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by datameta 3y ago
This might be too overarching of a statement but "kind" learning environments like games that have set rules and win conditions are very far from the turing completeness of human language.
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by datameta 3y ago
Yes, thank you for the link! I should add that in Scott Kelly's book Endurance he detailed to what lengths they went to collect specimens (blood, urine, saliva, etc). The urine collection was quite challenging in microgravity.
633.
by datameta 3y ago
This reminds me of the Scott and Mark Kelly experiment. Scott went up to the ISS for an extreme duration mission (1 year), while his twin brother Mark, also an astronaut, stayed on earth. We are able to see what genetic changes have occured
634.
by datameta 3y ago
The psychologist says, "I merely perceived walking into it". The physicist replies, "At the atomic level I did not, technically, touch it."
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by datameta 3y ago
I have some thoughts on the vast differences between working on a team delivering firmware that is indefinitely the lifeblood of the hardware, vs working on a team writing hardware test tools that get used by people for one cycle (1-2 years
636.
by datameta 3y ago
What about off-shore solar farms? These couldn't trigger the same NIMBY response (which I'm not sure the Japanese good-for-society mindset would have). Some problems would be sea spray corrosion, but that could be obviated by buil
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by datameta 3y ago
What would that satellite look like to enable meaningful power transmission? A bank of capacitors and batteries? Would have multiple smaller sats scale better and/or increase coverage?
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by datameta 4y ago
With fewer people commuting to work there's less overlap, but enough new yorkers have family in NJ and vice versa that I suspect suspect Newark should be pretty accurate for NYC +/- 5-15% with a lag time of a week max.
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by datameta 4y ago
Haven't strayed from JS code golfing yet - this is a great opportunity to learn how to play with the TIC-80 and PICO-8!
640.
by datameta 4y ago
Kessler Syndrome prevention pacts would function similarly to MAD policies, I imagine.
641.
by datameta 4y ago
I think GP was referring to the photos that circulated of liberated Kherson with rows and rows of fully populated power strips charging peoples' phones as many of them use them. This was prior to the concentrated energy infrastructure
642.
by datameta 4y ago
What word have you heard used to describe spicy food? I have only come across острая which is "sharp".
643.
by datameta 4y ago
Multiply your argument by a million people (some of whom run mining farms) and that's when we have a problem.
644.
by datameta 4y ago
15 years would fit about 5 generations of POWER servers and Z mainframes...
645.
by datameta 4y ago
Power is performance, Z is maximum uptime (target is something like 3 seconds offline per year)
646.
by datameta 4y ago
There is even L4, which is accessing the L3 of another drawer - which in some cases is faster than accessing DRAM in the same drawer!
647.
by datameta 4y ago
Without attempting to take away anything from your comment I will point out that a routine of walking a few miles a day is sufficient to reap most cognitive benefits.
648.
by datameta 4y ago
A dedicated weight-lifting robot could have far fewer degrees of movement. It could essentially be a couple of pistons at a camber with one more powered axis for balance.
649.
by datameta 4y ago
In fact there are a number of invisible disabilities that take away a person's ability to hike. I was inspired to start 3D-printing with the goal of developing a lower body exoskeleton using "exotic" filaments that would make
650.
by datameta 4y ago
Perhaps one can have two sliding shelves of size (N-1)/2 for even greater flexibility.
651.
by datameta 4y ago
Surely the sand battery idea is more for centralized designs than for being somewhere in the middle of the woods? A chemical battery or a water elevation system would suite that locale better. Industrial regions where a sand battery would b
652.
by datameta 4y ago
All true, but there's still the night. Perhaps paired with transcontinental energy transmission (like Australia is planning for Oceania/SEA, or the Gibraltar idea for Sahara->Europe transmission) we can route the excess energy
653.
by datameta 4y ago
Yeah :) I unfortunately don't have the time to put into it because when I played it would completely suck me in. I have too many unfinished projects to not work on!
654.
by datameta 4y ago
Persistence and impermanence are both what make EVE such an immense milestone in gaming. You lose a ship in battle? It's gone forever. Ferrying goods you manufactured out of in-situ resource gathering, and a pirate ganks you at the nul
655.
by datameta 4y ago
Were you paying any attention at the beginning? Russia attempted a capitulation strike aimed at Kiev from the north and northeast (including an airborne operation) at the same time as starting a shock and awe campaign with ballistic and cru
656.
by datameta 4y ago
This bring to mind the ancient technique of cooling a building called malqaf in Arabic and badgir in Farsi. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210810-the-ancient-pers... Two great pdfs contained within "mal
657.
by datameta 4y ago
What about all the other fascinating projects that could be obviated into nonexistence with "could have just"?
658.
by datameta 4y ago
While we're at it let's artificially decrease albedo through increased evapotranspiration because as we all know dry dirt will reflect more sun!
659.
by datameta 4y ago
Analog computing for hyper-efficient on-device ML.
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by datameta 4y ago
Quietly hoping over here that 3 eggs per day won't be invalidated by a new study. Been doing it for 5-6 years

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