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    Google DeepMind, AI/ML and ALPHA-fold

    Alpha genome is the latest https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/
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    Why are LLMs so bad at deriving physics formulas?

    Was at a conference today and the discussion was RAGs set up with physics laws as a constraint on the LLM, both to improve accuracy and reduce compute by trimming possible inferences to exclude physically impossible scenarios. The context was oil & gas, particularly infrastructure assets
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    I am writing a SciFi story but I don't like Rayguns

    Why not a rail gun? If you can handwaive past the energy requirement, it’s the most powerful way to launch projectiles
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    The Chinese early experiments in Rocketry -- Do we owe them?

    I doubt any more than a handful of humans will ever leave Earth. Space is just too big and hostile
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    Which is which among Cyclone, Hurricane, and Typhoon?

    never would have assumed other than a superficial connection between hurricanes and tornados, but small, thunderstorm-sized rotations called mesocyclones spawn tornados and in some cases these can go offshore and grow into proper hurricanes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesocyclone
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    I Potential biosignature found in Mars rock

    Given that single cell life started on earth within the first billion years of its existence and how long it existed as the only form of life it should not be surprising to find traces on Mars. Seems similar to the first exoplanet discoveries - they similarly needed the full rigor of...
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    Most Hard-Driving Music?

    Black metal
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    Most Hard-Driving Music?

    Some more blues
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    Most Hard-Driving Music?

    But here is probably the least hard driving great piece of classical music
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    Most Hard-Driving Music?

    Bartok wrote some hard-driving classical music
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    Today I Learned

    There is a body of literature in machine learning / financial economics finding that generating synthetic data from a set of predictors (P) to increase the dimensionality, so P >> the number of observations and using linear ridge regressions with minimal shrinkage can capture nonlinearities in a...
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    Today I Learned

    Aside from the food, I love Canada, and while cold, at least the days are longer in Quebec than in Norway. but could not live anywhere without good Mexican food But why is it the French in Louisiana developed this great cuisine and all they ever did in Canada is fries in gravy?
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    Today I Learned

    Its all good, but think the Italian versions of Austrian food are better, like Cotoletta (or parm) vs Schnitzel or Veal Marsala vs Jagerschnitzel At least they use chiles in Spain and Hungary
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    Today I Learned

    It must take near the whole bottle to make the dish below look appetizing but this is what life could be
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    Today I Learned

    Ok, so enjoy
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