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by eutectic 3y ago
We now have games which rely on shooting millions of rays per frame for rendering.
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by eutectic 3y ago
Presumably this means that power is underpriced (potentially for political reasons). Increase prices and any issues should fix themselves.
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by eutectic 3y ago
Resistive losses are related to current (I^2 R), so you need thicker wires to deliver the same power at a lower voltage. I guess it was decided that it wasn't worth the expense.
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by eutectic 3y ago
log 1/p is just -log p
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by eutectic 3y ago
Negative log is the only decreasing function which satisfies f(x * y) = f(x) + f(y). If you have two independent events it makes sense that the total surprisal (information content) should be the sum of the surprisals of the two events. An
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by eutectic 3y ago
Language modelling is the objective (if we ignore RLHF). That doesn't mean that interesting kinds of reasoning can't emerge. You could just as easily dismiss humans as being 'biological replicators' which just 'repr
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by eutectic 3y ago
I think for O(N^2) transformer inference you need to cache all the activations.
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by eutectic 3y ago
Bacon and ham are highly processed and salted foods.
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by eutectic 3y ago
I don't see the connection.
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by eutectic 3y ago
Yes, but there will always be some necessary energy input.
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by eutectic 3y ago
I think it's more a problem of entropy; You're taking a high-entropy mixture and trying to extract a pure substance. Think sorting red and blue lego.
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by eutectic 3y ago
So is mine, and they made several successful trips which (among other things) makes me think that carbon fiber could be an appropriate material for a submarine. Metallic hulls would also implode catastrophically if not well designed.
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by eutectic 3y ago
The Boeing 787 is primarily made from carbon fiber, including the wings which experience a mix of tensile and compressive loads thousands of times over their design lives. Of course deep sea submersibles occupy a much smaller market where a
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by eutectic 3y ago
Well, obviously going with a more conventional construction would make it easier to come up with a safe design. But I feel like people are going to take the wrong lesson from this accident.
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by eutectic 3y ago
When people say 'carbon fiber is weaker under compressive loads', or 'cylinders distribute compressive forces unevenly', these kinds of issues seem like engineering challenges not fatal flaws. I feel like the problem wit
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by eutectic 3y ago
Well, in the case of lead, I don't think it was irrational for individuals to feel disempowered. The solution was regulatory and societal change, but how many people want to devote their lives to being PFAS crusaders?
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by eutectic 3y ago
PFAS are used in the manufacture of teflon pans, but teflon pans themselves are not a major source (as I understand it).
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by eutectic 3y ago
And presumably the atmospheric distortion is much less as well.
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by eutectic 3y ago
My experience in London has been quite positive.
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by eutectic 3y ago
I'm not sure it will be so easy to get the ice out if you let it freeze solid.
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by eutectic 3y ago
Seriously? You can't think of a more efficient use of the time and money?
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by eutectic 3y ago
The Haber process is already operating close to maximum possible efficiency, so there are no big gains to be had.
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by eutectic 3y ago
Why would small molecule drugs like these be so expensive? Limited market?
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by eutectic 3y ago
I think it means the analysis accounts for rounding error.
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by eutectic 3y ago
If you change the requirements for an insurance policy you attract a different risk pool. Just like health insurance companies offering gym membership to find healthier customers.
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by eutectic 4y ago
What about electrolysis?
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by eutectic 4y ago
Any idea why utiliy-scale is so much more expensive than automotive?
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by eutectic 4y ago
"never" is a long time.
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by eutectic 4y ago
Presumably they are derived from self-play.
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by eutectic 4y ago
Bees live less than a year, so the number of dead bees can surely only be used as an indicator of changes on around that time-scale or shorter. Eventually fewer bees means fewer dead bees.

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