentioned Temu as a source it actually have an infinite amount of more ties to reality than your story did.

Wow no wonder people like to argue for green energy if it's this easy to make up arguments for it

haccount··on U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050
"Thousands of miles of big wires are free"

Why don't we just assume that power will be free and infinite and plug our grid into that assumption? We can even write it down on the socket and paint it green, based on how these arguments always read out that's the only thing needed to maintain electrified high tech society.

haccount··on U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050
"Solar is viable if we depopulate the temperate zones"

Great argument for an energy source

haccount··on U.S. Sets Targets to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050
Make a cost calculation of how much solar and battery you need to keep your lights on during peak summer and then do the same calculation for how much solar and battery you need to keep the lights on in the middle of winter when a large scale 5 day blizzard.

Pretend you are a metal foundry.

Good luck.

haccount··on Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google
The solution is to force feed all affiliate linked sites into a living archive LLM that digests them into a summary stripped of all links.

You run this bloated mass as a co-engine to your search. If you stumble upon any of the digested sites or articles you just have the site-eater blob regurgitate a html re-creation locally. They get no traffic, you get whatever they wrote purged of all links and with optional formatting to remove the fluff BS copywrite that many of these sites pad the tiny core of usefulness with.

haccount··on 'Smart' insulin prevents diabetic highs – and deadly lows
It kick in slowly because standard administration is subcutaneous which isn't a very well vascularized tissue.

If you shoot up in your veins or into something more vascular you would have faster onset.

haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
>clearly not what you were implying by saying it is a minority of scans.

It is exactly what I was saying. And I say this because I work in a hospital with several non-preggo ultrasound labs that are booked overtime. To achieve the same load of pregnancy scans the hospital would need to hire more OB-staff for scanning and the region would need a TFR of 25.

haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
In rural Rwanda, in 2008, for the duration of the study you linked after jumping at the first cherry picked example that your Google search found, they were the most frequently made examination.

But even according to that article, out of the 345 examinations only 102 were pregnancy scans, making them a minority of all scans made.

haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
Through the temporal bone of most people you can catch some sparse doppler signals with average hospital gear.

The fontanelles enable good ultrasound imaging on an entirely different level. A highres greyscale image vs a few sparse blobs of doppler from major vessels.

haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
Someone skilled in musculoskeletal ultrasound can do it.

But that's a hard skill to develop.

haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
You want an ultra-low field MRI.

But that'll still be expensive to develop, slow and still potentially lethal if done sufficiently wrong

haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
A modern clinical ultrasound probe have something in the range of 128 to 512 elements only. But despite that you get a real-time video stream at a lot higher resolution than a 512 pixel postage stamp.
haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
Shockwave lithotripsy for the brain.

Sounds like a perfect way to find yourself dead with massive brain hemorrhage and someone jailed for unlicensed meme-medtech.

haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
A commercial medical ultrasound imaging device in doppler mode can pick up and map onto the image plane some of the vessels in the brain through the skulls. But mostly just through the temporal bones(where the skulls is like 1-2mm thick). (The commercial machines run doppler on lower frequency than imaging signal so you get no s tructural image this way, only the color doppler map(unless you find a place in the skull where an emissary vein passes through the bone table where the image signal can ride through))
haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
Ultrasound is safe at normal acoustic levels.

Infant babies frequently have their brain scanned through the open fontanels.

If you turn the volume up to 11 you'll boil water with or can use it to machine steel but the energy levels in clinical practice is safe

haccount··on Functional ultrasound through the skull
It's used for a vast amount of other tissue examinations.

Pregnancies are a minority of ultrasound examinations.

haccount··on Trump wins presidency for second time
You're saying "the Turd Sandwich is inedible. Everyone should order the Shit Burger instead."

Maybe you could leave the Poop Cafe and have something that's food instead lmao

haccount··on Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe
The law was always there to step on the little man, the VIPs always had it easier. Stop thinking too much about it.
haccount··on Failure analysis of the Arecibo 305 meter telescope collapse
Anyone in the field will likely say that they wouldn't trust half of their colleagues or themselves.

It's pretty much how professional prestigious positions work. Beneath the gilding there's duct tape repaired with super glue.

haccount··on New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
I would recommend to just get your news elsewhere, forever.

Like just ask chatgpt or your dog to make something up that sounds contemporary and newsy. Same quality level.

haccount··on The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)
The only requirement for shaping language and informal thought policing is a sufficiently malignant army of trolls then?

I'd rather have a wild jungle internet full of anonymous people saying nigger in every second sentence than one of voluntary gestapo thought police combing through post histories to dox and hound common people because they don't fulfill the "linguistic standards" imposed by a small group of ideological/political activists.

haccount··on Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak
And I guess you didn't sign the paper or in any way had means to ensure it wasn't printed with the opposite candidates vote in the next room.

Neither did you have the opportunity to also vote for the other color of the uniparty and cross check the ballots to see they printed identically and according to selection

haccount··on The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)
We're on the internet, anonymously discussing swear words, you can just type out nigger.

There's still large segments of the internet not subject to hysterical brigades of thought police demanding every typed word be cross referenced with the ever-growing Manual of Self-Censorship and Conformity with Whoever Is Offended In The Loudest Manner.

haccount··on Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing
And priced as the rest of them together.
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