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by bertil 3y ago
Indeed: “The grid isn’t ready for 300M Electric Monster Trucks by 2030” but the grid will have no problem to power 300M electric bikes.
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by bertil 3y ago
Some companies think it’s cheaper or easier to organize to have disposable wrappers. In the US (and Europe, and likely everywhere, but that thread was about the US), those are allowed to be covered in PFAS. Many of them do; you can tell as
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by bertil 3y ago
I know there was a big scare around PFAS and stick-free pans. That confused me because they are actually on most food-wrapping. Sure, the heat and scraping don’t help the pans, but I can’t imagine that having it on most things we throw in t
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by bertil 3y ago
That article doesn’t mention any number, and I was curious how that compared to suicides and road deaths. There are 7.8 homicides per 100,000 people, so about 26k per year. That’s staggering. There were 46,412 suicides among adults in 2021.
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by bertil 3y ago
Harari seems to really like the flip in perspective of the “selfish” gene and has applied that to every situation. Some patterns are effective and used widely; I’m not sure it’s always very relevant to apply the idea of selfish preservation
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by bertil 3y ago
Grant Sanderson (the author) has repeatedly mentioned in his videos that he is very much _for_ active learning and doesn’t think passive viewing offers more than some insights and entertainment. He tirelessly asks his viewers to explore ac
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by bertil 3y ago
During the introduction to a speech by J. B. Straubel, the presenter said his mentor’s motivations were that 1% of the energy in the gas tank was moving the passenger, 12% the car, and the rest was lost. We should measure efficiency based o
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by bertil 3y ago
Oh, certainly. But they can reset the server that is running out of memory faster than that. Most issues that leaked in the press require more than five months, but some patches can be set up. One of the key processes that failed over Chris
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by bertil 3y ago
The technology is not working because of a lack of investment, that much was obvious at Christmas. Factually describing the outage doesn’t remove responsibility; whoever didn’t take the first crisis seriously enough will face it soon enough
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by bertil 4y ago
The author has a fascinating video (part of a wider effort of many science YouTubers) that tries to clarify all that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vrhk5OjBP8 I’m actually not sure if that makes his explanation more accu
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by bertil 4y ago
Does Japanese aversion to confrontation trigger this behaviour?
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by bertil 4y ago
Publicly, maybe. Do we know how many medical students are using it?
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by bertil 4y ago
I expect that a lot of details are in doctor’s notes but not properly encoded, and most recent efforts have been through analysis of structured (categorical even) data. Having a natural-language tool parse could help notice more patterns.
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by bertil 4y ago
The original author answered, but I don’t think that answer is appropriate. I initially read it as a comment on how most large studies are based on national health care data in socialist countries (Scandinavia mostly, occasionally the UK’s
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by bertil 4y ago
That type of test (have someone pushing ChatGPT to say that vitamins are good for you) would be more relevant than testing an LLM on its ability to recognize symptom keywords and match diagnostics, something that everyone (including their h
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m all for holding companies that have supported dangerous regimes to account. However, when it comes to data management, totalitarian regimes rarely indicate inadequate implementation. IBM’s role in Germany in the 40s was horrific, but it
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by bertil 4y ago
What could be possible solutions to test? Have photos of the charging station appear in the road planning interface? Live video stream? Have bright lights at the charging station? Resurrect that charging robotic arm that would plug without
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by bertil 4y ago
I believe the American version is “Bless your little… heart? — Does this thing have a heart?”
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by bertil 4y ago
That sounds like Bard can be trained. I'm really curious if that was an exceptional emergency intervention because the PR team barged in, part of a larger batch of updates to Bard’s discourse about itself, or whether Bard re-trains on
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m assuming that UBS has less agency to do it: if they do, they might run aground with the employment contracts. A government might have the authority to override those.
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by bertil 4y ago
OK: how will their respond? Imagine you live in a valley where elderly people die of heat stroke every summer: 100 three years ago, 500 the summer after, 2,000 last summer. Your parents are 70 and 71 and barely made it. You immigrate, with
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by bertil 4y ago
Can you predict the height of the next person that will turn a corner? You likely won’t any less than three inches off. Can you predict the average height of all the residents of your city? A demographer can given an answer that is a lot mo
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by bertil 4y ago
The problem is not what happens to a bike or a car in a comparable accident. The problem is that some car drivers somehow believe that bikes don’t belong on the road. They display two very distinct and easy to notice behaviour: 1. They den
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by bertil 4y ago
You are thinking of Oulu. It’s not just Oulu, though: any city with students in the North has a lot of bikes, Umeå in Sweden has 40k students almost all on bikes; Vaasa (opposite Umeå, in Finland) also has a lot of bikes. Uppsala, Stockholm
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by bertil 4y ago
Not sure where your stats are from, but they probably include Dutch people driving abroad : they can easily take the train and bike anywhere in their own country, so I suspect most of their driving is to go on holiday in Europe. They are f
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by bertil 4y ago
The worst weather when riding a bike is the wind (trust me: I live in the Arctic circle, we have snow or black ice on the road half the year and it’s routinely -25ºC; bikes handle both fine). The Netherlands has more wind than anywhere on l
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m surprised to see so little distinction between what causes this, to help with addressing the issues separately and proactively: the need to curate your personality (which university applications seem to have cornered for a while), body
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by bertil 4y ago
My mobile provider has an adult filter that has a strong opinion about the maturity level of Cory Doctorow, so I trip upon that porn filter more often than I’d like. I never asked to have it, but it was there. I tried to take it off once be
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by bertil 4y ago
Technically, I was talking about the late 80s, early 90s. But Buffy did start in 1997, so I guess I was reading about Warhammer alternative rules at the time? Probably not very healthy either.
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by bertil 4y ago
I guess people making and hacking those things are smarter than me. That’s a good thing.

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