darkmighty

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by darkmighty 3y ago
The article cites how they've struck deals with the grid operators. So therefore they're just using grid energy and hence using the carbon intensity of the local grid is very reasonable.
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by darkmighty 6y ago
It's got a different philosophy, but I've had a nice time with scoop https://scoop.sh/ The difference is that it (largely) stays confined within a directory without even needing elevated privileges and such for in
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by darkmighty 7y ago
There is a solution: Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). However, it's unfortunately not practical yet with current hardware (and it's unclear if it will ever be). Meanwhile some partially homomorphic schemes might address specifi
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by darkmighty 7y ago
My mother can't reliably remember how to operate the remote control but uses linux just fine (browsing, editing text documents, etc).
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Fundamentals -- let's go back to the fundamentals of fundamentals (cognition)! Cognition and agency in the real world is often hierarchical in nature. You learn a task by breaking it down into simpler tasks, and if necessary breaking d
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by darkmighty 7y ago
I don't see why this needs to be politicized this heavily. The facts are essentially indisputably in the side of climate disaster as likely. This shouldn't be the cause of 'progressives' (although maybe it should be the
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by darkmighty 7y ago
The image animation (with randomized recreations) gives an amazing effect. I've never seen this technique before. Like cinemagraphs, but unique and alive in a nice way. http://i.imgur.com/Cb4ecUC.gifv
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by darkmighty 7y ago
I don't think the analogy is apt. People need ways to socialize and many are isolated by, among other things, overabundance of individual or shallow entertainment, overabundance of entertainment vs. learning and challenging activities
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by darkmighty 7y ago
I think mainstream media is very dislikeable, and this "correct" information exists and can be gift wrapped to an extent. The only problem is that it's not so easy: if you want true education, get books on the matter (e.g. mi
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Oh here we go -- this is a vast subject (and I understand some of your questioning), I wish I had time for a more thorough analysis, but here are some key points. - Humans are actually fantastic space exploration hardware. We already have r
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by darkmighty 7y ago
You are wildly uninformed when it comes to astronaut roles. Could the ISS be automated? Perhaps, but at astronomical costs. And most tasks would still require remote operation. Also many experiments are done precisely on humans themselves.
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by darkmighty 7y ago
> While you worry about the end of the world, the science/tech/engineering community is planning future research into the 30s, 40s, etc. Space flight into the 30s, 40s. Mega construction projects in the 30s, 40s, etc - some of
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Doing all those things is possible and there are clear plans to do them, at significant economical costs but nothing that our economies can't handle. This is the technological solution : transition out of oil and carbon in general! We
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by darkmighty 7y ago
This is too contrived an explanation (for the general climate change denialism), I think. I think there are two facets to it: 1) Some industries refuse to even consider it because it means they're effectively dead -- coal, oil, and a f
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Plus the last mile problem. If the journey to/from spaceports each side takes a few days, the hours of savings w.r.t. air travel won't matter.
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Hydrogen diffuses very quickly. I would imagine no issue. There could be an issue if it were to burn, then the inhaled water could linger in your system for a while (although water is constantly excreted too). But then the dosage is so smal
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Research is, almost by necessity, based on "pipe dreams". If there's certainty of outcome it isn't research, and most likely doesn't belong in academia. Second, well, private investors give money to whoever they wan
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by darkmighty 7y ago
My two cents: give yourself some time; try to take it easy on the job (even if you feel pressure to complete -- "force" yourself to take it easy) or find another job. It's incredible how a little time goes a long way in relie
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by darkmighty 7y ago
By available, do you mean 'It exists on the planet crust', or 'It can be accessed at a significantly lower cost than the forward (breakdown, e.g. the cost of equivalent oil) energy cost?'[1], and if so, do you have sourc
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by darkmighty 7y ago
I've played it recently and the waiting times between actions made it put it down. It's incredibly slow to do anything substantial. It could probably be fixed through a speed up button in an emulator, but I didn't go the trou
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Microlens arrays, for all intents and purposes of consuming and recording media (for human consumption), are essentially equivalent to ideal phased array optics (while having spacing much larger than phased array usual requirements). We per
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Indeed, most of my education was without (smart) phones, and teachers rarely had my raw undivided attention. I were quite frequently working on more interesting stuff (hobbies, math, stories), daydreaming, etc. Students are humans, and they
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by darkmighty 7y ago
CMOS logic is actually really simple and easy to understand (from a functional model of ideal CMOS transistors). Indeed a water analogue shouldn't be necessary if one wants to understand modern gates themselves.
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by darkmighty 7y ago
>One way of describing the Incompleteness Theorems (1931) of the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel is to say that he proved, in the form of a mathematical theorem, that the possibility of a fully automated mathematics can never be realized Wh
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Writing random bits is more or less guaranteed to work on the bulk of the data. There are small caveats with caches, degraded cells, and other degradation management mechanisms, but I would be quite surprised if anything can be extracted; t
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by darkmighty 7y ago
If the individuals literally walk into office, I also wonder how much of it is literally walking. I find walking has an outsized influence on my mood, much more than I expect a priori. (of course the stress from traffic and lost time must n
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Obligatory Tom Scott video on indoor CO2 levels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nh_vxpycEA (or the studies themselves https://www.gwern.net/docs/co2/2015-stafford.pdf and others) I.e. I think ai
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Depends. If the paper is dense you're taking hours per paper, rereading many times and rederiving details. You can skim through many you don't want to dive deeply though (if it's a topic you just need a feel for).
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by darkmighty 7y ago
If you're going the ML way, I recommend an end-to-end approach to get significantly more performance (at a data preparation and training cost). Simply generate a dataset of chess boards, and then render them using a 3D software of choi
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by darkmighty 7y ago
(standard disclaimers above generic advice that may or may not apply...) Trust your intuition, but not completely, when it comes to work and challenge. We are all lazy because we have very strong instincts to save energy and avoid risks --

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