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by eru 27d ago
Well, it's also legal to sell food that tastes bad. Doesn't mean you should buy it.
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by eru 27d ago
My Japanese style bathroom here both has an overflow in the tub and a drain in the middle of the room.
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by eru 27d ago
Are you sure about that number? I live in famously hot and humid Singapore, and it's usually around 70% to 80% humidity here during the day. I find it hard to believe Japan is even muggier? I just randomly checked the weather for Osak
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by eru 27d ago
Why do you need a warm home when you ain't at home?
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by eru 27d ago
I guess it depends on how cheaply you can get your batteries and how you charge yourself for the space they take up. As electric cars become more popular, we should see a deep market for second-hand batteries?
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by eru 27d ago
I guess if your electricity use is (almost) free, the utility needs to bill you for the use of the grid itself separately?
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by eru 27d ago
And the whole stages of grief model was just made up anyway.
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by eru 27d ago
PDFs can already do arbitrary computation. You can even play tetris in them.
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by eru 27d ago
You can also have a zip that decompresses to itself: https://research.swtch.com/zip
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by eru 27d ago
Hydro power is a bit limited: we mostly already use all the good hydro power sites, and there's not that much room for expansion. I don't know why you are blaming greed so much? Profit seeking companies sell and operate wind turb
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by eru 27d ago
AI's energy use is growing, but it's still a small part of overall energy use. Data centres use only a small amount of land in the grand scheme of things. You have a lot more land clearing for most other use cases. Data centres a
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by eru 27d ago
USA and China produce a lot of emissions in total, just because they have the biggest economies. You might want to look at emissions per capita or per dollar earned? Otherwise you have to make judgement calls like whether you want to treat
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by eru 27d ago
Climate change is more like Brexit: it'll GDP by perhaps 10 to 20 percent, but won't be the end of the world.
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by eru 27d ago
> Some times also having unreasonable goals makes them creatively work around the problem to meet them. Like the Hugging Face incident?
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by eru 27d ago
I suspect it's because the different models co-evolve? The labs train on one model implementing the plans of another model, especially in the same family of models (like Fable to Sonnet).
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by eru 27d ago
I wouldn't fret too much: AI is still advancing so quickly that these specific tells will only last a short time. And then you are free to use em-dashes again, or at least no one will care.
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by eru 27d ago
I'm working on making bcachefs useful when you mix both SSD and HDD in one filesystem. At the moment, even if you set up SSD for foreground operations and HDD only for background, more often then not, your write latencies are those of
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by eru 28d ago
Maybe. But the prestige requires that the Clay people have offered the prize money, it doesn't require that OpenAI claims the prize money.
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by eru 28d ago
Well, I guess we can say that human researchers have a certain probability of solving problems like this?
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by eru 28d ago
We know that it did.
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by eru 28d ago
> We rely on mathematicians, peer review, and letting the scientific process run its course. Granted for the sake of argument. But for this process, there's no requirement anyone from Clay needs to be involved, nor that anything ha
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by eru 28d ago
I really liked codex in the last few weeks, especially its ability to clean up after Claude's (prose) messes and do reviews. But in the last few days something seems to have happened that made Codex's models massively stupider (fo
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by eru 28d ago
Maybe, though that's another kind of progress in itself. Very impressive progress!
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by eru 28d ago
Of course, you get new capabilities. Why wouldn't you? Yes, you might not get new human capabilities. But your applications still work better.
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by eru 28d ago
> A right to privacy in society would be amazing (see the UN Declararion of Human Rights). AI is eroding this. This has nothing to do with mathematics. > So I tried but I’m not very impressed with my list. Do you have one? Look into o
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by eru 28d ago
There's lots of math in eg operations research.
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by eru 28d ago
> In math, the journey is often more important than the destination. The process of developing a proof may uncover new mathematical techniques, some of which may have practical applications in other fields. Sure. And AIs can use ideas f
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by eru 28d ago
Central banks can create an unlimited amount of money, if necessary. The limit is inflation.
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by eru 28d ago
If only getting a paid gig for shilling was as easy as people always assume.
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by eru 28d ago
What is 'asking the right questions' supposed to mean? I am saying that applications supplied and supply an inexhaustible amount of good problems and questions to consider. Purely theoretical concerns also supply some questions,

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