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by tonmoy 1y ago
I don’t know what subject you are learning but for circuit design I have failed to get any response out of LLMs that’s not straight from a well known text book chapter that I have already read
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by tonmoy 1y ago
Clearly the engineers are being made scapegoats
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by tonmoy 1y ago
For reference the Sahara desert is 9.2 million square kilometers (obviously covering the entire desert in turbines is impractical, but we might be able to come up with 1% “useless” land if needed)
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by tonmoy 1y ago
Odds of getting it within 2 attempts is 1. Odds of getting it on exactly the second attempt is 31/32
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by tonmoy 1y ago
That could be because most people in the world currently are young. Hypothetically even if birth rate remains constant but suddenly a huge portion of the population start dying due to age then it could flip suddenly
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by tonmoy 1y ago
And we can make them environmentally friendly by having them run on electricity that is constantly supplied by overhead power lines, alleviating the need for heavy batteries. I think we are onto something here
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by tonmoy 1y ago
Yes, but I guess the model is optimized for relatively quick response, whereas these techniques are allowing the model to spend more time to generate a higher quality response
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by tonmoy 1y ago
I don’t see the issue in that though. If the target was to keep the average emission down across the entire country and if inefficient brand A decided to merge with efficient brand B to keep the average down that seems like it still adheres
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by tonmoy 1y ago
Compilers atrophied our skills of writing assembly, calculators atrophied our skills of doing arithmetic and search engines atrophied our skills of recalling random facts, but that enabled us to gain skills in other areas
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by tonmoy 1y ago
Given that those parameters are for wheels on a plane that doesn’t have wheels, I would say fixing the parser is the better fix
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by tonmoy 2y ago
Even without the recent MAGA wave, Americans on both sides of the party line have always thought that. Even in the corporate world the domestic market is always the primary target and international is an afterthought
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by tonmoy 2y ago
I don’t know where you live, but I charge my EV using two phase 240V outlet (same as the ones used by washing machine) and it takes about 8 hours to charge from 30% to full, which is more than enough for 99% of my use cases
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by tonmoy 2y ago
> Many other countries, including EU members and China, already apply tariffs and non-tariff barriers far in excess of what the US is applying now. Source?
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by tonmoy 2y ago
For people who want to have a professional social presence (FB/linkedin) as well as an anonymous one (Reddit etc), it’ll be super useful to see if the accounts are truly unlinkable. Moreover if you are opening a new anonymous account,
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by tonmoy 2y ago
I don’t think ChatGPT should be cited as source
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by tonmoy 2y ago
> Hard fact is that Trump presidency delivered actual wage growth for people in many years Do you have a source for this claim? Covid did end up causing salary increase I know, but we can hardly attribute that to the president
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by tonmoy 2y ago
There are plenty of south/East Asian counties that have just as much if not more restrictions in textbooks. So I don’t think that alone accounts for the discrepancy
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by tonmoy 2y ago
Obesity rates increased slightly between 2014 to 2021, but I’m not sure that will account for doubling of mortality rate. It could mean that more obese people are having kids than before, but that would be far from trivial to prove
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Bangladesh is experiencing a near-total internet shutdown amid student protests(engadget.com)
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by tonmoy 2y ago
Playing some of the games mentioned here doesn’t heat up my phone as much as reading this article for 2 minutes did
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by tonmoy 2y ago
I’m guessing “inking” is a autocorrect of a typo that was meant to be “input”
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by tonmoy 2y ago
While it might seem a little extreme, the first sentence isn’t necessarily wrong, right?
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by tonmoy 2y ago
While there were more reasons for sure, I had never heard about the slavery aspect until today. Doing some google search showed me indeed historians think that it was one of the reasons and I find it surprising it isn’t talked about as much
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by tonmoy 3y ago
The effect of special relativity would be negligible
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Perfect, I can update my LinkedIn profile when the project is in a critical phase and I know managers are making increment decisions
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Clearly not according to Nintendo
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by tonmoy 3y ago
But it’s probably the easiest and cheapest way. Another plus point would be creating habitat for smaller animals and morale boost for the city inhabitants
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by tonmoy 3y ago
As someone who works in making physical things, I disagree with the premise that the world of bits and bytes does not have impact. We will always need to manage resources including humans at a large scale and web apps are the best way to do
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by tonmoy 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tonmoy 3y ago
Because then the agricultural company in Alabama wanting to hire the brightest chemist will be at a disadvantage compared to the IT firm in California. Forgetting about the cost of living adjustments for each area the industry wide disrupti

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