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Note that NDIR sensors use a surprising amount of power, since they're based around an incandescent bulb shining light through the sample volume. A CO2 wearable will need to be recharged once a day, like a smart watch.
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Amusingly enough, there's been some groundwork laid here by gravity wave interferometer constellations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant... You could imagine a deep-infrared mission (lo
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There's a hard physical limit (the Rayleigh criterion) on the resolution of an optical system by how big the open end is. You won't get "super zoom" capabilities without a satellite the size of a stadium. https:/&#
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How many apple trees are visible in this photo of an Idaho forest? https://www.planetware.com/wpimages/2020/08/idaho-best-natio... Ceteris paribus, normal trees will always outcompete fruit trees because they
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A forest turns solar energy into wood, locking up that energy in an inedible form. Grass, on the other hand, can be eaten by grazing animals and turned into meat. If you're living off the land but not farming, then you'd prefer it
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>possibly carrying firearms regardless of any rules Carrying long guns is legal on all BLM land. Discharging them may be restricted in some areas, though.
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Heavy vehicles often run on 24V. (Trucks over 26k GVWR, earthmovers, military equipment)
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Consider PV solar: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices-vs-cumula... In 2003, PV panels were a pretty darn mature technology. The technology was decades old. Modules cost about $5 a watt, one twenty fift
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>To me, it made <cool scifi thing> about as fun to read about as... tedious government bureaucracy. This is also the problem with Charles Stross' Nightmare Stacks. The concept was kinda funny in 2004, but by book number 10 it
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>Then ask it to convert the problem into each of those formal methods. Then use something like Mathematica on each formal method. Draft, Sketch, and Prove from 2022 does something like this: https://arxiv.org/abs/221
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There are tours available for the largest building in the world (by volume) https://www.boeingfutureofflight.com/tour The height is nothing much, but the main factory is 2,607 ft (794 m) along the longest dimension.
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? https://www.usa.lighting.philips.com/consumer/p/ultraefficie...
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The paper doesn't make this point at all, but one thing you could do here is an AlphaGeometry-style[1] synthetic benchmark, where you have a geometry engine crank out a hundred million word problems, and have an LLM try to solve them.
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>Trumpflation The CARES Act passed the Senate unanimously. If Trump caused inflation due to profligate spending, he did so with plenty of help from Democrats. He couldn't have stopped it even if he wanted to, that's far past
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2018: https://ai.meta.com/blog/billion-scale-semi-supervised-learn... >In the case of ImageNet, the current state of the art accuracy is obtained by Facebook AI’s weakly supervised ResNeXt-101-32x48 model. It delive
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This isn't new. The Regretsy blog extensively complained about dropshippers in 2010. The problem is that operating a two sided marketplace connecting small makers to customers just really sucks as a business. Tons of churn, intractab
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Starlink gets that latency by orbiting close to the Earth. At 525km, a Starlink bird completes one orbit in 95 minutes. For a twelve hour demand response orbit they'd have to be around 20000km high, more than one Earth diameter away, g
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Starbucks had a moment in the media spotlight when a store called the cops on two black men accused of loitering: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/us/starbucks-philadelphia... In response, they updated
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3B, 8B, 20B and 34B parameter model weights available here: https://huggingface.co/collections/ibm-granite/granite-code-...
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Interestingly enough, Llama3 suffers more performance loss than Llama2 did at identical quantizations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14047 There's some speculation that a net trained for more epochs on more data lear
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>Surveillance encompasses both policing and caretaking, Hamacher notes. In practice, its polarized qualities—“beneficial and harmful, intimate and distanced”—intertwine. Baby monitors use technology developed for the military. Many conte
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Pure fusion bombs are very destabilizing, yes. The current nuclear arms control regime depends on uranium enrichment/plutonium production being heavy industry, requiring large facilities with unusual equipment. A research program for E
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Strange to say that AI is "changing everything" and then not link to a single news story about AI changing anything. On a blog with no other posts? And no author name? Submitted by a HN user created seven days ago?
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>the trouble comes from the fact that cells are too small, too numerous, too complex to analyze the way a programmer would, say in a step-by-step debugger. It's like analyzing a Swiss watch if the back was welded on. You could send
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Stretching the definition a little, satellite TV had been a thing for years by then. Neiman Marcus was selling satellite dishes in 1979.
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There was Shattered Horizon from 2009, a zero g multiplayer shooter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWsHxTFPxSE One fun feature was you could shut off your suit power to go into a stealth mode. This turned off all the HUD
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>is the next obvious step drone carriers for extended range? Yep. https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/drone_carrier_quad... The drone carrier also acts as a radio relay, the other big thing limiting FPV range,
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He would probably argue that future LLMs are less likely to have their weights released. It is remarkable and strange that we have so many open-weights models right now, considering how much they cost to make.
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It's a client for https://secondlife.com/
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Fun fact, the Hubble Deep Field took 140.8 hours to image an area 2.4 arc minutes on a side. It would take Hubble 38 thousand years to image the entire night sky to that depth.

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