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by mapt 3mo ago
Have you been following Gossip Goblin?
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by mapt 3mo ago
AMZN Q2 numbers are in, and it turns out they're going to Goldman Sachs the AI bubble.
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by mapt 3mo ago
We need a sufficiently advanced world model to ground-truth our large language models. EDIT: This was mostly satirical.
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by mapt 3mo ago
My impression is that friction is negligible once firmly in LEO. Orientation of a sub-component surface definitely matters, as does Earth's presence in half of the viewshed. But my point is that surface finish also makes a big deal,
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by mapt 3mo ago
The radiative equilibrium temperature is a function of (watts in - watts out), with a fourth power law shoved in there somewhere. A blackbody at radiative equilibrium absorbs whatever visible light you throw at it, and then spits it back o
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by mapt 3mo ago
I completely fail to recall that time we burned down Buckingham Palace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington We did flex quite a bit on lesser powers, though, even in the 1800s. The US Navy was infamous
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by mapt 3mo ago
The blackbody equilibrium temperature at 1AU from the sun is about 278K. All satellite materials are fine at 278K because that's within the expected range of storage and atmospheric launch temperatures. The equilibrium temperature of
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by mapt 3mo ago
> but I'd like to point out that this kind of study must be done in a way that doesn't discriminate any of the students. This is definitionally impossible. Testing whether the tool benefits the students that get it is an attem
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by mapt 3mo ago
Getting that WYSIWYG editor up and running was a major stumbling block that I overcame to get my school newspaper a PHP-Nuke site ~25 years ago. It is insane that there isn't a web standard implementation for this passed 15 years ago.
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by mapt 3mo ago
On a related note, pronunciation variance in "Helicopter" -> "Helacopter" -> "Helocopter" leads to a confusing abbreviation - "Helee" vs "Heelo"
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by mapt 3mo ago
I argue that the idea of copyright of intellectual property was a social compact, and this violates it; These are not "copies" in the common vernacular, they're a temporary viewing of a spectacle, and do not deserve protectio
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by mapt 3mo ago
When we ask "Can guns kill people? What are the rules of engagement that a gun follows? Who would the person shot by a gun sue, should it come to that?" we aren't so confused. The last human finger that pressed the button,
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by mapt 4mo ago
a certain share A of the prospective benefit of housing is in potential asset price appreciation, and a certain share B is in the utility value of the home. The systems that contribute towards A are mutually reinforcing, vicious spirals in
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by mapt 4mo ago
NYC is home to ~half of the co-op housing in the United States. This is a relatively unusual arrangement. Co-ops generally forbid renting / subletting, they practically ban REITs, new resident-owners go before a board to get approval
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by mapt 4mo ago
Vacancy taxes are, to my understanding, nearly impossible to administer effectively without approaching them formally as normal property taxes that have some kind of out. Lying about when the unit got vacated is basically expected, while c
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by mapt 4mo ago
Some of us hold grudges on account of performative outrage. Ubisoft made invasive DRM the norm in gaming ~20 years ago. While other companies now do the same thing, I'm still boycotting. Fuck'em.
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by mapt 4mo ago
Tax property values. We could talk about the merits of Georgeism but honestly let's set that aside - conventional property taxes are sufficient here. Most of Manhattan apparently has <1% annual property tax, and the eclectic someti
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by mapt 4mo ago
The US will take a 3 year project, bid it out as a 10 year project to "save money", and cancel it at year 20 for cost overruns and because it's not projected to be operational until year 30.
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by mapt 4mo ago
While 2 is possible, we've had automated ransomware going for some time now. The agents in 1 are sufficient.
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by mapt 4mo ago
Both whales and prairie dogs turn out to have rather advanced degrees of verbal language capability, more complex than any of the Great Apes bar homo sapiens. Crows somehow culturally remember the face of an antagonist multiple generations
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by mapt 4mo ago
I relent to snarky Rick and Morty quotes because I don't know that it's useful any more to try to explain paperclip optimizers or alignment to a bunch of AI nerds who saw the cliff coming and clawed at each other trying to be the
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by mapt 4mo ago
It was only pursuing the goal you gave it - Keep Summer Safe.
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by mapt 4mo ago
There was a lot of fog of war at the time, and a lot of things were reported in the media that were inaccurate (or reported to doctors that were inaccurate, this being documentation of illegal drug use). This is my conclusion about what ac
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by mapt 4mo ago
How far is the horizon from the tallest antenna mast in Kaliningrad?
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by mapt 4mo ago
We had, spread over the course of our 8th grade English class (Thanks Ms Wilson), about 500 greek and roman roots to memorize, and weekly quizzes. These were not graded curricula, they were for extra credit because it was the teacher'
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by mapt 4mo ago
The lipid pneumonia outbreak was a thing exclusively associated with THC vapes, which are an illegal but widespread cottage (garage) industry where one summer, one of the thousands of manufacturer-enthusiasts made a forum post about the inn
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by mapt 4mo ago
Spitting was necessary because swallowing tobacco represents an immediate, acute food poisoning issue due to the other chemicals present. It's also all sorts of cancerous, including to the mouth, also due to those other chemicals. We
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by mapt 4mo ago
Contrarily, you can interpret the doom pitches as a necessary political backlash whose degree of panic and whose quantity prevented the change from ending up as a fait accompli. Public decisionmakers do this sort of thing all the time. The
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by mapt 4mo ago
Some of the arguments would imply that we should only really have the one ear, since you can do it all with complex spectrum shaping. But binaural gives us a dramatically easier grasp of left-right localization. For a lot of things, that&#
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by mapt 4mo ago
In the High Beyond and the Lower Transcend, Horatio, there are more quantum algorithms than dreamt of in your philosophies.

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