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by bcatanzaro 9y ago
Honestly, I couldn't tell whether this was a satire. Does anyone know the author's intent: are they genuinely excited about the stuff in this post or are they horrified? My mind was so blown after day 1 of this advent calendar tha
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by bcatanzaro 9y ago
All this explanation is great - as I said it would have improved the blog post to include some of that. I'm not arguing that it's not actually different this time. But I think they should have made the case in the blog post.
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by bcatanzaro 9y ago
"It’s still early days for Google’s hardware business." Why no mention of Motorola in 2011? Google bought it for $12.5B, and sold it 2014 for $3B. I think it would have made the blog post better to give some explanation for why Th
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by bcatanzaro 9y ago
That's thanks to Prop 13, which caps the rate of assessed property valuation between sales. The house will be reappraised at the value it sold for, and the owners will pay the full ~1.25% property tax in the future. Interestingly, the
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by bcatanzaro 9y ago
I agree with you, but thought you might find this drag race funny. The Chrysler Pacifica minivan does 0-60 in 8 seconds: https://www.cars.com/articles/drag-strip-challenge-chrysler-...
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by bcatanzaro 9y ago
The planet would be better off if people moved out of the cold North and instead used more air conditioning. That's because heating is incredibly carbon intensive. Think about the temperature gradients in New York in the winter time. G
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by bcatanzaro 9y ago
The article says Luminar's advantage comes largely from wavelength: the longer wavelength they use is absorbed more strongly by water, meaning it won't penetrate to the retina, even at higher power, which allows them to have much
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by bcatanzaro 10y ago
Yes, I totally agree. Yann LeCun, Geoff Hinton, Jurgen Schmidhuber and others did unpopular work for a long time. And they deserve tons of credit for their perseverance which paid off. Similarly, I think it's great that there are AI re
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by bcatanzaro 10y ago
The reason AI has been so successful recently is that the research community has assumed a ruthlessly empirical philosophy: no idea, no matter how beautiful or interesting, is considered truly useful until it bears measurable results on som
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by bcatanzaro 10y ago
Would love to hear about how this is different from Theranos.
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by bcatanzaro 10y ago
Are there any performance benchmarks to show when this kind of approach is useful over less exotic solutions?
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by bcatanzaro 10y ago
Of course, the meter was originally based on the shape of the earth as well - the distance from the pole to the equator was defined as 10 Mm in 1793. As far as the US unit tragedy goes, I think it's important to remember that SI units
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by bcatanzaro 10y ago
This is a disaster for renewable energy and should be reported as such. The costs of such unreliable power are enormous. Such naive reporting does the world no favors.
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by bcatanzaro 10y ago
Blame the English language. "September 14th, 2014" is easier to say than "the 14th of September, 2014". The American style date reflects the English language, which is why it feels more natural to many of us native speak
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by bcatanzaro 11y ago
The author forgot well to tank efficiency when looking at ICE efficiency. You don't get gasoline out of the ground, you get crude oil. In the middle of Nigeria or Venezuela. Which then has to be transported, refined, and transported ag
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by bcatanzaro 11y ago
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