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New comment by Nick87633 in "Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance"

Nick87633 — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:00:09 +0000

Where do you like to keep up to date on these? Arxiv preprints, or some other place?

New comment by Nick87633 in "Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right"

Nick87633 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:16:10 +0000

Is that Mitsubishi? I would be curious to know how the anti-tamper relay setup was engineered. It would be great to have a hacker's guide on how to disable it!

New comment by Nick87633 in "Flying kites deliver container-sized power generation"

Nick87633 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:52:56 +0000

At first look, it seems like simply by having so much less mass of material involved that you have a good head start at competing on LCOE, even if the system needs the kite and tether replaced every 5-10 years.

I think the biggest roadblock would be making sure it can return to the perch with high reliability otherwise you will have a lot of service calls for kites that landed on the ground.

New comment by Nick87633 in "The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List"

Nick87633 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:42:28 +0000

Car keys are getting a lot more troublesome these days. I see an analogy... if you lose your security device you can pay $XX to get on a call and verify with an account security rep. Of course this can be deepfaked nowadays. Maybe you need to do password recovery in person with a notary!

Notary public... the new digital locksmith for password recovery.

New comment by Nick87633 in "Solar will supply almost all growth in U.S. electricity generation through 2025"

Nick87633 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:42:11 +0000

This is an interesting thought. There are already some energy meters you can add to monitor all of the circuits in your house. It's a short step from there to have smart breakers or switches to help retrofit old-fashioned heaters, radiant systems, etc as thermal storage. Electric buffer tanks may become a cost effective installation when paired with an on-demand water heater and time-of-use electric pricing.

New comment by Nick87633 in "Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics"

Nick87633 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:14:39 +0000

I tried with a few variations, GPT 3.5 and 4 seem to be pretty aligned in not expressing themselves when not asked a question. "Our conversation seems to be in a loop, if you have anything I can help you with ..." blah

New comment by Nick87633 in "Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics"

Nick87633 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 22:57:47 +0000

Mirror test of LLMs might be an interesting experiment to design!

New comment by Nick87633 in "Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work"

Nick87633 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:32:22 +0000

I have seasonal allergies and I found an effective method for myself: When I realize the allergies are kicking in (usually after 6 hours of watery eyes and sneezing) I take a claritin and a zyrtec together, as well as spraying my nose with Flonase. Usually this knocks it off and I will keep taking one of the once-a-day meds for a bit to prevent reoccurrence.

Zyrtec and Flonase together is probably the best normal combo and is generally accepted to be ok.

Disclaimers: I'm not a doctor. Combining a nose spray and a pill is generally accepted practice and studied in several peer review studies I've seen. Stacking claritin and zyrtec pills together is not generally accepted practice, so don't do it.

New comment by Nick87633 in "An easy-sounding problem yields numbers too big for our universe"

Nick87633 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:31:42 +0000

I did a bit of noodling on the wikipedia page for VASS... Maybe I can make an example with software context... and this is probably wrong in some way so take with a grain of salt!

Take as an example a directed graph representing a state transition diagram of a state machine. The machine has some integers (we can call it memory) as its internal state as well as having its graph location. Each state transition moving from one node of the graph on its available outbound transitions has an associated effect on the integers in memory (addition or subtraction particular to each state transition).

The VASS reachability problem: Given a state (memory values and location in the state graph), can you reach some other arbitrarily chosen state by navigating the transition graph, while also not allowing the integers in memory to become negative. What is the guaranteed maximum time complexity for deciding whether any arbitrarily chosen final state is reachable?

VAS - the same problem but without the directed graph restricting access to vectors. I think this one can be intuited as a "vector walk" that must stay in the positive quadrant going from a given start location to a given end location and a list of available vectors that can be used to move around in the space.

Edit: if someone more knowledgeable is reading, please let me know anything incorrect and I will delete or edit.

New comment by Nick87633 in "The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge"

Nick87633 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:32:56 +0000

The diamond tennis bracelet or the terry sweatband tennis bracelet?

New comment by Nick87633 in "The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge"

Nick87633 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:08:44 +0000

god forbid you should ever decide you want a sports car as a husband

New comment by Nick87633 in "The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge"

Nick87633 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:05:30 +0000

Moissanite has a different refractive index and dispersion. They do look different.

New comment by Nick87633 in "Researchers tested AI watermarks and broke all of them"

Nick87633 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 01:30:12 +0000

At the very least an HTML link to the signed original so that people can verify the source material.

New comment by Nick87633 in "Lumber prices down 11% YoY"

Nick87633 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 03:04:29 +0000

Is oak veneer plywood exposure rated?

New comment by Nick87633 in "Lumber prices down 11% YoY"

Nick87633 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 03:02:50 +0000

JPOW sold all his stocks at the peak. He is gonna keep rates high until he can buy something at a steep discount, and it ain't 2x4s.

New comment by Nick87633 in "A Young Architect’s Designs for the Climate Apocalypse"

Nick87633 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:09:42 +0000

Always bothers me when reading long articles about designers and artists with only a single image of any of their work!

New comment by Nick87633 in "Two large cold fronts detected in the galaxy cluster Abell 3558"

Nick87633 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:58:45 +0000

Expect galactic rain and possible thunderstorms for the next 2-3 days.

New comment by Nick87633 in "New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds"

Nick87633 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:13:52 +0000

Isn't the go-kart suspension still somewhat competitive, though? I'd heard of teams that have suspension travel for passing tech and then jack up the rates afterward.

New comment by Nick87633 in "New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds"

Nick87633 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:03:32 +0000

Huh, never knew that the F1 had floor suckers!

New comment by Nick87633 in "Have attention spans been declining?"

Nick87633 — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 01:45:52 +0000

Reordering and paraphrasing what they actually wrote:

I've been using that expression when giving up on participating during discussions.

Other people's line of reasoning are unnecessarily long, repetitive, trivial and most often also completely pointless. This derails my own productive/actually-interesting argument because I only have so much mental energy.