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by dqpb 5y ago
One thing that’s better than being young is being a parent. Caring for your child as they grow takes the sting off of getting older yourself.
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by dqpb 5y ago
> But at $10+ for a transaction fee that’s impossible Algorand transaction fees are a fraction of a cent.
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EleutherAI is the real open ai.
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That’s fitting
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Patent trolls should be treated as a threat to national security.
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This is why markets are an effective protocol for multi-agent coordination.
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> When teaching introductory OR courses I have often found that presenting counter-intuitive or paradox-like results is a great eye-opener for the students. This is basic information theory. Counter intuitive == surprising == higher info
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by dqpb 5y ago
> Most days I can do somewhere between one and two hours of hard thinky work. He then goes on to list all the hours of other stuff he does. So it sounds like his main point is that he doesn’t spend 40 hours per week on pure “hard thinky
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by dqpb 5y ago
Ah, so you’ve learned how meaningless it is to graduate top 5% in your class.
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> Since 1967, the Navy has been training dolphins and sea lions (and probably other marine life) I like how they threw in "(and probably other marine life)". Always keep the enemy guessing. Is that really just a sea horse, or i
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Where does one find broken electron microscopes from the 90s?
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Because I want one.
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I’m more interested in the other article: How E Ink Failed to Bring Their Product to Consumers
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1. Don’t try to be the curator of an information bubble. It will be a lot of work and turning away users is a terrible business model. 2. Instead, build a platform where users can self organize into information bubbles. 3. Read up a little
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> heroin seems safer than romance You can’t propagate the human species with heroin
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> Really nothing is created or destroyed Information is created and can be destroyed.
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> Statically typed programming languages are catching on so why don’t we extend this typing to our config files? What you really need is Cuelang. Cuelang does graph unification over a type-value lattice. This allows the user to do progre
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Do you have any references where someone could learn more about this?
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> people were using compute VMs to pay for the compute VMs Lol, genius. In other news, "Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing"
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5 years from now: > Google tries to sunset Blockchain Unit, but can’t
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> the science is simply not there yet How do you suppose it gets there?
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Finally.
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The WASM/container comparison doesn't even make sense, let lone WASM/container-orchestrator.
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> We’re not going to ever live in a world without ads It’s because of this very hopelessness that I would rather they get worse than get better.
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> This tech can only sequester CO2 without the presence of O2. Where does CO2 occur without O2? Here is a system for collecting CO2 from ambient air and discharging a stream of pure CO2: https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit
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> We can all imagine that maybe if there weren't patents, certain things wouldn't get invented. But that experiment happens in people's heads, and the outcome depends on how they are invested. Well put!
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> So use that energy directly This would use that energy directly. To sequester carbon. > why burn carbon I didn’t say anything about burning carbon.
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There’s also a massive sun, which has alot of energy output.
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There’s a company called Verdox which has developed a system that can absorb CO2 at ambient levels (~400ppm) and then discharge a stream of pure CO2. Presumably one could chain that system to this system to produce solid carbon from atmosph
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by dqpb 5y ago
I considered going for a PhD and went into industry instead. The salary has been awesome, I’ve learned more than I ever did at University, and I’ve largely been able to focus on the topics I’m interested in. And yet, my recommendation is th

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