will_a113

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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago

The world is run by middle-of-the-curve people.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 40 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

this could be one of those bell curve memes where the low end and high end are the moron/jedi guys saying “just print more money” and the middle of curve has a freshman Econ student trying to explain macroeconomics.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The “innovation” in the article is passive tech for fiber to the room (FTTR), specifically made to be low cost and easier to implement. It’s also how your computer might get that 50Gbit - it’ll have to be wired in with a fiber connection. It’s not happening over WiFi (or even Ethernet)

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I keep a box of citric acid crystals around for this and the coffee pot/espresso machine. It descales as well as vinegar (for the kettle I just put a few scoops in and boil with water) and there’s no aftertaste/smell like there is with vinegar.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Neat. AI slop about AI slop.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

I think “good” and “bad” are hard terms to apply to people objectively, but I do believe that most people value social coherence and are willing to do (the minimum amount of) something to maintain it. If you can’t believe at least that it means that all of those thin blue line people are right, and I’m just not willing to believe that’s true.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Unless you're going to be running many servers, or serving many users, or running multiple servers with a LOT of mods, you're better off cutting back a bit on the RAM and spending more on CPU - and with regard to the CPU, having high frequency cores is more important than lots of cores (again unless you're running many servers). I've been looking to upgrade our MC server and the floor CPU for me is a Ryzen 5 5600 or Intel i5 12600. There are frequently deals on combos, but even at market price they're not too bad - https://www.amazon.com/INLAND-Motherboard-AMD-Ryzen-5500/dp/B0CGLB7X9X for example.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That our benevolent alien overlords are gonna show up aaaaaany minute now...

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 154 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Kinda funny how when mega corps can benefit from the millions upon millions of developer hours that they’re not paying for they’re all for open source. But when the mega corps have to ante up (with massive hardware purchases out of reach of any of said developers) they’re suddenly less excited about sharing their work.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

No need to limit it to only people on social media…

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Could even be his twin - that joke is from 2007, if little Bobby was in kindergarten then he'd be around 22 by now and could be trying to land his first job out of college!

 

Using Reddit's popular ChangeMyView community as a source of baseline data, OpenAI had previously found that 2022's ChatGPT-3.5 was significantly less persuasive than random humans, ranking in just the 38th percentile on this measure. But that performance jumped to the 77th percentile with September's release of the o1-mini reasoning model and up to percentiles in the high 80s for the full-fledged o1 model.

So are you smarter than a Redditor?

 

When even Cory Doctrow starts to sound like an optimist I have to give myself a reality check as it usually means I'm heading off the deep end. But in this case it just rubs me the wrong way that he talks about Mastodon and Bluesky in the same breath -- one is not like the other.

 

Originality.AI looked at 8,885 long Facebook posts made over the past six years.

Key Findings

  • 41.18% of current Facebook long-form posts are Likely AI, as of November 2024.
  • Between 2023 and November 2024, the average percentage of monthly AI posts on Facebook was 24.05%.
  • This reflects a 4.3x increase in monthly AI Facebook content since the launch of ChatGPT. In comparison, the monthly average was 5.34% from 2018 to 2022.
 

Yet another entry from the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction department, as drug-addicted rats have turned Houston’s police evidence storage into their personal stash house.

 

And I just assumed they called Rainbolt

 

The Breakthrough Starshot program has gotten a lot of press for planning to accelerate tiny (a few grams) probes to 10-20% C with powerful laser pulses, but a new idea proposes building a giant particle accelerator in space to push much larger probes (up to 1000kg) up to speed with a relativistic electron beam. Such a setup might get a large-ish probe to Alpha Centauri within 40 years.

 

Well, maybe not, but a new study suggests drinking it only in the morning can reduce the risk of heart disease and all-cause mortality. so that's something, right?

 

As far as we've been able to tell, all matter in the universe comes in just of two distinct types: fermions (particles that make stuff)and bosons (particles that mediate a force).

However, physicists from Rice University have developed a mathematical framework for a third type, known as paraparticles, whose behavior could imply the existence of elementary particles nobody has ever considered. While they don't yet have a means for experimentally identifying such particles yet (or even predicting exactly what they'd do), this is the first time that such a model has been found that allows for a new particle family.

 

Dubbed Mazarron II, she was extracted from the sea in twenty parts and taken to the laboratories of the Cartagena National Museum of Underwater Archaeology for reconstruction. Laden with a cargo of lead ingots, she will not only offer an insight into the shipbuilding techniques of the Phoenicians but also their metallurgical sophistication.

 

Hackers have reportedly breached Gravy Analytics, a parent company of Venntel that sells smartphone location data to the U.S. government. The hackers claim to have stolen considerable data, including customer lists, industry information and individuals' location data. They are threatening to make the data public.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24390549

I missed this before, but apparently we're now nearly a year into Merck and Moderna's Phase-3 trials of a novel mRNA vaccine (mRNA-4157) in combination with Keytruda to slow or halt aggressive melanoma growth. (press release), and about 4 months into a similar Phase 3 trial of the same drug combo for small cell lung cancer (press release). Here's hoping that 2025 is the year we cure (some kinds of) cancer!

 

I missed this before, but apparently we're now nearly a year into Merck and Moderna's Phase-3 trials of a novel mRNA vaccine (mRNA-4157) in combination with Keytruda to slow or halt aggressive melanoma growth. (press release), and about 4 months into a similar Phase 3 trial of the same drug combo for small cell lung cancer (press release). Here's hoping that 2025 is the year we cure (some kinds of) cancer!

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