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by fwlr 4y ago
There’s always the Lizardman Constant[1], and on top of that there’s people demanding unreasonable perfection of data, sure. But I think the post you’re replying to has a good point: public opinion of “public health” has taken a significant
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by fwlr 4y ago
Twitter pushed through some change to how blue checks are handed out, but hasn’t yet changed the blue check tooltip message. It’s an odd rhetorical stretch to say they’re actually claiming those dead celebrities subscribed.
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by fwlr 4y ago
I think each layer of the interior atmosphere of a gas giant is composed differently - like, it’s not as simple as “the hydrogen layer floats on top of the helium layer”, but that gives the general idea, right? If you find some way of shini
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by fwlr 4y ago
I don’t know of a good term, no. “Differential rotation” is the broader concept but almost all of the information there is about bodies of fluids, with not much treatment of discrete objects. Even a single discrete object inside a body of f
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by fwlr 4y ago
I am a bit wary of arguments from pollution or other indirect deaths due to fire. (I do accept them, but I am still wary.) For example, the 2019-20 bushfire season is cited as 33 direct and 417 indirect deaths. Direct deaths vary mostly wit
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by fwlr 4y ago
The part about Saturn’s deep rotation is very interesting. Voyager in the 80s measured Saturn’s rotation (based on radio signals) at 10h39m, while Cassini itself before the Grand Finale measured Saturn’s rotation (again based on radio sig
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by fwlr 4y ago
> Learning to say what you want is a skill True, but “learning to figure out what someone wanted to say but wasn’t able to express themselves” is also a skill, I expect LLMs will be able to learn that pretty well. Imagine you prompt Chat
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by fwlr 4y ago
Eh, I think they’re more than “a bit of a pain” in Australia. Bushfire season always kills a few people every year, but it’s only because of us taking fires very seriously and having defense in depth and early evacuation protocols that it d
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by fwlr 4y ago
I believe it does, that paper is comparing like-for-like jet turbines vs electric engines.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The US very nearly built a 60MW nuclear reactor for use in airplanes after their scaled down design at 2.5MW was successfully built, ran, and tested. This was done in the 1950s and, incidentally, required inventing molten salt reactors. ht
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by fwlr 4y ago
I don’t think Musk has given a writeup of his reasons for thinking 400wh/kg is the magic number, but a lot of research has been done that says similar numbers. This paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic
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by fwlr 4y ago
I think there’s a kernel of truth in this post, it does make the correct observation that 2 weeks is not always the correct time. I think it’s deeper than that, there are multiple correct times that are incompatible with each other. This is
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by fwlr 4y ago
I don’t know the reasons for it, all I know is that the first part of the flip is intentional and the rest happened because stage separation failed. I have heard some theories on why they do this. One is that it gets around the need for “ul
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by fwlr 4y ago
Faces of the cube with the same color as the background and opacity 0.2 would almost certainly work. My next thought is duplicate the original cube, remove the characters from the duplicate cube and set the color on the duplicate only, then
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by fwlr 4y ago
Calories in, calories out is completely accurate and ironclad as an observation or description of obesity. No doubt some cases of obesity can be solved with reducing calories in (eating less) or increasing calories out (more activity). Inde
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by fwlr 4y ago
The plan for Starship’s separation from the Super Heavy booster stage does include a 180 degree flip!
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by fwlr 4y ago
I haven’t used TDD much but when I did I found I had that issue, that I would imagine the code I wanted to write and then write tests to check that I had written that code (obviously not the intent of TDD). I got a little better when I thou
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by fwlr 4y ago
The man is actor Jim Carey, it’s a frame from a scene in the Ace Ventura Pet Detective movies. A rhino is giving birth to him.
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by fwlr 4y ago
(All using LLaVa 13B v0, defaults of 0.7 temp, 512 output tokens) I put in these three images (warning! First one is a big spider!) https://imgur.com/a/PgQT202 For the spider I asked “What kind of spider is this? Is it
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by fwlr 4y ago
Although I agree that you must test optimized code for correctness, I think it should be approached very cautiously, as tests can become checkpoints that constrain optimization. I had a memorable experience of that, actually - for a long
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by fwlr 4y ago
I have long been in the habit of leaving in the old pre-optimized code, commented out, above the optimized code. I generally don’t think that performant code ends up all that mangled, but it costs ~nothing to leave the old code in a comment
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by fwlr 4y ago
If I used Windows I would definitely use that cursor pack! Only partially related but Posy is a great creator, his DSM LCD video is one of my all-time favorite videos. https://youtu.be/eGQQWIbD-nM
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by fwlr 4y ago
Came here to post this, yeah, it’s a fantastic and detailed explanation of Conway’s law. Casey provides a worked example at 19:50.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The pattern on the creature’s back resembles the game’s iconic sprite for the conveyor belt, and the creature itself also resembles a Biter, the game’s insect-like antagonists.
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by fwlr 4y ago
I went to a selective-entry single-gender public school, I have always just assumed my school experiences aren’t reflective of schools in general and refused to draw conclusions from my experiences.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The fact that the education system managed to forget how to teach kids how to read is unbelievably infuriating. I have been guilty in the past of rolling my eyes at “teachers are heroes, teachers should be paid like rockstars”. I don’t fe
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by fwlr 4y ago
I have only recent direct experience (OTAs all being 10-12%), but I do know one recent change is that “AirBnB model” listings are turning up on Booking.com a lot more now (renting out your holiday home as if it were a hotel with one unit).
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yes, actually, there is. (I have no idea why Yudkowsky didn’t present it, other than “Twitter isn’t a good platform for this kind of question in the first place, and ever since his Time essay and his appearance on the Fridman podcast, his T
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by fwlr 4y ago
I can’t speak to those spooky warnings of “only X left” from OTAs, I assume they’re technically true in some way but heavily massaged to increase anxiety because that improves conversion. Orchestrating reservations is a lot more streamlined
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by fwlr 4y ago
A less common spelling of “artifact”, yes.

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