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huppeldepup··on What happens in the brain to cause depression?
Will there be a cross-over job between psychology and engineering for when the airconditioner is having a burnout?
huppeldepup··on OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
It _does_ make me wonder whether spin doctoring and plotting will be available as a model in the near future.
huppeldepup··on To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
Could those changes be intended to “poison the well” for llm training?
huppeldepup··on Will better superconductors transform the world?
What’s always missing around this subject is the use of superconductors as energy storage devices:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_ene...

Tangential, high density energy storage also means things that go kaboom by intent.

huppeldepup··on Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims
I think the fear of AGI destroying humanity mostly stems from the suspicion that a logically thinking device would indeed come to the conclusion that we need to be exterminated.
huppeldepup··on WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives – First Upgrade in Seven Years
I bought a secondhand 6-bay for around 100 euro and put openwrt on it, mdadm is perfect for the job. Check whether the system is easy to root beforehand. I had to do it via a hardware serial connection on the motherboard.
huppeldepup··on Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML
The upgrade is particularly relevant for the Apple ecosystem where updates and API changes regularly weed out unmaintained apps.
huppeldepup··on Android's theft protection features
Like dropping the phone just as you’re about to start cycling.
huppeldepup··on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
I wonder whether we’ll see the same parallel as with cars: those with tech and those without - old-timers.

I only code as a hobby anymore. Burnout destroyed my career and now I design PCBs and write embedded software without LLMs.

huppeldepup··on What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?
Dreaming stopped for me after being put on Trazodone. In some the medication induces nightmares or vivid dreams, not for me. I can testify that dreams contribute a lot to the perceived quality of sleep. In recent months I've had a few very short dreams. They're dull, bland, nothing much happens. I feel robbed of a part of my life. I took Trazodone for about a year, now some 8 years ago.
huppeldepup··on What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?
can a computer be complex enough to comprehend its own complexity?
huppeldepup··on Scientists have studied the behavior of cats sitting on squares (2021)
Paper:

https://gwern.net/doc/cat/psychology/2021-smith-2.pdf

Edit: check out the main page: https://gwern.net/

huppeldepup··on The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. Bush
Thanks for the tip! He's also working on a "Rendezvous with Rama" adaptation.
huppeldepup··on Ceefax Simulator
888 should result in text on a transparent screen, whether or not there are subtitles available. Here it does nothing.
huppeldepup··on Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Dara O'Briain had a marvellous take on acknowledging the place video games have among literature and cinema:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFPIDTkWyA

huppeldepup··on NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15B miles away
That's the point: it's not negligible when you have to convert it to the distance this craft has to fly.

It's a bit of mental gymnastics, I suggest you do the exercise with paper & pencil to see what happens.

huppeldepup··on NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15B miles away
Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km [WP]

45 degree angle (see Quora animation): 150000000 * cos(45) = 79000000

Earth projection sits between Voyager and Sun.

"...travelling at around 61,500km/h ": 79000000/61500/24 = 53 days to add the equivalent of that distance in LD time.

Edit: huh, since Earth sits between voyager and the Sun, the LD distance is satisfied for the Sun first.

huppeldepup··on Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
This is called “throttling”, no?
huppeldepup··on Tiny Biosensor Is Just a Cup, a Membrane, and a Magnet

  EU 10-euro collector coin
Greek edition: 40 mm or 28.25 mm diameter depending on coinage year. The German ones are 32.5 mm. The Irish are 38.61 mm. Etc.
huppeldepup··on Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools
On this page:

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/community/details/P20-Pro-Boo...

there's someone from Huawei who acknowledges the policy change, with a date. Maybe check archive.org for the mentioned time and url? HTH.

huppeldepup··on When will the eclipse happen? A multimillennium tale of computation
FYI, this site shows an nice plotted overview per region and period of time:

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html?region=europe

huppeldepup··on Writing x86 SIMD using x86inc.asm (2017)
It’s been a while (10 years?) since I wrote NEON and vf code (different arch but sentiment remains) and every now and then I used to run a quick disassembly to verify that my optimisation hadn’t been undone by the compiler. The first time it happens you kinda lose faith in the compiler.
huppeldepup··on Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests
Is this correlated with obesity demographics, i.e. Japan/US/EU statistics? I can’t find reliable numbers per country, most sources conflate the different types into dementia.
huppeldepup··on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice
That one is the default google answer, but not the one I saw. Mine had a spine attached and there was no highlighting, the fluid movements were distinguishable in the scans.

Thank you for trying.

huppeldepup··on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice
There is an mri greyscale clip that shows this process I saw a couple of years ago but could never find it back. It showed spinal fluid “washing” the brain. If anyone knows where I can find it, please link.
huppeldepup··on Google restricts Gemini chatbot election answers
I wonder if the opposite will also be possible[]. Just like buying search hits to get your page on top of a search result, will it be possible to nudge llm-generated content to favour a click towards your own content - for a price.

[] not technically possible, but commonly accepted.

huppeldepup··on Latam Airlines: 12 treated in New Zealand after mid-air 'technical' issue
In ADS-B the location is determined by the airplane and is periodically broadcast. A gap in data could/would mean a gap in broadcast or positioning.
huppeldepup··on Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat
The 2003 heatwave killed 70.000+ in Europe. But nobody seems to remember/know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heatwave

huppeldepup··on The Zayed Sustainability Prize has launched a US$600K award for Climate Action
We’re currently around 100 million barrels of oil per day.
huppeldepup··on Reentry of International Space Station Batteries into Earth's Atmosphere
Scrolling on that link doesn’t work on FF, Safari or Brave on iOS.
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