mkwt

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I've done some work with near infrared spectroscopy on a similar problem to the tricorder "molecular scan.". There are two-three main problems as I see it.

  1. A typical lab spectrometer might collect on 3,000 different frequencies to cover the spectrum. Meanwhile the sensor that is cheap enough to put in a tricorder has around 10 channels.
  2. The lab instrument probably has expensive and fragile optics. You can't do the same thing on the tricorder because the optics will break when you drop it.
  3. Lab procedures rely on carefully controlling the illumination so it's the same every time. Hard to do in the field, even in relatively benign field environments. This even comes down to using sample cuvettes that are precision machined to have two sides extremely parallel. You can't make a tricorder that dispenses precision cuvettes for sample collection. If you can't control the illumination, you have to measure it and calibrate.
[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

But on the plus side, it's a kind of actually readable font.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

The compilation step should only be happening on reboot after updates. Of course, that may be the only time you reboot your device.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

It's going to depend possibly on which state and federal court district the baby is in, and whether the baby can afford to hire a lawyer to file a lawsuit.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That is letter edh, or eth. It's a consonant in Old English, Old Norse and modern Icelandic that makes the th sound in "the." There's another letter thorn that makes the th sound in "thin." Notice the difference between the two sounds.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A meltdown is when the reactor overheats, and the uranium fuel pellets melt. Then the molten uranium metal falls down to the bottom of the reactor vessel, where it eventually after a long time cools down into a solid chunk of slag metal. That's a meltdown in my book.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If LLMs train on text output from LLMs, the results will degenerate into total garbage over time. The people that buy reddit data for LLM training know this. They will stop buying if they think there's a lot of LLM text on Reddit.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 99 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Non-Euclidean geometry was developed by pure mathematicians who were trying to prove the parallel line postulate as a theorem. They realized that all of the classic geometry theorems are all different if you start changing that postulate.

This led to Riemannian geometry in 1854, which back then was a pure math exercise.

Some 60 years later, in 1915, Albert Einstein published the theory of general relativity, of which the core mathematics is all Riemannian geometry.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (6 children)

He can't let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 40 points 6 days ago

They're definitely throwing the whole book at her. But there's also a small nugget of a case here. Having been through customs a few times, I think it's clear that biological materials should be declared. In a normal situation, the infraction would lead to a long wait in the back room, a stern warning, and maybe confiscated embryos. Not felony charges.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I have a relative that was in Nam and wears that hat, but he claims he was POG. I have another relative who lied about his age to get into Nam, who definitely was in the shit, and he doesn't wear the hat.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But the dam companies are incentived to verify the accuracy.

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