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Re:Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines
on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:43PM (#27467953)
Regarding ivermectin, this twitter thread does a good job summarizing other studies and links to them all.
https://twitter.com/AbdenurFlavio/status/1398717229366235141
Re:Tune Your PID Controller
on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:21PM (#27298269)
The asymmetric systems example is very true. When I did high school robotics, our robot one year had a large, heavy elevator. I made it so going up used a PID controller and going down was just a constant resistive force (since it was already too fast when falling via gravity).
Re:Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis
on Thursday May 13, 2021 @01:17AM (#27138671)
https://yang-song.github.io/blog/2021/score/ is an excellent one
Re:How Basecamp Blew Up
on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:12PM (#27045379)
> Also "defund the police" is a shorthand that typically means "reduce direct law enforcement funding and instead fund other community engagement programs".
"Reform the police" is much more universalist term that people across multiple political spectrums would have gotten behind (and it's still memorable).
I'm not sure why it wasn't used instead.
Re:The Brazilian Amazon has 'flipped' to become major producer of gree...
on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:44PM (#27031840)
This video changed my mind in the opposite direction.
Stopping meat consumption would make a negligible difference in emissions. It's more valuable to focus on minimizing food waste instead.
Re:We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:47PM (#26946373)
https://based.cooking/
Both are open source recipe sites meant to combat the blogspam and load quickly.
Re:University of Michigan to use $4M gift to launch new esports minor
on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:51AM (#26911372)
The school's official announcement:
https://news.umich.edu/u-m-activision-blizzard-ceo-develop-n...
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsore...
on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:46AM (#26901642)
It appears that is somewhat underway. Youtube is at least experimenting with not having dislikes.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/31/youtube-is-testing-removal-of-...