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Comment · 1 day ago
First attempt I didn't read the rules and didn't understand that the shots were all from the same episode.

After I got that I'm now at 34/34 with win guess avg of 2.68.

Comment · 2 months ago
I came here to quote the same sentence. Here's another way to look at it:

Suppose there actually is a best word choice. The LLM doesn't know what it is but makes a guess. Maybe it's the best one, maybe it isn't. The probability that SynthID changes the best choice to a worse one is equal to the probability that it changes a worse choice to the best one.

Comment · 4 months ago
The main linked article actually does not have that video; the article linked from in the description does have it. Not surprising that someone missed it.
Comment · 6 months ago
I live nearby and really enjoy Oodi. It's usually much busier than in these pictures.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nitpick: The early moves in the game are called fuseki. Joseki refers to well-studied local patterns of moves and they appear through the middle game, not just in the early game.

A couple of things I love about go is that you don't need to memorize fuseki, and that applying joseki correctly is as much a matter of judgment as it is of memory.

(I am a 1 dan go player but haven't played much in the last 15 years.)

Comment · 1 year ago
The Wikipedia article says:

"Rock, sand and concrete has a heat capacity about one third of water's. On the other hand, concrete can be heated to much higher temperatures (1200 °C) by for example electrical heating and therefore has a much higher overall volumetric capacity."

and

"Polar Night Energy installed a thermal battery in Finland that stores heat in a mass of sand. It was expected to reduce carbon emissions from the local heating network by as much as 70%. It is about 42 ft (13 m) tall and 50 ft (15 m) wide. It can store 100 MWh, with a round trip efficiency of 90%. Temperatures reach 1,112 ºF (600 ºC). The heat transfer medium is air, which can reach temperatures of 752 ºF (400 ºC) – can produce steam for industrial processes, or it can supply district heating using a heat exchanger."

Comment · 1 year ago
(Off topic.)

Not only that, but Linus's parents were politically active communists and young Linus was a pioneer (like a boy scout but for communists). His father also lived in Moscow for several years on two separate occasions.

Comment · 1 year ago
_Miles_ from the ocean? Budapest is 620 miles from the nearest ocean at the mouth of Elbe.

(Incidentally exactly 1000 km.)

Comment · 1 year ago
You are absolutely right, I cannot see it there either! Sorry for the misdirection.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
It took me a while but I think the difference between Vertex and Gemini APIs is that Vertex is meant for existing GCP users and Gemini API for everyone else. If you are already using GCP then Vertex API works like everything else there. If you are not, then Gemini API is much easier. But they really should spell it out, currently it's really confusing.

Also they should make it clearer which SDKs, documents, pricing, SLAs etc apply to each. I still get confused when I google up some detail and end up reading the wrong document.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah. Alternative explanation: I'd say 3 and 7 are out because they often come up in fairy takes etc as magical. 5 is out because it's half of ten and the number of fingers. 2 is out because it is too small.
Comment · 1 year ago
Oh, right! I forgot about it. I guess 8 would do too.
Comment · 1 year ago
Also it is one party (The Finns) presenting a rail initiative competing with their government partner's (National Coalition) older initiative. It is very unlikely that they both will be implemented.

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