angrycontrarian

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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
It needs to produce about 100X more energy if it wants to produce grid power. It didn't achieve net break even compared to the amount of energy that went into the NIF equipment to produce the shot. Not even close.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
His mom literally runs a major fundraising arm of the DNC.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
We're talking about a major political donor who just defrauded people for billions of dollars, whose parents are extremely well connected to the DNC and have actually written a substantial amount of legislation put forward by Democrati
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
>claims >it's possible >I don't know if that's true, but it's possible. Sounds an awful lot like a conspiracy theory, my dude.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
So 0.6% of his overall contributions? Not even a full percent?
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
> despite having donated to both parties extensively > both He was the second biggest donor to the DNC after George Soros. I'm not aware of any RNC contributions.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Truly incredible that such a small group of people could be so well represented in academia and media. My hat goes off to them!
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
I don't think that's correct. It appears that this was designed using topology optimization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_optimization
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Again, as with the sibling comment, I would like to see empirical data on the cost viability of existing solar and wind installations. Most of the links posted so far seem to present projections about the future, which seems to imply that
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
I am not asking for forecasts of what could theoretically happen in the future: I want to see an analysis of existing installations.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
The PDF you linked does not contain empirical data on existing solar and wind installations. It's an investment pitch.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
> A clean power grid means cheaper power. That's a pretty wild assertion, given current events. Care to back it up with some evidence from a neutral source?
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
I am still struggling to understand how migrating to a censorship-resistant platform will mitigate concerns about a lack of strict content moderation at twitter.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Would the article have been published if the author found evidence to the contrary?
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Same, just signed up for a paid account today. Looks like the full $8 blue checkmark experience hasn't been released yet though.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Except then it became "Fuck you, do what they tell you."
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
State of the art is 1D convnets, bleeding edge is transformers.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Having implemented them myself on an ad hoc basis in pytorch, I don't see how they're much different than training a deep learning model.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
What about interior point methods?
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
There are a lot of large-scale optimization problems in industry that are still compute bound. Currently available solvers are either single threaded on the CPU, or offer "parallelism" by running copies of the same problem on mul
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
For all of the success applying GPUs to optimization problems in ML, why don't any of the common optimization packages seem to support GPU acceleration?
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Believe it or not, the bond market predicted covid months in advance with another yield curve inversion.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
If you don't have an authoritative source, then you're spreading misinformation.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim that printing away 127% debt-to-GDP won't lead to hyperinflation is very extraordinary, and yet you still haven't posted evidence from an authoritative source.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Where's the citation that printing away the debt won't cause inflation? I can't find it in your post.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Do you have a source to back up that claim?
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Primarily because that scenario ignores the realities of hyperinflation. Default is bad, but hyperinflation destroys nations.
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Looks like all financial transactions in general, not necessarily online ones: https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2021/10/09/wh...
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
Will this cancel out the other executive order, mandating that the government track my online purchases?
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by angrycontrarian 4y ago
If you belong to certain social groups with elevated legal privileges, yes.

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