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by homerowilson 2mo ago
Many good points, but with respect, electricity costs in the US are near the lowest of any large economy (see, for instance, https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/estimated-fin... ).
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by homerowilson 3mo ago
I (American) worked in Spain (Cáceres, Extremadura) ~2015-2017 in tech. It was a wonderful experience. Extremely talented, hard-working, and friendly co-workers. Great health-care and education systems. I think since then rising housing pri
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by homerowilson 8mo ago
Adding % !TEX program = lualatex to the top of your document allows you to switch LaTeX engine. This is required for recent accessibility standards compliance (support for tagging and \DocumentMetadata). Compilation takes a bit longer thoug
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by homerowilson 9mo ago
Swap "solid rear axle" with "De Dion axle" and your description fits the Slate truck pretty well.
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by homerowilson 9mo ago
"one mushroom species in five is poisonous"? 20% ??? That seems like a crazy high estimate to me, at least if you mean deadly poisonous to humans. In the USA there are only a few species of amanita, galerina, a few of the hundred
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by homerowilson 2y ago
As an educator, one great use for me is classroom use. Students can run R/Python/Fortran in the browser on any OS without installing any software: https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/ https://
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by homerowilson 3y ago
You may enjoy this: https://bwlewis.github.io/cassini/
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by homerowilson 3y ago
Very cool. I regularly plug logs with various spawn (lately hericium) and have had good luck covering the plug with natural clay instead of wax, which unfortunately I have tons of in my yard. In my case, the cover is mostly to prevent roden
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by homerowilson 4y ago
I'm coming from an applied math perspective. A few of my favorites (and ones I find myself regularly referring to) are: Matrix Analysis by Horn and Johnson (perhaps the best end-of-chapter problem sets of any math book I've encou
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by homerowilson 4y ago
as others pointed out i misread the article, which says 2kwh per hour. indeed that is easily do-able.
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by homerowilson 4y ago
My partner and I have been living "off grid" using PV + battery for electricity for the last 5 years in the Appalachian mountains. We track energy use meticulously. We try to use mostly wood heat in winter, but also have a buried
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by homerowilson 4y ago
Kersten led amazing research and MonetDB was really ground-breaking in many ways (columnar, shared memory interaction with client languages, etc.). A sad day.
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by homerowilson 4y ago
Maybe? There exist some extreme-performance ARM CPUs like A64FX from Fujitsu.
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by homerowilson 4y ago
Wow, this was almost my exact experience (except that I had somehow gone through life never using Windows). Using WSL is working out pretty well for me for the most part, except networking seems to break when the corporate VPN is on that
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by homerowilson 5y ago
The current work https://proceedings.mlsys.org/paper/2021/hash/3636638817772e... seems mostly about tuning the original idea instead of expanding its scope. But it's still a neat idea. I guess it could b
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by homerowilson 5y ago
when i was a kid in the 60's and 70's milkmen delivered milk in glass bottles to your door (a locked insulated metal box at the door in our case), talking away empties to be washed and re-used. it seemed like a pretty good system.
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by homerowilson 5y ago
I used OpenBLAS on my cheap last-generation AMD Ryzen 7 4700U laptop like so: git clone https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS && cd OpenBLAS && make PREFIX=/opt/openblas install && curl
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by homerowilson 5y ago
I enjoyed this comparison, thanks! Here is a related generally R-centric comparison that you might enjoy of DuckDB, dplyr, data.table, etc. applied to five data-sciency problems I wrote up a few months ago: https://github.com&#x2
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by homerowilson 5y ago
A nice, short, recent paper along these lines (not mentioned in the article) is "Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine": https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00152
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by homerowilson 5y ago
Yes, to the R foundation.
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by homerowilson 5y ago
Also my first computer, bought as a kit and I soldered it together. Mine lasted a long time. It was so limited though I learned Z80 assembler, which turned out to be really cool. The ZX-81 was a wonderful machine.
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by homerowilson 5y ago
Also don't forget the really interesting Transmeta processors, also ultimately a failure. VLIW is very difficult in practice.
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by homerowilson 5y ago
yes, we've had this in Ohio for over a year ($200/year for full EV, $100/year for hybrids).
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by homerowilson 5y ago
Another good example of a pretty neat, autonomous personal rail transport system is in Morgantown WV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Tran...
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by homerowilson 6y ago
We foragers and amateur mycologists use smell, touch (slimy, dry, etc,) sometimes taste (bitter, acrid,...), habitat (on wood, ground, type of wood, is there a bulb below ground or a root-like structure, time of year, spore prints, sometime
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by homerowilson 7y ago
Indeed. We don't need regulation. Nobody is forcing anybody to pay Zoom for the privilege of sending their data to Facebook. I've been using Jitsi a lot recently and it's great! It's high-quality free (libre) open source
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by homerowilson 8y ago
That's funny since singularity is now also written in Go!
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by homerowilson 8y ago
I must be calculating this wrong, I get: 400ft * 35tons * 2000lbs/ton * 0.00037661609675872 watt hours/ft. lb = 10545 watt hours. that's only about 10kW hrs, what you get in a just one very compact Sonnen battery ( https:&#x
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by homerowilson 8y ago
I think this is a good question. Perhaps the author means older than the current position of the continents? The Appalachian mountains, though not as old as the Makhonjwa, would also fall into that category.
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by homerowilson 8y ago
compare with the cool vintage Morgantown PRT: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Tr...

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