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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
You're right, and funnily enough, that's the same sort of advice that the article's author got. Start slow, focus on avoiding single-use waste, you can't do it all at once. But that was an example, plastics are only one
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
>Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now, we do not need to wait for government and corporations to change. I would take issue with that statement. It is very difficult to make the sort of perso
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Even with tenure, you would need to be extremely passionate about education or research to go into academia in fields like software or mech/chem/EE. The opportunity cost is easily 6 figures/yr, for your entire career. The hou
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Technology is neither good nor bad, it is neutral. How new technologies are used, however, depends on the people who reify them. We can apply them in ways that are helpful, harmful, or more often both. It is incumbent on us to figure out ho
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
>“I just kind of think that for where we are in the efficiency that we’re able to get from new technologies, that’s probably the right model to expect going forward and that will be a different operating model and I think we can do it we
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Check out figures 1 & 5. Best I can tell from skimming, it looks like the command processor and the grid of compute cores both probably use a RISC-V ISA, and the "shader cores" have some custom extensions. It looks very cool,
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
This question has been covered quite a bit since the pandemic, and it's not unique to San Francisco. In short, orgs need less office space than they did in the past, and commercial real estate is not easy to convert to residential. Plu
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Netflix distributes "red boxes" to ISPs which are exactly that: edge content caches. (PDF): https://openconnect.netflix.com/Open-Connect-Briefing-Paper....
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Yeah, that's why people don't like it. The essay's thesis is that math is an unusually useful art form that we typically teach by diktat. Students are asked to memorize formulas, but they would learn more effectively (and hav
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
It sounds like they tried to set up a large one-size-fits-all program. This might be a good time to bring up Lockhart's Lament , which imagines what artistic education would look like if we treated it like math. https://arc
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Neat, I love these tiny rendering projects! The original Nintendo DS also had two ARM cores (33MHz and 66MHz IIRC). People made some amazing things, including a Portal clone: https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Aperture_Scien
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Yeah, it's a classic sci-fi novel by William Gibson. A little bit unfocused, but it's an interesting read. I kind of spoiled it though, sorry.
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Wasn't that the plot of Neuromancer ? >"How smart's an AI, Case?" >"Depends. Some aren't much smarter than dogs. Pets. Cost a fortune anyway. The real smart ones are as smart as the Turing heat lets them
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
The thing about the Pilot G2 is that you can usually find it on the same shelves as school-grade Bics. Grocery stores, pharmacies, big-box stores, you never need to special-order them. Many of the pens discussed here are very nice. If I bou
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Depending on how much free time you have, you may or may not want to dive into the rabbithole of aperiodic tilings in medieval Islamic architecture. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-islamic-penrose-...
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
They display those on purpose, because they've found that people who recently bought something are fairly likely to buy another copy in the near future. Sometimes it's bought as a gift or because they want another one, but I'
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Keep in mind that while the US loves its highways, many "roads" in rural areas are dirt or gravel tracks. Here's a drone shot of Hartnet Cathedral Rd in Utah: https://maps.app.goo.gl/FWp3tzVhwBs7r6bt6
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Am I alone in wanting to see a realistic suggestion for how such a pause could be implemented before we discuss its theoretical merits? The concepts and training data are already out of the bottle, and unscrupulous actors won't respect
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Sure, I can. But I can't force other people to, at least not without changing the definition of "opt". If people insist on using it, they'd may as well be internet-y about it.
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Maybe Twitter users can learn from how Chinese netizens work around their microblogging censors. Once you realize that a keyword like "substack" is banned, you start using similar-sounding standin words. "Stacksub", &quo
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Maybe you do understand it. Why'd you pick out impending restrictions on gender, meat, cars, and cash? Are those pressing issues in your daily life, or things that you hear and read about a lot? The important thing it that you keep ign
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
AI is the wrong type of magic pixie dust to use for breaking encryption. You might be looking for quantum computing. They're right down the hall, second door on the left.
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
More like a Plutocratic Republic. Oligopoly is more of an economic term than a political one.
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Embedded platforms generally have very little memory and very few hardware threads. Tiny SoCs will likely need accelerators to run more interesting models. For example, ARM is working on a ML coprocessor to pair with their Cortex-M chips.
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Calling large-scale fraud "non-violent" is needlessly pedantic, considering the vast harm that it causes. >"I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
We don't need every part to work in every bike, but we do need a few parts like the small-block Chevy V8: reliable, well-built, and reasonably easy to kludge into just about any donor vehicle. Are Bafang kits still a good deal for bike
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Not medical advice but IIRC, Vyvanse is essentially the name-brand product with an extra methyl group stuck on. Your pancreas produces an enzyme called Trypsin that breaks off that methyl group, and turns it into the active ingredient. It&#
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
There are plenty of communities that would be happy to see hundreds of jobs that they could expect to last for an entire working lifetime.
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Since you mention it, I have heard several of my friends and colleagues saying that they think ChatGPT could be their lawyer, doctor, and tax prep advisor if only they could send it documents for review.
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by tiedieconderoga 4y ago
Well, that is a point of view. There's a video game you might like, called SOMA .

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