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by nyrikki 3y ago
The problem is not just with the volume lost water but that they also dump concentrated brine water into the sewer system and most of these companies never actually came though with their promises to upgrade municipal treatment facilities.
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by nyrikki 3y ago
We did our billing with great plains accounting software which still exists as Microsoft Dynamics GP. When 56k came around you had to do ISDN, but for many rural ISPs the tariffs for ISDN was cost prohibitive so POTS was the only option. I
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by nyrikki 3y ago
There is a very large difference not being able to produce clothes and not finding clothing that happens to be preserved. Currently the guesses are 40,000 to 3 million years ago. These people in this article are just as intelligent as moder
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by nyrikki 3y ago
It won't rain where it is being used, Florida getting the rain from Arizona evaporation doesn't help out the Colorado basin.
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Microsoft mainly uses adiabatic cooling today in the US, the water is evaporated not dumped in the sewer. https://datacenters.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05...
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by nyrikki 3y ago
A turing complete system doesn't necessarily mean it's useful, it just means that it's equivalent with a turing machine. The ability to describe any possible algorithm is not that powerful in itself. As an example, algebraic
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by nyrikki 3y ago
I am confused about the lack of mention about PAC learnability, VC dimensional and the work of Littlestone and Warmuth from the 1980s PAC learnability is directly related to compressibility, with only ergotic systems being fully learnable a
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Unfortunately the lack of a definition of intelligence makes all claims unfalsifiable too. But Western reductionism/Laplacian determinism is still taught even at the PHD level as cannon and not as a target for practical models. Perhaps
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Not all hunter gatherer groups are purely nomadic, and in general they have more free time than farmers. That decrease in free time is one way some theories tie farming to alcohol production. As substance is far more difficult when farming
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Is there an effective way of dealing with anti-commutative algebras like the geometric product in a functional model? Obviously total functional programming is a problem. But the GP greatly simplifies electrodynamics and removing the need t
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by nyrikki 3y ago
It may help to add that the Plank length the smallest measurement of length with any meaning. It is about the limitations of describing positions, not an implication that spacetime is discrete. We don't know if spacetime is discrete, b
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Feed forward Neural Networks, like LLMs using attention are effectively Directed acyclic graphs, so it has little it can do to 'evaluate from the outside' Even if you can move to second-order logic logically-valid formulas in seco
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Turing and Gödel proving that whenever a mathematical system is rich enough to describe the arithmetic we learn at school, it cannot prove its own consistency is a bit of a barrier. ML is sophisticated pattern matching and finding. As we kn
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by nyrikki 3y ago
If you haven't seen it yet, even if you are proficient in LA, 3Blue1Brown's playlist on YouTube is good to watch. It really helps build intuition beyond the typical teaching methods. It will really help connect the dots. https:&#
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by nyrikki 3y ago
It is probably best to follow real information then. Note that while your thirst response may be declining as you age, mine hasn't. Annicdodes aren't data, mine or yours. IMHO the 8x8 myth may or may not be optimal guidelines for
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Isn't the 8x8 rule that they try to expand on firmly established to be pseudo scientific myth? https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpregu.003... Woo + math == woo
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by nyrikki 3y ago
No. From the photons perspective, there is no concept of time. Phase speed, group speed, shadows going faster than the speed of light, etc.. will all complicate using the concepts used to teach diffraction Massless particles being required
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Nothing that travels at light speed experiences time. For a photon, emission and absorption is a single event.
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Hard or impossible to visualize, but as the temporal dimension is so much larger, most of the deformity is in the time dimension. But yes, spacetime itself is jiggly like Jell-O. As we can't visualize 4d spacetime, most analogies will
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Fractions, or the rationals are equivalent to polynomials. The rationals are also in aleph-naught, and thus have a one to one and onto mapping to the natural numbers. Floating point numbers are equivalent to rationals with their base as the
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Probably safest to point you to here for C23 but TS 18661-2:2015 TR 24732 was withdrawn. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/23 Note the link to paper n2341 https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG1
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by nyrikki 3y ago
The Babylonians used a sexagesimal (base 60), and the Egyptians used a duo-decimal (base 12) Because you can trivially count to twelve on one hand. 12 joints times 4 fingers getting you to 69. One The first few colossally abundant numbers:
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by nyrikki 3y ago
It effects the accumulated error when summing lots of numbers. It is a huge reason IBM mainframes are still used as they have had decimal types support for over 40 years.
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Decimal types made it into the c/cpp standards this year, hopefully this will mean that more than Power and Japanese Sparc chips may have radix 10 support soon. One of the nice things is that it will be faster than the arbitrary precis
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by nyrikki 3y ago
If "stability and velocity" are anything but metrics with empirical data as to their validity compared to historical metrics, perhaps you are misinformed about the reasoning behind them. Adoption of products that enable one partic
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Minute, hour, day are specifically allowed by CIPM to be used in SI. They just can't be used with prefixes. kWh is obviously inconsistent with SI conventions if commonly used; but 'kW⋅h' or 'kW h' is completely acc
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by nyrikki 3y ago
Negatives are smaller than you typically want the final images to be, with contact printing you positive images would be the same size as the negative. Printing for end user consumption almost always involved enlargement. The cost, inconven
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by nyrikki 3y ago
I may be wrong on this but weren't the fruit analogies originally meant to describe the difference between class based and prototype based languages and then it was extended to actually teach the concepts in a way that didn't work
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by nyrikki 3y ago
A CPU is a finite state machine, so adding an unbounded tape is trivial to make a theoretical TC. The arbitrary precision activation function and position requirements are to keep the attention dynamic reweighting values in the computable s
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by nyrikki 3y ago
The paper from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36332033 Showed that attention with positional encodings and arbitrary precision rational activation functions is Turing complete. Using a finite precision, non

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