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thatcat··on Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
"Knowledge (and art)"... got any examples of patents approved that were llm generated?
thatcat··on Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
It's already been decided that generated content is not copyrightable
thatcat··on Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA
Sold in 2014 for 1,650
thatcat··on We Asked Starbucks Why Their 'Sugar-Free' Drinks Have Sugar
It's temperature dependant
thatcat··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
did you try segmenting it first?
thatcat··on AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
So a software engineer could diagnose an illness with ai, even if they happen to be right that doesn't really prove much about how bad of an idea it could be in a long tail scenario.
thatcat··on WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
A Thielian sea steading homeless encampment for intellectuals in international waters named Titanic II.
thatcat··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
the models don't retain their full training data set
thatcat··on What is a Demand Coop
do you think neutral ai moderation and time limits on discussion would have the desired effect?
thatcat··on Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement
who funded his lawsuit as a part of a lawfare campaign again?
thatcat··on Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
You build small scale modular systems at the sources of maximum power consumption to reduce transmission losses and grid requirements.
thatcat··on Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
If risk and disposal is factored into coal, gas, solar power, what would be cheaper? Nuclear has recyclable fuel processes and fail safe systems available.
thatcat··on Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border
The startup costs, process knowledge requirements, and logistic issues with inputs are clearly higher for large scale chemical manufacturing than mechanical. The Roi is currently lower, if that changed they would adapt easily.
thatcat··on Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border
There was some model named FGC2000 which was used with short unrifled 9mm tubes, meaning the range was low and could only be used as parent described. Saw this on a YouTube video but can't find it now.
thatcat··on Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
obviously the photos and media is covered by copyright, but rendering your own probably is not.
thatcat··on How Iran is making a mint from the current war
How would you know how many vehicles there are when it separates late? Some Iranian munitions have 80 vehicles. Maybe they don't have the fastest hypersonics or large payloads in them, but it seems like the combination of high speed + multiple vehicles + late separation poses an extreme challenge to these systems. I'm sure he's exaggerating or has biased sample data, but the missile intercept marketing team seems to be exaggerating quite a bit as well. There are many videos that seem to show them squirming around in the sky like lost sperm and then blowing up without hitting the missile and falling to the ground.
thatcat··on How Iran is making a mint from the current war
I mean even a cursory analysis will show that it's physically impossible for it to work against multiple vehicles/decoys. They also make the "stealth" f35, their contracts for this stuff is from Jan - probably will still make money from US/Saudi, but good luck selling to Germany or Japan.
thatcat··on How Iran is making a mint from the current war
Lockheed martin PAC3 manufacturer is down 11% this month.
thatcat··on How Iran is making a mint from the current war
Iran copied oreshnik system, added decoys and other stuff, patriot is not effective against hypersonic, multiple vehicle missiles or decoys (which would require 1 patriot per vehicle) and is dependent on 2 radar systems functioning in the correct locations and the correct angle of attack from firing location. See Ted Postol's coverage https://www.youtube.com/live/Q2yQ3kBAQIk?si=JLvN2mVleKv64YDs. Even patriot is <5-10% effective in footage review from early Iran conflict before they started using hypersonic multiple vehicle missiles.
thatcat··on How Iran is making a mint from the current war
Pretty sure the big losers are US missile intercept systems manufactures since they've basically been outed as useless so I'm not sure who would want to buy them now. And Israel, of course, who is getting struck as a result of their over reliance on these systems. US bases are being wrecked, all the radar systems are gone, several carriers damaged - not sure that is no damage.
thatcat··on Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
this is just gypsum in case anyone was wondering
thatcat··on Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
Clover fixes nitrogen and roots help stabilize the voids in the soil. They sell seed mixes called "ground cover mix" that includes other plants and will help keep the soil from recompacting when it rains and keeps weeds at bay.
thatcat··on Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y
You might need something like rebar to stick in the back of the mouth and pull back when that doesn't work
thatcat··on Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
When it's wet, but not saturated - like 1-2 days after a rain - you can decompact the soil with a strong metal broadfork and leave the soil in large block aggregates. This keeps the soil structure and maintains some fungal web connections. Add nutrients, wood chips, stick and sand below aggregates and in cracks. Cover with compost and plant clover to cover.
thatcat··on Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
Would you say the scarcity is what starts the corruption?

Like you can't get a plumber so you have to use your personal network or there aren't enough tickets so you have to obtain one through your personal network, etc?

thatcat··on Flock license plate readers cost city big, deliver little
They never solved any cases, only provided a warm lead once a day. If they solved many, they would be proud and say N cases solved. In this case N must be an embarrassingly small number since they don't use concrete language. It's like offering 5500$ to anyone that offers any information on any crime.
thatcat··on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow
wouldn't it be DoW, like DoD?
thatcat··on A simple web we own
municipally owned fiber isnt that rare or complicated
thatcat··on Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet
A phrase like I'm more trained in science is an appeal to authority, which is pretty suspicious, as is not trusting your own observations. How do you trust the data you collect?

feel in this case is a muscle contraction not psychological as you're suggesting

thatcat··on Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
After Bernie got shuffled out in 16 I'm not sure anyone cares believes that primaries matter either.
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