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by mlyle 2y ago
> Those who actually took risk into account and planned accordingly have profited wonderfully. I don't know why you're saying this. Imagine I'm investing. If I "take risk into account" and select stocks anyways,
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> Conventional producers have been working to contain things like this for years. Sure. My point is, what optimizes for average production and profits doesn't necessarily optimize for worst case production and profits. There is a
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by mlyle 2y ago
I don’t think of it this way. I think the conventional producers were acting to maximize expected profits at the cost of increased volatility in outcomes. Most years these practices have been more profitable.
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by mlyle 2y ago
Maybe not even worse. This is looking at what fraction of schizophrenia cases had significant cannabis use. If more people use cannabis, there will be more of these cases, even if there's no causal link.
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by mlyle 2y ago
> You misunderstand, the two hypothetical power plants have an equivalent instantaneous power output in watts. Yes, but they have different capacity factors. That is, the solar plant is not producing power at night, but your calculation
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by mlyle 2y ago
> More than that, the solar plant itself is an entirely unnecessary addition. The interesting thing about Ivanpah is that it's both generation and storage. It's probably a technological dead end, but that is not an absolutely
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by mlyle 2y ago
> 1. That plant produces ~392 megawatts in a year. It produces 640 gigawatt-hours in a year. Power in a year doesn't make sense, and it doesn't make its nameplate power all day long.
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by mlyle 2y ago
You can publish the hash in some durable medium, like the classified section of a newspaper. This proves you generated it before this time. You can also include in the hash the close of the stock market and all the sports scores from the pr
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It's pretty dang easy to misjudge distances and closing rates in a plane or helicopter, especially at night.
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When you get more marginal product from an input, it's expected you buy more of that input. But at some point, if the marginal product gets high enough, the world needs not as many, because money spent on other inputs/factors pays
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by mlyle 2y ago
> I'm less interested in whether arrest records are public than I am in whether they are publishable in online newspapers I think "this is 'public' information that you can't publish" is a yucky slippery slo
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Either harm is bad. If you release arrest records, people who are innocent have their reputations sullied. If you don't release arrest records, it's easier for the police to do questionable things (particularly to the poor and oth
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> The fact that the latency is almost 1/144th of a second means that it might become 1/60th of a second on standard 60Hz monitors. My guess: the "true" numbers are close to 2.5 (half a frame of random phase of when th
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by mlyle 2y ago
I think you need to discount possible farther future benefits, because so much change can intervene and make the analysis invalid. That is, when people want to do something-- risks tend to be understated and possible future benefits tend to
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by mlyle 2y ago
There's a couple of probability distributions we don't know. And whether this leaked in Wuhan or not doesn't affect them. 1. What's the probability distribution and damage distribution of GoF research lab leaks? It&#x2
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by mlyle 2y ago
On the other hand, dental x-rays are overused and do not improve dentists' ability to detect cavities in most patient populations. And even though a diagnostic x-ray machine can't point an electron beam at you, it can still give y
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by mlyle 2y ago
I do think the comment had something about how it was written that made it hard to follow. I understood the first sentence. But then I got to > Having this tableau unexpectedly unfold right in front of my eyes And the metaphor / t
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by mlyle 2y ago
You gave a big wall of text. You made statements that can't really be defended. If you'd been talking just about wings, you could have made that clear (and not in one possible reading of a sentence that follows an absolutist one
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by mlyle 2y ago
I am not sure calculators have hurt us much on the high end of mathematical ability. But man I cringe when I see 18 year old students reach for a calculator to multiply something by .1.
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by mlyle 2y ago
Even if progress stops: 1. Current reasoning models can do a -lot- more than skeptics give them credit for. Typical human performance even among people who do something for employment is not always that high. 2. In areas where AI has medio
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by mlyle 2y ago
The software side is limited, somewhat intrinsically (there tend to be a lot of things we want to do in order--- Amdahl's law wins). And even when you aren't intrinsically limited by that, optimal placement doesn't reduce con
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by mlyle 2y ago
Maybe you just said what you wanted to say extremely poorly. Like "wing technology doesn't get you closer to space." I mean, of course, fins and distribution of pressure are important, but a relatively small piece. On the o
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by mlyle 2y ago
> where your standard pc will have thousands of cores Thousands of non-GPU cores, intended to run normal tasks? I doubt it. Thousands of special purpose cores running different programs like managing power, managing networks, managing R
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by mlyle 2y ago
> The first plane ever flies, and people think "we can fly to the moon soon!". Yet powered flight has nothing to do with space travel, no connection at all. You eventually said winged flight much later-- trying to make your poi
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Again, there's already explicit ways for programs to show fine control; this stuff is already declared in ACPI and libnuma and higher level shims exist over it. But generally you want to know both how the entire machine is being used
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And then, what's the point? A system that encourage everyone to jack everything up is pointless. A system to tell the OS that the developer anticipates that data is shared and super hot will be mostly lied to (on accident or purpose).
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by mlyle 2y ago
> should have highest performance priority so that internally it stays on p cores Everything will decide that it wants P cores; it's not punished for battery or energy impact, and wants to win over other applications for users to ha
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by mlyle 2y ago
I don't think megacorps should be "destroyed". On the other hand, I do think that a whole lot of those countries grew up taking advantage of mechanisms and data that they seek to exclude others from having by use of their ma
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by mlyle 2y ago
> Ozempic attacks the lack of control over the calorie input, the only thing that ultimately matters in this equation. But in fairness, there's a complex etiology behind the lack of control of the calorie input, and attacking causes
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by mlyle 2y ago
> I don't know if the libraries support that. But I bet Intel's library (TBB) and their programmers are working on keeping their abstractions clean and efficient. Intel can declare in ACPI a set of nodes, the distances between

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