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by aaaxyz 5y ago
I'm glad the climate is simple enough that we can approximate it as a simple linear system
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by aaaxyz 5y ago
Bangladesh has to worry about rain-fed flooding on top of coastal flooding
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by aaaxyz 5y ago
Bonds usually have a maturity date
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by aaaxyz 5y ago
Most deep learning algorithms were discovered decades ago, so it's debatable that it was a driving factor behind the 2010s revolution. Backpropagation dates from 1986, convolutional neural nets from 1989 (neocognitrons), LSTMs from the
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by aaaxyz 5y ago
For reference, the poorest quintile in the US earns 35k and the richest 230k (and the gap is widening), according to https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56575
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by aaaxyz 5y ago
Reminds me of The Great Silence by Ted Chiang, a short story written from the point of view of a parrot inhabiting the tropical forests of costa Rica : "The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to
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by aaaxyz 5y ago
Telegram tried to create their own cryptocurrency _twice_ : Gram which was cancelled due to the SEC cracking down on unregistered ICOs and TOM which is no longer affiliated with Telegram at all.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
That is just sad. I've been a longtime signal user (since the textsecure/redphone days). I've always given moxie a pass on his controversial decisions (no federalisation, no 3rd party clients, no fdroid repo, relying on Googl
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Are Tesla employees a representative sample of the Californian population?
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
There's also the fact that the more often you look at your portfolio, the less likely you are to see it go up (assuming typical returns and volatility). Something like ~51% if you look at it every hour vs ~70% if you look every month.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
In case others are struggling to watch this through reddit's video player, the person connected IR LEDs to a battery and taped them to sunglasses.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Corporations aren't replicators though (thankfully).
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
After-hours is a bad indicator. It closed today at 194. Anyone who bought shares since Wednesday morning's peak of 300 is in the red.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
It's not just about the processing. To match human vision, cameras would need to be able to swivel and to adjust their focus extremely quickly. Animal eyes are a lot more than static cameras.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
You'd have more luck searching for videos of FGM-148 launches. It's smaller and ground-based but works similarly.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
The number of bitcoins available (disregarding lost/forgotten ones) is fixed at 21M, and the rate at which they are created is more or less constant (by design), so anti-mining regulations will not increase scarcity. If anything, restr
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
>Imagine if we rolled out robot policemen who only executed black people for no reason at the same rate as humans do. Human cops still have to do the killing for now, but that's called predictive policing
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
>airplanes dialed back the functionality of autopilots to prevent pilot complacency. Or maybe because the potential for disaster is too great, like the 737 max attempting to nosedive into the ocean because of a single sensor failure.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Reminds me of an interview a cosmologist from my university gave to the CBC around the time the higgs boson was confirmed by the CERN. When asked about real world consequences of the discovery, he answered "None."
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Tesla's worst year (2017) had them at -3.5B$ cash flow. Apple has 200B$ in cash reserves. With that kind of money they could afford to purchase an existing car company and sustain similar losses for a few decades.
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Right. To me cyberpunk is about what happens when extreme wealth inequality is coupled to extreme technological advances such that the richest are immortal (for all practical purposes) and don't need the 99% since all production has be
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
>Hiring more people might not get the same amount done as a few working really hard. That is highly dependent on when the new employee is added to the project. If it's done early (as a result of proper planning), it's most like
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Why would you ever sign an employment contract that does not even mention overtime?
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
They make _far_ more money from mining all the data your device sends them about you. The secret sauce for Android is the proprietary Google Play Services package that contains all the APIs that make the device usable (and enables the snoop
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Isn't TSMC building a fab in AZ? Anyway I'd say the "spice" in semiconductor production is rare earth elements, since the CCP controls most of their extraction (and has artificially lowered exports in the past)
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
If you're spending a lot of time reading, I'd suggest getting something work an e-ink display. It's much easier on the eyes
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Is it climate change? Is it because the stock market went up 10%? Because Saturn's orbit crossed it's periphelion? Or more seriously, could it just be the Hawtorne effect? As you pointed out, without a control group, you cannot c
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
>[...] we conducted a pilot study in 14 subjects with metabolic syndrome who fasted (no eating or drinking) from dawn to sunset for more than 14 h daily for four consecutive weeks. [...] Further studies are needed to test the intermitten
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by aaaxyz 6y ago
Did it ever have a single meaning? Every company I've been through had a different definition of what "AI engineering" should be

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