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by arijun 7y ago
I saw an unsourced comment on reddit that claimed they would have a microwave interlink instead of the laser interlinks, which would give several orders of magnitude lower bandwidth (although still better than nothing). Either way, I think
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by arijun 8y ago
What’s the problem with the preprocessor?
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by arijun 8y ago
You made it very clear, thank you. However, do you have more examples of what they’re used for? Given your example, I still don’t understand why monads are so important.
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by arijun 8y ago
You should also read the RT pieces on how Crimea liberated itself, and how Putin won every election fair and square
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by arijun 8y ago
What? What about cows releasing methane, 10x more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide? Or the clear cutting of the amazon to make space for pastureland?
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by arijun 8y ago
> when one of the SpaceX boosters will have flown 100 times with between flights maintenance at an economical level, then it will be an actual success Talk about moving the goalposts! They already reuse boosters, and they already giv
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by arijun 8y ago
Most plans that use water to make fuel on Mars don't use liquid hydrogen at all. The two most well known plans are the BFR/SSH and Zubrin's Mars Direct, both of which use liquid methane. You still have to cool it, but not nea
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by arijun 8y ago
Wow this seems like a huge deal. If the whole company is suspected of breaking the embargo, why is just the CFO arrested? Was she just the one they could get? Also, it seems weird that Huawei can sell their own products to Iran but not Amer
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by arijun 8y ago
Biggest doesn’t mean big. It’s a few thousand people big, ~1% of the IDF as a whole. And in my limited experience, it does carry clout within the tech scene in Israel. On the other hand, whenever people tout “ex Israeli military” as a posit
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by arijun 8y ago
In July there was a excellent IEEE article [1] on the potential and the difficulties of superconducting turbines. This project (Ecoswing) is mentioned there, although it seems they switched from YBCO to GdBaCuO. [1] https://spect
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by arijun 8y ago
Good. Bitcoin is too wasteful when it’s at a high valuation. The amount of resources in both electricity and gpu hardware that gets locked into mining is too high. It can still do it’s job as a currency with a lower valuation.
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by arijun 8y ago
I disagree. I'm using it to learn another language that is far from English, albeit one with much simpler grammar. I find it more effective than a grammar heavy course. You can know every rule of a language and still not be able to spe
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by arijun 8y ago
Pointing out the more egregious examples can help take the wind out of their sails.
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by arijun 8y ago
No DST means that solar noon is always at 12:00. While useful for figuring out what time it is without a watch that's a less common occurrence nowadays. DST, on the other hand, pushes daytime later, so if you wake up at say 8 (after su
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by arijun 8y ago
I've always felt that self driving trucks make the most economical sense to automate. A self driving truck would get to its destination faster (saving money) and without the need for a driver (saving money). And the majority of their t
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by arijun 8y ago
The paper author gives a very clear talk explaining a new dimensional reduction algorithm. From the video, UMAP shows some impressive benefits including a substantial speedup over t-SNE (13x on MNIST).
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UMAP dimensional reduction (an alternative to t-SNE)(youtube.com)
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by arijun 8y ago
I don’t see where they come up with the estimate of $10 million per flight? Given the full reusability of the rocket, the cost per flight will be far, far below that?
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by arijun 8y ago
That's a fairly recent development, though; they recently broke up the cell phone cartels that were charging outrageous rates in exchange for very poor service.
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by arijun 8y ago
Wow, that increases it by a lot; it's much, much heavier than the mass of the visible universe [0]. Universe is ~1e50 kg, the marketing exec's request was ~1e500kg. Now you can go back in time and tell them just how wrong they are
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by arijun 8y ago
I was curious, so I threw it into Wolfram alpha: (weight of a sheet of paper) * 5^64 .4 x Milky Way mass Almost half the galaxy mass, that's a lot of grains of rice!
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by arijun 8y ago
So much of the value of the company is tied to Elon Musk's vision. If you think he's going to fail in bringing about that vision, then you should think the correct value of the company is much lower. In which case, you shouldn&#x2
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by arijun 8y ago
What op described, changing the Nash equilibrium. For SpaceX, there was a status quo, SpaceX came in with radically different manufacturing ideas and changed the game. And then when they were done with that, with a profitable model, they di
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by arijun 8y ago
But the fact that he's done it twice with SpaceX and at least once with Tesla seems to indicate he's better average at running those races.
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by arijun 8y ago
And the best bot trained on that corpus will still sound like a bot.
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by arijun 8y ago
FTA it looks exactly like what you describe, a new model from a company already in the market. Is it disrupting the industry in a way that those of us less versed in the aircraft industry don't see?
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by arijun 8y ago
I'm surprised they're talking bout having the landing pad 10km off shore--it seems like that wouldn't be far enough for noise reduction, both outgoing (rocket engines) and incoming (sonic booms).
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by arijun 8y ago
Yeah kind of weird that the article didn't even consider it. It seems like a non-starter with a pilot.
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by arijun 8y ago
the actual keynote starts at 1:20:17. Can someone get the direct link for people coming later? I can't seem to do it on mobile. And can we perhaps change the link in the post?
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by arijun 8y ago
"Allow this website to automatically play videos in the future" sounds exactly like autoplay to me. Just not the first time.

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