sampo

4 ms·

31.
by sampo 4mo ago
"Nuclear holocaust" is a somewhat common expression both in and outside of fiction.
32.
by sampo 4mo ago
"Butlerian jihad" comes from a science fiction novel from 1965 (Dune, by Frank Herbert). They didn't know about current political correctness 60 years ago.
33.
by sampo 4mo ago
2 months ago also: > A politician’s home was shot at 13 times over a data center vote. > A shooting at the home of an Indianapolis city councillor is bringing new attention to a fight that's been building in communities across th
34.
by sampo 5mo ago
> But I guess I couldn't read the future in terms of which one would win out! After Linus Torvalds gave this talk at Google in 2007, it was clear he would win. (Is there a better quality video somewhere?) https://www.yout
35.
by sampo 5mo ago
> wouldn't that violate free speech though? Free speech can mean two things: (1) The general philosophical postulate, that society is better when there is a high level of freedom in the exchange of ideas and critique of other's
36.
by sampo 5mo ago
> California's demand commonly goes from 18GW to 30GW in the same day. That extreme intra-day variation is also partially caused by California's cheap solar power: Cheaper prices draw demand to those hours. In other locations,
37.
by sampo 5mo ago
Good point, and good financial strategy. But the morning discharge seems to be about 5%–7% of the evening discharge, so I assume the batteries near empty.
38.
by sampo 5mo ago
> California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants From this graph we see that in the evening when solar power goes out, for next 3 hours (7 pm to 10 pm) California's battery array is as powerful as 12 nucle
39.
by sampo 5mo ago
You don't need category theory to describe the Result type. But the people who first introduced it to programming languages, were thing about category theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Result_type
40.
by sampo 5mo ago
I wish the blog would reveal the values of the 3 floats that make their cross_sign(A, B, C) to give different results in different platforms.
41.
by sampo 7mo ago
> but now all AI conferences are demanding I review or hurt a student, where I'm the middle author. What about you not putting your name on the paper? Or does it hurt the student if they publish in their own name only?
42.
by sampo 7mo ago
> Maybe suspend for 6 months instead? Suspend for 6 months from a conference that is held yearly?
43.
by sampo 7mo ago
Took me a while understand. So, the same person has both submitted their research article to the conference, and also acted as a reviewer for articles submitted by other people. And if they in their review work have agreed to a "no LLM
44.
by sampo 7mo ago
Estonia has lots of oil shale (not same thing as shale oil). They never needed to import coal, because they have their own fossil fuel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Estonia#Oil-shale
45.
by sampo 7mo ago
> and give them another shot Isn't this rather giving yourself another shot.
46.
by sampo 7mo ago
> and even permanent daylight time is far superior to changing clocks twice a year This paper implies that for health, permanent standard time would be best, and permanent DST would be the worst. And even keeping the current clock-shifti
47.
by sampo 7mo ago
> Certainly doesn't make those who disagree "morons". But it makes them anti-science.
48.
by sampo 7mo ago
Here is a circadian rhythm and sleep scientist in Finland, arguing for permanent standard time. https://blogi.thl.fi/kellojen-siirtaminen-pysyvasti-talviaik...
49.
by sampo 7mo ago
> I'm sure I've read that sleep health experts have historically supported a change to permanent Standard Time, not DST. Yes, science is very clear: Permanent standard time is best for health. https://journals.sagepu
50.
by sampo 7mo ago
> Quantum physics is tricky because it frequently doesn't agree with our physical intuition. Quantum physics tricky for two separate reasons. (i) The mathematical theory (Schrödinger equation, wave function, operators, probabilities
51.
by sampo 7mo ago
> I’m probably way off base and I’m probably missing some insights that I could get by going to school A school would usually teach the "shut up (about philosophy) and calculate" approach. These philosophical problems about the
52.
by sampo 8mo ago
> Aren't all the AI companies saying that AI poses even a greater threat to humanity? 20-30 years ago eco-terrorists bombed and burned down a number of biological research laboratories and other targets, because of the perceived ris
53.
by sampo 8mo ago
> We already have very efficient crop harvesting For some crops we have. But it would be nice to have more diversity, so that the cheapest food options wouldn't be just wheat and corn because they happen to be the crops that are mos
54.
by sampo 8mo ago
Since 2001, Netherlands used to have a "Box 3" tax. It took you wealth, assumed a 4% capital gains rate, and taxed this somewhat fictional income at 30%. (I guess it was pretty much mathematically a 1.2% wealth tax.) In 2021, the
55.
by sampo 8mo ago
Earlier development 2 weeks ago: "Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008391 But now the Dutch are maybe backing away from it.
56.
Dutch finance minister pledges asset tax rethink after protests(dutchnews.nl)
12 points by sampo 8mo ago|6 comments
57.
by sampo 8mo ago
UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has both an engineering degree (computer systems engineering) and a law degree. Best of both worlds?
58.
by sampo 8mo ago
> the value of a human eyeball is going up There must also be some value in advertising to the "eyeballs" of the AI? Even if they don't (yet) make that much decisions about spending, they do influence human decisions.
59.
Microsoft AI chief confirms plan to ditch OpenAI(windowscentral.com)
8 points by sampo 8mo ago|1 comments
60.
by sampo 8mo ago
> findings can alter humanity itself Higgs boson was predicted in theory in 1964, and found in LHC in CERN in 2012-2013. With this, all elementary particles in the standard model of particle physics have been found. From the 1970s to 201

More ›