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by Peteragain 1y ago
I'm tied and bored, and read the whole thing. The sponsor is an AI service provider - did I get that right? So, is the article AI generated? It certainly has all the hall marks.
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by Peteragain 1y ago
This article appeared on HN a while ago. https://dynomight.net/more-chess/ It basically is in agreement with this article and provides a few more trials and explanations.
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by Peteragain 1y ago
No mention of lightening! The idea that the triboelectric series is more guidelines than rules was interesting, but the metal-insulator distinction seems a bit off. Is there a triboelectric effect between two conductors? How? Why wouldn&#x2
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by Peteragain 1y ago
And everything around it? It is quite a challenge to design something that can do that.
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Yep. And the Russians have had pluggable nuclear power for years now.. on barges: wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov Decommissioning no doubt will consist of scuttling them over a trench. Definitely going to wake the Kraken.
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Looks aspirational to me. 1Mw electricity at 30-100% efficiency (100??) and 1.9 Mw heat via air in the volume of a shipping container? That's moving a lot of air. And I'd want fail safe, passive control "rods" (what happ
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Loebner (of the prize fame) patented the idea of a rollercoaster tube system. Stations on the surface, going underground and up to the next station. Saves power and reduces the curb to platform time. Just thought I'd put that out there
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by Peteragain 1y ago
As a leftie - admittedly one who thinks - I thought the article was actually quite positive and didn't bring politics into it: "What would that look like for something as simple as EV charging stations? Standardized approval proce
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by Peteragain 1y ago
I liked the blog post. I try not to "game the system" and usually get all judgemental about people who do. Okay I am old fashioned. Putting on my Gordon Gecko hat ("greed is good"), of course, it is the disparity between
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by Peteragain 1y ago
75%? That would mean a 87.5% efficient compressor/liquifier and a 87.5% efficient turbine/generator set? Inconceivable!
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by Peteragain 1y ago
In Melbourne we loved our Tram Trams that run down the middle of the street and hold up the traffic. The W class trams were all fazed out and replaced with "light rail". Bigger Faster Better. Not. Melbourne has a good mix of tram
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by Peteragain 1y ago
How to use such test results? I propose your GP knows your test results but you don't. You see the GP about a mole or something and the GP (not you) gets to decide on further tests / treatment, or sends you home saying don't
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by Peteragain 1y ago
I've recently been embracing the idea of co-evolutionary pressure. Reading the article I thought that if it was just the dryness, bacteria would have evolved to tap such a rich energy source. Hence the biology of bees must have somethi
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Reinforcement Learning is basically sticks and carrots and the problem is credit assignment. Did I get hit with the stick because I said 5 plus 3 is 8? Or because I wrote my answers in green ink? Or... That used to be what RL was. S&B t
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by Peteragain 1y ago
I feel we are coming at this as programmers, and the opportunity is the community aspect. What about starting with the family run app stores? Masterson style. No security (you're all friends right) and no way to contribute without an i
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by Peteragain 1y ago
The linked original paper is readable and answered many questions. They simply embrace the idea that some "crazy shape" will work, and then do "machine learning" in a simulation to find it.
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by Peteragain 1y ago
A proposal for a solution. The data is the unique selling point. Put that in public hands with an API, published algorithms, and it's own development team. The free market can then sell user interfaces, filters, and whatever. The metap
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Yes it is hammers, but the big bells. The holes in the paper are 3×1 mm or so, and the hammers are about the size of a sledge hammer, but counter balanced. It definitely needs the vacuum amps.
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Our village church has player piano bells. Only 8 (so it can't play God save the King) but most Sundays Colin plays something to wake us up. Colin restored the mechanism a few years ago. The holes are too small to pass enough vacuum (s
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Interesting. My question was one others had asked - so much so that the answer has it's own Wikipedia page with a table! It looks as if regenerative breaking on the trains would fix the problem.
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Why is the London underground so warm? Where is the heat coming from? Most underground locations are cooler in hot places in my experience. Is it just people?
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by Peteragain 1y ago
I'm with you: very hot to more very hot. I think the real issue in the fainting story is that he/she had to take their coat off. 42 is just not life threatening if one knows when to take one's coat off (and drink water).
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Good example. Adding fire breaks is another. A key point here perhaps is that RCA - looking for causes - is often used to do blame (re) allocation. The practice of, when an accident happens, those responsible for the system look for someone
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Apparently Tai uses quite a bit of infix (not prefixes, or suffixes, but infixes). In in English we have infixes, but they are all expletives of the Nixon style: "Kings-bloody-cross" (a railway station in Sydney), "absa-f..ki
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Okay. The point is that someone, yes, SOMEONE, needs to make the call as to what goes on the shelves. Mien kampf? The Anachist's Cook Book? Lady Chatterley's Lover? Is is librarians who make the decision AND IT IS NOT THE SAME FOR
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by Peteragain 1y ago
Awwe! I teared up! 'cause it's true!!!
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by Peteragain 2y ago
Yep. Looks like it. The links in comments to ones that do it better are useful. An opportunity for someone to collate and compare as a bit of investigative journalism.
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by Peteragain 2y ago
"Like writing, my ChatGPT conversation is a thinking process – not an interaction that happens post-thought" - Brilliant! I have worked on computers and language for over 30 years and the ups and downs certainly make such a passi
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by Peteragain 2y ago
A classic is to publish who paid for what. So how much USAID money did they get? OKA would be more believable if the source of their funding was clearly stated, with who funded what.
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by Peteragain 2y ago
"measurement disfunction" - measuring something your people do leads to it being the only thing the people do. And some things are hard to measure. When the decided they could make trams run on time by giving penalties to drivers

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