Insane to call "more people bad" naive but then actually try and account for what would otherwise best be described as hope.
The point is that you can go "from more people bad" to "less people good" in just a few jumps, and that is not great.
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inasio commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
One of a few issues I have with groups like these, is that they often confidently and aggressively spew a set of beliefs that on their face logically follow from one another, until you realize they are built on a set of axioms that are either entirely untested or outright nonsense. This is common everywhere, but I feel especially pronounced in communities like this. It also involves quite a bit of navel gazing that makes me feel a little sick participating in.
The smartest people I have ever known have been profoundly unsure of their beliefs and what they know. I immediately become suspicious of anyone who is very certain of something, especially if they derived it on their own.
Saw once a discussion that people should not have kids as it's by far the highest increase in your carbon footprint in your lifetime (>10x than going vegan, etc) be driven all the way to advocating genocide as a way of carbon footprint minimization
Beyond efficacy, having a drug that only needs to be taken twice per year is a huge deal. Adherence is critical for treatments to succeed, and it's much easier to ensure that patients are on their meds twice per year. It's also much safer for vulnerable people, where getting caught with HIV medications (say daily pills) could be dangerous
This came from funding from the following DARPA program: [0]
(I did a google search on the acknowledged grant in the paper, no connection)
[0] https://sam.gov/opp/e0fb2b2466cd470481b0ca5cab3d210d/view
inasio commented on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong seriouseats.com/meat-rest... · Posted by u/voxadam
What cooking competitions ban sous-vide/low-temp cooking?
I've also heard that sous-vide is typically banned in BBQ competitions. A quick google search did find some examples to support it:
https://www.texoassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/O...
inasio commented on The year of peak might and magic filfre.net/2025/07/the-ye... · Posted by u/cybersoyuz
HOMM3 is a perfect game. I've gotten people hooked on it in the 2020's. I still have an original CD of the linux port, a lot of nostalgia there
inasio commented on Efficient set-membership filters and dictionaries based on SAT github.com/NationalSecuri... · Posted by u/keepamovin
Membership filters are very efficient filters that guarantee no false negatives, but false positives are possible (how much and how many can be adjusted based on the dataset and filter's parameters). An obvious application could something like checking whether passengers are in a no-fly list, where false-positives could be handled by further checks. As far as I know cuckoo filters [0] are the state of the art for this, but per this work in principle you could make very efficient with using a SAT (or XORSAT) solver that could generate many feasible solutions out of random SAT problems.
- Google scholar pointed out this link to get a pdf for one of the papers cited in the repo [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_filter
[1] http://t-news.cn/Floc2018/FLoC2018-pages/proceedings_paper_4...
inasio commented on Officials concede they don't know the fate of Iran's uranium stockpile nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us... · Posted by u/zzzeek
For reference, 400 kg of Uranium amounts to 21 liters, or a little over 5 gallons
inasio commented on Giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/gammarator
I see some parallels with magnetic resonance imaging. I worked on a project optimizing MRI scans a few years back. I remember the PI in the project essentially acknowledging that analyzing single MRI images is absolutely more art than science, but there's a ton of value in getting periodic MRIs (say yearly) and looking at the diffs. I imagine a lot of the value coming from Rubin will be due to this, as well as the reason it was built for speed.
There's a high quality slow motion video available [1] that shows the problem was almost certainly a failed pressure tank, not the engines.
There's something strangely beautiful about this video, similar to the Hindenburg video perhaps, so much detail everywhere