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by sampo 3y ago
In this context, it's a figure of speech, meaning a game of pretending. Literally, it means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game
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by sampo 3y ago
Remember that professor who fed student essays to ChatGPT and asked if it wrote them. Mostly ChatGPT would reply yes, and the professor proceeded to fail the students.
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by sampo 3y ago
You have to give some credit to Biosphere 2 for being the most ambitious, most advanced project in the field. But it was also embarrassingly hobbyist. They brought in way too much soil, so soil respiration consumed too much of their oxygen.
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by sampo 3y ago
Unrelated, but you can order prints of paintings from e.g. the US National Gallery of Art, and the UK National Gallery. https://customprints.nga.gov/ https://shop.nationalgallery.org.uk/
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by sampo 3y ago
Yet, humans lost the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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by sampo 3y ago
> found the documentation/lack of modern tutorials appalling There isn't good modern Fortran textbooks/courses on the web. But there are some textbooks that cover the language well. Especially: Metcalf, Reid, Cohen: Modern
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by sampo 3y ago
That Wikipedia page talks about digging a 60 meters deep canal, not boring a tunnel.
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> Why might it be goos to not use derivatives? Sometimes you really don't know how to calculate the derivatives. But perhaps more often, even if in principle you could do the additional work, formulate how to calculate derivatives,
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by sampo 3y ago
> the city has historically been very conservative about building new houses to match population growth. This is the main problem. Solution is simple: Allow more new construction, lots of it. Local people have voted against their own lon
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by sampo 3y ago
Imagine if new construction was allowed. Then you could build more, and have both one home for AirBnB and another for long term rent. Have your cake and eat it, too.
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Even as these are tourist destinations with natural or historical beauty, the local decision makers should still allow for building new homes. Not necessary right at the historical town center, but within 30 minutes walking or biking distan
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Environmental impacts of cultured meat: A cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment(biorxiv.org)
2 points by sampo 3y ago|0 comments
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by sampo 3y ago
> To be clear, this isn't an academic study, it's basically an op-ed It is published in the proper articles section of the journal. If it was as opinion piece, it would probably be under the "Perspectives" section. h
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What is "LC question" short for?
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> AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky I guess you can call anyone you want a researcher, it's not like the term has any legal meaning. But in a more conservative sense, Yudkowsky is not a researcher. Maybe an activist? > regarded as
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> Numerical differentiation is still important e.g. for differential equation solvers. Is this a misunderstanding? You use differential equation solvers when all you know is how to calculate the derivative(s) of the function, and you wan
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> We’ll implement numerical differentiation, though in principle we could also implement symbolic differentiation I'd like to argue, that when it comes to computers and differentiation, automatic differentiation is the most us
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> The good news for some HPC simulations and models, both inside of the National Nuclear Security Administration program at the DOE and in the HPC community at large, is that many large-scale physics codes have been rewritten or coded fr
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> I find that if I want type safety, I'd rather branch out to other languages that were designed for it from the start. Those other languages don't have pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch. If you are building on top of Python's
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by sampo 3y ago
> In the context of transfinite ordinals I don't really find that transfinite ordinals match my childlike intuitive concept of infinity. Transfinite cardinals match better.
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The Pi-Search Page(angio.net)
1 points by sampo 3y ago|0 comments
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by sampo 4y ago
> Assume for a second that a study of deep relevance to practitioners is replicated, and its conclusions accepted by the research community. It has large sample sizes, a beautiful research plan, a statistically sound system for controlli
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by sampo 4y ago
https://archive.is/8fvv8
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Long Covid Is Being Erased–Again(theatlantic.com)
9 points by sampo 4y ago|7 comments
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> The big question here is what's next? These lecture slides from Yann LeCun from 1 month ago. Starting from slide 13, he presents his idea of a roadmap towards autonomous machine intelligence. https://drive.google.com&#x
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by sampo 4y ago
> Thus having extra precision around -1..1 when solving such problems would be beneficial. Floating point numbers have the same precision (relative precision) everywhere.
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About 1/4 of all of them.
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by sampo 4y ago
> 282 hours of configuration! If we subtract the weekends from that 916 days, that's an average of about 45 mins a day It's 0.43 hours a day, which is 26 minutes, not 45. (Hint: 0.5 hours is 30 minutes.)
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by sampo 4y ago
Databases by prof. Widom, from Stanford. Currently the course is at edX, and split into 5 mini-courses. Everything in the course is well thought out and apparently polished and perfected over years of teaching practice and experience. There
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