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by mlsu 3y ago
Even though the exact movement of the pigeons can't be calculated, you can extract patterns. They go towards food, they nest in cliffs and buildings, they sleep at night. You can make very strong predictions about that stuff. Like flui
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by mlsu 3y ago
The post you're referencing is great, undoubtedly true, and one that I have bookmarked and return to often. However. We are still very early in the curve. We are warming the planet, but not because of any energy we are producing, merel
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by mlsu 3y ago
Sounds a little too death-culty for my taste. :P
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by mlsu 3y ago
The alternative to degrowth is actually trying to transcend these problems. I'm not blind to the problems we have here. They are hard, but human beings are pretty clever. We eradicated polio. Polio! I'd be dead in a week if a bi
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by mlsu 3y ago
OK. Perhaps freezes is the wrong word. Turns it into molasses? Coagulates it? Congeals it? Property tax on a 10 year home might be half of what it should be. Property tax on a 20 year home might be a quarter. I sure would love a 75% discoun
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by mlsu 3y ago
Not forever, of course. But we are so, so, so early. How much energy is in all of the uranium that can be mined?
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by mlsu 3y ago
But not a human standpoint! Billions of old people, dying alone. I do not want to live in that world. Let alone encourage it!
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by mlsu 3y ago
I've seen this take before, especially around climate and the environment. It's correct that having 20,000 humans on Earth would be more (actually indefinitely) sustainable. These "degrowth" strategies mean tremendous su
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by mlsu 3y ago
They can see the writing on the wall. The open source LLM space is improving rapidly.
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by mlsu 3y ago
27% of Californians are over 55. That means the majority do not get to have the benefit of keeping their tax bill when they move. To compound that, the most dynamic economic growth probably comes from under-55s moving, not over-55s -- new j
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by mlsu 3y ago
Driving a car is OK when the cost to drive the car matches the price of driving the car. Right now, the costs (in vehicle deaths, emissions, direct CO2 emissions, sprawl, noise pollution, CO2 from asphalt and concrete, animal deaths, habita
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by mlsu 3y ago
These things are very different from the human mind. With your mind, you read the words one by one, building up intuition as you go. As part of that, there's a kind of continuous synthesis of information. The synthesis is highly tempor
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by mlsu 3y ago
My theory is that most people don't actually want to get anything done, they just want to hang out. Meetings is how you just hang out. They want to just hang out at work because work is a very convenient and structured social apparatus
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by mlsu 3y ago
In general, anecdotes about "they raise the oxygen levels in [x] to induce [y]" are completely false. I've heard this about airplanes and casinos. For one, it's really difficult/energy intensive to increase the lev
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by mlsu 3y ago
Not to mention, Apple can be significantly more expensive in other countries due to tariffs and exchange rates.
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by mlsu 3y ago
AutoSue files lawsuits on your behalf whenever the system detects that you have been wronged. AutoDefend monitors your incoming mail for incoming suits, and develops a flawless legal strategy to extricate yourself -- regardless of guilt! An
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by mlsu 4y ago
Ah, yes. I was more responding to the parent comment than the original post. I would expect that there are two very different pricing that will be at play here. You help the model -> Pricing determined by value you provide OpenAI -> $
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by mlsu 4y ago
Huh? A watt is a joule per second, [energy/time]. They are describing rates. If you build a 1.5 GW heat engine on top of Yellowstone (assuming it's possible) the energy that builds below the volcano is 0, because you captured it a
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by mlsu 4y ago
There's a kind of reverse money making thing going on with ChatGPT that I haven't seen articulated. Never ever forget that every time you use chatGPT, you are making chatGPT smarter. Right now, chatGPT is not priced for how much v
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The Principle of Least Power (2007)(blog.codinghorror.com)
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by mlsu 4y ago
Not really an HN problem, but related: I am very fatigued by the ai "hustle" culture that seems to have bubbled up overnight. ".eth" guys changing their name to ".gpt". It would be funny, if it wasn't so c
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by mlsu 4y ago
I think it's a unique artifact of the way that software work is done. Software is, at its core, an intellectual exercise. When you start up a new multi-billion dollar thing, there's very little physical manifestation. There isn&
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by mlsu 4y ago
With the energy efficiency attainable by traveling in the upper atmosphere, this might be the greenest possible long range transportation. God such a tantalizing solar punk dream. I would love just to hear the inside of an electric commer
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by mlsu 4y ago
I'm not sure if you are aware, but you have something close to a name collision: https://www.sugarmate.io/ There are several more in this space, at least if you are using a Dexcom CGM: https://www.dexcom.com
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by mlsu 4y ago
Universities should return to oral exams for a different reason, which is that it gives students interviewing practice and familiarity. Written exams do test your knowledge of a subject, but they aren't really how knowledge is assessed
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by mlsu 4y ago
Fantastic! definitely bookmarking. I spent a big part of the last few days attempting this, my model didn't come out nearly so well. I decided that it was because I don't have enough training images, and so have been taking 3x as
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by mlsu 4y ago
How does this business decision make sense? A car is a high-margin item, so the impact of even a handful of consumers choosing not to buy must be huge, right? Whereas, they would need to "monetize" (ugh) many many more units to tu
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by mlsu 4y ago
Most definitely! I mean, Ford was revolutionary because it was the first car factory company, right? Before that, you had to have a weird german guy hand build your buggy.
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by mlsu 4y ago
Gwynne Shotwell has said that SpaceX is a rocket factory company, not a rocket company. I agree entirely, the possibilities here make me so excited.
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by mlsu 4y ago
I appreciate the candor of this article. And I'm not making any judgements. But that calendar. That calendar is wild .

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