jmward01

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by jmward01 2y ago
Whenever I see a tragedy, calamity, crash or whatever I almost always see one common factor: a lack of diversity somewhere. In this case it was in domestic food production. Whenever you look in nature and say 'that looks like a healthy
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Musk and Rubio Spar with Polish Minister over Starlink in Ukraine(bbc.com)
9 points by jmward01 2y ago|4 comments
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by jmward01 2y ago
I think that a big part of why this is a critical moment is because what is going on isn't just political drama and isn't just a distraction.
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by jmward01 2y ago
True. This post is just being used as a reason to continue previous threads with very little connection to the submission. I am of two minds on this. The first is 'I want my life to be about cool tech and interesting ideas' and th
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by jmward01 2y ago
There is always a push to do original research. Maybe a partial solution here is that it is encouraged, even required, to take up a major and a minor specialty. The major one you do original research and the minor one you work to reproduce
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by jmward01 2y ago
Why is this a flagged article?
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by jmward01 2y ago
Windows XP was the last good OS, but Windows 2k was the last one that really added a lot of user centered features and usability.
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by jmward01 2y ago
My first MS OS was DOS 2.x (forgot the exact point release...). I remember going to Costco as a kid and getting excited whenever a new version of DOS, and later Windows came out because each and every one of them was a true upgrade in every
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by jmward01 2y ago
I still think that you have to do big things to achieve big things, but my enthusiasm for IFT8 was definitely a few orders of magnitude less than the previous launches.
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Flights halted at some Florida airports over SpaceX debris(bbc.com)
17 points by jmward01 2y ago|3 comments
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by jmward01 2y ago
The idea was, of course, 95% tong-in-cheek but I think there is merit to environmental tourism of superfund sites. There are enough places in the US, and the world, that have been destroyed that we can, and should, bring people to them to s
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by jmward01 2y ago
There are places where it makes sense that only audited software should be allowed, but the big touch-screen in the middle of the vehicle isn't one of them. That shouldn't have access to safety related systems (other than reportin
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by jmward01 2y ago
It would be great to be able to buy a car and then delete the OS and install something I trusted on it but I can't imagine they will ever allow that. (If this is a real thing and I don't know about it please post here!) The printe
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by jmward01 2y ago
> “They attributed the persistent nature of the ad to a temporary software glitch that affected the opt-out functionality in certain cases..." I attribute the glitch to the fact that ads are being presented at all. Seriously. Why wo
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by jmward01 2y ago
I remember visiting LA in the late 80's and having my eyes water due to the pollution. I can't imagine what the 60's and 70's must have been like. Unfortunately it is only easy to be an environmentalist in this country o
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by jmward01 2y ago
Every v1.0 of technology has issues. How useful these tools become to patients will be based mainly on how much society forces them to be patient value focused and not provider value focused since provider value focus generally drives to co
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by jmward01 2y ago
The truth is these tools are coming. There are teething pains, but they will be the norm in a year or two. The real question is what does healthcare look like in 5-10+ years as deep knowledge tools start entering it and disrupting every ste
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by jmward01 2y ago
It seems like these policies are more geared towards giving companies a way to fire people and avoid the consequences of that than they are around improving productivity.
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by jmward01 2y ago
There are a lot of variations. I am most familiar with turbo props so shaft hp is the limiter on the ground and TIT is the limiter at altitude. TIT, of course, gets most of the heat from burning and I did mess up my explanation a bit. Sorry
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by jmward01 2y ago
Think of it this way, if I took 1lb of air on the ground and put it into a box that box would have sides of x. As I go up x gets bigger because pressure is dropping with altitude so to get the same mass of air I need a bigger box. When you
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by jmward01 2y ago
if you stay subsonic. I hear the U-2 has like 1-2kt of leeway when it is at its max altitude because if it went faster it would be supersonic but any slower and it would fall out of the sky.
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by jmward01 2y ago
The physics of gas turbine engines is one reason I am really excited about electric aviation. People don't realize that you are temp limited at altitude. They think the air is cold, but it is about getting mass through that engine so c
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by jmward01 2y ago
US policy is now one of forcing the world into a zero sum game and it is a shame because the world isn't zero sum. This means the world will loose the gains from friendship and cooperation that increase the overall outcome for everyone
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by jmward01 2y ago
I switched because of this. Day 1 so no opinion yet.
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by jmward01 2y ago
I am, unfortunately, looking at alternative browsers because of this. Firefox was the best fit. Big enough that they could reasonably keep up but not one of the corporate browsers that I have 0 trust in. It wasn't perfect but it was be
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Memo to the President: Manhattan Economy Improving, Thanks to Congestion Pricing(nyc.streetsblog.org)
4 points by jmward01 2y ago|0 comments
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by jmward01 2y ago
Your arguments are that it doesn't work in the short term, not in the long term. If you don't do this now then what is a choice of convenience eventually does turn into a choice of necessity. Wherever possible resist with your wal
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by jmward01 2y ago
The false narrative that 'there wasn't a choice at the ballot box' needs to end. It is now abundantly clear that the two offerings in the US election were vastly different. Your vote matters and the candidates matter.
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by jmward01 2y ago
That depends on the activation function. I personally think Layernorm is destroying density (and have some solid evidence for this) but it is in use because there is a lot of missing supporting structure to really help pump data into the we
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by jmward01 2y ago
I'm not sure the lower and lower precision optimization is a good idea long term. It indicates that models are really sparse and that may be true right now but I think that is likely just because we have some bad ideas about how to tra

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