mikaeluman

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by mikaeluman 9mo ago
I don't agree. Lithium and Copper are mined and given electrification scenarios there is a projected supply deficit: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-critical-minerals-outlook... Those prices are outdated now si
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by mikaeluman 9mo ago
The reason is that California has made their grid extremely vulnerable. The grid already heavily overproduces solar so it is reasonable to have negative prices. There is no sink available.
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by mikaeluman 9mo ago
This is indeed nice for a well-to-do home. But there is a tragedy of the commons issue here. The grid needs to be up 24/7. And while peak usage is just that, the grid capacity still needs to support peak usage. This can theoretically b
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by mikaeluman 10mo ago
The world is complex... It is a fact that Chavez and Maduro have completely ruined Venezuela. That doesn't mean things can't get worse. I pray the majority of Venezuelans really have had enough of socialist dictatorships and can f
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by mikaeluman 11mo ago
It was unavoidable and inevitable. Still it saddens me that we will be sitting here in a years time and discuss our experiences of being fed ads served as "objective information". Today if I ask: "should I buy a store product
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by mikaeluman 11mo ago
Great news. Lets hope this is just the start. The whole of Europe needs to get on with energy security and Britain can and should be a leader here, next to Netherlands, Sweden and France.
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by mikaeluman 11mo ago
Interesting take. I agree with you mostly but regarding "community" I am more thinking of the side effects there in terms of _other_ people developing interesting libraries etc. I don't know if AI can change that but when usi
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by mikaeluman 11mo ago
I like the ML languages, and as many others I spent a lot of time with F#. I would love to spend more time but even though Microsoft gives it plenty of support (nowhere near as much as C#), the community is just too small (and seems to have
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by mikaeluman 1y ago
Out of all thousands of products, goods and services you will find plenty that track the official number "fairly well" out of of pure chance. I fail to see any significance of this one chart.
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by mikaeluman 2y ago
Partially agree. It also seems like a desperate way to connect themselves to "AI" and the hype.
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by mikaeluman 2y ago
I think this says more about the state of modern physics than anything else. Sad.
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by mikaeluman 2y ago
Given the result, it seems 125k was a bit too high since they got so many submissions so easily. The market sets the price, regardless of what we personally think is "fair".
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by mikaeluman 2y ago
I have some experience. Variants of regularization are a must. There are just too few samples and too much noise per sample. In a related problem, covariance matrix estimation, variants of shrinkage is popular. The most straight forward one
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by mikaeluman 2y ago
Looking at the details provided by dailywire it's perfectly understandable why these people were arrested. Had it been my workplace I would have wished for the same thing.
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by mikaeluman 3y ago
It's really ingenious to invent these avatars and make sure everyone has one and associate it with personality, fortune and romantic interests. It sparks discussion, and gives people something to talk about right off the bat. I have da
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
It's to the point that it's embarrassing to use in a professional setting. You are sharing your screen and suddenly you access the stupid "news" menu, popping up with tabloid and perhaps the weather at best. I try my bes
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Change the title name to be more approptiate. This is about private debt, not total debt. "Why Northern Europe is so indebted" sounds like clickbait...
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
I don't get why I need this rather than just a plain container/dockerfile. That is how I work today and that is my "devcontainer", no separate markup needed.
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Did I read too sloppily or did they simply not discuss actual availability, that is supply, of metals needed?
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Was not my intention to misrepresent that. Absolutely true that it has declined in total over that time period. I never made the claim you state either. The failure is the re-introduction now taking place.
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German riot police clear protesters for coal mine expansion(cnn.com)
44 points by mikaeluman 4y ago|53 comments
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Amid the energy crisis in Europe, and a looming shut down of the last nuclear plants in Germany in April 2023 and declining gas input; coal has been revived as the baseload power in Germany. In the last months of 2022, about a third of powe
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
You do realize that central banks decide the time value of money by setting interest rates? This is the central issue causing the system to behave erratically. The irony of it all: the only place for socialism in our economies is the moneta
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Still does not help when the wind simply is not blowing. You can't have an energy system dominated by intermittent sources.
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Doesn't seem to be a difference. UK just has better access to gas, for now I presume. Without a baseload power source a modern economy just can't function. That is why intermittent sources like wind and solar must be a minority of
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Thanks. Then it's essentially the same situation. I imagined UK might be more fortunate due to being an island. But then wind power can only be part of a mix of energy sources, with a strong supply of baseload power backing it.
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
The UK seems to have a very interesting situation. We also have a proposal for curtailment in Sweden for wind power producers, but for a different reason. In the UK, curtailment seems needed due to power transfer capacity issues. In Sweden
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Did you look at the situation in Germany? The foremost country on renewables... And brown coal.
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
All depends but mining operations are complex to setup, not only operationally but legally. When doing this, you get the know-how and research on how to do it properly and efficiently. Plus, we want to - to the extent possible - rely more o
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by mikaeluman 4y ago
Very important to start mining these to get away from dependence on questionable activities in China and Kongo. We just have to hope that the "greens" don't stand in the way as they usually do.

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