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hydrolox··on The futuristic biotech startup that's building a cancer cure with $355M
https://archive.is/eV2f2
hydrolox··on Have humans passed peak brain power?
https://archive.is/fvKbT
hydrolox··on [dead]
https://archive.is/Pcyph
hydrolox··on When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it
Another powerful read that touches similar themes to this article is the memoir When Breath Becomes Air

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-bec...

hydrolox··on Maps that show time instead of space
https://spacetime-maps.vercel.app
hydrolox··on 2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls
I think it's mainly a millennial and gen z thing-- older generations still answer all calls, at least those that aren't into tech. I think it's just easier to realize that anyone not in your contacts will either leave a voicemail or text you if it's that important.
hydrolox··on U.S. math scores drop on major international test
Iready was horrible
hydrolox··on The GPT era is already ending
https://archive.is/2024.12.07-083509/https://www.theatlantic...
hydrolox··on California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones
It's still IQ test, at least when I was in the program ~5-10 years ago. To be honest, though, there was still a clique of nerdy kids and "the rest" even within the program (which for me was 2 separate classes of kids, so for each grade in the whole school there were 2 classes worth of gifted kids.)
hydrolox··on Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI
I understand that regulations exist and how there can be copyright violations, but shouldn't we be concerned that other.. more lenient governments (mainly China) who are opposed to the US will use this to get ahead? If OpenAI is significantly set back.
hydrolox··on In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
I think the main issue with this line of reasoning is that before all of these internet based forms of content, did many people actually read literature, like is mentioned in the article? I am not sure, but I would expect that the books that were read were probably not some high form of art but entertainment - which is fine of course, and it is different to a large extent from scrolling tiktok, but does it like up with the authors thesis about reading providing some deeper form of enlightenment? Maybe it still does, since it's still the same act of reading, but maybe not as much, since it's not normal "intellectual content"
hydrolox··on NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens
Right hand rule is just an arbitrary decision defining counterclockwise to be positive, but I guess it's true that it could be "less arbitrary" if certain things are more counterclockwise than clockwise
hydrolox··on Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_origination_beyond_planet...
hydrolox··on An unearthly spectacle – The untold story of the biggest nuclear bomb (2021)
Democracy in the US isn't mutually exclusive with any of those?
hydrolox··on ChatGPT now on chat.com
not sure about reducing it to just chat but using the entire "chat gpt" as a verb is really common like "let me chatgpt this assignment" (love it or hate it is very common in schools)
hydrolox··on Pagination widows, or, why I'm embarrassed about my eBook (2023)
To be honest I don't know what ereader you've looked at or what books you read. The way eink works, if you look closely there is a slight grain very reminiscent of paper. Similarly, the font/letters can have small imperfections as well, and it all looks just like a new book might.
hydrolox··on Yes, we did discover the Higgs
to be fair, maybe there is a decent overlap of people who saw the original and this. At least that might dispel the 'myths' raised in the original. Also, since this rebuttal article was written by a physicist (much more involved in the field), its also defending their own field
hydrolox··on Law Enforcement Undermines Tor
In fact, your proposal is too modest still. We are still free to think whatever we want! We should fast forward the development of neuralink chips and broadcast everyone's thoughts live to everyone at all times so that you can make a judgement of unethical behavior
hydrolox··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
I understand your point, but I would say that it is not particularly appropriate for a teacher to use AI (or plagiarize, to an extent) in this context. Taking questions from an existing bank, in my opinion, is different to AI generating your prompt/email/etc. What I mean is, students will NOT listen even more so if they find out how blatantly hypocritical a teacher is being (in the hypothetical situation that the teacher really did use AI)

This isn't a made up situation. Teachers at my school have used AI for essay prompts, test questions, etc and it spreads around and generally leads to the sentiment that "if the teacher is doing it, they can't in good faith tell me to not". Imagine if in math class the teacher , after just telling the students they can't use a calculator, types in a simple arithmetic expression into their calculator.

hydrolox··on Solar power from space? it might happen in a couple of years
there is no air or medium for conductive transfer, it's purely radiative. The shuttle used it's very large doors as radiators, as far as I know. The point is that you need a lot more surface area , and that it needs to be unobstructed (since it's literally radiating out, no convention to transfer in cool air/water/medium)
hydrolox··on Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning
definitely not how chat gpt writes
hydrolox··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
is it possible to root still? I'm guessing no
hydrolox··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
it can definitely be turned off, at least in models from the last many years. other than that the"screen"causes no more eye strain than a book
hydrolox··on One Genius' Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense (2016)
Are there any good sources online for how this is used concretely/queried? And what CYCL looks like? I have tried finding it online out of interest, but all sources only describe the system generally and don't show any examples of what you could derive.
hydrolox··on Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval
I think you can say it does? Ie in other languages, the plural of advice (which in English is advice, "I gave him a lot of advice") is spelled differently(with the plural ending). From my personal knowledge, in Russian advice is совет and "advices" (or advice pl.) is советы. In Spanish, advice is consejo and there is a plural consejos. This can probably be also translated (in both cases) as "tip" and"tips" or something similar.
hydrolox··on Were RNNs all we needed?
Betteridge's law of headlines?
hydrolox··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
looks cool,it would be useful to have transliterations for non latin alphabet languages,or at least pinyin for Chinese, since learning characters is somewhat orthogonal to the words.
hydrolox··on Notes on the Crystal Language
nothing against the language but it's a bit suspicious that the top sponsors include "buy Google reviews" and "buy Instagram followers" (if you navigate to the actual Crystal language site)
hydrolox··on Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane
to be fair isn't the purpose of the F35 fairly different since it's extremely reliant on stealth and beyond visual range engagements?;Instead of getting close enough to be gunned down, it is supposed to strike from so far away that the enemy wouldn't know it's there.
hydrolox··on Alarms in medical equipment
I agree, but something like "incomplete bolus" doesn't really make sense to me and I think those types contribute to alarm fatigue. The key issue with T1 diabetes is hypoglycemia, which can cause acute damage and death, so in theory not having insulin on isn't as big of an issue (assuming the patient is actually trying to control their disease and checks blood sugar etc, in the alternate case the alarms probably don't help much). Of course, I agree something like a hypoglycemia alarm is important
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