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   by krasin 3y ago

   Tesla's Megafactory is making cells based on the NMC chemistry. It's a little more energy-dense than LFP, but has a lower lifespan, depends on Nickel and Cobalt and so is more expensive than LFP batteries. Also, NMC batteries are
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   by krasin 3y ago

   > Now, what if you could coordinate with a couple of neighbours and run a "merged" system that does some accounting to to cover imbalances? This is called electrical grid. What you are trying to ask is whether community-owned n
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   by krasin 3y ago

   > I'm sorry, cutting undersea cables is not terrorism. Yep. This is vandalism, not terrorism.
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   by krasin 3y ago

   Youtube video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8vziYLMpl4
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   by krasin 3y ago

   Great speed! As for the quality, I borrowed the query ([1]) that people used to test Stable Diffusion 3 and other models today: "Photo of a red sphere on top of a blue cube. Behind them is a green triangle, on the right is a dog, on th
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   by krasin 3y ago

   Thanks! Also, same videos with the normal Youtube controls (s/shorts/v/): https://youtube.com/v/kuiwxZS4GJE https://youtube.com/v/5Wsmz7sjOb4
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   by krasin 3y ago

   Yep. Highly enjoyed its Season 1, but I wished I never watched any further - it feels complete at this point and the later seasons destroy the impression. Kind of like with The Matrix. Note: some people have an opposite opinion, that the in
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   by krasin 3y ago

   The new CEO, Laura Chambers, is an MBA and a former McKinsey consultant ([1]). I would not hold my breath about the future of Firefox. 1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chamberslaura/details/experience...
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   by krasin 3y ago

   I would be with you, if bitcoin was only allowed to use carbon-free electricity. The reality is that they sometimes buy coal mines ([1]) and burn coal onsite without paying for the externalities. And that's something to be worried abou
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    by krasin 3y ago

    The same, especially the short concern, applies to the proprietary cable, no? In general, it seems that the lack of a built-in energy storage (even if short-term, for 2-3 minutes) is an issue; for instance, it makes hot swapping of batterie
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    by krasin 3y ago

    Related: LG Settles Class-Action Lawsuit Over Refrigerator Compressors, https://www.consumerreports.org/lawsuits-settlements/lg-sett...
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    by krasin 3y ago

    +1. My favorite essay on the topic: https://petewarden.com/2023/09/10/why-nvidias-ai-supremacy-i...
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    by krasin 3y ago

    That could be very well today. Here is an example of an MCU with 48 bytes of SRAM that is relevant in 2024 because it costs less than 2 cents: https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/span-style-background-co...
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    by krasin 3y ago

    The article talks about "green ammonia". In the meantime, China is building nuclear icebreakers and planning nuclear container ships. Some recent news about the latter (Dec 2023): https://gcaptain.com/nuclear-power
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    by krasin 3y ago

    > What does ROV stand for? My apologies for an acronym. It's Remote operated underwater vehicle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remotely_operated_underwater_v... (a small submarine, usually, with a long thin tet
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    by krasin 3y ago

    >The way around that is to use expensive hermetically sealed connectors that are designed to operate underwater. Each side of those will cost a few hundred USD for boring round connectors. In this respect, I highly recommend Cobalt serie
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    by krasin 3y ago

    This is true. But Waymo is dealing with the same kind of challenges and it seems that they are already at a point, where their technology (enabled, among other things, by collecting tons of data) is useful. I expect Robotics (in particular,
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    by krasin 3y ago

    > Collecting data will not enable anything. Historically, this has not been the case. Collecting data enabled speech recognition, image recognition (and subsequent breakthroughs), machine translation. What is so special about Robotics th
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    by krasin 3y ago

    > Basically, no real breakthrough has happened in robotics and everyone is hoping to be able to replicate LLMs/vision path for robotics (i.e. data). But no one really knows how to even collect so much high quality data and no one is
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    by krasin 3y ago

    Hardly. 1) Coral Edge TPU chip has 8 MB SRAM; for comparison, Whisper Tiny ( https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-tiny ) is 40M parameters, and most of LLMs have billions of parameters. 2) I would be surprised if Coral
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    by krasin 3y ago

    Relevant thread ([1]) on vwidtalk.com, "Did you know... | Prepaid VW SW subscriptions that will expire": > According to myVW (formerly VW Car-Net): my current subscriptions (that were prepaid by VW at time of ID4 purchase )- &g
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    by krasin 3y ago

    According to LinkedIn, the author lives in SF Bay Area since 2019: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexrogozhnikov/
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    by krasin 3y ago

    And there's an annual subscription on top. I really don't understand the value proposition here.
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    by krasin 3y ago

    > That's a lot of copper over time.. FWIW, RFID tags often use aluminum. According to a relevant study ([1]), "Environmental Burden Case Study of RFID Technology in Logistics Centre", the mean weight of the metal with foil
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    by krasin 3y ago

    Thanks!
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    by krasin 3y ago

    Thank you for posting this announce! I tried to find under which license this work is available, but it does not appear to be stated anywhere. Without the license being clear, it's somewhat hard for people in the US to make use of it.
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    by krasin 3y ago

    I am not the OP, but I also skipped on trying the demo, because I didn't want log with my real email into a random website (a few too many times it led to unwanted interactions), and I didn't bother to create a temp account. It&#x
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    by krasin 3y ago

    My comment is about the general idea (LLM transformers on a chip), not particular company, as I have no insight into the latter. Such a chip (with support for LoRA finetuning) would likely be the enabler for the next-gen robotics. Right now
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    by krasin 3y ago

    I used to work in the Native Client team at Google, both on regular NaCl and pNaCl. It failed for technical reasons too. And maybe, mostly for technical reasons. pNaCl's biggest mistake was using LLVM bitcode as a wire format (see, for
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    by krasin 3y ago

    I see. > I discovered something: on iPhone you can long-press a picture of a QR code (don’t even need to screenshot it) and iOS will give you the option of navigating to the URL of the QR code Nice! I just tested on an Android phone, and