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by anon1253 10y ago
Yeah so we have a different story. We build Natural Language Processing and statistics software. We tried the cloud first, but it was just unworkable. Limited IOPS, outrageous prices for even a modest amount of RAM, slow virtualized CPUs, l
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by anon1253 10y ago
Why not nuke metropolitan areas while you're at it? Most of the population is in the coastal cities anyway, who cares about New York, Shanghai or Mumbai. Quick fix. Or force serialization for > 60% of the world population. I mean su
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by anon1253 10y ago
All true, but "the scale of it all" will be truly mind boggling whatever we do, or don't do. Solving this problem will require engineering on a scale never seen before, failure to act will result in losses on a scale never se
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by anon1253 10y ago
doesn't fix the ocean acidification
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by anon1253 10y ago
But that's the thing right, "we" is the human population. If the US logging industry plants as much trees as it removes, then it doesn't really really matter if the global rain forests are being slashed and burned for ag
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by anon1253 10y ago
Yes trees are a perfect solution. They've optimized this process through millions of years of evolution. However, we're still removing more trees than adding them per year. Quite impressively so, even. It takes time for forests to
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by anon1253 10y ago
My worry is that Trump doesn't deny it (well he does publicly), but rather privately realizes that it's already far too late. There's nothing we can do, collapse of global civilization before mid-century is probably inevitabl
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Ask HN: How does one start a big project against climate change?
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by anon1253 10y ago
Hey Elon, just move all your assets and manufacturing to Europe!
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by anon1253 10y ago
'It's about a society on its way down. And as it falls, it keeps telling itself: "So far so good... So far so good... So far so good." It's not how you fall that matters. It's how you land.' - La Haine
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by anon1253 10y ago
Server side rendered HTML, simple forms with POST redirects. Little to no CSS or Javascript. Pick your back-end of choice: Java Spring, Python Django, Common Lisp (wink wink). Use a well known SQL server for persistence. Might be boring, b
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by anon1253 10y ago
I appreciate the effort, certainly do. But, and this a big but: the amount of tooling, libraries, complexity and systems needed for a "modern" web app is almost comical at this point.
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Astrophotography – the journey so far(joelkuiper.eu)
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by anon1253 10y ago
Done ;-) https://joelkuiper.eu/astro
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by anon1253 10y ago
They take up farming, coffee brewing, bagle cooking, photography, anything that doesn't involve a computer screen directly streaming nightmares into your brain 18 hours a day.
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My first year of astrophotography(joelkuiper.eu)
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by anon1253 10y ago
Oh I can set it to -40º below ambient. But usually I set it to a target of -15ºC (with an ambient temperature of around 10ºC, this winter I might go a bit lower). Not stressing the PEC is gentler on the battery too. You have to be slightly
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by anon1253 10y ago
Not that I know of. CCDs don't generate a lot of heat, so the cooling only has to be relative to ambient, which peltier can do fine. I'd worry more about things like thermal shock when pouring liquid nitrogen over a CCD than the g
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by anon1253 10y ago
Not quite sure why this hits the front page. Most serious astrophotographers have been using similar setups for a while now, or ideally peltier cooled CCDs (like Starlite Express, Atik or QHY cameras). More recently cooled CMOS sensors (lik
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by anon1253 10y ago
I thought no, and wrote about it [1] 1: https://joelkuiper.eu/change
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Show HN: RobotReviewer, automatic evidence based medicine from PDFs(robot-reviewer.vortext.systems)
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Been running Hackintosh as my main development machine for over 5 years. Yes, it's been frustrating. But if you pick your parts right and are not too eager about installing updates it really can be a stable solution. Right now everythi
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by anon1253 10y ago
Just of out curiosity, how hard would it be to write a compiler that takes JAGS or STAN model files and compiles it to the s-exps needed to use the library?
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Experimental Clojure library for similar set lookup(github.com)
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by anon1253 10y ago
Yep. Still useful for things like fluorescence microscopy or astrophotography though. There you're usually interested in just the specific wave length, like the (Green) Fluorescent Protein emissions for microscopes, or the Hydrogen Alp
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Explicit memory as a framework for the neural correlate of consciousness (2011)(joelkuiper.eu)
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A very short introduction to R(joelkuiper.eu)
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A note on privacy (2014)(joelkuiper.eu)
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Climate Change: Where I am right now(joelkuiper.eu)
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Loneliness and Climate Changes – Where I am right now(joelkuiper.eu)
2 points by anon1253 11y ago|2 comments

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