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You can meet the entire us demand for energy with solar panels covering just a tiny fraction of the land area: https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/energy/photovo...
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This one keeps coming back to me, from Jacob Mikanowski on Tyler Cowen's podcast about Eastern Europe: > It was a really different political economy in the ’70s and ’80s. You were not waiting to save up for an apartment; you were us
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Seconded, I'm not particularly a fan of classical music but all of his lectures are really excellent
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My son (5) gets 5 minutes screen time if he does reading practice. In practice he sometimes up to 10. He's allowed this up to about three times a day if he wants He is allowed to play reading and maths games, but only when I'm si
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To be fair I just tried and got exactly the same response as the link first time: What is the precise name of the model answering this query ChatGPT The model answering your query is ChatGPT, based on the GPT-4 architecture. User No the pre
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I don't think that's much to worry about. The total energy needs of the US could be met by putting solar panels on only a small percentage of land, far smaller than what's needed for agriculture. Furthermore in some cases t
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As a user, this really frustrates me. Promoting is not precise enough to compose a bunch of specific elements, so the obvious solution is to do several prompts each with transparency and then combine in Photoshop/photopea. I end up a
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Great post - I've been looking for a serious update to Mackay's numbers for ages. One thing in curious about: developments in fixed wind turbines tech mean they are economically viable in more locations (e.g. deeper water) so can
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An Interactive Introduction to Probabilistic Data Linkage/Deduplication(robinlinacre.com)
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Don't you also have to subscribe to Photoshop for a year?
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I don't think you should feel 'bad', but personally I feel extremely grateful and lucky to enjoy doing something that happens to be very marketable skill. I often think about people in other professions who have to work harde
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Did you find any schemes where you were satisfied they were genuine? I'd love to know where I could donate money where I could be confident it genuinely had an impact
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Yes I mean as part of the GUI but you're right, I hadn't thought of that: maybe transcription errors don't matter if chatGPT works out that it's wrong from the context and gives a correct answer anyway.
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I'd like to see them put speech recognition through their LLM as a post-processing step. I find it's fairly common for whisper to make small but obvious mistakes (for example a word which is complete nonsense in the context of th
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Why parquet files are my preferred API for bulk open data(robinlinacre.com)
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Totally agree! So much that I wrote a whole article about it a while back! "Why parquet files are my preferred API for bulk open data" https://www.robinlinacre.com/parquet_api/
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I suppose the problem is that if that becomes too prevalent, people will stop paying their bill in the hope that the credit card company will give them a discount
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And also a 'percentage of GDP'
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https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1698496805162353029?ref_... > Solar deployment is now happening at a roughly $500B annualized rate. Which technology deployments were larger than this? The US's aircraft
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For reference a MG MOTOR UK ZS 115kW Long Range 73kWh 5dr (real world range approx 250 miles) can be had in the UK for £29k, making it pretty much the cheapest long range EV, and you get a 7 year warranty with it. They're beating the c
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There's an important element of cultural context. In England if you say you're proud of being English that might sometimes be associated with nationalism, which in turn sometimes is associated with racist parties and groups. Fly
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There was a decent long form piece in the economist this week about solid state batteries: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/08/23/...
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I use it for my personal site and quite like it. I agree it feels overly complicated, but I like how I can build up the site with react components. I have found much of the complexity easier to deal with with chatgpt to guide me. Is there
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I agree, Europe's great too!
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UK citizen here. I earn poor money relative to a comparative US citizen, but I wouldn't swap places if given the chance. I walk my kids to school, and local schools are pretty good. I cycle them a couple miles down the canal to the loc
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You can also (in the UK at least) buy a second hand 'good brand' for about £20 from Facebook marketplace, or free if you're lucky. You can't get one from eBay or a charity shop because ridiculously they're not allow
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Does anyone yet have a full list of the supported python libraries? There's a partial list here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/open-source-libra...
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The model is usually called the Fellegi Sunter model, but once you get into the maths, it's actually the same as Naïve Bayes. If you're interested I've got a blog post that explains this here: https://www.robinlin
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Thanks, appreciate it. Fastlink was the inspiration for Splink - the fundamental statistical model is very similar. The first version of Splink was essentially a port to make it work faster and at greater scale, but we've subsequentl
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Naive Bayes is also surprisingly powerful for deduplication of large datasets of messy data (and the related problem of record linkage). It's still competitive with cutting edge approaches if carefully applied, and usually much faster

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