often around here in texas, when the gas is turned off due to an issue, the gas company disables the meter, or even removes or bypasses it. And I live in gas land, where we have natural gas piped in to the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry, outside for grills, as well as the furnace. We've seen it a lot, if you call the gas company about smelling gas, they come and remove your gas meter until you hire a plumber to go find the leak.
as someone who's gone down the rabbit hole of dishwasher home repair, I've created more problems than I've solved. I agree that maintenance is important, but when you get into replacing the seals and gaskets that can result in water flooding into your kitchen, i decided recently to draw a line. I'm now the proud owner of some fancy leak detection / moisture detection IOS products as a result. (and yes I'm aware there are better, low tech solutions like the "frog" on the market, but I chose to torture myself instead)
Put a drop of food colour on a paper towel. Let dry. Then leave that where drips might happen. The colour will run. I leave it for a few days after every plumbing repair.
Yeesh I'm starting to sound like a Bosch shill but they've had leak detection in all but their bottom rung dishwashers for a few generations. The current ones will actively pump the water out when a leak is detected.
Thanks for the tip. I added this to my audio book queue.
It's pretty interesting how today's cars come with features like remote braking and monitoring cameras, all designed to make driving less demanding for us. So as these researchers work to make vehicles less distracting, these cool features somehow end up making us even more distracted. It's an ironic cycle that leaves you more distracted, and maybe more unsafe.
I'm impressed with the desktop SDK demo video hosted by Nick. Very clever. I noticed he's using Emacs, and that got me thinking that maybe I could make a little capture template that invokes your service to transcript directly from org mode. :) - Adding this to the wood pile.
That’s not necessarily true. If the embedding model hasn’t been trained on data you care about, then similarity might be dominated by features you don’t care about. Maybe you want documents that reference pizza toppings, but the embedding similarity might actually be dominated by the tone, word complexity, and the use of em dashes as compared to your prompt. That means the relative ordering might not turn out the way you want.
I was reading somewhere that the BERT and USE style were "big-symantic space" designed to 0.0-1.0 so that things unrelated would be close to 0.0, and are classifiers.
But now, like the OpenAI embedding you're talking about the embedding are constrained, trained for retrieval in mind. The pairs are ordered closer, easier to search.
Really good analogy: Bay Networks, Lucent, Nortel, and Cisco got beat up or destroyed on the equipment side. And then the long haul fiber companies never got ROI (but paved the way for broadband).
Do scientists think fast radio bursts come from neutron stars or magnetars? And with new tools like CHIME and VLBI, can we figure out if some of these bursts actually repeat?
I'm still fascinated at the prospect of these "star quakes" or magnetic flares that emerge from these stars. I guess these fields would weaken over time, but does it really maintain it's mass, just lose rotation speed or something?
It feels to me like the tyranny of small differences. The fact that the various watchdogs amplified such specific issues greatly overshadowed their support of the mission. From what I've read, the FDA is a backwater from a funding perspective, and yet a punching bag from a regulatory point-of-view.
*He and his colleagues had also been engaged in a decades-long debate with a sprawling community of watchdogs — mostly doctors, lawyers and scientists from outside the agency — who were often broadly supportive of the agency’s mission but who fought with officials like Califf, sometimes bitterly, over the specifics: How should the F.D.A. be financed? What kind of evidence should new drugs and medical devices require? How should regulators weigh the concerns of industry against the needs of doctors, patients and consumers?*
I ask Alexa to play Spanish guitar music at our family dinner table in an effort to attenuate both the kids "smacking" and my partners reactions to the "smacking". In my testing, it's resulted in less net "smacking" occurrences. So you could be on to something.
