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My Willing Complicity in "Human Rights Abuse"

ussri.substack.com
4 points·by oxw·4 месяца назад·0 comments

More cows, more wives

worksinprogress.news
100 points·by oxw·5 месяцев назад·71 comments

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oxw
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
Permacomputing meeting in SF March 1st

https://alexwennerberg.com/permacomputing.html
oxw
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
> I've long thought that every restaurant/bakery/etc could publish their full internal cookbooks and not see a drop in sales.

Absolutely. Chad Robertson of Tartine bakery has written books detailing how to make their breads and pastries. Still lines out the door.
oxw
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Very small apertures reduce image quality due to diffraction, which this avoids

Last page in the paper has a comparison between their approach and f/32 https://imaging.cs.cmu.edu/svaf/static/pdfs/Spatially_Varyin...
oxw
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
> “I’d love to take those next steps and see if our trash pandas in our backyard are really friendlier than those out in the countryside,” she says.

Would they have to measure "biological" friendliness, comparing lab raised countryside-descended and city-descended raccoons? Domesticated animals can be very unfriendly. Feral cats for example.
oxw
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
The article is more critical of the idea of an AI cult than the title suggests. Worth a read.
oxw
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
It's inaccurate to say that dutched cocoa is less flavorful. Chocolate flavor is composed of multiple notes / experiences. Dutched cocoa has less acidic or fruity notes, but more dark rich, fudgy notes. Different, not less flavorful.
oxw
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882837
oxw
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Is there any way to sign an image/photo with the exact time/location it was taken in a way that can't be forged? Time + location are measurements that can be fooled.
oxw
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Chip stacking today is limited by thermal management. Can't stack multiple high TDP (e.g. logic) chips together, can only do one + low power chips (e.g. memory). Wonder if this is something DARPA is trying to solve here.