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by orbifold 4y ago
I almost exclusively play steam games and I couldn’t imagine a more seamless experience. You go from buying a game to playing it in a matter of a few minutes to hours. There are rarely any surprises if you use current gen or slightly older
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by orbifold 4y ago
In Germany it was backed by water power that could take most of the load at night so that the nuclear power plants could run continuously.
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by orbifold 4y ago
If the question is what energy production method should be used it is certainly not. The Green Party in particular did probably more harm to the environment and damaged or geo-strategic position by making us dependent on foreign Gas and b
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by orbifold 4y ago
Great but I want the same deal for the coal and gas companies that produce electricity, make them responsible for every ton of CO2 they emitted and make them responsible for removing it from the atmosphere.
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by orbifold 4y ago
Of course if you do theory you barely have to work more than 4 hours a day can be counterproductive unless you are embarking on a Lurie or Grothendieck style project and work 12 hour a day.
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by orbifold 4y ago
I think it is fair to say that most people discussing Madagascar here, have no conception of how it is like to live there.
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by orbifold 4y ago
You are right this is practically and theoretically impossible: The no-cloning theorem tells you that it is impossible to “copy” a quantum system. So it will never be possible to create an atomistic copy of a human. Technologically we are o
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by orbifold 4y ago
Can’t you just add binary data into a custom section of your ELF executable?
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by orbifold 4y ago
Gnome has become objectively worse, much worse in fact compared to the version that I have used regularly. My desktop runs Windows now and if I happen to use it for work I will prefer to remotely connect to it, so that I don’t have to deal
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by orbifold 4y ago
Using NVIDIA drivers this was never a problem. I only ever encountered these issues using open-source drivers.
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by orbifold 4y ago
Sundials ( https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/sundials ) is arguably more feature complete, has many optimised implementations scaling to super computers and supports both adjoint and forward sensitivity analysis. Btw.
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by orbifold 4y ago
As far as I'm aware there is considerable prior art, since solving this problem has been relevant since at least the 70s. Granted the barrier to entry was far higher then, then now, but we are talking about scientific / engineerin
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by orbifold 4y ago
I find that claim highly dubious, solving differential equations rarely yields to completely generic methods and there are plenty of solver suites in other languages, among them C++ and wrappers for Python. To use scientific machine learnin
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by orbifold 4y ago
Could be a way of coping with the fact that they never had good sex. Sex can be pretty terrible, awkward and not fun at all if you happen to be with the wrong partner that night.
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by orbifold 4y ago
You can look at “QFT in a nutshell” by Zee, a highly recommended and pretty accessible book (to the degree a book on QFT can be accessible), for the computation of g for the electron to one loop order. That calculation can also be found in
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by orbifold 4y ago
Exactly in some sense we (collectively) are doing most of the hard work, by providing these models with a vast number of samples of "intelligent" behaviour and expression. An embodied system wouldn't be able to learn anything
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by orbifold 4y ago
The commercial products run on Linux just fine, in particular Xilinx tools do for sure.
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by orbifold 4y ago
I could have made the point differently. What I wanted to emphasize is that there is an external view of a given field and an internal view. The actual inner workings and process are poorely understood and the few public debates give a very
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by orbifold 4y ago
Birth rates of children born during the baby boom (the baby boomers) is 2/3 to 1/2 of their parents generation.
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by orbifold 4y ago
We need to figure out what we are missing, namely what is dark-matter, how does it interact with the currently visible matter, are there extra dimensions and so on. Once that it is figured out it might well be that we could engineer systems
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by orbifold 4y ago
Europe has an aging population, which is obese, smokes and has heart problems. It is a dying continent whose boomer generation has decided to transfer large amounts of IP to China for a short term profit, while refusing to have children, pr
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by orbifold 4y ago
In any case this is not how science works, you do theoretical physics by publishing in peer reviewed journals and your peers decide whether what you are doing is worthwhile or not. Both Smolin and Hossenfelder have been somewhat successful
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by orbifold 4y ago
Blowing up NS1 would be seen as an act of war by Germany aswell, so whoever did that would be in a world of hurt sooner or later.
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by orbifold 4y ago
An all out war would mean full mobilisation of the 2-4 million soldiers Russia has, strategic bombardment on a much larger scale, a war economy. Russia is fighting with a full-strength expeditionary force, Ukraine has conscripted every man
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by orbifold 4y ago
I am unsure, a long term conflict would lead to both rising food and energy prices, both China and India still trade with Russia. It might further motivate technological independence from the west of those countries. Overall it could just a
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by orbifold 4y ago
If they manage to capture the coast including Odessa and the Donbass, they will have recovered a large chunk of the Russian speaking population lost after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and add a lot of industrial capacity. Long term t
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by orbifold 4y ago
It is save to say that they are not fighting an all out war and it is not just because it is unpopular but because they don’t need to yet. Ukraine has already mobilized everyone they will likely ever be able to mobilize and has run out of d
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by orbifold 4y ago
A drawn out conflict favors Russia, even though they surely preferred to solve this with a decapitating strike within a week. Ukraine’s economy has collapsed, Russia’s economy has suffered but not as much, the sanctions on oil actually will
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by orbifold 4y ago
Sometimes it turns out down the line that all the things that you thought were unecessary are in fact necessary.
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by orbifold 4y ago
PostDoc salaries in BayArea Universities are 1/2 or less of what a junior engineer makes. You can literally consult the tables at https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-funding/income-limits/state-an... that a NIH pos

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