lachlan
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RT @Robotbeat: People who have the technical ability to do so have the obligation to prove to normies that the future can indeed be amazing.
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interesting thread in this vein:.
So one fun thing sci-fi fans like to talk about a lot is antimatter (specifically antiprotons) production for starships. The fun part is that we already make antimatter right now! But to get enough antimatter for any uses, we need to do a LOT better. 1/17
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why is there a limited set of coherent cancerous cell behaviors? I would not expect the outcomes of random mutations to have attractors to that degree.
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I LIVED.
i’m going to be camping off grid for six days.
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i’m starting to get more bullish about producing antimatter for high density energy storage for eVTOLs, etc.
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harder tests i think have diminishing returns. are you confident that the SATs measure qualities directly correlated with success? and that someone with 790 is appreciably less likely to achieve than 800?.
I think the complicating factor of discrimination in college admissions is that there likely are just way more qualified applicants than spots. How do you decide once in this merit nullspace? Randomly? The true unfairness is the scarcity of spots.
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I think the complicating factor of discrimination in college admissions is that there likely are just way more qualified applicants than spots. How do you decide once in this merit nullspace? Randomly? The true unfairness is the scarcity of spots.
🧵Columbia’s agreement with the federal government includes provisions to ensure non-discrimination in admissions and hiring. “Columbia shall not maintain programs that promote unlawful efforts to achieve race-based outcomes, quotas, diversity targets, or similar efforts.”
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who the fuck are they hiring? nazi dogwhistle.
A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending. American Progress - John Gast
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I don’t really have a good way to determine how viable avalanche’s method is.
Avalanche Energy hits key milestone on the road to a desktop fusion reactor | TechCrunch
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why do cars still have alarms? they’re ignored and disruptive. i’d be pretty suspicious of claims that they reduce theft meaningfully in the US.
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existence of microkernels implies existence of megakernels, which contain all code on github already compiled and linked.
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if i were designing a modern kernel, i’d probably do away with most syscall subsystems aside from io_uring and then implement blocking calls on top through libc or a vsdo.
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standard voice mode is good though. much slower since it’s clearly doing text-to/from-speech of some sort but much smarter.
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the thing that makes chatgpt voice mode useless is that 4o is not very smart.
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very real societal bottleneck might be that we’re very bad at creating effective organizations, not that we’re bad at creating smart people.
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It’s interesting that the cost of 5mt of gold is roughly the same as one GWy. If this works, could be a significant driver for fusion energy scaling.
Congrats to the team at @MarathonFusion for identifying a plausible, scalable process for transmuting mercury into gold. This is something that drove Isaac Newton insane.
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anyone know what percentage of hearts are deemed unviable for transplant and the main causes?.
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have to make a decision tonight that could lead to fairly divergent paths going forward
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