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by saulrh 9y ago
The generator's mechanical parts will perform more efficiently at some speeds/loads than at others. Everything happening at a different temperature and pressure will change fluid flows and forces and put different stresses in diff
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by saulrh 9y ago
Presumably whiz-bang space-age cryptostuff, homomorphic encryption and differential privacy et. al. . Things that'd be spectacular if you found them in a startup two years from now, much less in an enterprise that hasn't done any
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by saulrh 9y ago
Wouldn't that be a change in data collection more than in absolute quality of problem-solving? Japan, for example, I remember reading that their near-perfect homicide rate is actually because they'll classify it as "fell down
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by saulrh 9y ago
If you know of a proposal for solving the third world that's as cheap, fast, effective, reliable, and safe as - that has comparable expected value to - killing human-biting malaria-carrying mosquitoes, that's great ! Please, PLEA
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by saulrh 9y ago
You have malaria, money, and first-world medical support. Very different thing. Kill the fuckers.
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by saulrh 9y ago
Garbage and standing water benefit all mosquitoes against non-mosquito competitors. We only need to consider whether biting humans benefits human-biting mosquitoes over non-human-biting mosquitoes, or separately whether carrying malaria ben
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by saulrh 9y ago
I agree, more or less, but I believe that the "We can't possibly predict the effects of this therefore we can't take the risk" argument demands more urgent opposition. I argue that we can predict the effects. They&#x27
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by saulrh 9y ago
Something like 30 out of the 500 anopheles species are capable of carrying malaria. Only 2 of those 30 bite humans: A. gambiae and A. funestus . Eradicating those two would be sufficient and another species, one that doesn't bite hu
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'm not advocating full autopilot; I agree that safe trajectories can be harder to plan in dense 2d than in sparse 3d, and that military ships in particular often have high-level objectives that would be extremely difficult to formaliz
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by saulrh 9y ago
I understand that keeping on a desired course is not a simple task and requires prediction and understanding of the surrounding waters... But you can say the same thing about crosswinds and thermal layers and pockets of turbulence in the ai
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by saulrh 9y ago
It's too bad we can't hope for Google or Amazon to pull an "I'm taking you with me" move and get this "network neutrality" fight out of the way.
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by saulrh 9y ago
I believe that nerve agent disposal sites you can find pictures of are all on-site setups at the depots where the weapons were manufactured and stored. In many cases they were disposing of stockpiles of deployment-ready munitions. Care ther
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by saulrh 9y ago
Both, meeting somewhere in the middle - nuclear waste is treated way too carefully, and non-nuclear heavy metal waste is treated rather too carelessly. Either way, the important point is for the level of care to be proportional to the act
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by saulrh 9y ago
I'd be really happy if we could handle radioactive waste with the same level of concern we assign to things like arsenic, cadmium, mercury, or any of the other poisons we dump into open pits that'll kill you horribly and won'
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by saulrh 9y ago
Facebook may not be recording audio, but they do pay attention to your cell phone, GPS, and wifi, so they know that you're at a particular fast food place. Then the brand-named shake is probably something they're trying to adver
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by saulrh 9y ago
I was under the impression that modern water markets were all either massively regulated in response to historical market failures (public utilities in developed nations) or currently undergoing market failure (developing nations, c.f. Nest
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by saulrh 9y ago
> Rep rate is not so good. 45 ms = 20Hz maximum. If that's their per-sample time, they probably would've dissolved by now after admitting total defeat - 20 Hz is totally unusable for navigation. I'd guess that that'
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by saulrh 9y ago
Misparse, I think. Both "was"es refer to the state of using 7 being defensible. Maybe a better phrasing: Using 7 would have remained defensible as long as it had security support, but now even that's insufficient. Alternative
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by saulrh 9y ago
You're betting everything on vacuous what-ifs. I mean, let's turn this around: With no way to define intelligence (except by pointing to ourselves), we don't even know if we're good at it. For all we know human intellig
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by saulrh 9y ago
> Why do you think it's a significant amount of work to simply quote an author, rather than adopt their viewpoint? Because simply quoting the author won't suffice. The topic is sufficiently complex that a proper treatment requi
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by saulrh 9y ago
Why would Wired do that work when they can just recommend that you read the book? Why would you ask Wired to do that when you can just read the book? And why do you believe that you'd find that article any more satisfying than either t
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by saulrh 9y ago
I believe that you're looking for a very different piece than this was intended to be. This is essentially a summary of the book. I don't know what the motive was, but it's probably something like "I believe that more pe
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by saulrh 9y ago
Yes? This is an interview with an author that was conducted specifically to talk about the book and the material in it. What did you expect ? Unrelated, I'd like to see your argument against that particular line. IMO the comparison is
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by saulrh 9y ago
I find it more useful to think in terms of information theory and the related results in machine learning, signals, and computational theory. For example, I claim that 'linguistic relativity', AKA the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, is an
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by saulrh 9y ago
You can demonstrate any level of qualify of life you want if you're willing to cherry-pick demographics like that.
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by saulrh 9y ago
Heh, exactly the opposite here - In Markdown I can never remember which one one gets square brackets and which one gets parens.
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by saulrh 9y ago
There are encryption schemes which allow you to choose the key to produce any arbitrary decryption from a given ciphertext. For a trivial example, consider the one-time pad scheme that's simply "plaintext XOR key" and "c
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by saulrh 9y ago
Seems like modern top-line racing cars do 30-45 minutes between pit stops across formats and styles. 20 minutes is within a factor of two. For a prototype that's pretty solid, and I take it as a message that the technology is approachi
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by saulrh 9y ago
Counterpoint: different tools and tasks have different requirements for interaction. Each tool provides an interface specialized to its workflow, and the hierarchical nature of the system allows me to split even inside the same tool for dif
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by saulrh 9y ago
The model for the interaction has already been figured out by all of these tools that people are trying to create, hasn't it? Point a probe into the world and get back a signal that corresponds to some geometric property of the world -

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