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by kulahan 2mo ago
The point is that you're using math and computation to turn your computer input into more useful computer output. We do this both deterministically and non-deterministically all the time already, and these can create copyrightable prod
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by kulahan 2mo ago
I think it’s more because it’s kind of a strange rambling rant? He didn’t make any good points, he just made an analogy between it and alcohol prohibition like 7 times. He didn’t even bother to bring the idea home in the end, he just left i
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by kulahan 2mo ago
What do you think doesn’t work on Firefox? Aside from Google products purposely crippled, everything works just fine in my experience. It’s fast and stable. If there’s a bunch of AI stuff in it, I’ve not seen it. Of course I believe it exis
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by kulahan 2mo ago
One fun fact I learned recently. The cavitation bubbles mantis shrimps create when they strike? We use that same technology to perform direct field manipulation in eye “surgery”. I put it in quotes because I’m not sure if that’s an appropri
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by kulahan 2mo ago
There are lots of things governments should and shouldn’t do, but unfortunately we don’t live in a vacuum, and need to consider the consequences of actions, rather than simply hope everyone is somehow forced to react the way we expect and d
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by kulahan 2mo ago
I started my career in the military, and got lucky enough that SOMEHOW, we convinced them to fund a trip to GDQ for educational purposes. Anyways, while there I attended a little roundtable on software security. It was me, representing a sm
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by kulahan 2mo ago
It still sucks for all involved, and it's a shame there's not a better solution here. It's gotta be so frustrating for the folks at PBS to keep getting hit like this.
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by kulahan 2mo ago
What’s happening is people are realizing how bad current rights for digital goods currently are, and are revolting at this obviously related scenario. What people don’t realize is that physical != ownership. I remember wanting to pop The Da
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Thank you very much! Lots of reading to do today :3
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Even easier if you reverse sear. Put it in the oven at 275 for like 25 minutes. Then put it in the hottest pan you can muster for like 45 seconds per side. No need to bring it up to room temp. No need to let it rest after. No need to do any
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by kulahan 2mo ago
I’ve heard there’s misinformation regarding water use. As far as I’ve heard, these data centers use quite a bit. I imagine they just use them for cooking and spit it back out warmer (though if we’re going to do that, I’d prefer we do it coo
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by kulahan 2mo ago
I know you’re joking, but unironically this might be untrue. One catalyst might be something only found in cities! Granted, you could always replace the city with the catalyst of course :P
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by kulahan 3mo ago
The point is that LLMs are doing human-ish things on their own, and that's what the value in them is, so OP is bringing attention to the fact that the tradeoff is "thinks dynamically, sometimes makes mistakes". Computers have
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by kulahan 3mo ago
Also kids...?
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by kulahan 3mo ago
Don’t feel bad for them. It’s not something to feel bad about. We pay taxes specifically for instances including when something goes wrong. Feel mad if this is a pattern and the citizens don’t do anything about it.
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by kulahan 3mo ago
Not done growing until 26. The law says you’re an adult at 18, but that’s not even a little true. 18 year olds are children.
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by kulahan 3mo ago
Y-yeah, that’s my point. The fact that there are no batteries means that instead of considering how it operates with a dirty battery (the only other option here), we consider how it works without any reliability. Of course wind is green. It
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by kulahan 3mo ago
> You seem to be quite keen to keep making the false dichotomy that a project can be either "economically viable with fossil fuel inputs" or "just for fun", but that is obviously not true for research projects. Buddy,
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by kulahan 3mo ago
Right, and if you read the first paragraph, you’d see it’s meant to increase and decrease power consumption based on demand. How are they gonna turn up the damn wind, WJW? Is this a plant that shuts down every time there’s a calm day? Is it
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by kulahan 3mo ago
It doesn't have to be modern to be a miracle. The steam engine is one, too! I think this is still true of FFCS rockets, but maybe we're just wondering at different things in this world :)
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by kulahan 3mo ago
It's talking about the economic inputs required to create a unit of energy. Literally all you have to fathom is "can we add up what it takes to make a watt of energy from coal, vs. from solar power vs. some other plant, amortized
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by kulahan 3mo ago
I thought the same thing, but actually, no. Fossil fuel plants are expensive to run. "That they are already here" is an argument for plants which are more advanced and thus, much more expensive to build, but much cheaper to mainta
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by kulahan 3mo ago
Wrong. Natural gas is the most common catalyst, but plenty of plants use oil, coal, and other hydrocarbons. A quick refresher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Process
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by kulahan 3mo ago
It’s mot powered with fossil fuels. It uses fossil fuels as an ingredient.
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by kulahan 3mo ago
No they don’t. They remain subsidized. Solar surpassed fossil fuels in efficiency ages ago, and I don’t even LIKE solar. Fossil fuels have no redeeming qualities in the major energy sectors anymore, aside from ONE: the plants are VERY cheap
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by kulahan 3mo ago
Imagine being a recruiter, seeing someone genuinely interested in the position (or at least willing to put in the effort to make it seem that way), and getting annoyed rather than hyped. You in the wrong line of work, brother.
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by kulahan 3mo ago
There’s nothing logical about trying to make non-oxidizing metal that can handle thousands of degrees of temperature, hundreds of bars of pressure, and a nearly pure-oxygen environment? The US essentially made fun of the Soviets for even tr
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by kulahan 3mo ago
I can’t imagine how inefficient a country would be if they tamped down all their magical thinking. FFCS, SMILE, and EUVL are all magical thinking if you ask me. Some of the craziest things humans have ever conceived of.
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by kulahan 3mo ago
What an unreasonably complex device to imply you’re going to make 50,000 copies of and ship out to every border agent in the nation after telling them every SINGLE flash drive crossing the border MUST be scanned. That’s so much wasted time,
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by kulahan 3mo ago
Doubt this will change the calculus much. Why would I care if GPT puts an ad for medicine in the bottom of a message during a medical conversation? I’d pay big bucks to get medicine without having to talk to a doctor anyways. It’s such a us

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