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by beambot 2y ago
The headline should read: "7900 sqft lot sells for $1.7M"... This was true for our house mid-peninsula: The appraised value of the land was 95% of the purchase price; the appraised value of the structure was less than the cost to
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by beambot 2y ago
This action is reciprocity. X, YouTube, Facebook, New York Times & hundreds of others are already blocked in China...
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by beambot 2y ago
Unitree Go2 for $1600 is wildly capable. https://www.unitree.com/go2
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by beambot 2y ago
The Sony Aibo harkens back to the late 1990s. It was (roughly) the same, but cost >$2000 in 1990s dollars. TLDR: It's not expensive.
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by beambot 2y ago
The lattice structures shown in the article are likely optimized for compression strength. Tensile strength is the limiting factor for space elevators. Very different design constraints.
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by beambot 3y ago
I assumed this was going to be about repurposing the dish as a solar concentrator, but they're literally just lining the dish with standard solar cells. This makes no sense beyond the PR value -- you could literally just put these pan
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by beambot 3y ago
I have to imagine that ReBCO magnets being made in bulk will substantially change the economics of MRI machines. It's likely that new business models or market segments now become feasible.
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by beambot 3y ago
Aren't all FTX depositors being made whole (in USD)?
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by beambot 3y ago
I would like to recuperate the cash value of my pre-crash SVB stock, even if it's 3 years later - please & thank you. Their complete lack of risk oversight for HTM assets definitely borders on negligence...
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by beambot 3y ago
Probably just a question of time constant / zoom on your time axis. When zoomed in up close, an exponential looks a lot like a bunch of piecewise linear components, where big breakthroughs just are a discontinuous changes in slope...
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by beambot 3y ago
Blind people are still wildly capable people. If your goal is to build a "wildly capable digital brain akin to a person", then the lower bound is much less than 10^15 proposed by LeCun's reasoning.
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by beambot 3y ago
Ah, Zeno's paradox. Clearly the turtle will win.
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by beambot 3y ago
Ethernet PHY is way more complicated & costly than a small handful of TTL GPIOs...
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by beambot 3y ago
Not your keys...
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by beambot 3y ago
Why would it be an equally good chance that only one exists?
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by beambot 3y ago
Sell access to the community-generated data for $60M ARR per license...
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by beambot 3y ago
Enterprise Darwinism.
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by beambot 3y ago
Meanwhile, I spend a non-trivial amount of time every week deflecting questions that could reasonably be solved by a well-crafted Google query... Schools would be much better off fostering curiosity, self-reliance, tool use, and practical p
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by beambot 3y ago
Would love to use something like this directly from within Django views without having to use standard templating. Any thoughts on how to best accomplish such a setup...?
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by beambot 3y ago
Recall when the Chevy dealership's chatbot agreed to sell a Chevy Tahoe for $1... https://www.businessinsider.com/car-dealership-chevrolet-cha...
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by beambot 3y ago
They really should just shift to a usage-based model billed hourly...
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by beambot 3y ago
Indeed. Many efforts that start with the goal of eliminating middlemen inevitably devolve into more middlemen. It's like the xkcd trope about standards: "Situation: There are 14 competing standards. Rediculous! We need to extab
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by beambot 3y ago
Manufacturing today (even overseas) is very different than what it was in the great off-shoring. The status quo has changed & won't be coming back -- automation is now the norm. But still, the multiplier effect for manufacturing
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by beambot 3y ago
Stationary systems for grid scale storage have amazing options - e.g. Form Energy - that needn't rely on power density benefits of Lithium chemistries. I wouldn't be surprised to see this sector dominate the GWh/yr chart in
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by beambot 3y ago
A bimetallic strip is intelligent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallic_strip Thermal expansion is clearly a physical reaction; if arranged in an intelligent way, it's able to achieve some human-relevant objec
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by beambot 3y ago
At least with an AI-based system, it's presumably consistent across performances & devices and can be used during training. While not "objective" per se, it's certainly better than an human judge that is none of the
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by beambot 3y ago
A thermostat is a system that can hold an internal state (nominally, temperature) that represents the world around them. You can also build a thermostat with a switch and a bimetallic strip with differing rates of thermal expansion -- a de
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by beambot 3y ago
I wonder how close you could emulate a person's consciousness by having a Kiraman Katibim -- a little "angel on your shoulder" that records everything you ever see, hear & say and feeds it into a generative model for each
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by beambot 3y ago
In the context of sustainable lobster populations, total consumption is the only metric that matters -- not distribution of consumption frequency.
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by beambot 3y ago
Note: There's a big difference between "military" and "military industrial complex", and even Dwight Eisenhower cautioned against the latter...

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