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by howlin 4y ago
Instead of elaborate carbon capture infrastructure, it seems more straightforward to just use photosynthetic organisms like algae. Either engineer algae to make the proteins you want, or engineer yeast or some other microbe that can take th
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by howlin 4y ago
Seems like the entire capitalization of crypto is around $1 trillion. The total value of housing in the USA is a bit over $40 trillion. So that should give you some sense of scale of the crypto market versus other markets that pose system
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by howlin 4y ago
Now apply them to the data used to identify the "Big Five" personality traits! This is an interesting application of factor analysis/matrix factorization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personali
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by howlin 4y ago
It seems like the only sane way to make use of refuse mixed plastic is to incinerate it for energy. Perhaps as peaker plants that can be brought online when there isn't sufficient renewable energy to meet demand. Burning plastic is cl
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by howlin 5y ago
It's trivial to hire house cleaners to come in once or twice a week, and to keep things minimally tidy in between.
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by howlin 5y ago
The extreme seasonal summer/winter swings in light levels makes this undesirable, independent of the temperature.
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by howlin 5y ago
|After I am financially independent, I want to try to get state/federal funding so that I can go back to prisons and teach programming AND partner with companies to have jobs/interviews lined up for release dates. There are certai
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by howlin 5y ago
"watabou" is already famous for Pixel Dungeon, one of the best Rogue-like games for mobile. It's inspired many forks as well. This project looks to be on the way to another interesting contribution to OSS.
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by howlin 5y ago
One somewhat cynical way of describing the mentality at play in more militant wokeism is to recognize that a lot of people consider social capital to be a zero sum game. A power struggle. In order for one faction to make advancement, anothe
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by howlin 5y ago
Yes, the degree "free will"/willpower factors into a decision is much more of a spectrum than a binary. I'm just pointing out that drug addiction shifts your decisions away from the free will end of the spectrum.
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by howlin 5y ago
Drugs destroy your ability to make good decisions. They are essentially hot wiring the brain's reward circuits which directly feed back into the brain's decision making processes. Most obviously, it's almost never the case th
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by howlin 5y ago
I have one from a year or so ago, and it just collects dust right now. If I understood how utterly unusable it was and how unusable it would continue to be, I would have preferred to just donate to Pine's organization rather than have
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by howlin 5y ago
> Cardio is important for overall health, but you aren't going to burn enough calories for it to be a major source of weight loss. You need to build the stamina to keep it up. But assuming you can maintain a moderate to strenuous pa
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by howlin 5y ago
> When I try to pet her, she does not appreciate it by often trying to scratch me. Animals will often misinterpret an attempt to pet with an attempt to grab. It helps a lot to attempt to pet with the back of your hand rather than your p
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by howlin 5y ago
Brain tissue needs to optimize for a lot of things other than computational efficiency. It needs to stay operational for decades with minimal replacement of parts and it needs to be resilient to a fair amount of bumps, diseases and chemical
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by howlin 5y ago
PAC is great in some ways because it is one of the best ways of proving things about what you can do with finite samples. But practically the bounds will mostly be too weak for an application, and empirically measured error rates will usua
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by howlin 5y ago
> (independent from other estimates) That little phrase is doing a lot of work in your theorem :)
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by howlin 5y ago
| it doesn't understand the data it has and doesn't have individuals who have the competencies to hire analysts to help them; Yeah, this is common and often explains why ML projects fail. ML won't magically understand data f
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by howlin 5y ago
It seems hard to make sense of your objection here other than as a statement that past acts that might be considered wrong were how we got to where we are today. I don't think it's unreasonable to acknowledge our history while al
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by howlin 5y ago
So far the comments here lack much context. The film here is what I believe is a student project of Gus Van Sant who went on to be a professional movie director. The narration is from William Burroughs, who's most famous for "Na
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by howlin 5y ago
Kind of. Most simple models for continuous payoffs will assign a nonzero probability to losing all your wealth or your wealth going negative. The Kelly bet size for any thing with a nonzero chance of "ruin" is zero.
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by howlin 5y ago
Kelly can work if you can properly model your uncertainty over the probability of outcomes and take this into account. You can either do some sort of Bayesian averaging over your posterior belief of the risk, or you can use the pessimistic
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by howlin 6y ago
There are tradeoffs, and in many situations machines have a clear advantage over biological organisms. In aviation and space, there are serious issues in keeping biological organisms alive due to oxygen levels, pressure changes, and G force
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by howlin 6y ago
Venus has lost almost all of its atmospheric hydrogen. Teraforming a planet like this to sustain life would be quite a challenge. Here's an excerpt from the wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraformi
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by howlin 6y ago
The problem is the millions to billions of people who are living in areas that will become virtually uninhabitable due to temperature changes and sea level rise. The first way climate change will seriously negatively impact humanity is thr
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by howlin 6y ago
> Hell I'd run on an infrastructure platform if I had any idea how. (And of course the means to run.) All that is required is to know there is a problem and to judge who is likely to have a workable solution if you seek them out. Po
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by howlin 6y ago
There is some interesting thinking to be done on "native" versus "adapted" when it comes to planning new forest. It's a reality that the climate is changing and there are many introduced pest species that are all
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by howlin 6y ago
I mostly agree with your point, but it has to be said that poker players are creating entertainment value for each other. Even if the cash portion of the game is zero or even negative sum.
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by howlin 6y ago
Try a grocery that carries Taiwanese (most asian grocers) or Mexican food. These places usually have it for sale cheap.
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by howlin 6y ago
Anywhere near the rustbelt is going to need their soil thoroughly tested for contamination. But maybe that's not too big a deal when you amortize the cost over the entire life of a farm.

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