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New comment by frodo8sam in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

frodo8sam — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:42:46 +0000

I have these kind of scripts live as functions in my .bashrc, kind of a noob, is there a reason beyond convension to store them individually in bin?

New comment by frodo8sam in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

frodo8sam — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:49:55 +0000

It's worse, you're paying them so your competitor isn't standing in front of your store convincing them not to be your costumer.

You can either buy the top spot on queries that are looking for you or google will sell it to your competitor.

New comment by frodo8sam in "New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells"

frodo8sam — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:53:41 +0000

Perfect blood doping.

Kind of sad that that's the first thing that comes to mind...

New comment by frodo8sam in "Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear"

frodo8sam — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:46:52 +0000

That's pretty much what happens when you get a stemcell transplant. Luckily there is steady improvement in the survival rate. This is a very old therapy by now of course. But let's hope the various form of immuno therapy take the same trajectory, getting a little better every year.

New comment by frodo8sam in "Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter"

frodo8sam — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:16:06 +0000

Who exactly were you going to buy equipment from? AMD/Nvidia/Intel are the only players in town.

New comment by frodo8sam in "Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy"

frodo8sam — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:47:53 +0000

Taking one gram every 5-6 hours for a maximum of 4 gram/day IS entirely reasonable.

I don't know how you jumped from "it's dangerous to take in to high amounts, even 4 times the recommended dose is dangerous" to "the recommened dose is dangerous".

When taken correctly it is very safe and had fewer side effects then NSAIDs like ibuprofen.

New comment by frodo8sam in "Review of Anti-Aging Drugs"

frodo8sam — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:27:52 +0000

Melatonin is just for jetlag/otherwise shifted sleeping schedule, are people using it as an anti aging drug?

New comment by frodo8sam in "Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options"

frodo8sam — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:36:21 +0000

I don't vote for this party but you sre totally straw manning them with respect to data centres. The whole reason those became controversial is because American big tech companies would come in and negotiate deals with municipalities to consume all the energy of newly built green energy projects so they could claim they would make their green goals withouth making any investments themselves. Also you can question if the Netherlands is the right place being so densly populated resulting in issues with both the electricity grid and general land shortage.

New comment by frodo8sam in "Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects"

frodo8sam — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 10:48:14 +0000

The extraction problem has been solved for a long time to make recombinant insuline. Before that it had to be extracted from an animals pancreas. These days peptides are often improved using non-natural amino acids to make them more stable and thus longer acting. Semaglutide is a good example. These are synthesized using solid-phase synthesis.

New comment by frodo8sam in "Renault Is Giving Away Its Proprietary Tech to Stop EV Fires Quickly"

frodo8sam — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:31:47 +0000

I guess cooling is more important than keeping away oxidizers in this case and it's hard to beat water in that regard.

New comment by frodo8sam in "The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention"

frodo8sam — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:49:55 +0000

I would guess that the FFT scales better as you increase the number of tokens in the context window. Interesting Google's models outperform their competitors on context size.

New comment by frodo8sam in "BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells"

frodo8sam — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:33:54 +0000

Shorting is often a bad strategy due to the hight cost if you plan to hold for the long term. And with these companies with irrational evaluations you gave no idea when the stock price will correct. Better to exlude stocks that you can't price accurately from your portefolio.

New comment by frodo8sam in "What's Going on at the FBI?"

frodo8sam — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:14:07 +0000

Depends on your perspective. Many people would consider someone like Fauci non-partisan and more of a competent career expert, but Trumps people think he is very political and purge people like that. At the FBI they purge people who are probably quite competent and not particularly partisan but happened to work on Trumps case, which is mostly about sending a message I think not do much about finding the right employees to work at the FBI. This is very un American in my view.

New comment by frodo8sam in "The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution"

frodo8sam — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 07:19:21 +0000

The nation doesn’t just need a shipbuilding revolution—it needs a broader industrial revitalization. Strengthening semiconductor manufacturing, modernizing military and civilian aviation, reinvigorating automotive innovation, and more are all critical. Tackling this alone would be overwhelming, but collaboration with trusted neighbors and reliable allies could make these ambitions achievable. Luckily we have a real bridge builder in cha...

New comment by frodo8sam in "When AI Promises Speed but Delivers Debugging Hell"

frodo8sam — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 12:34:32 +0000

For me ai has been pretty useful. Difference is I'm not a software engineer, I just write scripts to help me do my job. If I wrote bigger applications I doubt llms could help me.

New comment by frodo8sam in "Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools"

frodo8sam — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:51:45 +0000

I fully expect people like Tim Cook and Elon Musk to appease the Chinese government if it benefits their business and doesn’t make them appear cozy with the CCP to the U.S. public.

New comment by frodo8sam in "Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools"

frodo8sam — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:10:51 +0000

The supply chain for these machines is heavily dependent on the US and the Netherlands is heavily dependent on US security guarantees, just like the rest of Europe.

New comment by frodo8sam in "After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly"

frodo8sam — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:08:40 +0000

Not pure luck though, they tried 15 different baffle configurations. Would of course be easier to filter configuration in simulations.

New comment by frodo8sam in "Nvidia Warp: Python framework for high-performance simulation and graphics code"

frodo8sam — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:22:06 +0000

Python? Are you sure? Maybe hardcore hpc types don't use python but it's still the bread and butter of most academics. Especially anyone doing data science/machine learning. If anything it has gotten more popular as R is slowly being displaced.

New comment by frodo8sam in "I've stopped using box plots (2021)"

frodo8sam — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 08:27:38 +0000

I'll take a plain histogram/kde plot every day of the week over those damn violin plots. I think box plots are quite usefull as they are easy to read but only if you trust the author has actually looked at the histogram. And you can typically not trust the author to have done that.