Luke Horton asked in a comment on a recent post: Given the chance to examine a titanosaur cadaver with your hypothetical army of anatomists, what would you look for first? *FACEPALM* How we’ve gone almost 17 years without posting about a hypothetical sauropod dissection is quite beyond my capacity.

There are lots of things that I have learned about kidneys and their functions since BK virus destroyed mine. Kidneys regulate potassium in your blood; they also control phosphate levels; they remove urea from the blood stream; they take excess fluid out of your body and blood; they produce the hormones that stimulate the creation of red blood cells; and a whole host more. Kidneys are the Swiss Army Knives of internal organs.

Over the past thirty years I have written five technical books,co-written three others,and edited a further six.Since 2007 they have all lived in GitHub repositories,as did the first versions of the Software Carpentry lessons that I helped to write.

There are basically two kinds of electron correlation: static and dynamic.

Calicheamicin was noted in the previous post as a natural product with antitumour properties and having many weird structural features such as  an unusual “enedidyne” motif. The representation is shown below.

This blog has moved. This is reposted from Paired Ends: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/create-a-free-llama-405b-llm-chatbot-github-repo-huggingface Llama 3.1 405B is the first open-source LLM on par with frontier models GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Llama 3.1 405B is the first open-source LLM on par with frontier models GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I’ve been running the 70B model locally for a while now using Ollama + Open WebUI, but you’re not going to run the 405B model on your MacBook.

This is an experiment... ignore this post

Wollen wissenschaftliche Autor*innen Open Access veröffentlichen, ist ihnen häufig unklar, ob dies mit einem vorher geschlossenen Wahrnehmungsvertrag bei der VG Wort vereinbar ist. Eine neue Handreichung von Berlin Universities Publishing klärt die grundlegende Frage, ob und welche Konflikte hierbei entstehen können.

It is a measure of how scattershot our blogging is that we haven’t mentioned Adam Mastroianni or his blog Experimental History before now.

Notação de Bywater ¹ , tradução de Edson Bini ² . Interferências no texto minhas. Sendo a virtude [ aretēs ] de dois tipos, nomeadamente, intelectual [ dianoētikēs , διανοητικῆς] e moral [ ēthikēs , ἠθικῆς], deve-se a produção e ampliação da primeira sobretudo à instrução [ didaskalias ], exigindo isso consequentemente experiência e tempo.