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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Google search turns up LoongArch (RISC), Shenwei (CUDA-like, HPC), UniCore (RISC). ESP32 is using Tensilica LX6/LX7 RISC base (RISC designed for custom hardware extensions).
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Nobody wants to cross compile a full linux OS though just for their project. I assume most are using debian multiarch (as they do for arm), and that does mandate a common RISC-V ISA subset. So presumably this will drive further standardizat
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Softmax is once per token per a layer, and growing linearly with context window size (therefore quadratic over full input).
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
The largest lithium battery grid storage in the world (at the time) was built in South Australia in under 100 days in 2017 . It's the equivalent of about 11 thousand of the largest batteries install in the home battery scheme, which t
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Retail prices have barely fallen - the article makes a cherry-picked statement about falling average prices in Q2 (winter). This is true, but it is a reduction from a historic peak. $140/MWhr -> $74/MWhr. For comparison, the Q1
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
These systems are not truly redundant in that sense though - as they are intended to be centrally coordinated (the manufacturer provides a web API). So they are potentially vulnerable to e.g cyberwarfare.
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
As I said in another comment, > For 2N government dollars, the program gets 3N home battery. Grid is 2x more efficient by their own accounting. Therefore, we could have gotten 4N grid storage. This is not comparable to the home solar pro
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
For 2N government dollars, the program gets 3N home battery. Grid is 2x more efficient by their own accounting. Therefore, we could have gotten 4N grid storage. This is not comparable to the home solar programs - which I understand to &#x27
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Everyone in my office paid around 7.5-8.5k AUD for batteries around the 24k mark, so I know this to be the case. I could email you the invoice if you don't believe me xD You can read up on the subsidy itself too - they basically set a
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
I think you could use more citations. The South Australia blackout was not caused by coal or renewables or lack of interconnectors. If there had been zero interconnects (the local grid was self-sufficient) it wouldn't have happened! Th
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Final numbers are not known yet. The Australian government's own 'Gencost' report put grid vs home based storage at 2x as efficient. In this subsidy program, the ratio of private to public money per a battery is about 1:2 (ie
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
I agree 100%, this is one of the most inequitable government policies I've ever seen in this country. The numbers are much worse than you make out. The program has spent more than 2.5bn (the projected figure) and we don't know yet
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
The subsidy was closer to 70%, and in my case I was paid the equivalent of about 10 years of free electricity for a battery with a 10-year warranty. In total somewhere around 5-7 billion AUD was paid out (not yet public) - the wholesale mar
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
As far as I could glean from the internet, it's a theoretical limit for lithium, rather than for a lithium-air battery. Any future device that gets close to that limit won't be a battery as we know it.
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Where does 12kw/kg come from? A specific type of battery? That sounds like the energy density for lithium alone. There may be architectures like flow batteries which could get close for some chemistries, but a standard battery (interca
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
I've worked on secondment in remote locations and easily passed 80 hours per a week. Four weeks of straight 12-hour shifts + up to 2-hour overtime daily. Probably averaged 70 hours of effective work and genuinely approaching 100 hours
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
I suggest you google the phrase 'civil law country' or 'English common law' as I can't do the topic justice here. The English legal system/philosophy (including jury trial and the adversarial prosecution&#x2F
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
You may be conflating income/productivity with living standard. $150k is a high salary - but cost of living can be even higher. Note that cost of living is primarily a euphemism for rent. So you may be working in a highly productive &#
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Not only can't they quantify them, but classical economics would argue that they are all intrinsically coupled via the market. As an example of how these variables are all entangled, say that your job pays 150k a year - you spend 50% o
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
I suspect this topic is too complicated to be truly captured by one such study. But I'll add that the observation of increased income is in line with the predictions of classical economists (e.g Adam Smith) in the case of a growing pop
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Such systems do exist in 'civil law' (vs common law) countries (which are most of them outside the English-speaking world).
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by skew-aberration 3mo ago
Yes, I made a similar comment on the other mention today. The author seems to misunderstand what GR is / what it added to physics too (creating self-referential field equations to handle mass/energy equivalence - linear field equa
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by skew-aberration 3mo ago
AI has made 'jumps' in demanding fields like leading mathematical research and has made advancements in AI research itself. Is now a good time to start a maths career? Is there a field of research (yours?) which is inherently (mor
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by skew-aberration 3mo ago
Point taken, they are real heroes. But they become heroes after getting a magical power - an unrealistic alternative to the risk, sacrifice, growth, etc required in real life.
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by skew-aberration 3mo ago
I thought the same thing when I wrote it, but I can't place it either :) It's broadly similar to a lot of non-sci-fi tropes in children's literature too like 'adult for a day'.
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by skew-aberration 3mo ago
Protests against automation, or for the restructuring of society to accommodate automation without causing suffering of laborers, etc, is literally one of the largest and most extensively discussed topics in modern history.
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by skew-aberration 3mo ago
I had a more generous reading of the article. Let's say a nerd is an intelligent but introverted person who shies away from the world, focusing their energy on a narrow range of self-centered interests. At the office they work hard dec
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by skew-aberration 3mo ago
It's interesting that your two examples are of men whose early adulthoods were shaped by large scale global conflicts, yet you totally dismiss the author's idea that the easy rewards of high status and pay in tech could lure young
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by skew-aberration 3mo ago
Yes, and non plugin-in batteries don't just need a permit - typically the power company also directly controls the battery, via a web API that the manufacturer provides (at least in Australia, this is a condition for access to the ince
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by skew-aberration 3mo ago
You're attacking a geographical interpretation of 'western' which I don't think is the usual meaning. Rome and its successor states colonised western Europe over the course of ~2000 years. Hence the culture unique to the

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