Voloskaya

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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Policy and regulation are indeed extremely important, at least as much as engineering. Implementing a carbon tax would probably be the single most effective thing we can do. However, I do not agree that climate change is no longer an engine
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
You can have a "climate career" doing pretty much any job you would like. You can be an IT, a dev, a mechanical engineer, an accountant in a startup working on carbon removal [1], you can be a chemist researching new ways of produ
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Your choice doesn’t have to be permanent. It’s perfectly fine working for a few years in high paying jobs to build a cushion and then work on something that you find meaningful. Now the hard part is deciding when your cushion is big enough
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Asia does not just mean « China ». Canada has been sending its plastic to the Philippines, where it is constantly mismanaged and ends up in the ocean (edit: not helped by the fact that Canada’s plastic was full of household garbage making i
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Using Wikileaks, which probably uses anonymous sources more than anyone else, to prove that BBC is not real journalism for.. using anonymous source is great. Good job.
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> This seems very inefficient due to the high energy cost and the long timescales in the proposal. This is efficient for what the paper is about: A solution to the sun's gradual evolution towards a red giant. So long timescale is no
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
The definition of "understanding" behaves just like the definition of "intelligence": The threshold to qualify gets pushed by as much as the technology progresses, so that nothing we create is ever intelligent and nothin
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> A solution, if we are to find one, will not come from the many but from the few, maybe just a single person or invention. This is going to sound harsh, but to me this argument seems like a mental contortion to absolve yourself from do
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Alphafold. And generally any problem where you care about symmetries in space, like 3D point cloud representation.
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Say you have some unit of work A within a monolith, and it is used by service B, C, D also in the monolith. You can carve out A as a microservice with a clean general interface, and write an adapter layer to translate calls from your old me
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
"Coupling" means too many things to be useful. E.g. coupling at the interface level (component B interface was not thought in generic way, but only to accommodate component A), coupling at the deployment level (to re-deploy B you
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> In places with good waste management practices, like the U.S., nearly all plastic trash ends up in a landfill. This is not true, see [1]. > As a result, the U.S. is responsible for only ~0.25% of plastic in the ocean. This is also n
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
It is. > The United States generated the largest amount of plastic waste of any country in the world (42.0 Mt). Between 0.14 and 0.41 Mt of this waste was illegally dumped in the United States, and 0.15 to 0.99 Mt was inadequately manage
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabd0288 > The United States generated the largest amount of plastic waste of any country in the world (42.0 Mt). Between 0.14 and 0.41 Mt of this waste was ill
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> Plastic waste really isn’t a big problem unless you’re talking about developing nations. North America is responsible for about 3% of mismanaged plastic waste. Asia and Africa account for 86% of it. Because North America sends all its
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> the commission always says that with every report it payed for Because when you pay for a report, you are asking a group of people for their opinion on the subject, so you can then read the report and get inform and maybe act. So by ve
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> Then they shouldn't pretend to represent the European Comission But they don't? Since, as you even cited, the first thing in the document after the title is a disclaimer that this does not represent the European Commission&#x
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> This statement sounds very disingenuous I don't agree. The lab leak theory has a disproportionate share of the public discourse's space compared to it's scientific plausibility. So it's time to turn down (not off) t
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
CJD isn't contagious, unless you start eating the brain of your friends.
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Try to read past the first line.
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
How would that create a mega tsunami exactly?
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> I think the state of the art for all this is still pretty far away, which is why the instinct is to assume we're talking about something specialized. Yes, that's exactly what I thought. If we are talking about AGI + human lev
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Ah yes, let's simply do something very hard. Huble was never meant for this, if you look at all the systems present on ISS for automated docking, none of that is on Hubble. Access to modules inside Hubble was never meant for robots wit
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
I'm not native english speaker, is "It is quite clear" a synonym for "I'm baselessly speculating"?
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Fair point, but does that really change the conclusion?
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
* Altitude is essentially the same 6300km vs 6700km, so satellites aren't signficantly more spread out. * Those 20k planes don't all fly at the same time. * Retired / Broken planes don't fly, satellites may still be on o
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
He also wrote [1], which is a review of the development in that domain in the last 10 years or so. It's amazing how much progress has been made even when compared to OP links which is only 2 years old. This is by far the best thing I h
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
You also need to find a way to speed up tree growth rate by 10x or 100x for this solution to be effective before most of the damage is done.
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> not just “turn deserts into plant areas” or “encourage algae blooms” or something? That might be slightly more tricky (and less efficient) than you seem to imagine. Also, the prize is not exclusively for "chemical" carbon ext
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
No, it's not trained on all public code as the title suggests, it's trained on all GitHub public code (so public repos hosted on GH), none of the things you enumerate are hosted on GH.

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