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The human brain uses 20 watts, so yeah we figured out a way to run better than human brain computation by using many orders of magnitude more power. At some point we'll need to reject exponential power usage for more computation. Thi
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Bruner's "Stand on Zanzibar"from the 60s and "The Shockwave Rider" from the 70s predicted a lot of social trends. Most millennials and younger won't be able to stand them though because of the different cultur
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How do you get an electric furnace hot enough to make various molten metals without all the heating equipment melting? Elon was saying that they would use hydrogen for carbon free high temperature metallurgy. Does this technology replace
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Jensen Huang of NVIDIA uses stochastic sampling instead of status reports[1]. Kind of sounds like the same thing. Dig deep stochastically into the organization. Also sounds like "management by walking around," which was the st
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The formula is displaying an emotional trauma inducing anecdote on mass media coupled with a narrative suggesting action that must be taken to prevent future trauma to the viewer, and then inflicting that trauma and followup narrative repea
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I think he's just making it up as he goes along now.
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You got to get multiple bids. I had a small remodel job. I got three bids. One was for 3x the lowest bid, one was about double the lowest bid. After evaluating, I contracted with the company that did the middle bid and they did a great j
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There's no water in the dryer parts of the Mojave unless you're near big rivers like the Colorado or the rivers that feed into Phoenix or get it piped in from somewhere. You can't easily live anywhere permanently without a g
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7.4lbs! Unless you're working in construction, or mining, or security or something like that, probably better to get something else.
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I remember when c++ shipped with a standard library with data structures and I was very impressed that they were free.
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That sounds like the early 90s when you had to pay for all dev tools and even pay royalties for how many copies of your product you sold with that library. Most people had to roll their own crappy half-assed homebrew data structures becaus
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Also, as we've seen with the simswapping crisis, humans are susceptible to social engineering.
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With negative GABA receptor allosteric modulators there's the potential for excitotoxicity. GABA receptors are there to counteract excessive excitatory activity after all. Likely there's a small therapeutic dosage window.
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I think it would be fun to include a framework where you could use logical fallacies to support common arguments that include them and ask people who support those arguments to replace them with non-fallacious arguments as a more nuanced wa
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It's the same as women buying $30,000 leather hand bags and thinking they're absolutely worth it.
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"4000 drones per day" : The future is killer robots. Everywhere. I could see a sci-fi future where we visit some planet somewhere and when we land there are no living beings anywhere. Just killer robot factories pumping out more k
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I think the idea that news does things for ratings and therefore money is not really true. Control of the narrative is vastly more lucrative for other stakeholders in these organizations. Some of these news organizations like the Washingto
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I tried writing diary entries in argdown for a while. It was fun having this big visual map of all my thoughts on everything, especially when I reused premises a lot. It wasn't particularly useful though.
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3nm chip fabs take years to build. You don't just go to AWS and spin one up. This is the very hard part about AI that breaks a lot of the usual tech assumptions. We have entered a world where suddenly there isn't enough compute
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No doubt there will be another piece of software mandated to check up on the compliance software. When that causes a global IT outage, software that checks up on the software that checks up on the compliance software will be mandated.
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The root cause is Streptococcus mutans and other bacteria in the mouth. Dentists would be out of business, except for trauma injuries, if these bacteria were eliminated.
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More than a decade ago, Quarxpress got killed by Adobe InDesign because Quark treated their users like garbage and overpriced their software. Adobe should have learned that lesson.
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There are a whole community of trading degenerates who trade 0-days till expiration (0dte) options all day long. Some of them claim they make money with black box algos. Those options move a little too fast to trade as a human unless you
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The biggest no-no for trading is when you get information about a tender offer, that being one company buying another. Even if you're in the bathroom and you hear the guy in the next stall over talking about it on his phone you'r
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Ammonia will likely not be used for cars and only be used for large industrial applications where there aren't any good alternatives like container ships because it's so toxic. For the same reason we don't have a make semico
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The finding the biomass to make the methane from is the non-scalable, energy intensive part. You have to collect the biomass, load it on to a truck, ship it around on a truck, and then unload it and dispose of it after it's depleted.
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If the Hysatas electrolyzer[1] is for real and scales up, making hydrogen is going to get way more efficient. They can make then make synfuels out of hydrogen for about a 40% loss. Eventually, they could put these electrolyzers at major a
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"This heat powers a thermochemical reactor that turns CO2, water and methane into syngas" The methane has to come from biomass, so this isn't quite closing the loop here on a full solar only process. Pure CO2 and water to sy
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Anyone with more than a 9 figure net worth usually has multiple full-time bodyguards. That's also because there are usually psychotic randos that are stalking them if they have any kind of fame. It's a trivial expense at that le
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One thing that's left out of the privacy debate is that lack of privacy can lead to being targeted by organized crime. There should be more of a focus on hiding information that make people targets of extortion or harassment. This targ

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