Valgrim

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by Valgrim 4y ago
Bing works fine on Android
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Right now, there is no shortage of fake content on the internet. i'd even say that the vast majority of what's out there is complete bullshit, starting with everything created by the forces of marketing, politics or religion. Desp
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Not every color camera has an IR filter, many phones and webcam lack such a filter and can see IR very well (on my phone it has a distinctive purple hue). Probably this tint is compensated for in normal light.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
The needle in question is included in many cheap car tire air pump kit. It is also compatible with any regular Schrader valve. For this reason I keep one inside my bicycle tire repair kit. When I go to the park with my kids I inflate the ba
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Whenever I watch a western movie there's always this character type who uses much more complicated words and convoluted sentences than his counterparts. On Tvtropes they call it the "Southern-Fried Genius" and "Sesquiped
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Your original claim is that consciousness is a quantum phenomenon. A) We can't even define consciousness, let alone describe it's physical nature. B) Even if it depends on quantum mechanics, it doesn't make it magic or unique
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Human sociability evolved because the less sociable individuals were either abandoned by the tribe and died. Once we let these models interact with each other and humans in large online multiplayer sandbox worlds (it can be text-only for al
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by Valgrim 4y ago
As a product, it certainly blew up. As a demo of things to come, I am absolutely in awe of what they have done.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
I wonder if we could store cold for an HVAC in hot climates the same way a sand battery works. The poor man's version of this might look like this: 1- Connect your solar panel directly into a big freezer. 2- Fill your freezer to the br
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Google search results have been decreasing in quality quite dramatically in the past few years for me. I need to spend more and more time crafting complex search queries tuned to my needs, and still most of the results are more or less irr
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Is this the hardware used to build the model, or to run the model? Does this single 100000$ computer run the entire chatGPT service concurrently for all users around the world? If so this seems incredibly cheap.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
What about sand batteries? They're cheap, safe, scalable, extremely durable, and they can take advantage of dynamic pricing (or intermittent energy sources). They are easy to connect to an existing heating system. They're relative
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by Valgrim 4y ago
On Android, Edge has a an integrated text-to-speech engine which is vastly superior to Google's in my opinion, with a wide variety of natural sounding voices in lot of languages. I still prefer Firefox because of the adblocking capabi
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Usually people visit multiple pages? I think this is a 90-10 situation. 90% of the sites I visit, I reach a web page through another website, either a aggregator or a search engine, and I almost never navigate that website. Those could be p
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Imagine there are an infinite number of universes, with varying rules and complexity and initial conditions. These universes are like a mathematical set of everything. Time and space and matter and energy and forces are just emergent proper
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Are you really suggesting that the average person had access to better information before the 1920s? For real?
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by Valgrim 4y ago
The unification of la Hispaniola under a new regime untied to french colonialism could be a strong foundation for political and economical improvements (if made in respect of both cultures). If Canada ever merges with the nearby Turks and C
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Can you provide an example? First time I've heard that.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
That doesn't give her any kind of credibility. Actually given that Jordan Peterson medical license is hanging by a thread, any claim of credibility by association to him gives her even less credency.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Sure they can, that's the whole point of acting. Also anyone who ever read a story to a kid can infer emotions from the text itself.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
In the Pixar movie "Lightyear", at some point we see Buzz using an E6B calculator to quickly calculate a trajectory correction in space. The E6B is some kind of nomogram/slide rule hybrid, still widely in use by pilots in fli
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Utter nonsense, and dangerous train of tought. It's incredible to see how internet echo chambers can be damaging to one's critical thinking.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
If the dark forest hypothesis is true, you can bet any civilization advanced enough to detect us will go out of their way to avoid being detected by us. For all we know, there could be a gigantic tungsten rod slowly and purposefully acceler
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Maybe they found a way to mix it into an eutectic mixture? The article doesnt say much on the specific chemistry of the liquid salt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Maybe this will be the good result from all this AI stuff we see. Long but information-poor text is going to lose it's perceived value, and in the end language will evolve toward a more efficient and meaningful form.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Err...care to explain? I was under the impression that the only engineering issue with deep geothermal was precisely to drill deep enough. Once you've done that, the rest is pretty straightforward: boil water to run a turbine. Actual
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by Valgrim 4y ago
Hydro makes even more sense to complement renewables. The storage and grid infrastructure is already there for the few times in a day when there is no wind or sun.
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by Valgrim 4y ago
The solution that the commenter above would give a full 2-dimensional range to the robot across the whole field. This technology has existed for a long time now (see cable robots, or cable-suspended cameras)
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So the outcome will be half-finished houses, or rushed with cheap materials?
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by Valgrim 4y ago
This way of building is also the root of urban sprawl, and all the infrastructure problems associated with it.

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