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by szvsw 2y ago
It’s not really unfounded. Several commenters in this thread have already linked a well-researched piece from a few years ago which (convincingly) compiles all the evidence. So it seems blatantly wrong to say it’s unfounded…
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by szvsw 2y ago
Love it! I think it is a somewhat common analogy in catechistic texts but I’m not positive. I don’t think anyone could write it quite like Joyce though!
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Cause people are well known for verifying every detail in most other forms of media already right?
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I would guess the author is a fan of Joyce: > What must it be, then, to bear the manifold tortures of hell forever? Forever! For all eternity! Not for a year or an age but forever. Try to imagine the awful meaning of this. You have often
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by szvsw 2y ago
> The simulation framing tends to draw deterministic connotations. I bristle at this because there is obviously a massive amount of probabilistic programming methodology and stochastic simulation techniques out there, but at the end of t
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by szvsw 2y ago
This is probably one of the better descriptions of forum interaction (mid-size and up - ie past the point where you recognize some meaningful percentage of handles in any given thread)/social media that I have ever read. Much better sa
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by szvsw 2y ago
Or even bodies without organs… uh oh, shhh, no Deleuze allowed on here I think!
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by szvsw 2y ago
It can be pure chance. Who commented first, who happened to click the article, the time of day it was posted, the style of the website the article was hosted on, etc etc. it’s easy to get sucked into the illusion that the commenting populat
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by szvsw 2y ago
For speed of light, a more direct analogue (though your example still makes sense) would be what is often called the “speed of sound” in numerical methods (like the finite difference method, aka FDM), which is often closely related to both
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by szvsw 2y ago
It general falls into the category of signal processing - you will want to start with reviewing the Fourier transform, which requires a bit of calculus and a little bit of linear algebra. It helps to know Euler’s formula and how it gets use
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by szvsw 2y ago
Time to teach him nextjs and get him deploying to vercel!! (Or at least set up a template for him!) Also, out of curiosity, have you been teaching him JS or TS? I feel like it is a sin to not use TS these days, but not sure if it makes it e
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by szvsw 2y ago
> create tools that let investors and laypeople completely bypass the pre-existing real estate economy > Make software that designs spec homes, But isn’t that effectively what the original projects in top level post and in my top leve
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by szvsw 2y ago
I think I agree with a lot of what you said to some extent, but not entirely > Big picture, sometimes people are saying too much construction (you). Other people are saying not enough. It’s complicated right? For what it’s worth, I’m not
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by szvsw 2y ago
I disagree. The world is adding a Manhattan’s worth of buildings to the global building stock every 5-6 weeks or so. It’s insane. The vast majority of those buildings are not being designed by boutique architecture firms… there is definitel
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by szvsw 2y ago
> They also don't tend to respond to regulation requirements which may be 'hard line' or 'guideline' depending on the place. Not sure if you read much of the ones I posted, but they (and the latest version of tha
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by szvsw 2y ago
For sure. Read the author’s dissertation (should be posted on MIT DSpace by now or in the coming weeks) - it’s excellent. He just started teaching at Berkeley - definitely worth following his work. (Disclosure: I wrote all the Python API&#x
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by szvsw 2y ago
Very cool! Extremely related to this, which focuses more on integrating architectural design constraints: http://www.rewdesign.ch/automated-floorplan-generation-in-ar... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat
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by szvsw 2y ago
Not sure if this makes me more or less depressed about the state of the MBTA… will definitely be thinking about this on the red line tomorrow morning! Thanks for sharing.
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by szvsw 2y ago
I always knew HVAC systems were alive! Guess I can finally explain to people why I got into hvac/building tech in a cool way… thanks. In all seriousness though: What else does a valve come with, necessarily, for it to be a valve - some
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by szvsw 2y ago
Genuinely don’t know: can you do scripting/batch processing with GIMP? I have set up some complex workflows in photoshop using JS to manage the batch sequencing IIRC, though it was quite a while ago. Another one I don’t know: can you e
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by szvsw 2y ago
Hey thanks for the response. I’m looking forward to picking up the book now. Silicon Second Nature left a big enough impression on me that I did a performance art piece inspired by it in undergrad (back when I thought I might be an artist,
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by szvsw 2y ago
People interesting in this might be interested in Silicon Second Nature by Stefan Helmreich, a pretty brilliant MIT anthropologist/historian of science. It’s all about the Santa Fe Institute and the science of emergence, from both a te
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by szvsw 2y ago
I do consider them separate, but the duck curve peaking is in the 6-8pm range typically before falling off to overnight baseload. 6-8pm is frequently after sunset. That’s what excess panels does not help, and is still separate from what is
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by szvsw 2y ago
Irradiance of a surface is lower at the same time of day (think of shining a flashlight perpendicular to the ground vs at an angle) and the number of hours the sun is above the horizon is also less. Lower power at any given time of day and
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by szvsw 2y ago
I think they probably meant from the perspective of society writ large. If you you are choosing between spending $10m on PV with the primary goal of decarbonization, are you better served by spending it on subsidizing rooftop PV or on uti
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Ah jeez ya, thanks for the summary I’m going to pass on that one after all!
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How? There’s a significant portion of the world/year where duck curve evening peak is after sunset and PV alone is never feasible and so batteries/wind/etc are necessary.
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by szvsw 2y ago
> They just pay the bill they are sent, maybe even on autopay and they don’t even look at the statements when they come in. On the other hand there are a significant number of people who are energy-burdened, and they often have the most
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by szvsw 2y ago
> I'm confused by this as that is exactly the point made. :) Sorry, I was trying to indicate that it is significantly simpler for a random uninterested or mildly-interested consumer to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of solar than i
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Fair points! I tried to clarify in my edit, but I was mostly speaking from the perspective of grid decarbonization, as opposed to more niche (to me) applications like space probes, because that is what my personal biases are towards. It see

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