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Last week I called around to see if I could get a booster before schools open. I was told by several places that they had sent their Covid shots back and I should just wait until mid-September to see whether they get new ones.


Here is a "Yoga for Building VR Tolerance" article from 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190209025553/http://elevr.com/...


Looks like superalignment was Jan Leike's term, since the team at OpenAI dissolved immediately without him.


The text version is nice for some things, but this one could really use the pictures. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/1243933142/diverging-diamond-...



Good article wrt question of forecasts and accuracy - charts 30 past years of forecasts and matching observations.

    It might be easy to dismiss the Pennsylvania forecast. In some corners of the Internet, Mann is viewed as a master of climate doomerism for his outspoken views on the perils of a warming world. But if anything, since its first issuance in 2007, Mann's forecast has proven to be conservative.
etc.


The forecast accuracy could use a dedicated article.

It tracked very well from ~1997-2002, 2008-2012, and 2014-2015. It was off, from 1994-1996, 2003-2004, 2006-2007 2015-2020. In 3 of the 4 cases there the fore cast under-predicted major storms, outside the std of the forecast. I wonder why.


Herd immunity has only ever been achieved with vaccines. It has not been achieved with Covid, with hundreds of people still dying from Covid each day.


I don't think a ring of galaxies is going to look very different from anyplace within the solar system. Anyway I think moralestapia's point is that the circle might not be centered on us, so the redshift of the galaxies would not be the same. We could still determine that a circle exists by plotting the galaxies in 3D.


No, I mean, a 2D circle could appear as a line from a certain perspective in 3D space.

Spin up your mental model of a circle in 3D space, look at it from a vector perpendicular from its diameter, rotate it 90 degrees in any other axis but the one you're looking at it; on that 2D projection, it will be a line.


>No, I mean, a 2D circle could appear as a line from a certain perspective in 3D space.

Right, and as a matter of fact that's exactly what we DO see with the Milky Way galaxy. It can be conceived of as a circular disc, more or less, but in our sky we see it from the side, as a streak or a band rather than a disc.


Reddit? Metafilter?


What search engine do you think management uses now?


They probably use some internal version that doesn't optimize for ad revenue but instead for user experience, as is Google tradition.


This is the correct answer LOL


Probably Kagi.


I was browsing test kits where you send a sample back to a lab. They're $79 - $300 and advertise 1 or 2 parts per trillion. Looks like getting to 0.02 ppt requires some very specialized equipment, and would probably be optimized for continuous monitoring of a water supply.


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