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Present day. Present time. (Ahahaha!)
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Writer, Internet besserwisser. ๐๐ข๐ต๐ข๐ด๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ถ! Links: reddit.com/r/gwern/
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Very Lovecraftian: an entire archaic universe, wiped out almost overnight by interlopers efficiently rewriting the fundamental laws of Earth chemistry.
Reminds me of Baxter's Xeelee Sequence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_Diโฆ with repeated waves of substrate changes for life/civilization.
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The Great Oxidation Event/Oxygen Catastrophe comes to mind as well. And would it be making too fine a point to consider humanity's extraction & exploitation of hydrocarbon reserves as a comparable event?
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That's fascinating. I'd never heard of armadillo *quadruplets* before.
You guesstimate 10% from just early transcription noise. How could this be done rigorously? Something along the lines of GCTA but on transcriptome-space?
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You could just ask @ajmooch
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I'd expect it to be part of the scavenger suite of traits because there's so much lipofuscin and similar crosslinked stuff in cells: they make up a nontrivial % in old organisms. I guess it depends how specialized you consider 'decomposer' as a niche.
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Or if you meant the SENS part, they call it 'LysoSENS': eg fightaging.org/archives/2012/โฆ
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Johan Bjorksten: lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extrโฆ
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Never heard of that. How does that work? Do you lift up the material or is it circular somehow?
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Tool didn't italicize it and I'm not a Unicode ninja so I don't know what I can and can't do with combining things.
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I also enjoy the inverse of mistaken zygosity: Nancy Segal's look-alikes, people who look as similar as identical twins but aren't related at all (and, of course, are no more similar than they ought to be).
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Hm, no, I've thought about this more, and I'm still appalled this works.
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๐ฎ I thought to myself, 'by SWA, surely he doesn't mean it literally, just averaging together 2 random models, come on, that would be crazy! He must be doing something like training for a few iterations and SWAing those instead.'
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I'm looking at the haircut this dude is rocking and I'm not sure which Weathermen you have in mind.
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I'm a little confused. What does SWA mean when you are 'combining' multiple models? I've only ever seen it referring to iterates of the same model.
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Yes, their exotic hardware's power-efficient, but I suppose it would also be nice to outperform logistic regression on MNIST.
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There's one regular letter in there, 'รข'. There can't be many English sentences which use 'รข' ever so that might trigger a French language detector, but then (without special-casing) it'll bomb out on the special italics Unicode, failing to map them back to their regular letters.
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That seems unlikely. AFAIK there's nothing particularly special about digesting lipofuscins and other aging by-products, and it's inevitable if you have enough life for it to potentially be a problem. Heck, bacteria will digest oil or plastics for you or live in nuclear reactors!
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You can interpret it that way, if you happen to prefer drinking bitter swill like black tea, instead of good teas. I won't judge you for entirely lacking any taste and not drinking green or oolong teasโfor my tweets are catholic and admit of many readings.
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Ancient, yes, but there's always room for an insightful twist to add zing to it, like lemon in tea.
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There's definitely a lot more that could be said about this than retreading basic thermodynamics loopholes. For example, lipofuscin and the SENS program: crud builds up in all cells as they age; why are we not buried under it after billions of years? Specialist bacteria!
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