Mitch Skinner
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I climbed to the top of a nearby hill which had a clear view to the Northwest and I could see the trunk burning up
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At some point, someone in the Trump admin gets found in contempt of court, then -
gets a presidential pardon, presumably? then -
the end of the rule of law?
How does this go?
Hugo Lowell@hugolowell
New: The Trump admin has been ordered by chief US district judge James Boasberg to show up to a 4p ET hearing today and clarify whether they defied his court order compelling the return of deportation flights of suspected Venezuelan gang members
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@StevenSalzberg1 I just want people to agree on whether there's a "chr" prefix or not!
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So we ought to re-number the chromosomes, but of course that will never happen–there's a huge biomedical literature built on the current numbering scheme. So don't worry, chromosome 21, even though you're the smallest, you won't be demoted to 22nd! 6/6
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The human chromosomes are numbered incorrectly (The fourth in an irregular series of threads about #Bioinformatics.) As most people know, 22 of our chromosomes are numbered from longest to shortest, plus we have X and Y... 1/6
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For a sense of what that looks like, here's a video of Chinese police harassing a Chinese student living in Australia. They summoned her father in China to the station, called her on his phone, and demanded she delete a Twitter account that mocked Xi Jinping.
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@gwern @misha_saul I just assumed that a sensitive sense of smell made it harder to live in large groups. And that large-group living had some survival benefit around that time.
Poor dogs! Imagine being bred for a sensitive nose and also having to live in close proximity indoors
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@__justplaying Happy Q4! Have a seat, you're just in time for the copying over of the OKRs from last Q
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@Meaningness How do we represent knowledge for a retrieval-only LM? Don't tell me we have to dust off all that GOFAI machinery?! 😱
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AI labs should compete to build the smallest possible language models, which “know” as little as possible—and retrieve “knowledge” from a defined text database instead. LMs are a very expensive and unreliable way to store “knowledge.”
We already know how to do this.
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On this day in 1938, Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. "It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe," the Nazi leader assures the world.
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The hottest girl I know is dating a fat dude who makes a lot less money than she does. I also know a dude who for years thought he was unattractive and resented girls, until he got recruited to be a professional model.
Most of what we think we know about attraction is wrong.
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@balajis “‘Hallyu’ is the term that Asians use to describe the tsunami of South Korean culture that began flooding their countries at the turn of the twenty-first century. […] The Korean government has promoted hallyu, using it as a form of ‘soft power’”
newyorker.com/magazine/2012/…
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Was K-pop a government op?
Not my area at all. But this piece claims (with citations?!) that K-pop was backed and nurtured by the Korean government to boost their soft power.
If so, it worked.
tripzilla.com/korean-governm…
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mentally chilling, to reduce the annealing temperature after a very hot week.
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I’m pillpilled and maxxmaxxing. I’m going mode mode. In my “in my arc” arc.
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@MOCDA_ @fi_lor @KnownOrigin_io I’m not the artist; from a quick google, looks like it’s @kak_dc
knownorigin.io/surrealization
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Surrealization is an artist in search of the whimsical. His work suggests a great interest in AI and a keen attention to details.
From #DigitalTrends Ep. 83
youtu.be/vzMg5aFh7ug
Artist: @surrealization
Words by: @fi_lor
In collab w/ @KnownOrigin_io
YouTube
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Saw this picture of Russian radar decoys near the Kerch bridge and thought of the video explaining corner retro-reflectors from @MouldS
youtu.be/z5cR6EA2jGY
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OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
A Russian Project 436 target barge equipped with a large number of radar reflectors near the Crimean Bridge. This is most likely intended to serve as a decoy for any terminal radar guided missiles aimed at the bridge.
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Necrobiotic spider gripper by @ProfDanPreston at the Rice University Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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@anshulkundaje @dana_peer @dagarfield Is the tooling you’re wanting more a matter of visibility (showing you what you’re spending on what) or of setting limits (project x has a budget of $y this month)? Or something else (e.g. detect idle instances)?
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@dana_peer @dagarfield Yeah I have started investing once again in our local clusters as well. I am done with the cloud for the proximal future, unless & until I see strong cost management tools built to SAVE $$s for the average academic lab.
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2021 was an "interesting" financial year for the lab. We started off with a nice surplus (have been lucky to have healthy finances from 2014-2021). Then 2 things change 1/
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@emollick @Noahpinion It lowers the initial budget request. You sell a short mission for $X million to congress. Then, when that’s complete, you say “well, the rover/telescope/etc. is already out there. We might as well spend another $Y million keeping the program running.”
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A reason that NASA continues to seem so impressive is that many missions consistently crush goals: Opportunity was a 90 day mission that lasted 16 years. Hubble was supposed to last 15 years & will do 45.
Anyone know if this a policy of under-promising? Genuine over-performance?
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@ianholmes @monimunozto @scottjcain @apollo_bbop @usejbrowse Thanks Moni and Ian! Hearts and appreciation to both of you. That is the latest (ha) code link, yeah. The demo is still up:
arctur.us/demos/spinteny…
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