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memes·MemesbyBB84

"content curation"

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/46665693

PieFed blocks ![email protected] (and a few other communities) by default. At the time of writing this post, you can search for the comm on many PieFed instances and you will not find it.

The block is only by default. The admin can choose to override it. Many big instances have done so, including

  • piefed.social
  • piefed.world
  • piefed.zip

See more information here.

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science·SciencebyBB84

Private donors pledge 860M EUR for CERN's Future Circular Collider

Please try to consolidate discussions in the thread linked below:

Crossposted from https://mander.xyz/post/46586274

It's not guaranteed that the FCC will be built yet. But if CERN decides to build it, then these people will chip in 860M EUR.

The people in question are "a group of friends of CERN, including the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, and the entrepreneurs John Elkann and Xavier Niel".

Private donors pledge 860M EUR for CERN's Future Circular Colliderhttps://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/private-donors-pledge-860-million-euros-cerns-future-circular-colliderOpen linkView original on mander.xyz
physics·PhysicsbyBB84

Private donors pledge 860M EUR for CERN's Future Circular Collider

It's not guaranteed that the FCC will be built yet. But if CERN decides to build it, then these people will chip in 860M EUR.

The people in question are "a group of friends of CERN, including the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, and the entrepreneurs John Elkann and Xavier Niel".

https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/private-donors-pledge-860-million-euros-cerns-future-circular-colliderOpen linkView original on mander.xyz
memes·MemesbyBB84

someone teach them LaTeX

A microblog post by @kareem_carr saying "as soon as i saw they were using asterisks for multiplication symbols, i knew we were in trouble", with an image from the "Office of the United States Trade Representative (Executive Office of the President)" showing the mathematical formula $\Delta \tau_i = \frac{x_i - m_i}{\varepsilon * \varphi * m_i}$. The formula show asterisks (*) instead of multiplication signs (×).

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science_memes·Science MemesbyBB84

vibes-based astrophysics

Caption: an interview dialogue

  • Are dark matter models unsuited to explain observations? [the "dark matter models" and "to explain observations" parts are poorly edited onto the image, overlaying the original text]
  • In my view, they are unsuited.
  • Why?
  • That's my opinion, don't ask me why.

End of caption

Dark matter is the mainstream among physicists, but internet commentators keep saying it can't be right because it "feels off".

Of course, skepticism is good for science! You just need to justify it more than saying the mainstream "feels off".

For people who prefer alternative explanations over dark matter for non-vibe-based reasons, I would love to hear your thoughts! Leave a comment!

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localllama·LocalLLaMAbyBB84

New open-weight 🐋 DeepSeek V3. 685B MoE. Beats Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Aider coding benchmark

Absolutely humongous model. Mixture of 256 experts with 8 activated each time.

Aider leaderboard: The only model above 🐋 v3 here is OpenAI o1. DeepSeek is known to make amazing models and Aider rotates their benchmark over time, so it is unlikely that this is a train-on-benchmark situation.

Some more benchmarks: on Reddit.

New open-weight 🐋 DeepSeek V3. 685B MoE. Beats Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Aider coding benchmarkhttps://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3Open linkView original on mander.xyz