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901.
by adrianN 2y ago
That is easily caught by a model checker that tries the equivalence classes. Or just normal coverage tooling.
902.
by adrianN 2y ago
„… which it follows that triangle detection can be solved in time O(m^{1.407})“
903.
by adrianN 2y ago
Markets are not guaranteed to convergence faster than surrounding conditions change.
904.
by adrianN 2y ago
I suspect that the algorithm is wrong because the complexity is suspiciously good. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle-free_graph#Triangle...
905.
by adrianN 2y ago
Actually it does, you can look it up. It’s naturally a bit more involved than what I use in a causal HN comment.
906.
by adrianN 2y ago
20% Energy savings probably have a hard time paying for the wages and the infrastructure needed.
907.
by adrianN 2y ago
Glass recycling generally makes little sense because the raw materials are abundant and recycling glass takes a lot of energy.
908.
by adrianN 2y ago
The range is pretty wide depending on the source of the crude oil: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment Refinery losses seem to be around 10% https://anl.app.box.com/s/a8s8qa
909.
by adrianN 2y ago
I’m not a web developer, but it seems to me that the referrer that you get after a click on a link should be sufficient to count clicks vs impressions.
910.
by adrianN 2y ago
EVs compare even better to ICEs if you take into account the energy needed to take crude oil from the ground and turn it into gasoline/diesel.
911.
by adrianN 2y ago
„Representation“ has a formal definition in information theory that matches a small program that computes the number but does not match „pi“ or „omega“.
912.
by adrianN 2y ago
Pi doesn't contain a lot of information since it can be computed with a reasonably small program. For numbers with high information content you want other examples like Chaitin's constant.
913.
by adrianN 2y ago
Where I live, the chief risk (aside from the usual risks of investments) are spending years and years fighting bureaucrats and NIMBYs to get the necessary permissions to put solar panels on land zoned for agriculture.
914.
by adrianN 2y ago
Solar panels don't contain heavy metals as far as I know.
915.
by adrianN 2y ago
When it's very sunny and your solar panels produce a lot there are many other solar panels also producing a lot, so electricity is generally cheap.
916.
by adrianN 2y ago
Or, you know, continuously falling prices for generation and storage of renewable energy.
917.
by adrianN 2y ago
For many types of code writing it is much easier than reading it unfortunately.
918.
by adrianN 2y ago
And yet most people have a phone in their pocket.
919.
by adrianN 2y ago
Sometimes it’s easier to find a thousand people with a thousand dollars than one guy with a million dollars.
920.
by adrianN 2y ago
If there had been a few thousand times less coal on the world but all of it readily accessible the Industrial Revolution had been over before we had time to move on from steam engines. We probably would have used all of it for heating in an
921.
by adrianN 2y ago
Using finite resources more slowly gives you more time to invent alternatives. Imagine what would've happened if we used up all fossil fuels we had alternatives.
922.
by adrianN 2y ago
Is that true? It was my understanding that chaotic systems (with a known initial state) could be predicted to arbitrary precision by throwing enough compute at the problem. Of course knowing the initial state is impossible in the real world
923.
by adrianN 2y ago
Plenty of people predicted that the Internet was just a fad.
924.
by adrianN 2y ago
Of course you can have only immutable data, you just need suitable monads.
925.
by adrianN 2y ago
We had free sharing of information on the internet before algorithms supercharged ragebait to farm engagement.
926.
by adrianN 2y ago
Apply to internships to figure out what you really like. Enjoying a subject in college is very different from enjoying a job related to that subject.
927.
by adrianN 2y ago
I wonder how much peaty whiskey can be produced sustainably. Peat moss grows extremely slowly.
928.
by adrianN 2y ago
Stainless is mostly iron and chromium, sometimes nickel. Some oxidation states of chromium are indeed toxic, but the most stable form is chromium(III), which is harmless enough that you can buy it as a supplement. Nickel also occurs natural
929.
by adrianN 2y ago
You can influence your chance of accidents by driving safely. Or take public transport.
930.
by adrianN 2y ago
Steel dust has the nice property of turning into mostly harmless metal oxides rather quickly.

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