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by mlsu 3y ago
Solar is unique in that it reliably "trips" for extensive periods every day and seasonally. It is also unique in that it does not take fuel that can be stored. Solar cannot act as the backup to a nuclear power plant. Whereas a nuc
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by mlsu 3y ago
Lots of disfavorable comparisons being made here between nuke and solar. Let's do some math. There is a total of around 10 GWh of deployed grid storage in the US. The US consumed about 4,000 TWh of electricity in 2022. (10GWh/ 400
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I'm not concerned that Stephen Hawking will destroy all matter in the light cone*. Remember, if this conversation wasn't about eschatology, "AGI" would be just another synonym for "smart, useful machines." I di
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Human systems. They are protected by human systems. Human beings are the ones who press the big red button. We probably do agree. I'm not saying that this tech won't be used by bad actors. I already told my elderly relatives that
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Those people (like most people who talk AGI) live in a world far "above the metal." They, like the rationalist bloggers, live in a "software world," far above the constraints of physical reality. This causes an understan
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All software construction involves essential tasks, the fashioning of the complex conceptual structures that compose the abstract software entity, and accidental tasks, the representation of these abstract entities in programming languages
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The "C is a shark" is really apt, I like it. Keeping that one for future use. "Write it yourself" ... I'm not so sure. It will come back in a limited way; stuff like leftpad is obviously stupid. But chatGPT is not g
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Have you found any tech meetups here that were worth it? I find myself agreeing that the tech scene is a bit lacking (I only have a few tech-minded friends) but then again I haven't really made much effort to look around.
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PE is buying those homes because they have a reasonable hunch that supply will continue to be restricted. That is why homes increase in value -- they are a limited thing, with a lot of demand, which is unable to be satisfied. The thing that
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If housing is to remain a good investment, it will eventually become unaffordable. Today housing is made into a good investment by artificially restricting its supply. You can never ever square this circle. PE has nothing to do with it; the
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by mlsu 3y ago
Most mechanical stresses in the drivetrain are transient and happen in the transmission. In the engine, they happen in the "out of band" power regimes -- very low and very high RPM. The hybrid moves those transient "stresses,
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by mlsu 3y ago
Why is it always orange juice? I have had exactly the same experience. One glass of orange juice is great. 3/4 of a gallon.. not so much.
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On the flip side, what behavior would you prefer? The pump to not always deliver the amount you confirm? I mean, this is clearly a bug, but under normal operation it would be much much worse if the system silently overrode a user dose. Peop
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It is not.
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I can't speak for Omnipod in particular, but insulin pump firmware is absolutely written with user error in mind. There is probably an entire team at the company ("human factors") that will do testing to make sure that the pl
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by mlsu 3y ago
If you haven't tried Rust: Someone put together a very nice template in Rust that automatically downloads tests, solutions, creates a scaffold for the binaries, etc and submits solutions through CLI. I used this template last year to l
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by mlsu 3y ago
The next breakthrough will be the UX to create 3d scenes in front of a model like this, in VR. This would basically let you _generate_ a permanent, arbitrary 3D environment, for any environment for which we have training data. Diffusion mod
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by mlsu 3y ago
Sorry. Let me clarify. For simplicity's sake, consider this hypothetical: You spend 1 terawatt hour of energy powering a datacenter to come up with a novel protein for a drug by simulating protein interactions. Your competitor studies
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by mlsu 3y ago
My Twitter won't shut up about this, to the point that it's annoying.
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I think of it in terms of energy. Evolution is a process that takes a lot of energy. Every lifetime is a lifetime of energy that has been harnessed to continue the process. So when a species goes extinct, it's not just the energy of al
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by mlsu 3y ago
A Mac with a lot of unified RAM can do it, or a dual 3090/4090 setup gets you 48gb of VRAM.
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by mlsu 3y ago
We're now at "free, local, AI friend that you can have conversations with on consumer hardware" territory. - synthesize an avatar using stablediffusion - synthesize conversation with llama - synthesize the voice with this tex
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by mlsu 3y ago
You do not, if you use an RTOS that is already certified by the vendor. This saves not only a lot of time and effort for verification and validation, but also a lot of risk, since validation is unpredictable and extremely expensive. Therefo
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by mlsu 3y ago
That is true, but generally not acceptable to a regulating body for these critical applications. You would need to design and implement a validation test to prove timing in your system. Much easier to just use an RTOS and save the expensive
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by mlsu 3y ago
Interesting, thank you for point that out! I've heard this before but never knew the source.
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This is a good rant, so let me join in. The computer is what gives you the ability to pontificate online. The computer makes every other labor intensive process efficient, creating the excess bounty that grants you time to get good at w
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by mlsu 3y ago
I wonder if anyone is working on infusing the entire transcript with a "prompt" this way, it seems like a no brainer that would significantly improve accuracy. We already do it with languages, why not with concepts?
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"A sufficiently large difference in quantity is a difference in kind"
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It's amazing how quickly this company went from a "hacker startup" to "maximally corporate" within less than a year(!). Just one year ago, it released a transcendental experimental product early and with no grand pl

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