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by michaelbarton 4y ago
That sounds interesting. How do plan to fund that? 100mt a year of sequestration sounds like there would be a fair amount of costs and labour involved.
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by michaelbarton 4y ago
Ah thanks so the explanation, the second part is still a bit confusing for me. When the author writes "A normalization constant squishes the input distribution, for example, I5, into the target distribution, for example, I3." It m
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by michaelbarton 4y ago
Ah, I think I got it, thanks. The broader range is the range (0-1) as opposed to (0-0.5)? This is what the author means by "This will give you twice the precision to quantize the second vector because the inputs are now spread over a b
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by michaelbarton 4y ago
Could any explain this section a little more? I didn’t quite follow this part. What does it mean to squish by 4 or by 2? > The only way to improve quantization is through more normalization constants. A normalization constant squishes th
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Null Road, Null, CA, 93401(twitter.com)
3 points by michaelbarton 4y ago|0 comments
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by michaelbarton 4y ago
I have worked at a National Lab previously. For the computational field I worked in BigTech and most startups pay much more and have better access to resources. If you’re a decent programmer at a National Lab now you can work on interesting
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by michaelbarton 4y ago
Completely agree. There’s a very digestible video on why this is true as well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EhAemz1v7dQ
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by michaelbarton 4y ago
Would be great to do something similar for journal reviews too!
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by michaelbarton 4y ago
Hi, I am the author and I am 40yo! I appreciate your comment and your optimism. I wish I had more of this, I am actively working on it. This was something I wanted to get off my chest. I also acknowledge it's a pretty cynical take, but
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Fear and self-loathing: getting old in tech(bioinformaticszen.com)
1 points by michaelbarton 4y ago|3 comments
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
I found out the book “mindfulness in plain English” quite for learning a bit more. I say “learning” but the book also describes that there’s no rush to get anywhere in meditation/mindfulness.
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
I agree. I’ve been using headspace on and off for about 3 years. The last three months it really started to click when I was able to meditate comfortably for 30 minutes or more. To answer OP’s question: the benefits I’ve found are to start
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
Nice intro video on what may be realistically required to build a Dyson sphere: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A By Kurzgesagt, all their videos are excellent and informed by the literature.
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
You can do a fair amount of stuff with k9s, which is a nice tool. But if you need to to do something more specialized you can pipe the output of a kubectl command into fzf and then use the ‘describe’ sub command on the selected item returne
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
It’s great how scriptable it is. E.g. it’s relatively easy to use it with kubectl to to browse and inspect k8s resources. Any command where you might be generating a long list of items you then want to select from can probably benefit from
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
I agree. I think we should be discussing geoengineering. Outside of technical feasibility, I believe there are two arguments against doing geoengineering: - It'll reduce the motivation to transition. You can imagine the current politic
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
+1 for non-violent communication The "bad" example in the blog post makes me think that the persons need might just to be validated about unhappy or frustrated they are at work. Someone to listen to them for a just few minutes. Wh
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
This looks interesting. It sort of reminds me of an open source obsidian. I tried obsidian for a while but ended up switching to a dropbox directory full of markdown files. Felt likely slightly less friction to start a new page in vim, and
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
I can relate to this. Neither of my parents have college degrees and we were poor growing up. For a while they just pushed me to get any job I could. I worked in a call centre (horrible), door to door sales (more horrible), a butcher in sup
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
I think that’s already possible using git smudge. Example here: https://bignerdranch.com/blog/git-smudge-and-clean-filters-m...
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
That's a great question. I know almost nothing about climate science. I assume though that it's directly tied to human consumption, and more people years means more consumption.
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
I can't help thinking that people dying of old age is our last defense against consolidation of power. No matter how much power someone accrues they're eventually going to die. That power always dissipates, dynasties never last fo
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
Thanks for your sincere reply. I appreciate your honesty in sharing what you’re going through. I am impressed with your meditation habit. Being able to understand the quality of your own mind in that way is something that most people will n
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
That’s a beautiful story. Thanks for sharing. I wish you and your partner a lovely Christmas and the best of luck for your future together.
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
It’s been around four months since I did it. It’s hard to describe the effects. It’s unlike taking a medicine. I’ve heard analogies such as pouring concrete into your foundation, or shuffling your mental deck of cards. Neither of those quit
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
It changed how I see myself. I think I'm more honest and more compassionate with myself. I wasn't really worried about a bad trip, my life has been difficult enough at times that I felt I had little to lose. Few stable relationshi
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
I live in the US and there are some places here where it’s now decriminalized. As to shamen part, I do recommend reading the book. There’s a lot on “set and setting” which goes into this.
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
“How to change your mind” by Michael Pollen. I read a lot of books, and this is one that caused a change in my life. The succinct summary is that psychedelics are misunderstood and there is more and more research showing their potential, es
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
Thanks! Appreciate that. I may skip it then.
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by michaelbarton 5y ago
> man’s search for meaning Loved this book the first time I read it. Couldn’t finish it a second time. I think some of the darker parts were too much during an already difficult year. Giving it as a gift to my nephew though.

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