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Comment · 10 months ago
As I think another commenter hinted, the binary expansion of 7 is 111. And indeed, 1 = 1 = 1
Comment · 10 months ago
My reading of this is that they asked the system to redesign the PCB that was used in the i.MX 8M reference system-on-module. It looks like they take a parts list, a PCB shape, and a rough floorplan and pass that to their tool, which spits out a PCB design.

https://www.quilter.ai/blog/preparing-an-ai-designed-compute...

I could actually see myself using this tool, as someone who trained as an EE and still likes to tinker with electronics. It would be fun to just assemble a parts list and a rough layout and then receive a working electronic device a few weeks later with minimal work.

Comment · 10 months ago
Yandex is also yellow on that map. It lists five search engines that run their own crawlers -- Google, Bing, Yandex, Mojeek, and Yep
Comment · 10 months ago
That is 56,000 people
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for the kind words! I have not written it up but would like to. A word of warning: by trying to get into sequencing, I eventually burned through ~20k USD of student loans (still unpaid) with little to show. Nanopore sequencing also requires some specialized equipment (at least a micro centrifuge and micropipette and possibly more) which is not cheap.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hi, believe it or not, I have actually done what the authors were attempting. I used saliva rather than blood as a source of DNA and extracted it using a Qiagen kit.

My Nanopore flow cell had nearly every pore working from the start. So I would say that is not normal. Maybe it was stored incorrectly.

Comment · 1 year ago
Adding on: Claude also gave me the following line which was necessary to get the model weights to download from HF. This might be obvious for anyone familiar with HF but it helped me so sharing here!

git lfs install

Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, seems I misunderstood the original text. Thanks for the clarification.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the real story here might be the line below:

"Durham University improved by 30 places year-on-year"

Seems a bit suspicious, no? What methodology change led to this result? How can a university that was previously not as well-regarded become the #3 in the country overnight?

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Gemini allows you to opt out, but disables chat history if you do so
Comment · 1 year ago
The US culls 350 million male chicks per year, per this article. Wikipedia says billions of male chicks are culled worldwide, which seems plausible when accounting for EU, China, India, SA, SEA etc. The citation on Wikipedia looks legit to me as well.

Edit: Wikipedia does indeed cite several different figures, including a "billions" number which does not seem plausible. Thanks monster_truck for pointing this out, and apologies for my misunderstanding!

Comment · 1 year ago

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