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by brownbat 7y ago
There was a great podcast interview with Dr. Karen Clay about this finding and area of research back on November 7th.[0] She discusses how they evaluate the effect from wildfires. Also, how they trace sources by analyzing PM2.5 composition-
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by brownbat 7y ago
Another way to conceptualize the "cropping" is to get rid of all future states where planning would have been meaningless anyway. We are momentary Boltzmann brains? We'll assume not, because if so, nothing really matters. Tri
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I think that's a fair view. The only thing that gives me pause is that we transitioned to a system where individual music tracks are nearly free-on-demand* a decade ago and the sky never fell. There were transition costs, and artists g
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Airline crashes have a surprisingly high survivability rate (because the typical crash is not the craft plummeting from 30k feet, but some kind of runway incident). To your overall point though, hydrogen isn't that much worse. In fact,
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by brownbat 7y ago
I generally agree with the article that people get too caught up in imaging sci fi deepfakes incidents swaying entire populations, when the economy of beliefs is way more complex than that. People have been able to fake photos for a hundred
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by brownbat 7y ago
Or... if most knowledge work happens on a computer, and you just want the AI to replace knowledge workers, then maybe how people use computers is the only thing the AI needs to know.
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It holds an inconceivably large aquifer beneath it. In some places under enormous positive pressure so geysers shoot up after drilling. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Artesian_Basin People are reasonably protect
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by brownbat 7y ago
This sent me down a rabbit hole. The RJ100 (BAe 146) can apparently be kitted to take off and land on gravel: https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/commercial-airline/pre...
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by brownbat 7y ago
Long distance power transmission can face losses of around 10% per mile. But if you turn power into coins at point A, then use coins to buy power at point B, maybe you have transmission losses that don't scale with distance?
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by brownbat 7y ago
Storage is definitely the wise answer here, as the article mentions. The fun answer here is giant crypto farm.
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by brownbat 7y ago
Not as far out as Voyager, but I enjoyed this series of depictions of the sun from each planet, which illustrates the general point: https://www.iflscience.com/space/sun-looks-like-every-planet...
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by brownbat 7y ago
Reminded me of this episode of Patient Zero, which covers some fringe treatments for Lyme disease: https://www.patientzeropodcast.com/podcast-episodes/episode-... Spoiler: Don't try to fight bacterial infections w
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by brownbat 7y ago
> His response was - I am retired now and there's nobody to tell me or teach me. There's something prescient here. I can't count how many times a day just being surrounded other people I've seen them do or use somethi
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From one entry: > The really interesting part is that the effect is entirely destroyed if you replace "fd 40 fd 40" by "fd 80". Fascinating...
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If you're ditching the scroll bar, maybe just add a dark triangle to the lower left corner of the screen, just a few pixels, as a "continued below" indicator. Have it disappear when you're at the bottom. That's the
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by brownbat 7y ago
I had a law school exam in one course that was take home. Everyone thought it was a great idea until they realized it was 8-12 hours of working like crazy instead of the standard 2-3. It's still competitive, after all. I could imagine
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by brownbat 7y ago
"If you're keeping up, you either already had a foundation or you're self-teaching. The actual school is not effective at teaching. People are going outside to get what they need." That sounds like a lot of technical edu
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> They wouldn't make as much money if everyone clipped the coupon. I get on a basic level it's a form of price discrimination, it just seems unfathomable that this bizarre skeuomorph, totally dependent on a series of random his
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> This brought what used to be a painstaking process of clipping coupons from magazines to a slightly less painful process of having to click “Add” on all the coupons every week after logging onto their site. This is an insane trend in s
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by brownbat 7y ago
>> It's just a cultural artifact of the west's love and expectation of violent solutions > I don't think this really has anything to do with the west. I grew up (in the West) watching HK action films and samurai movi
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by brownbat 7y ago
Ok, innocent question, having never worked in a giant tech company with a viable, popular product -- how do they deploy the massive amount of available engineering hours? Do teams just work on random projects like the above while other peop
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> in the post-mortem of the models, what would we likely say had gone wrong I think it's a really interesting question, even though on a charged topic and difficult to forecast. Balance of feedback systems? There are so many feedbac
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by brownbat 7y ago
The CD ROM problem is interesting - a lot of my favorites were playing around with full motion video back then. We complained about load times even locally and scoffed at the idea discs would ever replace cartridges in consoles. Might be ju
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by brownbat 7y ago
I spent more than that on a house that I've mostly learned about through things breaking, because homeownership is a deeply humbling experience. Things are complex and people are busy. But would be nice if there was some qualification
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The Aspen Summit a few years ago had a forum where someone pushed for major news outlets to promote more intellectual, nuanced content, and one rep from a major network pushed back. They pointed out that the consumer of that sort of content
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by brownbat 7y ago
My Swedish and Norwegian friends see the characters as stand-ins for nationalities, but sure, happy to ditch that hypo if you don't find it compelling. It was just one possible illustration of the broader point: the salience of racism
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I have a friend whose family is Swedish and is a fan of Sven and Ollie jokes. It's not very charged when he tells them, even though they are technically jokes about nationalities. I've often wondered, why is it harder to muster ou
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by brownbat 7y ago
I would love to have a speech synthesizer to play with where you could programmatically replace all of one sound with another. Like replacing all 'r' sounds with 'b' sounds, or swapping a few IPA vowels, but only when th
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The "miniscule minority" served by ramps includes pregnant women, the elderly, anyone with so much as a twisted ankle or pushing a stroller. I'm raising this in the context of the elimination of cars. The current infrastructu

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