noosphr

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by noosphr 2mo ago
I've worked in energy and ran the numbers. Renewables only make sense for a pre industrial or deindustrializing society. When you need power to make shit they are useless. Which is why the industrial revolution moved from water to coal
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Where available is limited to Norway. Building enough mountains per capita in the rest of the world is somewhat difficult.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
If you run a washing machine sure. If you need to run an industrial process, not so much.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Hospitals can also just run on the sunny days. Renewable energy only makes sense in a society that is agrarian. The second you have to make anything industrial you need baseload. That baseload can either be coal or nuclear.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Awesome!
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Is your company paying anyone to develop nix?
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Tech means a lot of things there. I got into computer science because the problems in physics were either already solved or couldn't be solved without trillions of dollars invested in new accelerators. From my point of view the tech si
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by noosphr 2mo ago
People read the title not the article.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
This is a feature for most local use cases. You don't want all your work flows to start failing because of a model update.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
You do realize that a fully utilised GPU uses about 10 to 50 times more power than an idling one?
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Cheaper doesn't mean cheap.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Cheap cloth didn't mean cheap clothes. You had to wait a century for the sewing machine for that to happen.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Becuase they would quit and work anywhere else after a few days. In 1913 Ford had to hire over 52,000 workers just to maintain an active factory workforce of 14,000. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012&#x
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by noosphr 2mo ago
2026 - 200 = 1826 Yeah no. It's only since 1950 that conditions improved for everyone. Before then everything from sewage, to coal smoke, to chronically low wages made life worse for everyone involved. The most miserable people to live
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Eventually well formatted blogs won't be a symbol of effort and no one will care.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
I find that I'm much more tolerant of bad spelling and terrible punctuation because I know that a human being wrote it in the end. It's kind of hilarious that a sign of poor quality is now a sign of passion if not quality now.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
If you'd like to buy the report drop an email on my profile to talk about price.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
No, but I did have my father check the maths and he built oil rigs for 30 years.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
I ran the numbers for this about six months ago and it works out a lot better than all the other alternatives. The fact you're surrounded by coolant, can use intrinsically safe versions of high pressure reactors and have low latency be
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by noosphr 2mo ago
The article is complaining that research isn't peer reviewed and research is turning into blogs. I'm explaining why that's the best outcome possible and why in a field as hot as large dl models you won't even get that.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.02.471005v2....
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by noosphr 2mo ago
I've been at two startups that have done genuine world first fundamental research. The first tried to publish novel results for 3 years in tier 1 journals before finally doing a preprint and telling the tier one publishers to jump in a
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by noosphr 2mo ago
>for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument
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by noosphr 2mo ago
You could have just said the intended meaning.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Scratch liberal and a fascist bleeds.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Let's see what the man who coined the term paradox of tolerance had to say about this: >In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can co
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by noosphr 2mo ago
>at least until about 2010 A child born when facebook started going to shit is now able to drive.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
We have reached the end of childhood for programming. Artisanal code written by hand is no longer acceptable and neither is slop code. We need formal methods and we need them 10 years ago.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Yes, please turn off your computer and stop killing the planet.
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by noosphr 2mo ago
Yes, we need to shut down the power plants. People lived without electricity for millions of years, they can always get back to it. /s

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