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by svara 2y ago
I too did that calculation once and came to the same conclusion as you did. However, it's important to note that flying keeps getting safer, and has gotten safer over the last decades, so as far as I can tell, flying is now indeed much
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by svara 2y ago
This is completely wrong and it's exactly the other way around. Decarbonizing is about direct or indirect electrification of all of people's energy needs, thus, primary energy is the relevant number to look at. There's nothin
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by svara 2y ago
This visualization is super strange, you'd think the thickness of the lines would scale with Watts, but that doesn't seem to be the case? What does it represent then? Super confusing and pretty misleading.
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by svara 2y ago
> I don’t understand how a business model that makes money pops out on the other end. What issues do you see? I pay for ChatGPT and for cursor and to me that's money very well spent. I imagine tools like cursor will become common fo
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by svara 2y ago
Your treating the lab leak hypothesis as near fact is exactly the kind of bullshit we need less of. There are not "a few (orders of) magnitude" in probability between these hypotheses. That would at least need to be 1% vs. 99% and
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by svara 2y ago
The recent big success in deep learning have all been to a large part successes in leveraging relatively cheaply available training data. AlphaGo - self-play AlphaFold - PDB, the protein database ChatGPT - human knowledge encoded as text Th
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by svara 2y ago
> Economic arguments almost always apply strictly to idealized worlds where each individual calculates the pennies for each action etc. The degree to which such deductions apply to the real world varies. But the assumption that individua
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by svara 2y ago
Couldn't disagree more. The point you're making boils down to saying that because it's complicated, we can't rely on reason and rather have to go with gut feeling. The fact is that state of the art research into this doe
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by svara 2y ago
> I don't think solar+battery is cost competitive if you were to replicate nuclear completely, but I've not looked at the numbers. Why are you commenting then? This is a complex, deeply researched topic. It's contentious e
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by svara 2y ago
I'm pretty sure people said the same thing about compilers. That's how progress works. Clever people will still be clever, but maybe about slightly different things.
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> Try to imagine being in a flow state without actually doing anything other than observing. It's something I experience at times when I'm in a beautiful natural environment. I try to bring this feeling into my everyday life. I
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by svara 2y ago
"idealize" can work in this context, meaning (in art specifically) abstracting from the concrete form to show the essence of a thing. Though looking at the images "stylized" seems to fit better. https://www.me
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by svara 2y ago
> But no they will not ever accept you in the same way you could be accepted in a European country. I've lived in Japan for many years and speak Japanese alright (disclaimer, that was a long time ago though, in the 90s) and now live
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by svara 2y ago
I think you're dismissing their points too easily. You may think they're wrong, but I find it entirely plausible and convincing that that is just exactly what they believe.
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by svara 2y ago
I get this line of reasoning, but the US economy is thriving, unemployment is low and wages are growing rapidly at the low end too. Nazi ideology doesn't work well as a comparison in my opinion, because Weimar Germany was crippled by r
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by svara 2y ago
It remains to be seen whether that will be true this time around.
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by svara 2y ago
And yet the US economy is doing great, much better than most developed countries, and most of those countries are not going off the rails to quite the same extent. Inflation is probably relevant, since even though it's down by a lot, t
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by svara 2y ago
If you have access to the Economist this selection of reader's letters in response to their endorsement of Harris is quite enlightening. https://www.economist.com/letters/2024/11/04/letters-to-the-.
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by svara 2y ago
No, of course not. But my sample seems to be so starkly different from the election results that that in itself is puzzling. He's picking up a sizable fraction of the votes even in blue states, after all.
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This European travels to the US all the time, having probably spent an average of 1-2 months or so there yearly over the past couple years. With very few exceptions I've never met people there who outwardly seemed like they'd like
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by svara 2y ago
And yet, this text editor too loads the whole file into memory when you open it. No modern text editor really should do that and support files of essentially arbitrary size by loading at most a few gigabytes around the cursor.
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by svara 2y ago
What is currently considered the state of the art when building things like this? I've heard people find RAG not to work very well, is that accurate? Is it just about using the right embeddings? I suppose ideally you just put the sourc
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by svara 2y ago
The people I'm referring to are not working in software if that's what you're asking, but it's definitely knowledge work. It seems pretty clear to me that this is disruptive to most knowledge worker's workflows, eve
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by svara 2y ago
People around me and myself use it to basically replace some web searches. Particularly o1-preview is really good at writing broad strokes mini review style articles that discuss some question you're interested in. It only works in cas
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Memorandum on Advancing the United States' Leadership in Artificial Intelligence(whitehouse.gov)
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by svara 2y ago
I... Don't think that's right? Although I would appreciate being corrected with some good sources on this. It's a fast moving field and combinatorial chemistry is still new enough that many recently published structures would
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by svara 2y ago
Exactly, it's "just" the market setting the price. The issue is that these are near monopolies, so the market isn't efficient. In other words, if those companies didn't have monopoly power, other businesses (or non-
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Sort of playing devil's advocate here, but well run companies with near monopolies have on many occasions provided massive benefits that would not have been possible at smaller scale. Think of Bell Labs. Google has a number of Bell Lab
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> The obvious fix is to not step up basis on death. And that's how it's done in many parts of the world, works perfectly fine. There's really no reason to step up basis except to provide that loophole, which is probably ex
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by svara 2y ago
They're referring to the structure of the protein when a drug is bound, that's what's novel. Novel as in, you can't think of it as "just" interpolation between known structures of evolutionarily related protein

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