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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It's a phase-level simulation. Like, in highschool/undergraduate Chemistry classes, students sometimes calculate chemical-concentrations for [equilibrium reactions]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determination_
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I really enjoyed the paper, though I'd probably characterize it as primarily academic. This paper's got a ton of background research that's gathered up a lot of relevant data and models. The computational-results are nice, t
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Looks like they used up to 1 GPU per simulation: > The GPUs used for spatial simulations included NVIDIA Titan V and NVIDIA Tesla Volta V100 GPUs, which took 10 h and 8 h to simulate 20 min of cell time, respectively. So apparently they
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Let yourself work. --- By analogy, say you're a manager at a scientific-lab. You're already behind on deadlines for publishing papers; you're getting flack for it. You need the folks in lab-coats to write those papers, but
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> Seems that it absolutely skews negative for the kids who had to deal with more lockdowns, i.e. not going to school with their peers. That's incorrect. If you look at Figure-1 from [the article]( https://link.springer.com
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The article calls out exactly one quote: > The common narrative that the pandemic has had overwhelmingly negative effects on the lives of children and young people might not tell the full story [-Emma Soneson] They appear to be arguing
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> How many other employees at Apple (the ones we're comparing how minuscule their pay compared to the CEO) can run the company as well as he has? Vision, implementation, everything. That's a good question! I'd speculate th
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
A simpler analogy may've been a smoke-detector that doesn't actually activate when there's smoke. It'd be cheap, super-efficient (no battery needed!), light-weight, no false-alarms, and still usually work correctly 100%
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Legitimate futurists are objecting to some pop-culture nonsense with NFT's, cryptocurrency, etc., often describing such things as scams. I suspect that the author may've had that in mind there. It may be sorta like the problem wi
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The author very much wanted to go back in time, to enjoy how things used to be (before " The Spectacle ") -- at least, in the sense that they want to restore human-experience to what they perceive its historical condition to have
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It's probably one of those things that might seem more obvious in simple cases, but might surprise folks in more complex cases. For example, a simple case: Say you go on vacation for a few weeks with a certain amount of cash to spend.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Looks like a wonderful project! Society'd seem to do well to focus on how we can have real, honest dialogs. Current forums for stuff like political debates have malicious, deceptive strategies that may work better than honest ones, w
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
As a stop-gap, it may help to aggressively denounce things taken out-of-context as being out-of-context. In usual communication, we focus on fact-checking things in the context in which they're most valid, with the presumption that any
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Aggressively anti-intellectual. And.. tortured? It reads like a literary version of [ The Scream ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream ), where it aggressively rejects reality as a monster, grasping at straws in
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> 4. To keep the discussion focused, in this post I’d like to exclude answers along the lines of “but what if QM is merely an approximation to something else?,” [...] imagine that, as fantastical as it sounds, QM were not only exactly tr
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It's like a stock-market bubble/crash, where prices can keep going up/down because [investors are acting following one-anothers' lead]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend_following ). In both cases,
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The main argument for technology like this is that it's relatively quick to develop-and-deploy in existing infrastructure. It's basically an emergency-bandage, meant to provide first-aid, to help reduce emissions in the short-ter
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It sounds like this was intended. It looks like the project may've been based on winning a grant [from this call [PDF]]( https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=2638932A61D80-09C7-C9... ) from 2009, which wanted: > Th
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Looks like you're right. [This fact-sheet]( https://sequestration.mit.edu/tools/projects/quest.html ) lists the plant has intending a 35% capture-rate. And while that's a weirdly low target-(capture-rate
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
We can come up with [encoding-conventions]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_number_format ) where any particular bit-string could map to any number. If we assert that decoding to a number under an encoding impli
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> All data, all computer files, are fundamentally just numbers. That's a misconception. To get a data-representation for stuff (like numbers, documents, songs, videos, pictures, text, etc.), we have to encode it. Then if we want to
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Yeah, just saw it linked [in this comment]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29902330 ). Currently, it seems most helpful in aggregating some of the arguments folks put forth in examining claims, including describing the
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Definitely something that could be nice in an active-document. By analogy, Wikipedia articles have a feature where, if you mouse-over a link, it'll display a preview of the link-target ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
From a basic perspective: Yes, new space is being created. And, yes, the physical distance between things are changing. The [Hubble constant]( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=hubble+constant ) is roughly (2.2 *
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
RootClaim discusses that claim and its perceived relevance [here]( https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/What-is-the-source-of-COV... ).
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Maybe phones should have a " Test " feature for emergency-services? Smoke-alarms and GFCI-devices do, enabling folks to ensure that the device'll behave properly. Presumably there'd need to be some sort of systemic suppo
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
But why not a random Bitcoin clone? I mean, we all get why folks with a lot of Bitcoin want it to be adopted: they'd get rich. The problem for everyone else is that they'd be the ones subsidizing that wealth. Which the majority
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Reading a pop-culture piece won't help; I get the technical stuff. Rather, I'm curious why someone who appears to have followed Bitcoin a bit might self-identify as a " permabull ".
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I don't get why someone would think that Bitcoin would have long-term viability. Seems like it's more of a question of when/how it'll fade out rather than if. The only real unique property that Bitcoin would seem to hav
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It's apparent that the author of this article has independently discovered the field of Catputation. However, this field has a long and rich hissssstory, which I'll try to summarize as time allows (or until I'm bored or see

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