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The whole math and AI debate irks me. I am thinking the same can be said about art. „if art is more than the image …“. But when we debate image generation we dismiss this. So it is different when it is closer to home? Hypocritical IMO
Re:Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:07PM (#49615190)
> a database that predicts the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome. We used the AlphaGenome AI model to pre-calculate the regulatory impact of all 9 billion single-letter genetic changes, resulting in a massive, 1-petabyte dataset.

This is for a database, no? While Borzoi is a model?

> Here, we introduce Borzoi, a model that learns to predict cell-type-specific and tissue-specific RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-02053-6

Re:App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:25PM (#49216953)
> We understand that the app includes a live tarot reading feature

I don’t understand why tarot reading apps are banned, can someone enlighten me?

Re:Vehicle Motion Cues on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:09AM (#49080400)
I use this a lot on my MacBook Air when working in cabs. It’s beautiful and works well for me
Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:06PM (#48150334)
WDYM it is free? You hit rate limits after anout 10 messages

(side note I like that they rate limit messages and not tokens. at least it does not just stop mid reply)

Re:A Gopher Meets a Crab on Saturday May 02, 2026 @07:34AM (#47985475)
That's a terrible analogy:)

It is more like you wanting to build a bed out of wood so you hire a carpenter and watch them and ask questions about every step and maybe help a bit at the end.

I find it amazing to learn new programming things

Re:Moltbook on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:12AM (#46845339)
A website for a meetup I host including a store. It was a 30min thing and amazing. A web app to track my contact lens usage. An android app for my gym routine. A web app to try drum patterns
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:37PM (#46833164)
> Nobody is building anything worthwhile with these things.

Do you mean AI or these "personal agents"? I would disagree on the former, folks build lots of worthwile things

Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:51AM (#46668223)
> Google realized this a long time ago; there is no ad-free paid version of Google Search.

well there is also no 200$/month Google Search subscription

Re:Clicks Communicator on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:02AM (#46486276)
"visit our main site" -> about in the footer
Re:Clicks Communicator on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:18PM (#46480418)
where do you see it is a coworking space? looks to me like a normal office building

either way it is a physical address, I was just responding to the invalid claim above

Re:Clicks Communicator on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:22PM (#46479164)
https://www.clicks.tech/pages/about-clicks ?

(not affiliated but feels a bit rough as a critique for a companty that has shipped keyboards for a while)

Tangential but did not see it mentioned: Calibri must have been the Microsoft Word default at some point, at least in some parts of the world, because seeing it makes me think this is a Word document by a person that did not change the default font.
Re:AI World Clocks on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:35PM (#45931102)
Re:The power of two random choices on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:09PM (#44977438)
neat trick indeed. would be cool to do the math and get an analytical formula of mean queue time given cache refresh for a given k, under some mild assumptions.
Re:Photos taken inside musical instruments on Sunday June 01, 2025 @03:50PM (#44153342)
I want to live in a violin
Re:Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops on Monday March 24, 2025 @12:12PM (#43462659)
I feel like my iPhone does it. But not sure. Sound definitely changes when you zoom while recording
Reading obj c brought back some good memories of when I coded iPhone apps around 2009. Great language

On topic: parsing others file formats has to be one of the most fun and most terrible things. The bliss when it ends up working is great

Re:Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:52PM (#43082081)
Is this using t SNE? Or sth else? I have a feeling similarity is not well defined in whatever space this is using. t SNE is famously unsuited to plot how "close" two points are. it is for clustering
Re:The State of Vim on Friday January 24, 2025 @02:20AM (#42811196)
I use VIM bindings in VS Code. Always assumed many do but might be wrong
Re:Why do bees die when they sting you? on Saturday January 18, 2025 @03:39PM (#42751243)
> The notion that a species is "adapted for a particular environment" is somewhat nonsensical because "the environment" is never really fixed.

Mever considered this. Good stuff

Re:Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness on Friday January 17, 2025 @07:02AM (#42736664)
I stumbled upon this when visualizing music. It is very interesting how everything is kind of non linear, like you mention. I had to increase low frequencies and then I got stuck trying to bucket frequencies. It seems humans have different fidelity for different ranges of frequencies
Re:Stimulation Clicker on Monday January 06, 2025 @03:02PM (#42614973)
Can't say anything but I FRIGGING LOVED THIS
I skimmed the article but did not find my question answered: what's the current view on whether the political and social response was properly done?
Re:Anxiety and Frustration at NeurIPS'24 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @04:50PM (#42505194)
As someone who did a PhD ending 4y ago and joined a industry research lab, I can relate to this a lot, I think this is very much spot on

> a lot of these PhD’s hired back then were therefore asked to and free to do research; that is, they chose what they want to work on and they publish what they want to publish. it was just like an academic research position however with 2-5x better compensation as well as external visibility and without teaching duties,

exactly!

> such process standardization is however antithetical to scientific research. we do not need a constant and frequent stream of creative and disruptive innovations but incremental and stable improvements based on standardized processes.

A lot of the early wave AI folks struggle with this. They wanna keep pushing wild research ideas but the industry needs slow incremental stuff, focused on serving

Re:Manx – a catalog of manuals for old computers on Monday December 23, 2024 @05:53PM (#42498252)
What makes this the greatest?
Re:Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:26PM (#42390990)
Was the Windows Phone ever at the frontier tho?
Re:Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:26PM (#42390982)
Rolling out the next few days accorsing to Jeff

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