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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Also posted on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17337
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Funny to see IPA called "toxic". In aircraft manufacturing it's considered the nice and friendly solvent in comparison to the stout stuff like MPK or MEK, and considerable effort is invested in convincing workers to use it wh
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
You're contradicting yourself here. You want tickets to be both cheaper and easier to buy. They can't be both. The value of the ticket is just high. Either you pay in time, or money. Your enemy isn't ticketmaster, it&#x27
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
>how does this polar orbit stay over the terminator? Because it's launched at a angle greater than a straight north-south 90 degree orbit, so orbital precession will correctly follow the terminator. Depending on the orbital altitu
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
>although that was probably true of most scifi back then In 1950? That was true of all media, including novels written by women. Is Dagny Taggart the protagonist of Atlas Shrugged?
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
One year later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fac... >In the November 1948 issue, Campbell published a letter to the editor by a reader named Richard A. Hoen that contained a detailed rank
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Not in English.
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
One of today's lucky ten thousand. Most galaxies have a black hole at the center that mass at least a hundred thousand times more than our sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
It takes 230 million years for the Sun to make one full orbit around the Milky Way.
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
It can't. The galaxy is assumed to be roughly symmetrical, and they fill in the missing data with what we can see on our side of the galaxy. It's "best" in the sense that it's the most accurate fiction, I suppose. G
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
>It's an equivalent of self-compiling a software project after checking out its repo I would not assign this to someone as their first electronics project. They would have to order all the components and get the PCB etched themselve
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Polling for time sensitive things sucks. But for RSS, why not just poll once a day? Even if you're polling once an hour, a 304 response is, what, a few hundred bytes? I just checked my own server logs, and HTTP 200 responses were 12.7%
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
It's funny that you hold up ice cream as a paradigmatically unhealthy food, when most of the studies point in the opposite direction: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Not zero. Even a full Faraday cage only has 90dB or so of attenuation. But measuring it would be darn hard, since the attenuated signal would be swamped by diffraction, skyscatter and reflection by nearby objects of the stronger side lobe
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
>(the second is that Wh for energy is as silly as speed hours for distance) This would be a devastating own if a single Joule wasn't exactly equal to a Watt-second.
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Congrats, you have independently reinvented the Hardware Overhang hypothesis: that early AGI could be very inefficient, undergo several optimization passes, and go from needing a datacenter of compute to, say, a single video game console&#x
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
There are "many" places where people would pay US$200 to run an air conditioner for one hour?
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Not entirely correct. Boeing, despite all the bad press, actually reversed course on this recently. 787's wing was made by a supplier, but 777X's wing is actually built in-house, right next to the main factory, starting from carbo
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
More information about the language used in the proofs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_(proof_assistant)
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
The greatest trick the Devil ever played was renaming Perl 6 to Raku.
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Apple calls this Activation Lock: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108794 https://support.apple.com/en-us/120610 Obviously, the logic board is locked to the owner's Apple account, but so is th
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
>But will this ever be possible by an LLM? Why not? Just train an unbelievably gigantic LLM that encodes all human knowledge. A hundred trillion parameters ought to do it.
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/simple-evals/simp... The steps I took to find this link: 1) Look at simpleqa_eval.py. See that it loads "az://openaipublic/simple-evals/simple_qa_test
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
One of the fun things about signals theory is how the same basic concept will show up in apparently unrelated places. Example from electrical engineering: microprocessors will have a "clock" frequency, say, 16Mhz. But when you hau
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Parallax shift from the spacecraft moving along its orbit isn't measurable past 16,000 light years. The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter, so for most of the stars in our galaxy, let alone extragalactic objects, there&
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
>Presumably they lost one month of pay. A new grade 4 hourly worker at Boeing made $19 an hour before the strike. $3,040 a month before taxes. https://www.iam751.org/docs/2024/FRONTMar24.pdf There's a reas
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Protector by Larry Niven (1973) also features a gravity-powered telescope.
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
To turn trees into lumber you have to cut them down, transport them to a sawmill, cut them to size, kiln dry them, transport them to the build site, build a house out of it, etc. Underground sequestration has no transport, milling or kiln c
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
Sounds like the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study at the University of Santa Clara, with the proceedings edited by the prolific Robert Freitas: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19830007077/downloads/19.
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by sbierwagen 2y ago
I built a CO2 meter around a SCD30 five years ago: https://bbot.org/blog/archives/2024/05/19/pocket_co2_meter_b... My takeaway is that it draws a lot more power than you'd expect, thanks to the

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