kiliantics

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by kiliantics 4y ago
There's really no question. Cost of bike maintenance vs car maintenance. Societal cost of road wear due to a huge car vs a tiny bike. Burden on healthcare system, regulation and enforcement for dangerous driving habits. We all pay so m
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Experienced machine learning and data practitioner: applied research and engineering/MLOps. Background in statistical modeling for astrophysics (PhD). Location: NYC Remote: yes Willing to relocate: possibly within Northeast Technologie
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I much prefer pies that are baked with a very tart apple, which mellows out and gives lots of complex flavour when cooked. Back home we had "cooking apples" especially meant for this which were basically inedible when raw. Now I&#
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by kiliantics 4y ago
These outcomes are pretty extreme and therefore I think pretty unlikely. I think it's useful to consider but maybe harmful to expect them and prepare only for such events. One thing I also think is very important, maybe most important
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I have a very similar outlook. It's pretty clear to me that things are moving faster and faster in society and likely not towards anything very good. So it seems naive to expect the old models to continue working. My "retirement p
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Experienced machine learning practitioner: applied research and engineering/MLOps. Background in statistical modeling for astrophysics (PhD). Location: NYC Remote: yes Willing to relocate: possibly within Northeast Technologies: - Pyth
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by kiliantics 4y ago
You have to include more than just oil refining too: - there's the CO2 emitted during manufacture of the vehicle and maintaining the vehicle - the CO2 emitted to construct and maintain the roads the vehicle is used on (apparently this
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Yes, we should be demanding alternatives to all petrochemicals. It seems that we take for granted that plastics are just a fact of life now but this is a big reason -- along with other more popular ones like microplastic pollution, ocean wi
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Resources are not homogeneously distributed either though. Coltan for your smartphone has to be mined by children in the Congo before being shipped to fabs in China, etc. Most supply chains are just so global and complex. Reorganising to ha
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by kiliantics 4y ago
people in rich countries depend an awful lot on people in poor countries making stuff for them and keeping them rich
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I think about things like this: https://preview.redd.it/clcfr7xw08y31.jpg?auto=webp&s=6dc026... It was around that time when modern society became remarkably efficient at poisoning or completely destroying ecosystems
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by kiliantics 4y ago
This map is great and all but it's mostly worthless without actually going into the grocery stores and checking how the fruits and vegetables look. I live in Brooklyn but it's pretty well known that good quality fresh produce is n
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I live in NYC, "greatest city in the world," and I encounter rats almost daily. Almost every apartment here will have a cockroach problem at some point. And since most of the city is a food desert, it takes pretty serious determin
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by kiliantics 4y ago
why not both? the population of the super wealthy is getting pretty large and they take a lot of flights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNcYxHJPLE
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by kiliantics 4y ago
ML scientist/engineer open to a wide range of projects. Primary focus has recently been in computer vision, specifically in applied research and engineering real-time inference systems for on-prem deployments in the healthcare industry
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I think the same approach applies -- organised labour through direct action and mutual aid
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by kiliantics 4y ago
There's no way that Apple could enforce this or even confidently guarantee that they have a carbon-free product, global supply chains are just too complicated. Can they even guarantee that there is no slave labour at any point in the p
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I love it. I was wondering if anyone would mention it in the comments. I think it's definitely one of the lesser known absolute gems of tv in recent years.
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by kiliantics 4y ago
ML scientist/engineer open to a wide range of projects. Primary focus has recently been in computer vision, specifically in applied research and engineering real-time inference systems for on-prem deployments in the healthcare industry
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I'm building for myself without concrete, stick-frame or drywall. I decided to go more traditional with stone and timber frame joinery. It's an approach that takes a lot more attention in the labour and is hard to mass produce but
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Things that are maintained usually have more character. That wooly jumper with the elbow patches or that old motorcycle that's had the engine rebuilt. Of course nowadays people will just opt to buy the new version of something that is
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Having moved from Ireland to the US, I usually can't stand the apple desserts people make and eat here. They are all far too sweet and I realised it's because there are no cooking apples available anywhere. Not only do people not
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by kiliantics 4y ago
If you looked through the lens of science for the last few decades, you would also have seen a growing alarm over the climate/ecological crisis that has been developing, evidence for which was well established since the 70s and earlier
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by kiliantics 4y ago
this incorrectly designed car refuses to make me a sandwich
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by kiliantics 4y ago
yes, scooters and bicycles with electric motors are held to higher standards than cars when it comes to speed/power and it makes no sense
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by kiliantics 4y ago
Yeah but Noam Chomsky thinks anarcho-syndicalism is a good idea so it's clearly the superior choice of the true intellectual :p and if that's not convincing enough, how about Alexander Grothendieck
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by kiliantics 4y ago
There are still a lot of omitted factors in the above accounting. The car's petrol use was mentioned but not added, then you have all the embodied energy in the food and other consumed items that were never included. Finally all the en
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by kiliantics 4y ago
This kind of information is easy to google and also easy to prove to yourself by just making an honest attempt to get places by bicycle. But here is one example of a study: https://www.fastcompany.com/1707222/bike-compu
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by kiliantics 4y ago
The funny thing though is that, in most urban settings, this is completely untrue. Cyclists actually speed things up by creating less traffic. Every cyclist on the road means less cars on the road. And the speed of traffic is not determined
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by kiliantics 4y ago
I work in a healthcare startup too and can confirm that the interest in investing in innovative tech in this industry is only going up.

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