[–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

I think ironically enough, the AI might actually be the tipping point that forces grant application to put tighter limits on length. Im a part of evaluating compute grant applications, and we are now getting extremely large applications regurgitating completely irrelevant information (some of which i recognized, because i helped author some best practice guides in the field). Its straining our process because we can't ethically offload evaluating the applications to LLMs. I suspect this will be a continuous theme of time; that LLMs will highly strain all human processes that for any reason cannot be offloaded to LLMs.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I managed to take this with my phone from an airplane recently. It took quite a bit of manually fitting the settings and a "long" 2 second night mode integration time.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I really like fall of civilizations podcast, there are many hours of well researched and produced history. And also for a smaller creater underthefigtree is very cozy.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I checked the danish votes here and it seems like only social demokratiet (social democrats) voted against this bill. All other stronger left leaning parties voted for it as well as all the centrist and right leaning parties. Truly disappointing.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Very interesting points, and I see your point between all five, although except maybe praepropere? while in theory i can see this helps syncronizing communities, especially people with different lives (such as families), to sit down for the same dinner ritual. But in practice I have friends and family some of whom 1) have very active lifestyles such as running to/from work, and so requires more snacks to keep stable energy levels and 2) they have different eating habits for other reasons such as avoiding the psychological effects of truly feeling hungry. In either way, we keep having shared dinner rituals, they just eat different amounts.

    So i dont really see how the is a bad lifestyle or some ethical shortcoming, but just a rule to adhere to a specific social norm.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Hmm I don't know what to make of this, it seems like mostly a question of semantics of the scientific vs. casual use of the words attention span. The scientific use seem to refer strictly to the biological capacity to pay attention. But the laymen seem to report that they feel and act as if though they have short attention span. The science description of this phenomenon seems to be "short attention habits". So they argue that it is not about biological capacity, but the societal reward structures which enforce short attention behavior.

    As a layman it is not particularly obvious to me, why they define attention span to relate to the capacity and not the habit or behavior in the first place?

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I actually went to see this went I passed by Suzhou on my China trip a few years back! It is leaning quite a bit, but taking a good picture of it was difficult, as you can only really see it from one angle.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It is actually even worse, if you look at the lighting direction in the original granny picture, the seemingly only light source is the spark of the magic wand. To me this creates a sense of mystery, caution and tension, and it highlights that magic is the only tool to light the darkness.

    Then in the sloppified version, they just blast the scene in lighting from the right for no reason. Their ai bot even subdues the light of the wand, making it look like a cheap prop. I also get the feeling that they change her gaze from looking at something to looking directly at the camera. So while the 2x5090 GPU slop might technically highlight more details, the entire artistic feeling just ends up with a grandma looking in a makeup mirror.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You need to know which basis the sender use to collapse and measure in the same basis. Then you need to sample a statistical distribution and the desired information will be the average of the distribution. This is very well proven in the Bells inequality experiment and can definitely be used to gain information.

    It is clearly not very efficient in the sense a lot of transported bits are wasted to convey less information. But the advantages of instantaneous and secure communication will be worth it in some use cases.

    That is, of course, if the engineering issues such as quantum repeaters (a sort of range extender) and high fidelity storage are properly solved. It is a few years ago since I did any quantum information in uni, so I don't know what the current state of things are.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    For using the quantum teleportation algorithm you first have two establish entangled qubit pair, with one photon at the sender and one at the destination. This process does take the distance over speed of light amount of time. The trick is that you would pre-process this, and decide later when to and what information to encode into the qubit, allowing for "instant" information transfer. Naturally, this requires that you have a very good memory device that keeps the fidelity of the entangled qubits.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Not a search engine, but last week I learned of the European Open Websearch project, which builds a new free and open search index. It should already be ready to try out. Hopefully we will see some search engines implementing this soon.

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