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The network scale, network density, frequency of use, and loading conditions are all like, orders of magnitude higher. Plus as other commenters have mentioned, weather conditions tend to be more extreme than the Mediterranean, and addition
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Took a class a few years ago which was on developing optimization pipelines for engineering design. Was fun, fairly mixed bag of students from all over the institute, both undergrad and grad. Anyways, one student from aero/astro did a
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Seeing an epicycles animation years ago did wonders for my understanding of the complex representation of Fourier series, and I’ve been looking for that animation ever since to share with others getting into signals for the first time. This
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Thanks for sharing! Some of my colleagues are working extensively in the same space (additive mfg/3D printing homes/structures with locally sourced materials), but in a totally different climatic context (desert, sand/earthen
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This sums up what I wrote above (as well as in a longer reply to a reply) much more elegantly and clearly than I ever could. Thank you! Edit: but I might exchange the word useful for something else… maybe not…
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Sorry! More succinctly: the authors explore politics of data, as opposed to politics of data structures . I’m curious what the latter would really look like.
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> It took me a few goes to refine the idea. I started with the word sorrowful and thought "ok what could not possibly be sorrowful?" -> a car parking space. Ok then what attributes could a car parking not have -> being li
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> the temperature of sorrowful liquid car parkings This is quite a beautiful, strange (estranging?) clause - at least in the sense that we (or I) constantly struggle to find meaning and patterns in what might simply be plain noise (apoph
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Yep, I agree with this - tried to hint at that when I said “vector images require a much more complex interpreter”.
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> We apply our approach to inverse graphics tasks, where our model learns to convert images into programs that produce those images. I would argue that at least on a philosophical level, this is, definitionally, the process of converting
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Well written and engaging, but I think there is a lot more room to really explore what the sociological, techno-economic, power dynamic etc ramifications are of specific data structures. This doesn’t go too far beyond the surface level no
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One thing I always find interesting but not discussed all that much at least in things I’ve read is - what happens in the spaces between the data? Obviously this is an incredibly high dimensional space which is only sparsely populated by
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When I used to work at a modular synth company (and was also building/designing lots of DIY synths) we would usually use OshPark, which are domestic, but it was certainly cheaper and quicker to use a service like JLCPCB from china.
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But the utility would have an incentive to lobby for legislation which only allocates funding to heat pump incentive programs, as opposed to programs which couple those incentives with requirements/incentives for deep energy retrofits.
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Consider this hypothetical scenario. Option 1: Everybody in MA installs heat pumps in their homes. Option 2: Everybody in MA installs heat pumps in their homes, as well as re-insulates and enhances air-sealing. Government is deciding how th
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Definitely not opposed to grid expansion! Obviously we need to massively increase the capacity of our grid and hook up as much solar and wind as possible (and the queue to do so is already massive). I am opposed to people who are already en
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> “Normal businesses make more money when they cut costs. Utilities (typically) get to charge a fixed upsell percentage and so they make more money when they increase their costs." Yeah this is a pretty essential thing to understand
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Super cool! Maybe I missed it, but it didn’t seem to me like the authors presented any reasoning about what makes this capability particular to transformers… especially on the relatively small HMMs, it’s not clear to me that we wouldn’t see
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A great alternative to numba for accelerated Python is Taichi. Trivial to convert a regular python program into a taichi kernel, and then it can target CUDA (and a variety of other options) as the backend. No need to worry about block/
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Yep, I hear ya and mostly agree, that’s why I made the point about ambien. Not trying to sound like a Nancy Reagan or anything. I was just trying to caution against self-medication, because it’s not uncommon for people to not realize that t
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Not really a good idea IMO to recommend psychoactive solutions without consulting with a dr. Obviously MJ is relatively tame and safe, but insomnia can have a lot of other underlying factors/comorbidities which can also elevate risk fo
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Most digitally controlled sewing/embroidery machines have some form of embroidery CNC-like file that they can accept, and as far as I am aware it’s easy to convert to other formats for different machines. I picked up an entry-level Bro
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Interesting! It’s always good to see more pathways for CO2 consumption being made feasible. I’m generally skeptical of carbon capture and storage’s short term utility in mitigating anthropogenic climate change due to the present challenge o
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I really applaud the developers of this for choosing to develop a programming language with its educational utility as a top priority along with a strong visualization component. As someone who got started programming around 2012 because of
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What? It’s extremely unclear what your concrete (ha) questions are. Your questions (while clearly well-meaning and well-intentioned, and probably from a perspective that most people in this discussion generally agree with, including myself
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Of course! But we haven’t been proven it yet. And in any case, knowing something exists is quite different than actually observing it. I know every night in Vegas, so many people will hit my lucky number (7, boring I know) on a roulette whe
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This isn’t exactly what you are asking for, but in terms of seasonal storage, the ground is at least commonly used in district heating and cooling systems via borefields as essentially a thermal battery. Buildings reject heating into the lo
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The infinite does not necessarily contain everything. I would be surprised to find an even number in an infinite list of odd numbers. I would be even more surprised to find cantor’s diagonalized number in a list of rational numbers. And yet
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I’ve also used the sigmoid approximation to relax some problems (specifically for step changes in field properties in PINN problems) into continuous variables, cool to see this discussion here from a different perspective! Slightly off topi
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Taichi (Python package) definitely uses AST for at least the JIT’ing/kernel generation, not sure about how the autograd works under the hood but these links will get you started. There are plenty of publications about taichi which you

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