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by phkahler 8mo ago
Sounds exactly like China to me.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
The article says the AIs gave reasoning for going nuclear, but does not include any excerpts or explanation of that reasoning.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Does that include symbolic math equivalent to that of Maxima?
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Metal pitch is 26nm. That means parallel wires can be placed 2 wavelengths apart with 13.5nm light.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
If you want to see your friends posts, you have to click the icon of people. I agree that the default feed has become absolute garbage.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
We have been very close to version 3.2 final for far too long. Development has slowed but not stopped. I would try a nightly/development build.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> I kinda wish blender could just do CAD honestly Have you tried the "CAD sketcher" add-on? I think Blender should have similar functionality built-in, but for now this looks like a nice add-on. Blender is a very very long
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Social Security is a separate tax in a separate fund (invested in T-bonds). If you split that out of the budget, the budget looks even worse. The boomers retiring is just going to be bonds maturing without the holder (social security) reinv
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> Not to be contrarian, but if you cared, you could easily rule out your suspicions. That's just false. You might try to rule it out yourself to see. My comments here and the responses demonstrate that it's a waste of time
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> Have you calculated the water vapor generated from air travel, and compared that to the water vapor already generated by the water cycle? I've SEEN the effects with my own eyes. You can also see contrails seeding cloud formati
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> My impression is that almost no one denies the warming itself, just the link to greenhouse gasses. I fall in that category. My suspicion is that water vapor from air travel is by far the biggest contributor. I saw the blue skys aft
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> Universal Basic Income - Probably the best system I’ve heard anyone propose. I can't understand how that would work. If you put an income floor under everyone, their rents and other basic bills will simply increase to eat the
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Perhaps because the inputs to domestic manufacturing are currently more expensive. Actually increasing manufacturing capacity first requires construction and capital expenditure. I'm not sure how those metrics are doing.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Right. They're on goods from China. The intent is to make that stuff more expensive so we can compete.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
No. The point is to make foreign goods more expensive in order to bring production back to the US. People who don't realize this point out who is actually paying and claim its a problem. Will this bring manufacturing back? It seems to
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by phkahler 8mo ago
I dont understand this line of reasoning at all. The holocene looks like the most recent in a cycle of short warming periods that has been going on for over 1M years. There is little reason to think its stable. One could argue that we shoul
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Now that Moores law is dead, people will be keeping hardware a lot longer.
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> You're using fiction writing as an example? Sure. The examples in those stories illustrate how a small set of rules can quickly come into conflict with one another. Not that the stories are real, but the interpretations of the
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by phkahler 8mo ago
There are 2 square roots of 9, they are 3 and -3. Likewise there are two square roots of -1 which are i and -i. How are people trying to argue that there are two different things called i? We don't ask which 3 right? My argument is tha
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by phkahler 8mo ago
To the ones objecting to "choosing a value of i" I might argue that no such choice is made. i is the square root of -1 and there is only one value of i. When we write -i that is shorthand for (-1)i. Remember the complex numbers ar
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by phkahler 8mo ago
If you want absolute adherence to a hierarchy of rules you'll quickly find it difficult - see I,Robot by Asimov for example. An LLM doesn't even apply rules, it just proceeds with weights and probabilities. To be honest, I think m
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Have you seen this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281322004_The_elect... Or any of the more recent work that references it?
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by phkahler 8mo ago
I'm convinced there are some semi-classical explanations that just haven't been figured out. Electrons are helically moving photons: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281322004_The_elect... That's
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by phkahler 8mo ago
>> It took me embarrassingly long in my youth to understand that when people said "I don't have time" or "I can't afford to", what they really meant was "I don't want to". And "I don&#
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by phkahler 8mo ago
A rising tide lifts all boats - a phrase used by economists to justify exporting all US production capability to China to help them industrialize. Of course there was no economic model to back it up, and now some of them are questioning if
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by phkahler 8mo ago
Google has been doing more R&D and internal deployment of AI and less trying to sell it as a product. IMHO that difference in focus makes a huge difference. I used to think their early work on self-driving cars was primarily to support
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by phkahler 9mo ago
It will, right after it reads the paper.
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by phkahler 9mo ago
>> Our property tax policy punishes buildings and does not inflict enough cost on underutilized land. The result is a system that rewards holding valuable sites idle while penalizing those who invest, build, and contribute to the city
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by phkahler 9mo ago
But spacex isnt a publicly traded company.
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by phkahler 9mo ago
Pay wallet? Starlink was never gonna be free.

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