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Tip: You can take Waymo to just outside the economy lot, then hop on the shuttle to the terminals. The shuttles have their own dedicated lane for going around the loop, so this isn't even that much more time. It's my new favorite way to get to LAX.
Because today is the day that I read the blog post.

I agree with you that Apple taking action on the account is not wholly unreasonable. What I found shocking was the inability to contact someone who could resolve the situation. I know this is a common issue with Google, but had expected Apple to be different.

Reading the paper, it looks like they just demonstrate classification by left loop/right loop/whorl. That's a long way from recreating a full fingerprint.
These numbers are from 1990-2000. Airlines have gotten much safer since then, so I believe they would now be much safer per-journey, too. https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-ca...

(The difference between per-mile and per-journey is still interesting!)

Re:MLX: An array framework for Apple Silicon on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:10AM (#38544825)
Exactly right that this targets a narrower surface to enable many deep learning models. I wonder how uncommon it is to hit some operation that is not included, though? It seems pretty common from a PyTorch MPS tracking issue:

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/77764

NVIDIA's moat is not just in providing BLAS++ operations, but extending this to a wider range of cuSPARSE, cuSOLVE, cuTENSOR, etc. Without these, it feels like Apple is just trying to play catch up with whatever is popular and unsupported...

Re:MLX: An array framework for Apple Silicon on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @09:40AM (#38544484)
It looks like this is still missing many matrix operations like QR, SVD, einsum, etc. Is there a clear route to using these on the GPU in Python on Apple Silicon? Last I checked the PyTorch backend was still missing at least QR...
Re:macOS Cursors on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:08PM (#35240724)
Shake the cursor and it will temporarily grow much larger.

I think cursor customizations died with memory safety.

Eugenics: the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable.
I genuinely asked in good faith and interest. If posting publicly is your concern my email is easy to find from my profile.
What exactly is the information "censored and suppressed" with regard to the mRNA COVID vaccines?
This is a peer-reviewed paper, but I also have trouble calling it a study. The underlying article makes a philosophical argument but is not a typical research study (which I take to mean the collection of original empirical observations).
Super important to note that this is vaccine effectiveness against infection. It does not address the effectiveness of vaccines to prevent hospitalization or death.
Protection from infection is sort of like cleaning up a spill on your doorstep. Curing an active infection is more like cleaning up after someone deliberately blew dirt throughout your whole house, and hid some extra in nooks and crannies.
Re:Covid-19 breakthrough data on Sunday January 16, 2022 @11:15AM (#29957189)
“Note that this is the probability of an infection being Omicron given a person is infected, so it doesn’t tell us how likely a person is to test positive in the first place.”
Re:Covid-19 breakthrough data on Sunday January 16, 2022 @11:12AM (#29957145)
“Note that this is the probability of an infection being Omicron given a person is infected, so it doesn’t tell us how likely a person is to test positive in the first place.”
As a matter of fact, the article repeatedly mentions the benefits of nuclear power.
Re:Biologists Rethink the Logic Behind Cells’ Molecular Signals on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:11PM (#28556859)
This is the paper the article is covering: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5612783/

It is beautiful work, but this breathless coverage really ignores that these properties have been previously characterized in other receptor signaling families like FcRs, cytokines, FGFR, TGFb, etc.

Re:Freenode ops take control of 700 channels on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:07AM (#27289994)
The response on the freenode website is wild.

https://freenode.net/news/for-foss

Re:Svalbard's Alcohol Quotas on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:45AM (#26670976)
AFAIK Svalbard is weird in both immigration laws and a distinct tax structure from Norway. My guess is it has to do with tax avoidance schemes rather than consumption.
Just the acquisition costs would cover the entire NIH budget for a decade, though.

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