markkat

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by markkat 6y ago
I agree.
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by markkat 6y ago
Why not direct the money to the planting of trees?
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by markkat 6y ago
Reticulating splines...
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by markkat 6y ago
A couple of decades ago, I set forth to create something every day. It could be as simple as a bit of prose, writing some code, or as involved as a birdhouse. I haven't succeeded in creating every day since, but I did successfully crea
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by markkat 6y ago
What if the Voyager probes are slowing down our simulation by constantly expanding the map?
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by markkat 6y ago
Thanks. That’s awfully loud.
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by markkat 6y ago
I can't find a video with honest sound. Those blades are not going to be quiet.
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by markkat 6y ago
I won a bid on a lawnmower in the UK with my OG gmail. I get a bit of that stuff. Occasionally, I also get a bit of skepticism when people ask for my email.
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by markkat 6y ago
I wanted to blog the Odyssey from Eurylochus's perspective in 2006. The next thing I knew, I had blogged the Iliad. https://underodysseus.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_archive.html I should get back to the Odyssey.
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by markkat 6y ago
Is it any wonder? This same experiment is being run every day at hospitals and clinics across the country. Face masks diminish the risk dramatically.
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by markkat 6y ago
I’ve long thought gravity is more likely to be the product of space between masses, not something that alters it. My thinking is the “alteration” of we perceive as gravity is lopsided entropy due to a field with a gradient of space. I wrote
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by markkat 6y ago
IMO it's underappreciated how these mistakes are not a bug of human intelligence, but a feature. They reveal a default non-literal interpretation of the world, which can be made less abstract when needed. However, it's the default
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by markkat 6y ago
Google, DDG, Alexa, and Bing don't "get it", meaning they don't shared a contextual framework that resembles our own. These algorithms mimic a shared contextual framework, but it is mimicry. That is the fundamental reaso
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by markkat 6y ago
The mistake Gruber is making here is that DDG, Google, Alexa, and Bing did not "get it right". Their answer wasn't wrong, but it's not because they "got it". They never "got it" any more than Siri did
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by markkat 7y ago
Oops. I actually drove on Market yesterday.
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by markkat 7y ago
Agreed. If you want to add to it, there's evidence that sauna and donating blood have benefits as well. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25705824 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2609829
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by markkat 7y ago
I created https://hubski.com , which has been around for 9 years. Hubski isn't big, but we have a quality community that brings joy. To grow, my friends and I just started posting and chatting. Personally, I think commercial
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by markkat 7y ago
Do you have a citation for current simulations? The +9m to +31m isn't from simulations. It's from ice core sample and sediment analysis.
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by markkat 7y ago
Over the last 40M years, when CO2 was at current levels (400ppm), sea level was +9 to +31 meters higher. We need to reduce to 280ppm to start rebuilding ice. https://www.pnas.org/content/110/4/1209 Coastal ci
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by markkat 7y ago
Cool. Will do. We are a quiet bunch, so it should be modest.
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by markkat 7y ago
This is great. I think I am going to integrate into Hubski, and pay for our users. I hope you stick around. Imgur is awful.
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by markkat 7y ago
I am of the same demo. I agree it is ugly, but ugly in a good way.
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New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise(nature.com)
7 points by markkat 7y ago|0 comments
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by markkat 7y ago
I repeatedly tried to switch to DDG from Google for the past several years. DDG kept improving, but always fell short. About a year ago, I felt that DDG's results surpassed Google's in quality. Ironically, I think Google's &q
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by markkat 7y ago
There's actually a significant decline in quality and quantity that continues with age. That's why we cryopreserve them. If brought down to liquid nitrogen temp properly, they can remain viable nearly indefinitely.
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by markkat 7y ago
The annual storage fees ($250/yr) cover our banking costs. The banking needs little more than invoicing to remain viable, and with the numbers we have banked, it could survive as a stand-alone entity, or would be an asset that could be
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by markkat 7y ago
This issue is why I started Forever Labs (YCS17). We bank your stem cells. Immunity presents many difficult problems to be solved. I’d rather worry about the therapeutic developments alone rather than add immunity on top of it.
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by markkat 7y ago
Has any intelligence arisen without multi-agent interaction? Probably belongs in our definition of intelligence.
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by markkat 7y ago
Here's what we can do: 1. Refuse to support politicians that do not see this as the grave issue it is. Most other political issues won't matter if we cannot change the course of global warming. 2. Spread awareness. Update yourself
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by markkat 7y ago
Congratulations, Geoff! I haven't had higher-impact educational/professional experience than having Geoff as a group partner. He's a natural. Optimistic about the future of YC.

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