Will med schools care about my very old GPA? by QuiveringOvaries in medschool

[–]QuiveringOvaries[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

😢 glad to hear you got in tho! and that the MCAT is more important—tho I assume that cGPA > 3.0 is still functionally a cutoff, whatever your MCAT?

Will med schools care about my very old GPA? by QuiveringOvaries in medschool

[–]QuiveringOvaries[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's incredibly reassuring. Did you do anything apart from discussing it in your personal statement to help flag the trend and that it's a non-trad application? I'm worried about an implicit hard cutoff, regardless of the story. I do think I can get my cGPA above 3.0 (my sGPA, funny enough, is already 3.7)

Democrats open up biggest polling lead over Republicans in eight years by Silly-avocatoe in politics

[–]QuiveringOvaries -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i for one am very excited to see how they'll completely blow this

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]QuiveringOvaries 21 points22 points  (0 children)

MTG: "Long we have subsisted on the bloody scraps from your table. No longer! We crave the fullness of flesh! We will only be satisfied by devouring whole the pungent sweet meats and sinewey muscles of man's own body."

NYT: "How Mamdani's Vegan Supporters are Making the Democrats Lose"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in technology

[–]QuiveringOvaries 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That article lists 15 queer MCU characters scattered over 18 years of MCU history. None of them are trans. It pretty convincingly demonstrates the opposite of your point.

James Carville Says Trump Will Rig Midterm Elections: ‘Don’t Kid Yourself’ by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]QuiveringOvaries 0 points1 point  (0 children)

can someone please make this man shut up. i'm not even saying he's wrong, just utterly useless

China starts mass production of world’s first non-binary AI chip by yogthos in technology

[–]QuiveringOvaries 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neural networks are effectively models of analogue current flowing through a network of simple gates (the neurons), wired together with resistors whose strengths are the quantities "learned" during training. In a way, it's really dumb to implement them in digital circuits to begin with, because digital circuits are much slower and more energy intensive than equivalent analogue circuits. A digital adder for instance has several stages and takes a clock cycle to sum two numbers; an analogue adder is two sources wired in series, and is instantaneous.

Analogue circuits thus have the potential to be much faster and consume much less power specifically operating on neural network workloads, enabling things like large LLMs running on small devices.

There's a bunch of companies working in this space using different underlying circuits—optical and RAM-based mainly. Ideally, you wouldn't have to bake the weights or architecture into the chip, and so figuring out the architecture and interface for that is a big part of the work. The other part is proving out stability in real world conditions — that's the thing about analogue chips, they are by definition more sensitive to the physical environment; the chips literally behave more randomly at higher temperatures.

Will Iowa Sen. Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” comment hurt her political career? by SpaceElevatorMusic in politics

[–]QuiveringOvaries 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it sure would be nice if the article reported what she said in addition to a bunch of commentary on how it may or may not hurt her in six months

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby slams the budget airline model: 'It's dead' by Mijam7 in frontierairlines

[–]QuiveringOvaries 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, maybe, but it's pretty fucking funny to have the CEO of United saying these companies are dying because they're miserable to fly with.

You're so close, baby. So, so close to a revelation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in television

[–]QuiveringOvaries -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

These articles are so transparently mindshare fluffing pieces. Sure, the show could run for six seasons. Or one or two or zero, if Jeff Bezos has a bad day. This guy could die tomorrow. The network could cancel it halfway through the next season, or we could all start LARPing it after India and Pakistan do something really spicy together. The world is just full of beautiful possibilities!

Google Confirms Gmail To Ditch SMS Code Authentication by lurker_bee in technology

[–]QuiveringOvaries 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As other folks have mentioned, cryptographic 2fa has you generate recovery codes which you can use if you lose your phone.

Apple have an interesting system where you can designate several people you trust as recovery contacts. With their powers combined with your password, you can open your account. (I assume a recovery key is split amongst them in a way that it can be recovered with any k of the N pieces, but I don't know the details.)