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by akiselev 4y ago
My culitho brings all the boys to the lab, And they're like, it's better than a silicon fab, We're laughing our way to the top, With computational power that won't stop! We'll be etching those chip
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by akiselev 4y ago
Yeah cause it worked out soooo great for those colonials in a multipolar world with the Spanish, Portugese, French, and British empires fighting over the new world or that time Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy tore it up
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by akiselev 4y ago
You can't use chairs to get to the moon not because of distance but because of orbital mechanics . That's why chairs work and colors don't: you think you're getting closer by stacking chairs when in reality, all you&#x2
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by akiselev 4y ago
> I've seen a lot of comments on here like "well LLMs are good at writing snippets, but could never write or maintain large codebases to accomplish a larger goal" - but are you SURE about that 'never' given the
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by akiselev 4y ago
Same reason with ended up with 15 different standards elsewhere: diversity. We're in uncharted waters and we have no idea which format will be optimal for one LLM let alone all of them. Given how much prompt engineer has become a thing
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by akiselev 4y ago
See the Department of Energy's report "Theoretical Minimum Energies To Produce Steel for Selected Conditions" [1] and compare with the numbers in the wikipedia article on energy efficiency in transportation [2]. The table on
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by akiselev 4y ago
Lifecycle. The amount of energy required to melt metals and/or extract them from ore via electrolysis will always dominate the overall numbers whether it's recycled or produced new.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Absolutely no one does that. Even the cheapest, dirtiest iron ore from Brazil or Australia can't compete with steel scrap in the US or EU because recycling uses less than quarter of the total power and produces a fifth of the emissio
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by akiselev 4y ago
Recycling steel in an arc furnace is cheaper and uses less power than making new steel. The only reason we’re not on 100% recycled steel is because demand outstrips supply. Those upstrram processes are more expensive!
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by akiselev 4y ago
I use it a lot for Linux administration, troubleshooting, and scripting as well as some programming. I've only recently started using GPT4 and the API so I've only been using the chat interface so far. Examples of some stuff I&#x2
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by akiselev 4y ago
Nitpick: fast neutrons don't cause fission in uranium-238, they cause it to transmute into uranium-239 [1] which is a much less stable isotope with a half life of less than 30 minutes before it decays into neptunium-239. [1] https:&#x
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by akiselev 4y ago
My favorite extreme example of the ways in which water defines society is the Himba people [1] in northern Namibia. They live in one of the driest deserts in the world and water is so scarce that bathing with water is a social faux pas. Ins
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by akiselev 4y ago
Nothing. It says nothing about consciousness and individuality. Numerical weights and physical neurons aren’t even remotely comparable.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Even "traditional" vastly over simplifies things. Every traditional dish I've learned to cook from a variety of cuisines around the world have huge variation within the same village let alone a metro area or province. Take
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by akiselev 4y ago
Reminds me of the Doctor Who episode Gridlock [1] set five billion years in the future. The entire planet is covered by a city called New New York with the remainder of humanity living in a perpetual traffic jam in the dystopian bottom ha
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by akiselev 4y ago
From the article: > Asked about bovine serum, Noyes told AFN: “Today’s FDA clearance, which was years in the making, involved a chicken cell line that is produced with a very low level of animal-derived nutrients that are effectively re
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by akiselev 4y ago
Do you use vanilla bean extract or the imitation stuff?
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by akiselev 4y ago
“Single” in this case refers to the polymorphism not the segment length.
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by akiselev 4y ago
I'm guessing for one of the same reasons they were used originally. From that town and gown wiki article [1]: > The gown also served as a social symbol, as it was impractical for physical manual work. The gowns symbolize that grad
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Around 30 townsfolk were killed, as were up to 63 members of the university. > Violent disagreements between townspeople and students had arisen several times previously, and 12 of the 29 coroners' courts held in Oxford betwee
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Not entirely sure that would have been a negative outcome. React is horrible. Oh sweet summer child. It's ancestors were so much worse. They had to deal with Microsoft Internet Explorer jQuery . bootstrap . And if that does
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by akiselev 4y ago
In the sense that Jim Crow era Texas is more open than Mississippi.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Can't wait for the Droideka driven by Tesla's Autopilot technology to crash into the ambulance carrying me to the hospital on the way to put down an Amazon fulfillment center strike
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by akiselev 4y ago
Imagine the possibilities! We could sell so many digital hats!!!
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by akiselev 4y ago
That’s enough for less than 17 kilograms of enriched U235 assuming a modern high efficiency gaseous centrifuge. That amount is far more useful for making some depleted uranium bullets than some proliferation risk
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by akiselev 4y ago
> The barrier is not that high. That ignores the sixty years it took North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. It took the US and USSR less time to develop the first nuclear weapons after the discovery of radioactivity in the late 19th c
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by akiselev 4y ago
> "Nationwide, over 500,000 people are incarcerated in county jails like the one in Redwood City, 427,000 of whom have not been found guilty and are still awaiting trial." Apply that same 0.5% here, and that's 2,135 peopl
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by akiselev 4y ago
> If not, look up your Yellow Pages for the nearest notary My Yellow what?
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by akiselev 4y ago
Note that the map only shows National Priority List sites. They're considered to be the most polluted but that doesn't mean that sites not on the NPL list aren't also a concern (my county only has one NPL site but over a doze
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by akiselev 4y ago
It's important to remind ourselves that OpenAI is full of shit starting from the foundation, especially when they get into bed with companies with histories like Microsoft's and weave tall tales of AI safety and ethics. This techn

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