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by hgoel 5mo ago
I thought the maps they made were of the neighborhood of stars around Tau Ceti, marking their respective home stars with the petrova line.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
It's been a long time since I played, but I don't recall the motion of the planets mattering much. Supercruise lets you move fast enough that planets and moons that move enough to be noticeable are very easy to get to regardless.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
IIRC at the time the book was written, there was some data suggesting a planet detection around 40 Eridani, but has been ruled out since then.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Where does this idea that the right is saying that men are good come from? They hate most men for not being white, and they consider white men that don't follow their chauvanistic methods as being weak cuckolds.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
I think an LLM trained on pre-calculus material would easily stumble into reinventing at least early calculus. It's already pretty easy for students to stumble into calculus from solid enough fundamentals. We even think that the Babylo
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Yeah that's a great comparison.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Keeping the orbits low enough, and/or intentionally going suborbital after docking/before starting the fuel transfer, will make the chances of that being possible very low. It's also worth considering that they have demonstra
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by hgoel 5mo ago
It's really funny to be declaring the idea of 3d printers being ubiquitous as dead because they weren't a smartphone scale change in how the world works, while pretending that 3d printers aren't more common and accessible tha
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by hgoel 5mo ago
I'm still having a ton of fun with computers, even moreso with the advent of halfway usable AI. Being able to plug a little intelligence into software with little effort makes many things a lot more convenient. One of my favorites is h
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Americans are very good at talking tough like that, only to use their arms against innocent randos.
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by hgoel 6mo ago
But since it's already open source and popular among tech savvy people, they have to weigh any attempts at increasing profits against the risk of losing customers to a fork.
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by hgoel 6mo ago
>The bar our department sets for a PhD is that at the end of it, you should be a world expert in your specific topic. In my opinion and from my experience, this is an odd expectation considering that a PhD is the absolute beginner career
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by hgoel 6mo ago
I agree that they can be a trap, but I think that is remedied by requiring a small project proposal step. Ensures that students have a plan, that the goals are achievable, and can help to spread out the project's points. Also helps whe
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by hgoel 6mo ago
This isn't about AI, it's about research funding and what the guys in charge think about science and education.
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by hgoel 6mo ago
So, now we need a clinical diagnosis to call evil people psychopaths or we're unhinged? Do you apply the same high standards to any of the garbage these guys spew or to the impacts of their projects?
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by hgoel 6mo ago
I don't consider it loyalty to know a friend has cheated, and let them get away with it. Teachers/Professors are already used to accommodating dumb planning/mistakes from students. An honest "I spent too much time partyi
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by hgoel 6mo ago
I feel like that anxiety has been a thing with regard to education for a while. Worrying about bad grades following you through life has been a thing for much longer than the internet's existence. I think the issue is largely that in t
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by hgoel 6mo ago
This was during the start of the covid disruptions, so students were allowed to get away with almost anything in the name of covid-related stress.
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by hgoel 6mo ago
This fits with my priors. I was in grad school during covid and had some professors I was close to (and whose class I was taking) reach out asking for feedback on their exam because students were blatantly cheating despite the allowances th
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by hgoel 6mo ago
The other aspect is the stainless steel hull that can take more punishment, mechanical mounting of tiles rather than glue (though iirc some places still ended up having to use glue) and more developed automation tech making it realistic to
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by hgoel 6mo ago
That doesn't make the BE-4 not impressive. It isn't a full flow staged combustion engine like Raptor, but it's still a highly efficient, high thrust, relightable and deeply throttleable rocket engine. These things don't
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by hgoel 6mo ago
I did this recently too, didn't really care about the code quality of a small tool, just asked Claude to add in the features I wanted and it produced something that worked. I just pushed the changes to my fork of the project and left i
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by hgoel 6mo ago
I don't get the impression of much techno-optimism here lately, it's mostly just incessant whining about how they think everything's AI generated.
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by hgoel 6mo ago
I have to draw a very sharp line in generating these kinds of tools, I treat them as single use throwaway things and do my best to never have anyone besides myself even see the tools themselves (e.g. reviewing some calculation results). E
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by hgoel 6mo ago
Your category of "nerds who care" is actually "nerds who only want to be coders" and not "nerds who care about solving problems".
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by hgoel 6mo ago
That's because very often the precision is just common sense that can be derived, either from general knowledge, or from your existing code.
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by hgoel 6mo ago
I consider that a feature in this idea, you have to believe in whatever you want to human experimentation for, enough to select who you include very carefully, and ultimately still take that risk.
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by hgoel 6mo ago
??? This is the only post I made in this thread?
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by hgoel 6mo ago
I think the closest would be: if anyone involved ever complains to authorities at all, everyone involved gets in trouble. If no one ever complains, no trouble. Everyone involved is forever at the mercy of everyone else involved.
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by hgoel 6mo ago
I think whether or not it's worth it really depends on the kind and quality of movie. When I went to see Project Hail Mary, I enjoyed the full theater, when I went to watch the new Jurassic World movie in an empty theater I was bored o

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