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wombatpm

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6 points·by wombatpm·6 maanden geleden·1 comments

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wombatpm
·16 uur geleden·discuss
Physical Chemistry (I think it was Chem 361 at UofI) took most of the semester to get to the point where we could derive the shape of the hydrogen orbitals. Probably the best lecture of that class.
wombatpm
·6 dagen geleden·discuss
XML is like violence. If it’s not solving your problem, you need to use more.
wombatpm
·13 dagen geleden·discuss
Physics 107 at U of I in the 80’s had all quizzes on the PLATO system. Please for the love of mercy do not not go back to inflexible systems for exams and quizzes.
wombatpm
·29 dagen geleden·discuss
Same problem with chemo and radiation. A tumor may start off with a single cancerous mutation, but by the time it spreads there may be several. Once the cell repair machinery has been broken, the cancer cells are prone for more mutations.

Chemo, radiation, and CRISPR will kill everything it can reach that is susceptible. That leaves everything that was unreachable or resistant behind to start growing again.

Kill cancer cells is easy. Killing ONLY cancer cells is very hard.
wombatpm
·30 dagen geleden·discuss
You just need to get a breeding pair and you can raise as many as you need.
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
Wasn’t Tesla found to have FSD disengaging just before a crash so that the driver would be at fault?
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
Old joke: Bill Gates walks into a bar. On average everyone there is a millionaire
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
Police would just argue that the second datapoint was wrong.
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
But that is also a problem with structures derived from the methods you list. None of them are 100% equivalent to in vivi structures.
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
Bette White has an honorary degree from there for her Rose Nieland character on Golden Girls
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
100 years of science fiction clearly shows that unforeseeable consequences are not that unforeseen.
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
Screen share on slack or teams gives you the same. I’d routinely work with remote teammates that way, and we’d jump in a control each others machines as needed. We’d do hours of that as a team, breaking into breakout rooms as necessary. Much more effective that a hot conference room
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
Until there is a coordinated effort for every user to demand arbitration. Suddenly a corporation wants to combine all complaints into a single case, because each arbitration has a fixed cost for the corporation.
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
SpaceX is now an AI company with a rocket side hustle. At least that’s how the S1 looks.
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
And the RTO fad means those Low Cost areas continue to decline.
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
They grew out of red light cameras, which everyone saw as a naked cash grab- especially once towns were caught tweaking the yellow light timings.

Cops love them, and look longingly at the UK panopticon and how easy it is to solve crimes.
wombatpm
·vorige maand·discuss
Mass produced and pre-staged. Think zipcar for guillotines pre positioned in finance districts and rich neighborhoods.
wombatpm
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
People say this, but the cash is returned only if you sell. A dividend is cash in pocket plus the stock.
wombatpm
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Are you going to allow ER’s to refuse patients and let people die on the street? What if the Patient is unconscious with no identification but looks Hispanic? Can they be turned away?

Stripping away all wefare because of immigration is a bad bad bad idea.
wombatpm
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
So knowledge becomes meta stable. There was an AIDS drug in the 90’s that we stopped being able to make. IIRC Apparently there were two different crystal/folding structures for the compound and the desired one was not the lowest energy. After years of production, the wrong version was produced and they could no longer make the correct version do to contamination. And every facility that tried to study it, wound up no longer being able to make the correct version. It was like a real life ice-IX situation. Scary that changing weights or model parameters could lead to the same thing happening with knowledge.