Imnimo

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811.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I think you've misunderstood the claim - they're saying that once the currents shut down, it would take 50 years for glaciers to form. But the currents are obviously still flowing today, and my understanding is that a collapse is
812.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I'm not sure, but I got the sense that Hubbers is being used to mean their employees.
813.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Other countries doing unreasonable things does not make Russia's demands "reasonable".
814.
by Imnimo 5y ago
This is an interesting idea and would be something to consider if we were building MLB from scratch. I think it's a non-starter as a modification of the current system, though. It's a great idea for an OOTP simulation. (OOTP is
815.
by Imnimo 5y ago
>The Russian demand of a neutral Ukraine outside of NATO is not unreasonable. Ukraine is not Russia's vassal. The ones who get to decide what alliances Ukraine is part of are the Ukrainians. Any "demand" on that question
816.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Considering the Russian Orthodox church broke communion with Ecumenical patriarch over the decision to grant Ukraine its own autocephalous church in 2018, I don't think they're going to listen to the pope.
817.
by Imnimo 5y ago
War has costs for everyone. Consider these hardships doing your part to stop your country's aggression, and remember the Ukrainians have it much worse than you.
818.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Okay, but crypto already existed when all this transpired. If crypto is such a good idea and would prevent these problems, why didn't they just use it?
819.
by Imnimo 5y ago
If you are interested in cellular automata, here are a few cool extensions: https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/ https://chakazul.github.io/lenia.html https://slackermanz.com/under
820.
by Imnimo 5y ago
This is a lot of words for "we told the kids they had to play nice and share".
821.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Table 1 tells us that there were 6 total Omicron-period deaths while hospitalized in the fully vaccinated group. It is almost certainly a single death. It's conceivable that it's two deaths, but more than that appears mathematic
822.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Then I guess measuring raw accuracy was not a good idea in the first place.
823.
by Imnimo 5y ago
The flip side of this, is that if the rock is 99.9% right, and the high-minded rationalist is only 99% right, what does that say about the value of his rationality?
824.
by Imnimo 5y ago
The Twitter thread links to this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909253/ Which finds that fume hoods do not help: >NO2 concentrations in the kitchen and bedroom did not significantly c
825.
by Imnimo 5y ago
The "why" is that you will be fired, clearly :P
826.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I don't agree with this analysis. If mining becomes 100x more efficient, and the difficulty goes up 100x, you have not gained any security. The security comes from the amount of money spent on energy to mine the current chain, and th
827.
by Imnimo 5y ago
>Bitcoin mining is 5814% more efficient over the the last 8 years. And, through the magic of the Bitcoin protocol, that efficiency gain does not translate at all into energy savings. The Bitcoin incentive structure means that if mining
828.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I think there are two natural optimization criteria. One is to try to maximize the expected information gain of your guess. If we have an initial set of 128 possible words, we begin with log2(128) = 7 bits of entropy. When we make a guess
829.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I wrote a script to calculate the expected information gain for any possible guess. It has several caveats - it probably doesn't share exactly the same word list as the game, it assumes that all valid words are equally likely, etc. B
830.
by Imnimo 5y ago
It would be interesting to see if you could solve the puzzle by looking at the grids people post on Twitter. Each grid shows you the colors they got from the guesses, but not the letters. For a particular grid to be possible, there must b
831.
by Imnimo 5y ago
These are FDA's documents, not Pfizer's. The pharma companies aren't the ones doing the redaction.
832.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I think you're correct - if Omicron and Delta provided no cross-immunity, there would be no competition, and they would just continue on their own trajectories as if the other didn't exist. But, I think that's not actually th
833.
by Imnimo 5y ago
It costs about $20 to buy the carbon offsets for a single bitcoin transaction (at least according to the first article I found on Google), so double that for the two transactions to receive and then sell. Carbon offsets in practice are oft
834.
by Imnimo 5y ago
If I give you a million shares of a company, that act and your ensuing sale of the shares are not (particularly) polluting. But if I send you bitcoin and you then sell them, those transactions occur via a polluting process.
835.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Yeah, the autograd choice struck me as odd. Given how simple the model is, it feels like it would have been easy to show how to compute gradients. The whole benefit of having this super simple toy problem is that we can reason about the m
836.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I feel the same, I can't really relate to the idea that leetcode style problems are about "memorize and regurgitate". Maybe you need to know a few basic data structures, but beyond that it feels like you can just figure thin
837.
by Imnimo 5y ago
There is a similar apocryphal story about the border between Belarus and Lithuania. The story goes that Stalin had set his pipe down on the map, and no one dared move it, so they just drew around it. The result is a conspicuous bulge in t
838.
by Imnimo 5y ago
It sounds like gas fees will syphon a significant portion of sale income (both in the form of gas for minting and gas fees paid by the purchaser) for all but the highest-paid artists, and legitimate artists will have to compete with scam NF
839.
by Imnimo 5y ago
>NFTs are a great way to directly fund artists and creators in general This feels like a weird conclusion given the issues encountered.
840.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I recently tried to find some reviews for a computer I was considering purchasing. A "review" from this website was on the first page: https://ecomputertips.com/ This is an example of what the reviews read like:

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