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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

waaaaay less impressive when you take a look inside

Once Evo got familiar with the genomes of Phi X-174 and its kin, the researchers prompted the model to write new versions of its own. Evo generated 700,000 potential versions; the scientists pursued only the ones that looked as if they had the best odds of succeeding.

They ended up making DNA molecules from 285 of Evo’s suggested sequences. [...] All told, they discovered that 16 of Evo’s genomes produced viable new viruses.

Dr. Crook cautioned that Evo’s viruses were not radically new creations. They tend to be very similar to natural species, relying on the same underlying biology.

look out for breathless boosters "warning" everyone that ai will kill us all and it's definitely not used as a marketing strategy

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago

this is silicon metal surgical siliconE has density almost equal to water

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

that bot setting is just irl evil bit

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hornyposting on main must be one of these elusive family values then i guess

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

AC also needs to deal with line resistance, and cheap, efficient multi-MW, multi-kV DC/DC converters aren't there so far, but there are prototypes (and drop-in transformer replacements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_transformer) Advantage is that these converters can be more efficient than transformers and you don't have to deal with reactive current (if DC). Obvious downside is that frequency control isn't there

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

if power electronics get a bit better than they are now, we could switch to DC power transmission and DC/DC converters instead of transformers. bunch of infrastructure could be replaced one by one, but benefit is slight except for already used undersea cables

but on generation side, it's either photovoltaics or spin a magnet

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

nfc tag and card might try to transmit at the same time that's why it's asking to remove it

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 59 points 1 month ago (5 children)

"individual researchers with bold ideas" will mysteriously turn out to be republican techbros

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

hexbear userbase are tankies/campists with extreme brigading habit, this is why many instances are defederated from them. including this one

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

mods of a comm that has "fuck tankies" in tagline have a vote and agree to remove a tankie mod. there are receipts and entire post prepared in advance

at the same time said mod is removed as admin of a couple of matrix rooms. said mod is also db0 admin and seems to like leftist unity as long as it's done her way only. three hours later she wakes up and her next move is to grab another, completely unrelated community and to move instances from blahaj to db0, a community where she was inactive as a mod for months, specifically so that it would be exposed to hexbear. we all know it works very well. it seems like this move was talked about with db0 admins but not other mods of said community.

this doesn't go as intended, blahaj admin steps in and removes that mod from there too. the new community on db0 is also removed, which is something that can be only done by admin, presumably some other db0 admin. then said mod makes second big post, calls blahaj admin a reactionary, steps down as a db0 admin ("voluntarily", somehow i doubt that), moves shop to hexbear (?)

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fair. I'm doing synthetic chemistry for a living, and probably i have as much use of electrochemistry or crystallography as you do have of organic chemistry. I get it is a skill with a limited utility, and i might be biased, but i don't get why people complain about it so much. On the other hand, one of my labmates was hired by mat sci lab as a single person fire brigade to unfuck their project, ant it worked despite no organic chemistry involvement

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

if you don't mind, what field are you in that you were examined in ochem but you don't use ochem? last time i've checked, chatbots crap the bed constantly when asked about anything that you can deduce (easily, by analogy) but can't find, especially as text, the mistakes were either glaring or sneaky but never correct. it's much easier to express what you mean by drawings in ochem anyway

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