The greater bilby, or simply bilby, (Macrotis lagotis) is a long-eared, rabbit-like mammal native to Australia. It lives in burrows and is active at night, feeding on insects, fruit, or fungi. The bilby is a marsupial and carries its young in a pouch. Threats include habitat loss, disease, and introduced predators such as foxes. Formerly widespread, bilbies are now restricted to arid parts of northwestern and central Australia.
It is commonly called bilby after the lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura) became extinct in the 1950s. Other names include dalgyte, pinkie, or rabbit-eared bandicoot.
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The term bilby is a loan word from the Yuwaalaraay Aboriginal language of northern New South Wales, meaning long-nosed rat.
Guess this word: "small molecules that elicit an immune response only when attached to a large carrier such as a protein; the carrier may be one that also does not elicit an immune response by itself"
> The company tweeted April 6 that it was planning a launch rehearsal for the vehicle, now fully stacked on the pad at its Starbase facility at Boca Chica, Texas, next week. That will be followed by the first launch attempt about a week later.
April 2023 may become a pivotal point in spacefaring history.
>https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/drag-entertainment-world-war-ii The US Army published a book on “Soldier Shows” including patterns for outfits for the drag events.
It’s therefore puzzling that Gen. Milley and others seem not to know about this sort of thing, or its origin in Irving Berlin’s “This Is the Army.”
> On Ramadan, a man goes to an imam and says "I want to get married, find me a spouse." The imam says "I can't promise I can find you a spouse but if you fast tomorrow, by sunset you'll have a date."
Another one.
> My Muslim girlfriend suddenly dumped me right before the start of Ramadan. She said, "We're going to fast."
> At the last supper Jesus lifted the bread and spoke, "This is my body." He then lifted the wine and said, "This is my blood." He lifted a jar of mayo... Peter: "Okay, that's enough!"
A policeman and his friend, former member of the Emergency Ministry Service, today received a sentence of 19 years for trying to put a recruitment station on fire in Chelyabinsk Oblast.
They threw several Molotov cocktails at the building, which was a symbolic jesture, because their efforts resulted in a tiny conflagration on the floor, which was put out by the night guard before the firefighters arrived.
They did not mean to raise it to the ground; just to make a statement.
The night guard took a washing rag and a bucket with water, and put out the flame.
> Initially, a case was opened against 27-year-old Nasryev and 37-year-old Nureyev on intentional damage to property (part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code), but then the charge was re-qualified as a terrorist attack by a group of persons by prior agreement (part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code, involves punishment from 12 up to 20 years in prison).
Marshall Warren Nirenberg (April 10, 1927 – January 15, 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.
== Biography ==
Nirenberg was born in New York City to a Jewish family, the son of Minerva (Bykowsky) and Harry Edward Nirenberg, a shirtmaker. He developed rheumatic fever as a boy, so...
@Robusto bah, it turned out to be a fake. Serves me right for watching videos on others' phones. He tripped on a wire and said "it's black", as in "that's why I didn't see it"
@Vikas ChatGPT used a static corpus for training: wikipedia, an unspecified book repository, Reddit, and 'Commoncrawl' (the last of which way overwhelms the data in the others). CommonCrawl is supposed to be some large collection of publicly available websites. I'm pretty sure it includes public code on github which would include lots of examples in every programming language for sorting algorithms.
ChatGPT (et al.) is not reproducing any one of those single examples - what it does is statistically writing out the code sequentially (with 'fancy' lookahead). With enough examples, it is able to spit out a syntactically and semantically correct sort in any popular alnguage.
If you ask for a rare language like APL or Forth, or for a not wellknown algorithm, it is not going to do as well.
All these 'chat' things (LLMs) are just making stuff up, but doing so using statistics compiled from a bunch of examples. That's how they're able to do things that mimic humans so well.
As to a comparison with google, google is constantly scanning the entire internet all the time, getting new webpages and updating from old ones, and then 'indexing' (creating pointers) to them based on ... well... lots of good ol fashioned statistics and NLP. Also lots of special case things depending on the search you give (eg it may actually extract info from airline APIs to give you specific flight info).
So in the end ChatGPT was trained on a static set of web pages of a few terabytes (I have to go check that value) and Google search is supplied from a dynamic (constantly updated) set of the entire accessible internet.
asking a question on chatGPT gets it to return a string of words that are statistically likely to follow. asking a question on google gets you links to webpages that the words in your query are statistically associated with.
him with a tray of teacups outside 10 Downing offering it to a reporter and interrupting her with 'do you want some tea?' every time she tried to start asking a question.
I'm struggling to understand rhymes. do "bacon" and "garden" rhyme as they end in the same sound? Or is it not a rhyme because it's not the stressed part? So "garden" and "pardon" rhyme, but also "bacon" and "acorn"
> There are two criticisms over the current research methods for OGM. One involves the use of the AMT, as it is believed that it may not be sensitive enough to detect OGM in nonclinical samples.
I wonder what the meaning here is.
Nonclinical samples = people who are not currently in a clinic, treated for depression?
Overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM) is an inability to retrieve specific memories from one's autobiographical memory. Instead, general memories are recalled, such as repeated events or events occurring over broad periods. For example, when asked to recall a happy event, a person who exhibits OGM may say, "when I was on vacation last month" instead of remembering a single incident, such as, "my high school graduation." Research shows a correlation between OGM and certain mental illnesses, such as major depressive disorder (MDD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
== Diagnosis ==
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I don't know whether the Ukrainian language has strong chances of survival.. Ireland gained its independence, but English is still widespread there, due to its sheer prevalence in terms of culture - movies, books.
"No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion."
When I first read these lines years ago, it was associated in my mind with chunks of gold-vermillion meat, left rotating or flying around when you die in Quake II.
G.M. Hopkins would find it hard to understand.
I don't know whether he read about the Difference Engine planned by Babbage.
Yeah, they do cool down during the night, especially if you keep the windows open. But only is it gets cold enough at night, or you won't notice much of a difference.
Starting tomorrow, they will arrive electronically, and you will be considered in violation if you don't appear at the callup center within 2 weeks.
After 2 weeks, you cannot drive cars, cannot get loans, cannot leave Russia, etc.
They have prepared a whole set of rules.
I'm glad that my friend is almost ready to leave Russia. I feel like in the autumn, the iron curtain might close alltogether. After everybody has returned back from their vacations abroad.
Oppositional politician Vladimir Kara-Murza will likely get 25 years in jail for his anti-special-operation statements. The verdict is tomorrow, I guess meduza.io/feature/2023/04/10/…
@CowperKettle During April it will lower it to even 22 degree Celsius. After that it will cease to cool below 24 or 25. Especially during the day.
@CowperKettle Yeah. I seriously gave it a thought today. Outside my room (under open sky) weather is comfortable at that time (midnight). But I felt little uncomfortable inside room so I checked room temperature. And that's a significant difference. I always knew this fact but maybe only subconsciously.
My AC's service is still pending. They would service it soon.
(And this reminds me I have to reply a few starred messages).