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by jgord 2y ago
Certainly a lot of scope for this kind of thing .. people who do lidar scans or photogrammetry of buildings tend to end up with very large meshes or very large point clouds.. which means they need souped up PCs and expensive software to wra
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by jgord 2y ago
The actual interview text, seems to be here : https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interview-with-amd-ceo-lisa-...
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Was assuming they do a kind of ferris wheel with center and 3 or 4 spokes to start, maybe 200m diameter, and gradually fill out the rim with modular units maintaining balance, and center of mass at central dock ?
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by jgord 2y ago
I t actually seems strange that the next 'step' isnt a spinning space science station, with simulated gravity. Is there an obvious reason this would not work ?
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... and I guess another problem is that many/most humans dont want to know the truth. If we had a chatbot that said .. "btw, your religion XYZ is mostly made up myths" .. would that sell well ?
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by jgord 2y ago
I guess Science is our best attempt.. followed by well funded serious journalism ? An adversarial network might actually make a good effort to matching assertions with verifiable facts .. or at least facts that have a high factualness page
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by jgord 2y ago
One reason we might want the best possible model of sulphur particulates .. .. is because we might need to use them to reduce warming : https://e360.yale.edu/features/aerosols-warming-climate-chan... Its one of the ver
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by jgord 2y ago
I dont know why or how often articles on HN get flagged and then hidden/removed. I do know that I personally was typing a comment on a climate change related thread and after posting, noticed the post had been flagged and removed. Also
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by jgord 2y ago
Nice to see this topic survive the flagging process on HN.. Would be great to have a discussion of some other promising non-carbon energy sources, such as drilled geothermal. Slightly off-topic - gen pop are often surprised when I mention
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by jgord 2y ago
Can you define "that religion" .. I'm guessing you mean "people who believe that climate change / global warming is caused by humans burning carbon fuels and emitting CO2" .. ie. Im assuming, but want to check,
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by jgord 2y ago
Slightly offtopic : there seems to be a lack of articles loosely related to climate change / green-tech on HN... given the amount of new tech and the size and urgency of warming, Id expect to see more discussion/argument. It seem
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by jgord 2y ago
You draw a false dichotomy .. its now faster and cheaper to build out wind and solar than new nuclear fission SMRs. Most projections show slow linear growth in fission power .. meanwhile exponential growth in Wind and Solar plants, which is
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by jgord 2y ago
One of the reasons I moved to Javascript web development after many years as C/C++ dev, and after the hell of making iphone apps for Apples appstore - you dont have to get a licence, get approval or make an installer, if you ship a web
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by jgord 3y ago
I was impressed with awk generally, having discovered it by accident as an alternative to bash and node.js for various data wrangling tasks. The frawk implementation written in rust seemed very fast. I could not find a good way to emit bina
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by jgord 3y ago
yep .. his utils are most excellent.
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by jgord 3y ago
btw, xsv has solved most of my problems dealing with 'large' 40GB csv files
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by jgord 3y ago
CSV is a superb, incredibly useful data format.. but not perfect or complete. Instead of breaking CSV by adding to it .. I recommend augmenting it : It would be useful to have a good standardized / canonical json format for things like
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by jgord 3y ago
I dont understand this - arent almost all ML NN models built in pytorch, and arent these compiled / jit'd into a lower level format - and can we not have various backends/drivers for that, such as CUDA / ROCM / vnni
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by jgord 3y ago
Can you comment : how well does Vulcan api fit Neural Net primitives [ matmul / relu / backprop / tensor arrays ] ? Also.. do you think the in-browser WebGPU api, the successor to webGL, is a good api for NN ?
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by jgord 3y ago
Cant do that fast enough, and it takes too much land... its generally old large trees that sequester more carbon - maybe not cutting those down yields better bang for buck. Were almost at +1.5C, at current plateau of peak global emissions t
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by jgord 3y ago
Looks pretty solid. CH 5 : "Higher Order Functions" seems a nice segway into one of my favorite, lesser known js util libraries Ramda.js
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by jgord 3y ago
yeah, sex-related issues are about as easy to discuss as religion, and often tightly coupled / dictated by religion. Now, politics and climate change seem to have also become religious topics - you cant discuss them without calling int
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by jgord 3y ago
Lovely painting.. horrible interactive web tour experience, imo. At least let us see the whole painting first, without overlays... [ ugh, I guess it does, but it feels like its moving because the rest of the page is scrolling. ] DeJong is
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by jgord 3y ago
ps. make sure you get bronze-nozzle extruded pasta, not teflon extruded .. [ if you get dried pasta ] It creates a nice rough micro-texture on the pasta surface when extruded, which helps it cook easier, and hold more sauce. Swear, not maki
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by jgord 3y ago
Not free, but in addition to AoPS.com books and website, I highly recommend : - Algebra book by Gelfand [ amazon print n demand I guess ] - A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle by Zvezdelina Stankova and Tom Rike - The Art and Craft of Prob
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by jgord 3y ago
I was amazed to hear they relied on large amount of fresh water supply to refill the lochs for each ships passage.
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Presumably solar panel arrays suspended above grass improve the local micro-climate for grazing animals below, and when suspended over canals they may also reduce evaporation. The negative harms should be studied, but also balanced rational
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Back in the day we had to rely on magazines for information, the books in the library were too old to cover the new stuff. Then it was BBS dialup filesharing boards, then the internet became a thing. My first exposure to programming in the
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Walter Isaacson bio in 3..2..1
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Dont the larger universities have vast property holdings and investments they manage ? Smaller universities seem to make a lot on student rental accommodation, at least in places like Australia. Maybe tuition is their side business.

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