During my undergrad I worked at a bio lab with a bunch of doctoral students, and only a small fraction of them had a master’s degree. A master’s degree isn’t required to enter a PhD program, and it isn’t useful unless it helps you achieve a specific career

Nepenthes

Love it

Emergence of DeepSeek raises doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom

Is the “emergence of DeepSeek” really what raised doubts? Are we really sure there haven’t been lots of doubts raised previous to this? Doubts raised by intelligent people who know what they’re talking about?

The money went back into the hands of all the people and money managers who sold their stocks today.

Edit: I expected a bloodbath in the markets with the rhetoric in this article, but the NASDAQ only lost 3% and the DJIA was positive today…

Nvidia was significantly over-valued and was due for this. I think most people who are paying attention knew that

The world has a bit more to it than just automobiles

I’ve seen Chopping Mall and know how this is going to end

I’ve been paying $70/mo for gigabit fiber for like 6 years now. It’s been the exact same price every month that entire time. I had to reach out to the Google Fiber people maybe once for a technical issue, and it was resolved quickly with a prorated discount for my downtime.

I just can’t stress enough what a breath of fresh air this has been vs Time Warner/Spectrum and then later AT&T I’ve had at this same address. How many times did I have to call to wait on hold to tell them my service was broken, or threaten to cancel my service so they would lower my rate back down to what it was before they tried to jack it up again? How many technicians did I have to have come to my house for stupid bullshit? Also, the other two ran bare cable barely buried from the junction box to my house, where Google installed a fucking conduit in the ground that can easily be reused.

Google is the best ISP by a hundred miles, imo. Just use a VPN.

Fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation in the US has been decreasing along with the increase in renewable generation capacity, so what you’re saying is false

Here’s a source

Large scale “online therapy” companies are a pox on the therapy profession. All the therapists who work for them are made contractors, they pay poorly, and the turnover is high, so the quality to the consumer is poor. Between companies like Monument and Better Help and private equity buying therapy practices left and right, access to high quality therapy is harder to get than ever.

Aquafaba

Well I learned something new today. Crazy that the water you use to cook beans in can function so similarly to eggs, and even crazier this was only discovered in 2014.

This headline should probably have instead read, “Brazil child cancer deaths linked to heavy use of the pesticide glyphosate on soybean crops genetically modified and patented by glyphosate-inventor Monsanto to resist glyphosate, study finds.”

Wait til you find out we are nature

Any extra beta-carotene is then either stored in the liver and fat tissue, excreted through poo, or removed via sweat glands in the outer layer of the skin. This is when the orange skin “tan” can happen. In medicine, this is called carotenoderma.

Carotenoderma gives your skin a yellow/orange pigment that is not the same colour you’d turn from a sun tan. It is concentrated in the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet and smile lines near the nose.

I’m not buying your slippery slope fallacy, but again, I’m glad you came around

Oh ok, I didn’t realize we had strayed off topic. So it sounds like we’re in agreement these semiconductor sanctions against China are not “siege warfare”

“Starvation isn’t uncommon”

Since the whole point is starvation, you should probably expound on how a ban on semiconductor technology exports to China will induce starvation

These sanctions would be to ensure the US maintains a technological advantage through prohibiting the export of cutting edge technology. I’m wondering if you actually read what you quoted above before continuing to say this.

If you’re interested in actual modern examples of siege warfare, please read on

No they’re not. Economic sanctions meet no definition of siege warfare

Sure, this isn’t counter to that

Thanks for posting! The authors conclude the US can still put a stop to this with coordinated effort. They recommend the US implement these steps to stop China from further developing domestic semiconductor technology, and I fully support that!

Here are some steps that could be taken to ensure that China does not develop the ability to mass-manufacture the sorts of chips needed for high-end military applications in the coming years:

Limit ArFi immersion lithography tools.

Limit servicing of existing equipment.

Limit ArFi photoresist.

Limit masks.

Limit mask blanks, writers, and other associated infrastructure.

Limit metrology equipment.

Limit CMP equipment.

Limit epitaxy equipment.

Limit dry etch equipment.

Limit CVD and ALD equipment.

Limit advanced packaging equipment.

Limit ion implantation equipment.

Limit semiconductor manufacturing equipment subsystems and subassemblies.

Limit etchant gas.

Limit deposition precursors.

Limit chips that have >25.6Tbps of IO even if they have no compute.

Limit chips that have >1000TOPS of performance.

Limit the licensing of 200G SerDes.

Limit EDA tools.

Limit Joint Ventures and inbound investments.