Cybiote

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by Cybiote 10y ago
"The world construction rate peaked at 30 GW of nuclear power per year in 1984" ... "The rate of new build was biggest in 1984, and had a value of (drum-roll please...) about 30 GW per year – about 30 1-GW reactors."
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Moore's law talks about scaling transistor density at a minimal cost. Its colloquial understanding is actually a particular case of the Experience Curve Effect with an added bonus. What made transistors special and unique for a while w
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Microsoft also carefully listened to developers while building DirectX and by versions 8 and especially 9, it really showed. But only Windows benefited from this. Having the control of important GPU tech so strongly centered about a single
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That's not a fair comparison. By that time the toddler can also ask questions, generate new labels using adjectives, label novel instances as compositions of previously acquired knowledge and generate sentences representing complex int
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It depends on what we mean by vision. Crows for an example, do the sort of things low level things CNNs are capable of. But for full visual comprehension, they are actively making predictions about physics off a probabilistic world model (l
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And that posts some advantages we still need to do a lot of work on. Mammals and birds are able to learn online from a few examples per instance, shift to changes in underlying distributions relatively quickly and do so unsupervised.
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The common mistake that many (but not necessarily you) make is to assume that conscious effort is proportional to energy use in the brain. The idea that willpower brain is some kind of store that can be depleted is not as parsimonious as ot
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I believe you've misconstrued d13's intended meaning. In short, what they said is something can be mathematically consistent without being physically realistic. GIT is not really pertinent here.
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The brain is amazing in that if you for example, feed it images that have been flipped by some inversion glasses, it will learn to either do the proper correcting transformation or compensate for the distortions further up, on its own. Chec
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It depends. There are situations when a user is heavily constrained by both data and charge (Amp hr) limits. In those situations, heavy background loading is a measurable source of headaches and annoyance.
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The 99% means little when it suffers from a similar sort of problem that the immune system has with cancer. Adversary's lack of stationarity vs a fixed model.
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There are two reasons for mental fatigue as best as is known/we can infer. The first is stress from the task (by which I mean the immediate thing that is correlated with cortisol levels). The second is that maintaining attention on a t
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There are multiple paths to that destination, Google is taking one without the pit stop at 5 minutes.
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I perceive you argument to be incomplete. It takes for granted that simply because something is biological reality it is not worth going against. Your argument as seen by me, ends on a cliff-hanger: Because great apes are omnivores they ea
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grandalf speaks of team sports and situational awareness, complex planning, reading the floor, and other mental aspects of sports. The examples in the "Sports Gene" are mostly about the kind of genetics that allow some to run micr
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Mental load is not the best way to look at performance hits from psychic states. The more central concept is attention. It's the contextual switches, the act of maintaining or allocating attention and the physical effects of stress on
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Yea, I'm saying prions show that nature is not solving NP-complete problems. What we have instead is that a class of well behaved proteins were selected for but there can still be problematic instances.
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The principle is essentially a recognition that, if there were no constraints on energy or other physical limits, then many problems in NP or harder would be tractable. This bridge might be two-way, so we may start from complexity and ask:
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In those countries, corruption and the resource curse have already more than decimated local economies, creating a very lopsided distribution of wealth. It is difficult to conceive of an orthogonal infusion of wealth generation as worsening
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Realize that the computer's advantages can also lead to weaknesses. By this, I mean that a computer's powerful and precise memory means that it is better able to work off raw correlations, without as much of a need to abstract or