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by mjhay 2y ago
> What practical electric motor is even close to 30% efficient? This is laughably low. I think that means 30% over existing performance.
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by mjhay 2y ago
Yeah, somebody wanted some internet points.
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by mjhay 2y ago
The written justification that judges give for their rulings is literally called a "judicial opinion ." Human understanding of humans and human social structures (which one needs to make just rulings) isn't objective. To cla
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by mjhay 2y ago
There's a difference between a fair-use reproduction of Mickey and reproducing an image of Mickey that you claim is your own original creation (or there was until the copyright ran out recently).
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by mjhay 2y ago
Thank goodness that Google execs are too high-profile to be prosecuted!
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by mjhay 2y ago
Very cool, I'll check it out. I've been meaning to give Go a spin.
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by mjhay 2y ago
> It will be a bad language, and that's okay This same advice could be applied to most hobbies. It doesn't have to be good, and it certainly doesn't have to make money. It just has to be fun and rewarding. If you learn som
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by mjhay 2y ago
> How do you prove you're putting the ad in front of the right people? You can just make it up. That's worked for a really long time now. There's innumerable ways to put one's hand on the scale without it being outrig
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by mjhay 2y ago
Of course. The best approach for a particular problem depends on your best judgment. I guess that means I'm in the pragmatist school in this article's nomenclature (I'm a big fan of Gelman and all the other stats folks there)
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by mjhay 2y ago
The great thing about Bayesian statistics is that it's subjective. You don't have to be in the subjectivist school. You can choose your own interpretation based on your (subjective) judgment. I think this is a strength of Bayesian
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by mjhay 2y ago
No. Climate change and sea level rise are scary, but this is just interesting (and also expected).
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by mjhay 2y ago
I appreciate the section on independent component analysis (ICA). It's not well known and very underused. In my experience, it usually works great on heterogeneous tabular data - which PCA usually does poorly on.
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by mjhay 2y ago
Looks like normal SQL syntax to me. That's not alien to most practitioners.
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by mjhay 2y ago
The Roman Empire never could have experienced an industrial revolution for numerous factors, including never utilizing coal. The technological level, and their overall mode of production, simply wasn't there. People think of the Middle
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by mjhay 2y ago
There's not underground glaciers. Glaciers are always on the surface, and flow due to gravity. You're thinking of permafrost (which can form wedges and lenses of pure ice). Deeper permafrost responds slowly, but on the flip side o
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by mjhay 2y ago
I am 100% convinced that these kind of approaches will be what delivers ML research from the current resource-hungry and ungeneralizable status quo. Low-dimensional Euclidean geometry is special. Higher-dimensional Euclidean spaces are less
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by mjhay 2y ago
They're not particularly related technologically, but they share the characteristic of reaching insane valuations because of whizz-bang sci-fi coolness and neophilia being mistaken for actual utility. The tech industry has been through
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by mjhay 2y ago
The hype on VR dying so fast does not bode well for gen AI. Unfortunately, C-suite brass will continue to insist that everyone, deep down, wants it. If they don't think they want it, it's only because they haven't had it shov
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by mjhay 2y ago
Thank you. That helps with my confusion a lot.
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by mjhay 2y ago
If only you could directly access the DOM or other browser APIs. I understand the GC proposal might help with this (?).
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by mjhay 2y ago
A profligate waste that's very on-brand for Dubai. Glacial ice doesn't taste great anyway, because it's pretty much distilled water.
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by mjhay 2y ago
I highly recommend that podcast as well. The average native English speaker doesn't know much about it.
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by mjhay 2y ago
My guess is two things: 1. All snow has some level of particulates, especially older snow (moreso if there has been melting, because the particles/dirt/whatever concentrate on top). 2. Cornering on piste would put pretty big stres
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by mjhay 2y ago
And it's already out of date because it doesn't use high-temp superconductors.
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by mjhay 2y ago
Not anymore. They were cheaper, and then the prices crept up, and the quality got worse. Classic enshittification. I loved AirBnB 10 years ago, but I'm back to hotels now.
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by mjhay 2y ago
They recognize it exists. I'm even hearing podcast ads from Marriot or similar touting how much more reliable they are. AirBnBs I've stayed in the past few years have all been janky, weird, and not really any cheaper than hotels.
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by mjhay 2y ago
It'll be a cold day in hell if someone that high up is prosecuted over this travesty.
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by mjhay 2y ago
Yes. Myhvold still maintains deep connections to MSFT as well.
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by mjhay 2y ago
> “I really like the fundamentals behind patent law,” I bet she does. Rent seekers usually win in policy fights, because they usually have the surplus, incentive, and narrow policy focus to put more into maintaining and expanding their r
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by mjhay 2y ago
Baseload power is still very much relevant. People will not tolerate power outages when it's cloudy. Yes, storage has advanced, but it's nowhere near the capacity that's needed. If it were, we wouldn't even be having t

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