chermi

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by chermi 1y ago
A broken clock....
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by chermi 1y ago
Are you really denying the learning curve based on one paper about France? You don't think maybe there's other confounding factors*? A single survey of a single country isn't counterfactual. Are you really certain that with a
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by chermi 1y ago
You understand there are multiple types of regulation, right? The deregulation you're referring to was with respect to generators being able to sell into the grid. The relevant regulation here is the state-backed guarantees on returns
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by chermi 1y ago
PG&E is guaranteed a rate of return, meaning its profit margin is basically state-guaranteed. A large share of blame falls on CPUC and the structuring of the utilities. CPUC must decide whether they approve of rate before pge implement
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by chermi 1y ago
You know government programs are experiments too, just without the feedback? Do you think anyone knows for certain what the best education system is? Just because it's what the government decided doesn't mean it's not fundame
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by chermi 1y ago
What specifically do you feel you don't grok about inertia? I'll admit the use of "inertia" for explaining phenomena historically bothered me as it seemed like it was just an extra word that was already covered. Inertia&
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by chermi 1y ago
Put another way, at least this experiment actually cared about the outcome and did something about it. Generally, there's far too little feedback and accountability when it comes to public policy intentions vs. outcomes. Our government
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by chermi 2y ago
The hydrogen economy hasn't made since to me from when I first heard about it 15+years ago. It's one of the clearest examples of academics not understanding how business works.
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by chermi 2y ago
For those interested in this stuff, I strongly recommend Strogatz "Nonlinear dynamics and chaos".
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by chermi 2y ago
He was wrong in that he was wrong. I don't blame him for not being to predict what happened, but the industrial revolution had already begun. He had to have been aware that technology can increase efficiencies, and he didn't accou
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by chermi 2y ago
I think the correct framing is that it's people who quote Malthusian population shit that are wrong.
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by chermi 2y ago
Huh? I don't think it's that simple. As far as we know, everyone has some secret sauce. You're assuming deepseek will find all of that.
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by chermi 2y ago
What?! Nvidia is valuably precisely because the software, which is also why AMD is not so valuable . CUDA matters a lot (though that might become less true soon). And Nvidia's CUDA/software forward thinking most certainly predated
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by chermi 2y ago
We know entropy != Complexity(1). There's still no satisfactory answer for what complexity is, and the problem is only getting worse I think as more people decide to use the term however they wish. I'm partial to kolmogorov(2). Yo
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by chermi 2y ago
Another reason they're expensive is because the government basically guarantees they'll pay for whatever tuition the universities set, so they raise prices. There's lot of other factors, including administrative bloat, and ma
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by chermi 2y ago
Nitpick - this is protein structure prediction, not protein folding
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by chermi 2y ago
What? Physics programs don't work like that, at least not T1-2 ones I know about. A physics PhD is not pay to play and anyone thinking it is would fail out on their qual at every university I'm familiar with.
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by chermi 2y ago
Except, you know, if you're trying to understand the physical folding process... There are lots of enhanced sampling methods out there that get at the physical folding process without running just vanilla molecular dynamics trajectorie
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by chermi 2y ago
Why is it obvious getting rid of Airbnb won't reduce housing costs? All else being equal, it could increase supply if the hosts are holding on to them only for renting. Increase supply = reduce cost, no? Edit, and by cheaper, I mean le
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by chermi 2y ago
Crutchfield has recorded lectures on YouTube. I thought they were quite good. I'm biased toward learning statistical mechanics and nonlinear dynamics as a starting point. Search "phy 256 a(b) crutchfield" on YouTube. Crutchfi
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by chermi 2y ago
I always thought it would be an interesting exercise to build an event-based controls system. There's a lot triggering action X based on event A. And actions based on composite events. I never found anyone who had done it. Edit- I shou
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by chermi 3y ago
This doesn't make sense as a requirement - you make no mention of the data. "How it works" will always depend, in part, on the data, you can't fully separate the algorithm from the data if you want to answer questions ab
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by chermi 3y ago
Just a gut feeling but it could be related to the ability to map so much stuff to path integrals with harmonic fields. I too need to read it better.
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by chermi 3y ago
I assume you're referring to his most famous work, where he introduces his maxent stuff? http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf I would also highly recommend the free and excellent book by MacKay fo
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by chermi 3y ago
Because water isn't priced properly.
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by chermi 3y ago
Lol, you think this it's the physicist choosing the headline? I mean, there are some dumbass physicists out there that will do anything for attention (max tegmark, Neil Tyson, etc.), but come on.
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by chermi 4y ago
Least action is a very physical approach?
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by chermi 4y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "not needing stat mech" and thermo entropy being "more general"?
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by chermi 4y ago
You basically nailed it!
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by chermi 4y ago
I would ask why you don't have the same problem with energy?

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