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by lambdaone 8mo ago
You can also jam the uplink, by making noise louder than the ground terminals make, pointing upward at the satellite.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
This is absolute nonsense. Neither Google AI or YouTube are owned by Meta. What gave you the idea that they were?
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
The subprime mortgage crisis that led to the Great Recession comes to mind. The destruction of Boeing for short-term profits. Private equity's destruction of public companies. The entire American health insurance system.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
I think the image of 12 year old boys as GW's customer base is probably outdated. I know a woman who is _massively_ into Warhammer, and spends a lot of money and time on it. An N=1 anecdote is not data, but it would certainly be intere
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
H2 economics don't work at all, and H2 is largely a fig-leaf for the fossil fuel industry. If you were to have an environment in which H2 would actually make economic sense, non-H2 storage and distribution systems would be even cheaper
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Syngas makes a lot more sense than hydrogen, in the short term. But what really makes sense in the longer term is massively scaled Carnot batteries. Slightly less efficient than batteries, but really cheap to build (it's a combination
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Although it looks like bad news in the short term, China is building even more renewables than they are coal stations, with the result that the fraction of fossil power consumption in China is actually decreasing: https://www.car
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Remarkably, even most cloudy weather still lets a suprising amount of sun in. And it doesn't stop the wind from blowing. The threat is when the wind stops blowing at the same time it's very, very cloudy and in the middle of winter
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Alas, this is absolutely right. It's trivial to find places to put hydropower using global elevation data and GIS tools, but almost all of the good ones are already either being exploited, or in the process of being readied for use, or
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Syngas (infinitely better than hydrogen, which was always a stupid idea), or huge-scale Carnot batteries (the square-cube law is your friend) would do the trick nicely in both cases.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Airbus.
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Achievable near-future net-nearly-zero in the near future is a lot better than waiting longer until we can achieve full net zero. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The real issue is the cost of keeping gas peaker stations
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
But it's not you, it's everyone. And some people will be swayed even by that 10 to 20 cents. Put them all together, and you have a substantial "virtual battery" capacity, and all you need to do it is to make sure people
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by lambdaone 8mo ago
Even though petroleum product shipping accounts for almost 40% of shipping, the surprising efficiency of ocean transport still means that it's not that big an energy cost; a single-digit percentage of the energy content of the shipped
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
For all of its ubiquity, Wikipedia is a single fragile organization in an increasingly unstable political landscape. I hope that efforts are being made to make sure that its content is not only being archived in many places, but also that t
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
This would be the reality-based editorial slant, then? What are you proposing as an alternative?
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Power is quite literally power, in both the physical and political senses. The Chinese know this, and Europe is catching up fast. American private enterprise knows it too. Battery storage isn't quite where it needs to be, yet, so there
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
The problem with all of these, even the most recent one, is that they have the "AI look". People have tired of this look already, even for short adverts; if they don't want five minutes of it, they really won't like two
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Rust programmers are far more likely to have the vigilant mindset than C programmers, or they wouldn't be using Rust. You can get an awful lot done very quickly in C if you aren't bothered about security - and traditionally, most
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
And even better if someone can implement the whole massive spec securely...
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Python type hints are static - at the moment, they are advisory only, but there is an obvious route forward to making Python an (optionally) fully statically typed language by using static type checking on programs before execution.
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Python is a typed language. Perhaps you were trying to say something different?
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
And we'd be wrong about that. Different domains are showing wildly different characteristics, with some ML models showing superhuman or expert level performance in some domains (chess, face and handwriting recognition for example) and
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
The archive link above is broken: this is an earlier archived copy of that page with content intact: https://web.archive.org/web/20230713101725/http://bactra.org...
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Some pages have 'semi-protection' or 'extended semi-protection', where a user must have a Wikipedia account which must have made a certain number of edits and be older than a specified time period. However, this isn&#x27
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
You are absolutely correct that the difference between y against x and x against y fitting perfectly demonstrates why the bias exists, but the correct way to remove the bias is not normalization, but to use a coordinate-independent regressi
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Also relevant to this topic: Fred Gruenberger's Measure for Crackpots (1962): https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2006/P2678... John Baez's Crackpot Index (1998): https
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
This looks to me like it's "I Can't Believe It's Not Helvetica."
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
Arguably, all we do is something similar to hallucination; it's just that hundreds of millions of years have selected against brains that generate internal states that lead to counter-survival behavior. I recently almost fell on a tr
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by lambdaone 9mo ago
"Hallucinate" is a term of art, and does not imply a philosophical commitment to whether LLMs have minds. "Confabulation" might be a more appropriate term. What is indisputable is that LLMs, even though they are 'ju

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