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by ced 8y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/9rlx2p/location_of... also has interesting information about CFC sources coming from chlor-alkali plants.
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by ced 8y ago
That's true in competitive markets, but in tech, winner-takes-all happens more often than not, and it affords the winner a lot of freedom.
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by ced 8y ago
Do you know _why_ KL divergence is minimized? I get that it gives a lower bound on the marginal likelihood, which is cool, but is that it? What are the alternatives?
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by ced 8y ago
On Lisp? http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
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by ced 8y ago
Yeah, but who moves their computers outside of the closet in the summer? Then we have a larger AC bill to cover, and that's less efficient than heating.
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by ced 8y ago
Right. We'll claim it's too late to "prevent global warming", keep our lifestyle exactly the same because it's "radical" to suggest otherwise, and shoot for +5 degrees in 50 years instead of stabilizing at
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by ced 8y ago
That's part of what makes Julia promising, it's a numerically-focused Lisp, without the parentheses.
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by ced 8y ago
I use public transport for most of my needs (including commuting) and drive very few miles per year As a city parent, every morning I walk with my kid to the daycare and have to cross traffic mostly from suburbanites whose kids are A-OK
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by ced 8y ago
Sorry you had a bad experience. I found that 1.0 generally works, but there were so many changes in the language that several bugs have cropped up. 1.0.1 should fix a lot of them.
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by ced 8y ago
The maguey flower is quite incredible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_americana#/media/File:Ag... It's not a tree; the whole thing is a flower!
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by ced 8y ago
Depends what you do. In science, lots of people learn only Matlab, and Julia can be a solid/superior replacement, depending on the problem space.
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by ced 8y ago
I can only find the first edition on Amazon, but there's apparently a third edition? http://www.matem.unam.mx/ernesto/EDO/Ar-EDO.pdf https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Differential-Equations-MIT-
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by ced 8y ago
Well, in Montreal at least, efficient public transit during rush hour + shared bikes + shared cars for off-rush-hours is a very nice combination. > why would car makers incentivise this The cooperative just bought vehicles. What can car
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by ced 8y ago
They make a lot of sense for shared ownership. In my city, there's a cooperative running a fleet of cars, similar to bike sharing programs, with dedicated parking spots that have electricity.
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by ced 8y ago
what other things can I, or people like myself do right now to make an impact? Reduce consumption? I also wish I could have an impact on a large scale, but it seems quixotic. Environmental change is cultural change, and that takes a long
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by ced 8y ago
> Because plastic is so cheap, producers will pay the tax, continue using plastic, and pass the costs onto consumers. That's the point: the higher the tax is, the more attractive the alternatives are.
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by ced 8y ago
FYI there's (at least?) two Judea Pearl books on causality. "Causality" was written in early 2000s, and is filled with theorems + proof + prose detailing all the major results from the theory. It's not a particularly har
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by ced 8y ago
> All major economies have a close government-corporate structure because every major economy modeled themselves after the most successful economy in the world - the US economy. You make it sound like a US invention, but it's way ol
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by ced 8y ago
What do you mean by "import deflation"?
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by ced 8y ago
You jest, but in Canada at least, that's a thing. http://www.lentils.org/
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by ced 8y ago
That's part of the point of Worse is Better, too. https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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by ced 8y ago
From Richard Hamming: When I first started, I got practically physically ill while giving a speech, and I was very, very nervous. I realized I either had to learn to give speeches smoothly or I would essentially partially cripple my whole
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by ced 8y ago
You make an interesting point about types, but > (2) in terms of macros, anything more complicated than lazy evaluation of thunks and kiddie examples is out of reach I've seen and built tons of exotic stuff with macros. On Lisp buil
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by ced 9y ago
electric car DO have a material impact on carbon emissions Isn't the point of the article that it has little real impact, because in most cases it shifts the CO2 production from the car to the power plant? How long will it take until
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by ced 9y ago
> when you run Julia scripts on small example data That's not the favored way of working with languages that have a REPL (or better --- Jupyter notebooks). Ideally, you work and reload new code interactively. I only rarely have to r
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by ced 9y ago
I live in a cold climate. In the winter, I heat up my house by passing electricity through the resistor in my radiator. This is dumb; the electricity could be doing something useful instead. Why couldn't we have BTC-mining radiators, t
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by ced 9y ago
Plus, people from other parts of the country (or... other countries) will jump on the gold rush.
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by ced 9y ago
> and despite the fear mongering of the cultural far right in Europe (and the US) neither is any situation like the native Hawaiians via a vis Zuckerberg. I think you misread GP's comment. I don't think it's about the mode
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by ced 9y ago
> Cold is much easier to handle on a bike than heat/humidity. I'll take Austin's summers over Montreal's winters any day. Snow is cold, messy and frankly dangerous. 95% of bikers stop during the snow months, but Austi
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by ced 9y ago
Montreal is one of North America's top city for biking and has one of the worst climates for it. People adjust in all kinds of ways. It's mostly about density and culture IMO.

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