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Comment · 6 days ago
As people have mentioned, it isn't that surprising that a specially trained model beats a general purpose model.

However, I think it kinda misses the potential of llms for diagnosis. What happens if we also include journal notes? What if we let the model generate questions to ask the patient and include those? What if the images aren't perfect examples and happen to contain out of distribution content like a tattoo?

Comment · 15 days ago
There's no mention of the reason for the removal from what I can see, do you have a link that provides more context?
Comment · 5 months ago
Did you dissolve it in hot water before consumption?
Comment · 6 months ago
For my master thesis I did a lot of digging into the research on success factors for startups. And at least based on what I found back then, you're right. The correlation is weak between any factor like this and success. Generally positive though, so it does make sense to try doing some planning. But it's definitely not a requirement.

In general, observable factors doesn't strongly correlate with success. Probably both because there are so many to choose from and because the real world is complex and typically doesn't align well with any predefined plan.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
Feature request: Make it default behavior on phones that you can have multiple passwords, connected to different profiles. With no way to determine how many profiles a phone have.

I'm sure there's some people here working on mobile operating systems, might be worth considering?

Comment · 7 months ago
Didn't it start with asm.js, a subset of javascript serving as a way to compile C code to be run in a browser? Then browser makers figured that it'd be better to have a dedicated target for this. So while it can be used to achieve performance in specific scenarions, it's largely designed with the goal in mind to be able to run non js code in a browser. The wasm toolchain Emscripten encompasses this notion quite clearly as it emulates things like filesystems etc. If the main goal was faster execution, they would probably have gone a different route. PRobably even gone for a new language altogether.

I'd like a toolchain better targeted for the pure acceleration use case though. Emscripten adds a lot of bloat and edges just to serve out of the box posix compatibility. Which is nice for quick demos of "look I can run Doom in the browser"-kind. But less useful for advanced web app usage, where you anyways will want to keep control of such behavior and interact with the browser apis more directly.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's the difference between proportional voting vs winner takes it all. In the latter case you can't really hold politicians accountable, as you will have to choose between effectively throwing your vote away or voting for the one opposition candidate, that often will be just as bad.

While the UK have some level of representativeness, each circuit has a winner takes it all structure, making change quite hard to achieve on a larger scale.

Comment · 1 year ago
Good to be aware: Full face helmets restrict your view more, so there is a safety trade-off to be made.
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe he's actually wearing protective gear? Jeans with slide tolerant layers and padding are pretty common as warm weather gear and there are jeans style jackets as well. If you don't know what to look for it can be hard to tell the difference to regular clothing.
Comment · 1 year ago
This isn't just about perception. If you:

* Have a license * Wear appropriate gear * Follow speed limits * Don't drink and ride * Aged somewhere 30-50 * Have more than a few months experience on your bike * etc.

You are statistically "one of the safer ones". Not safe, you are never truly safe when in traffic.

Comment · 1 year ago
I find that annoying too. In case you haven't seen, there's the sponsor block extension for that, which is not limited by anti-adblock measures.
Comment · 1 year ago
It takes away the ability to know what it does though, which is also often considered an important aspect. By not publishing details on how to train the model, there's no way to know if they have included intentional misbehavior in the training. If they'd provide everything needed to train your own model, you could ensure that it's not by choosing your own data using the same methodology.

IMO it should be considered freeware, and only partially open. It's like releasing an open source program with a part of it delivered as a binary.

Comment · 2 years ago
To me it sounded like click bait. So I checked comments and concluded that it was indeed about the very visible RDS signal and not some hidden channel used by some secretive agency that would indeed be somewhat mysterious.

I don't think the fact that it worked in generating clicks is really an argument for bait titles. Given the positive comments about the content I think some editorializing could have been helpful to focus on the hacking journey aspect though, which seems to be the point rather the specifics of RDS itself.

Comment · 2 years ago
I sure hope this does not mean a reduction in quality, one of Legos big benefits has been the longevity, lego pieces from the 70s are still in my family's rotation. Reuse should always come before recycle.

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