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raws··on An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold
I think it looks like I'm only seeing rich individuals of the times are there more sketches of other classes as well?
raws··on 42,600 ton ship to break the world record for the deepest drill at 7 miles
In OP I also see the ship's photo from the other side of the ship compared to the science.org one.
raws··on AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there
I feel like even a human would also fail if given all data results but those for x and then get tested on x just as the function results differ from previously observed behavior. Is it not more interesting to observe how the model(human or not) incorporates the new data to better match reality in the case of distribution shift or other irregular distributions and others
raws··on Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
YouTube viewership numbers ha et a similar issue.
raws··on Windows 11 is last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros
Denmark?
raws··on U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021
Yeah I'd believe a stronger sedentary lifestyle is the biggest factor in the waste line stagnation if the diet is not the same. They did not have omnipresent smartphones in 1970.
raws··on Tell HN: 0.61 USD per week for daily sprouts of grains and pulses
I'd say less than a week of daily usage to get through the phase.
raws··on Nvidia Tackles Chipmaking Process, Claims 40X Speed Up with CuLitho
CULitho?
raws··on SVB was particularly poorly run
Another 10% was low % 5yrs bonds which they had to sell early with penalties to cover the run on the bank which incurred considerable losses. I would think a VC bank knows that some of its VC investments would not outperform. My understanding is that if the run does not happen, it's business as usual, nothing like '08 when borrowers started failing to pay en mass on internationally overrated loans in AAApackages.
raws··on Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend
Upside might be not having to search for a job in current job market with layoffs happening left and right.
raws··on World Population Clock: 7.96B People (2022)
8B on 2023 if rate of 221k per day is held (little less than 190 days from today if my bad calculation is correct!)
raws··on The French repairability index – one year after its implementation [pdf]
I do believe that culture might even have started before ww2 when engineers produced too long lasting ladies stockings for the management and were asked to go back to the drawing board with stockings that did last forever (I do not have a source for that story but I've heard it multiple times from different groups of friends).
raws··on Brain FLOPS
What is a MAC in his explanation?
raws··on Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for Covid-19
From what I understand it is saying that ivermectin is useful and efficient at blocking the tool (protein scissors; protease) that the virus needs in order to spread a protein out of the cell. The new Pfizer COVID drug is supposed to do that too but ivermectin is 0.06$ vs new Pfizer drug with a 20year patent lots of cash for a good lobbying company :)

Credibility of the author idk :s

raws··on They Still Haven't Told You
People tend to point out how much energy cryptos consume, is there an estimate for how much high frequency trading consumes world wide?
raws··on Depression is more than low mood, it’s a change of consciousness
It's like a placebo effect for your take on life, it works but only to a certain extent
raws··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
I'm highly dubious of the statement that growing plants to eat them is lightly less polluting than growing plants, feeding them to cattle and then preparing the cattle to eat the meat. Cattle does not sequester CO2 like plants do and emits greenhouse gases. Also uses way more treated water.
raws··on LastPass Android app has got 7 trackers in it
Oh they even have an exodus app to scan your phone!
raws··on Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars
But given the right size and efficiency for a panel, a big rollable panel could give you power anywhere in the world which fuel cars could never do.
raws··on Another Boeing Pratt and Whitney Engine Exploded in the Netherlands
Oh right k for a week is not 2 but 2/52!
raws··on Another Boeing Pratt and Whitney Engine Exploded in the Netherlands
2¹⁰⁴*e-²2/(104!)=2.66523e−136 If annual occurence is 2 and it happens twice every week in a year. But it has not so far :)

Weekly occurence of 0 has 13.5% chance of happening this being the case for 7 weeks before this last 8th 2021, 13.5*7/8= 11.8% so far.

But I'm no statistician.

raws··on 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
Ok thanks! I've seen that product and was just wondering what it was.
raws··on 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
Do you know www.ewg.org/skin deep Do they do a good job? How do you take care of this for yourself?
raws··on Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
It's the picture at the top that is the video, took a while for me to load.
raws··on Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
They set themselves up for failure when they teased a release date for the game of when it would be "ready" 7 years ago.
raws··on A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Buildings, Day or Night
Law in the USA limits to 50cm, there's one out there that's 25cm (link in a comment above).
raws··on A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Buildings, Day or Night
I think he's just alluding to the fact that there's already better ones out there for other countries, maybe even better for secret military bodies.
raws··on Groundbreaking discovery finally proves rain can move mountains
I think I recall being thaught that water followed the gravity pull which was greater around the equator than the poles which would explain why with the poles melting, the equatorial regions would be the most affected by the subsequent seas rise. Is this wrong? Where can I see a good sea map? Thanks!

Guess I just went and looked at a Geoid map and I was lied to, EU is in big trouble!

raws··on A CRISPR first produces squid as clear as glass
Yeah it really looks like the eye pigments are not the same.
raws··on “What color is the Sun?” An example of science education pathology (2012)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_index Looks like 5700k white is pretty close, 5756.59 is more exact.
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