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peddamat commented on Are at-home genetic tests worth it? As an oncologist, here's my advice.   washingtonpost.com/wellne... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
adamredwoods · 9 months ago
Your DNA is not guaranteed to mutate into something cancerous that spreads and mutates. I do think there are things humans can do to avoid carcinogens, but remember, bananas give off radionuclides.
peddamat · 9 months ago
There are certain mutations like MSH6 which pretty much guarantee that you are going to die of cancer unless you are extremely proactive.
peddamat commented on Costco’s butter recall, explained   forbes.com/sites/stephani... · Posted by u/michaelbarton
peddamat · 9 months ago
So many "broken windows" theory believers suddenly promoting broken windows.
peddamat commented on Costco’s butter recall, explained   forbes.com/sites/stephani... · Posted by u/michaelbarton
crazygringo · 9 months ago
This isn't QA over food. It's not like the butter was contaminated or something.

It's QA over packaging.

And you have no evidence that this was motivated by trying to "save money by doing less QA".

US food manufacturers generally do their absolute best on QA because recalls are super expensive and the headlines are bad. But companies are made up of humans who are never going to be 100.0000000% perfect.

peddamat · 9 months ago
shouldn't the question be, how the f does a manufacturer mess up the packaging of BUTTER. something they have presumably been selling for decades?
peddamat commented on How to mail an SD card with gummy glue   flyingcarcomputer.com/pos... · Posted by u/zkirill
BizarroLand · a year ago
Why not put them in a plastic bag or Electrostatic bag and then tape them to cardboard? That seems like it would solve most of the problems cheaply without adding a lot of thickness to the envelope?
peddamat · a year ago
It really does seem like a small piece of tape inside the envelope would have solved the problem.
peddamat commented on Microsoft Phi-3 Cookbook   github.com/microsoft/Phi-... · Posted by u/nonfamous
simonw · a year ago
You can interact with the new Phi-3 vision model on this page (no login required): https://ai.azure.com/explore/models/Phi-3-vision-128k-instru...
peddamat · a year ago
I get a "the request was blocked" error.
peddamat commented on Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?   heraldscotland.com/busine... · Posted by u/kull
digging · a year ago
No - quantum uncertainty gives us the assumption that everything is fundamentally random and nothing is deterministic, unless we assume a meta-determinism (or superdeterminism) whereby fundamentally random outcomes are actually predetermined.

How does that relate with the experience of decision making? That's a complete unknown. But the simplest explanation is that free will is simple, once we define it as "the experience of making a decision" instead of the traditional, nonsensical definition of "the act of making a decision that is fundamentally independent from prior events". Usually free will is framed as "choice vs slavery", which is a useless definition because choices can't be made in a vacuum.

In other words, of course we have free will: We feel like we have free will, and free will is simply the feeling of having free will. Conscious decisions (if those even exist!) are physical processes just like everything else in the universe.

peddamat · a year ago
It's very confusing how a relativity works in a non-deterministic world. Brian Greene's illustration of how relativity "slices the loaf" in the Fabric of the Cosmos (https://youtu.be/8Y-JmocB84Y?t=1334) makes it very difficult for me to understand how things work if reality is indeed non-deterministic.

Unless reality is more like Everything Everywhere All At Once, i.e., the Everett many loafs model.

peddamat commented on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza   972mag.com/lavender-ai-is... · Posted by u/contemporary343
edanm · a year ago
You asked elsewhere to see footage, here's one site that has some of hte footage:

https://www.hamas-massacre.net/

There are dozens of sites collecting footage that Hamas itself put out during the attacks. There are hundreds of witness accounts. There are countless news articles from reputable news organizations corroborating all these accounts.

If you're honestly looking for the truth, it's not hard to realize what that it is.

peddamat · a year ago
Thank you for posting this. Honestly, my social media bubble exposed me to exactly 0.5% of the videos on this site.

While I still think Israel is making the same mistake we did after 9/11, these videos help me feel a little of the vitriol fueling the IDF's actions.

peddamat commented on Could the cosmos, in fact, be conscious?   heraldscotland.com/busine... · Posted by u/kull
RaftPeople · a year ago
> Panpsychism requires that the universe updates its state by conscious choice, which we already know happens

Can you clarify what we "already know happens"?

Even for humans, it's not clear that "conscious choice" exists and causes changes in state, because we don't know what the mechanism is that can cause a state change other than state at time T-1.

peddamat · a year ago
Isn't it assumed that everything is deterministic apart from what is done by the somewhat magical, "free will"?
peddamat commented on US achieves first moon landing in half century with private spacecraft   reuters.com/technology/sp... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Retric · 2 years ago
USG paid for R&D, physical hardware, and the actual launch.

It’s about as ‘private’ as the F-22.

peddamat · 2 years ago
Isn't that generally how customers work?
peddamat commented on More Californians are driving EVs, making public charging a potential nightmare   sacbee.com/opinion/articl... · Posted by u/LinuxBender
Arnt · 2 years ago
A friend of mine said that "most cars spend 23 hours per day parked, and public charging is about doing the charging in the 24th hour". Not sure the 23 is a real number though.
peddamat · 2 years ago
but home charging is typically during hours where renewable output is at its lowest. would be amazing if/when all EVs are automatically grid-connected when not in motion. instead of expensive centralized energy storage in giant megapacks, we have low-cost (but stochastic) decentralized storage that is available when renewable generation is at its peak.

u/peddamat

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