Tomminn

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by Tomminn 9y ago
Super super interesting. So this is the case for the big expensive commercial products like those that come out of shops like Synopsys? It strikes me that helping to improve (device side) EDA is probably a pretty sound investment of my time
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I'm interested in this field. What are the current pain points with EDA tools? And are we talking device level, process level, circuit level or all levels?
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I'm pretty sure there is no sound explanation. If he wanted to pick the one that was most normal he should have just found the distribution that was quantitatively most correlated with a normal distribution. The only rub in doing this
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No. The value function for the AI will be way too specialized to look anything like AGI.
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For the exact same reason Tesla won't be able to sell the Model S, because taking the difference between electricity and petrol prices, it will take 50 years to pay off the price difference from a Toyota.
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To be more precise, he is implying that its possible a smaller fraction of women are both equipped and inclined to do the work than the fraction of men who are both equipped and inclined to do the work.
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Agreed. Still, when people alt-meds are a valid alternative to chemo the net effect is the same.
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"But the most baffling part about this story is not the fact that the general public had no idea that radium was so dangerous, but the fact that some people most certainly did. And yet, they sat back and watched as everyone around them
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I think the bull case is built mainly along Tesla's brand. For a normal car company, the more cars you make, the less you can charge for them. You dilute your brand by going mass market and become something approximating a commodity. I
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Ha, for some reason I was expecting this to be biting satire about immigration.
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Which was originally a quip Bush Sr used to describe Reaganomics.
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Because of sci-hub, scientists such as myself no longer need anything more than food, an internet connection and some shelter to do first class theoretical work. It cannot be emphasized enough how much of a boon this is for scientists who d
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Some perspective from someone who is definitely concerned about climate change: antarctica as a whole is losing 100 cubic kilometers of ice per year [1] of its 30,000,000 cubic kilometers[2]. So at current burn rates it will be another 300,
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Corollary: All ideas worth understanding are simple.
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This is a very good idea. In rocketry, air is your enemy. At the speeds rockets move it causes enormous heat/mechanical stress on the rocket, drag energy losses, and it messes with the flow of matter out the back of the engine that pro
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I think it's the whole copper atoms[1] that get liberated and bind the proteins. [1] https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v308/n5960/abs/308667a...
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Reading "philosophical investigations" slowly over one summer is something I'm really glad I did. Wittgenstein is an open-eyed, careful, insightful dude who somewhat necessarily speaks in cryptic parables. If you sit with a p
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I think the sled idea is really interesting. Imagine a conveyor belt like you have in airports. Except it moves cars at 150 mph through an underground tunnel instead of people at 15mph. Traffic is often massively asymmetric so you can just
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> what he liked best about Differential Equations is that you don't have to say how you found the answer. You just state the answer and verify it satisfies the equation. Man, that is kind of magical from a productivity prospective.*
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It's totally cultural. The culture comes with some costs, and some benefits. In physics, there are so many times where we present the same mathematical ideas in a manner that's way more ergonomic for the minds we're talking t
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"If someone paid you money to kick a dog, you'd feel a strong urge to do something else." Truth.
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Actually, if you are a 7' tall American, you have a >15% chance of playing in the NBA.
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In NZ there is free healthcare, free accident insurance and a decent welfare program. Being a capitalist country, there is still income inequality, but the situation is no way near as bad as it is in the US because of these safety nets for
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Success defined how? By publication record. Which leads to the rich get richer dynamic I think is troublesome. The more students you have, the easier it is to get funding for more students.
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This is a great point. Although I would wager that the large quantity of mediocre papers your students have produced have not exactly harmed your own career. So, while your personal motives may be beyond repute, there will be many academics
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This is really great advice that jibes with my own experience. A small thing I would add is that when you do this, the following main goals are possible: 1) To finish the project. 2) To learn a language. 3) To finish the project, but also l