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Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie(hollywoodreporter.com)
100 points by melling 4y ago|124 comments
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by melling 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Dea Here’s King of the Congo: https://youtu.be/kIqi-v1w2s4
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by melling 4y ago
Someday soon the artificial intelligence will be able to explain to humans that the real problem is after 50 years we failed to turn the grid green. “carbon footprint equivalent to 500 transatlantic round trips from Paris to New York.” And
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by melling 4y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/26/world/asia/ch... “With its own coastal waters depleted, China has built a global fishing operation unmatched by any other country.”
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by melling 4y ago
We need to have this conversation every few years because developers fancy themselves as efficient code monkeys. The downside is that many develop RSI from a keyboard and mouse. https://www.slideserve.com/carrington/rep
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by melling 4y ago
Yeah, sort of the same today. The C64 was incredible but I thought skipping Basic and going straight to 6510 assembler was the way to go. Got all those extra sprites by interrupting the scan lines, the huge performance advantage, etc More t
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by melling 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons Climate change, plastics, antibiotic resistance, huge budget deficits, etc. We create all sorts of problems in society. We can’t seem to connect the dots… https:&
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by melling 4y ago
Seems strange that this would need to be explained to anyone.
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by melling 4y ago
Currently, but as lifespans increase… https://www.marketwatch.com/story/good-news-and-bad-news-kid...
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by melling 4y ago
With all the discussion of “AI”, someone at the DoD is now asking how to add more intelligence to drones Five years from now the drone will be constantly evaluating collision probabilities: “Probability of collision 80%. Take evasive maneuv
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by melling 4y ago
Chebyshev also has a famous inequality in probability. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev's_inequality https://youtu.be/d5pnfFvggYk
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by melling 4y ago
This has been brought up in business news several times and my understanding is that the rollback didn’t affect the SVB situation. There was an initial claim, though. Politics, being what they are, usually means that if someone can be imme
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by melling 4y ago
Which public and private companies are doing well with AI? I’m thinking more along the lines as a long term investor.
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by melling 4y ago
I’m a few weeks away from finishing a Probability and Statistics course (on Unit 4). It has been time consuming and difficult, but extremely rewarding. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-041sc-probabilistic-systems-an... I
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by melling 4y ago
I skipped it because you mentioned that part. I was merely trying to complete it. The United States went to the moon in 8 years. Where does “zero progress” come from? The same article lists projects. We’ve all heard of TerraPower, for examp
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by melling 4y ago
From the SAME sentence: “suggested that some might enter commercial operation before 2030”
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by melling 4y ago
Yes, next comes Gen-4 reactors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
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by melling 4y ago
Down the rabbit hole with that… So, the best ones will still write their own and the others will save time. And by definition, most people aren’t the best. So, we all agree the automation is welcome?
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by melling 4y ago
Yes, giving up coal generated electricity for anything else for the past half century would have been difficult? Now we go around asking people not to eat meat, fly, etc. Pay now, pay later usually works out to be more painful when addre
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by melling 4y ago
Time to watch Carl Sagan, almost 50 years ago, explain how our coal usage would be a big problem: https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI A slow train wreck that was avoidable.
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by melling 4y ago
The easiest way to remember. 1000 doors, choose 1. Host opens 998 doors. Do you switch?
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by melling 4y ago
Isn’t that what Brad Cox tried to do with Objective C around 1985. https://rietta.com/blog/brad-cox-died/
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by melling 4y ago
I had the first Apple Watch. It was great and it was immediately obvious of the health benefits. I blogged about it in 2015 https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/in-the-future-everyo...
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by melling 4y ago
Three decades? What was the world like in 1993? That first Intel Pentium with 3.1 million transistors running at 66MHz was interesting but Windows 95 was still a couple of years away.
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by melling 4y ago
Hopefully, it captures the public’s interest. I think AR sounds more interesting but getting any product that consumers will pay for will accelerate the development of the technology. We’ve been waiting a long time.
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by melling 4y ago
1. They weren’t illegal in the 1970’s. 2. All bodybuilders used them so it was a level playing field. People should strive to be informed before commenting. There’s so much noise in the world, I feel like so much time is wasted on these lit
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by melling 4y ago
Time to take some personal responsibility!!! It’s only social media. We’ve gone way too far in needing others to help us. “Someone help me stop using [favorite social media company]”
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by melling 4y ago
Sure, people try all kinds of ideas…. The “Uber of…” I suppose I should have said “successful companies”
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by melling 4y ago
[Successful] Companies build what consumers want. You aren’t locked into social networks. Don’t use them. Consumers vote with their dollars. The constant noise of “Paywall” is why so much is ad based. So, if you’ve got a better idea, build
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by melling 4y ago
In my stream, Twitter also says it’s false.

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