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by charliea0 3y ago
So when does blue.sky leave beta?
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by charliea0 3y ago
Yes - or Fourier series or other decomposition into a sum of orthogonal basis functions.
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by charliea0 3y ago
Boy the this timeline is turning out to be very cyberpunk. I wonder how long before people start bumping into lamp posts because they are distracted by one of these.
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by charliea0 3y ago
If the US had an alien space ship, why keep it secret? Seems like it would a globally important discovery and diplomatic / technological credit for the US. Even if the US were inclined to keep their space ship secret, other countries s
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by charliea0 3y ago
Definitely less aliasing, but it looks blurrier than the baseline.
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by charliea0 3y ago
The machines need lots of fuel which either needs to be chopped from forests or dug out of coal mines. Both those tasks were labor-intensive and costly. Some water mills were cost effective though.
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by charliea0 3y ago
Reading this, I get the sense the author used ai for at least the first draft. Maybe it’s just the style of their writing.
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by charliea0 3y ago
This makes the reasonable observation that copyright, like other kinds of property, is a social technology. It’s very reasonable to ask if the machine could be improved with shorter periods of monopoly or with a smaller bundle of rights. I
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by charliea0 3y ago
Mylar balloons would make a bunch of sense. If the objects were much closer to the camera than the focus that would explain why they can appear to move so quickly.
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by charliea0 3y ago
More like a duel where one person has a revolver and the other a bazuka. Getting shot is better than exploding, but still very bad.
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by charliea0 3y ago
I’d be interested to see how this broke down by income decile. My impression is that spending usually expands to meet income. Americans have a lot of access to short-term credit and use that to cover unexpected expenses. Unfortunately, it l
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by charliea0 3y ago
I'd guess about 0.1% complete.
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by charliea0 3y ago
Not a lawyer, but the claims seem pretty kooky and the plaintiff will probably have trouble establishing standing. For example, he claims that OpenAI wouldn’t provide him free access to a ChatGPT-using service and therefore misuses its nonp
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by charliea0 3y ago
I think the labor market model is a poor fit to extremely high level executives. Theoretically, they work for the board and shareholders but in practice they have a lot of power over their own terms of employment. Pichai for example is both
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by charliea0 3y ago
Our immigration system seems like such an incredible squandering of human talent. So many people struggling to through complex bureaucracy just to winnow down the number of immigrants. I really wish we could fallback on the free market here
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by charliea0 4y ago
Okay, but then why do folks move there? My impression is that it’s mostly for work.
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by charliea0 4y ago
I feel like commercial fusion is such a lost cause at this point. For electrical generation, it’s going to have high fixed costs which will likely make it uneconomical for the same reasons fission struggles. The cost of fuel already very lo
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by charliea0 4y ago
Yes. It takes years but recovery can be higher than expected. Some Madoff victims ultimately got back something like 80%. I wouldn’t have high expectations, but it’s probably worth preserving documentation and making sure your claim is cons
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by charliea0 4y ago
I’m pretty curious who their large client in Chicago was. Might be Jump Trading but who knows?
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by charliea0 4y ago
This is so cool. I can imagine a very fun future of semi-reliable digital assistants attached to every service or tool.
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by charliea0 4y ago
I feel like this is a bit over-stated, but Taiwan does project a great deal of naval power into the surrounding waters. Also, though this article reads a bit like HoI4 analysis. I think you need to more carefully consider all of the nations
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by charliea0 4y ago
TLDR: This is a joke where the author leads Chat-GPT to claim it’s written by humans.
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by charliea0 4y ago
I think there’s an xkcd on modeling complex systems with a single parameter: https://xkcd.com/793/ . More seriously, I think the predictive power of this hypothesis is low. Clearly travel time is important to maintainin
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by charliea0 4y ago
10% something I haven’t anticipated happens. :)
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by charliea0 4y ago
My priors are 30% Twitter “fails” in either bankruptcy or by losing most of its userbase, 30% Twitter more or less continues - perhaps unable to meet its new interest payments, 30% it’s much more profitable albeit in a very different form.
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by charliea0 4y ago
As an alumni, not psyched to hear this. I’ve always loved walking around campuses and thought openness was a great aspect of the university culture.
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by charliea0 4y ago
I’m pretty skeptical lawmakers are the best ones to make technical decisions like this.
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by charliea0 4y ago
Well demand rising is an abstraction for relative balance between buyers and sellers of a good. Say there’s one free apartment in NYC and two marginal buyers submit bids: Alice and Bob. If Alice offers $1000/month and Bob offers $1200&
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by charliea0 4y ago
NYC has substantially higher taxes than most of its suburbs. It also has a much higher draw due to its dense population supporting fancy bars, arts, and other world class amenities. The network effects of living close to other interesting,
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by charliea0 4y ago
By comparison, direct air capture of CO2 costs something like $600/ton. At 40 billion tons of global CO2 emitted per year it could cost 24 trillion per year to remove current emissions. That said, I would bet there’s better economies o

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