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by torpfactory 10y ago
It occurs to me that the thing that will probably limit advancements in AGI will be the availability of data to feed these systems. If you believe that Moore's law is only on life support and not totally dead, there will be more proces
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by torpfactory 10y ago
The way I see it is: you can either have a city where ALL the residents of the city can afford to live (esp. service workers, teachers, elderly folks on a fixed income, etc), or you can have one where those with the expendable capital buy u
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by torpfactory 10y ago
Ultimately this type of behavior erodes all trust in law enforcement in the communities where this kind of policing is practiced. A vicious cycle is amplified whereby residents learn to put little trust in police and in turn police decide t
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by torpfactory 10y ago
Oil is great. From an engineering perspective it is energy dense and relatively stable and easy-to-use. I can put a small amount of it in my pickup truck and drive up the side of a mountain. A pilot can fly to the other side of the world in
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by torpfactory 10y ago
My wife works as a nurse in the Emergency Department of a hospital in Washington state, which has a shortage of mental health hospital beds available for patients. They are forced to board these patients in the Emergency Room for days at a
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by torpfactory 11y ago
I actually lived with Craig for two years (one before the accident and one after). He actually moved back in to the same college house the rest of us lived in. Caregivers came every day to help him. Really great guy and sad to hear of his p
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by torpfactory 11y ago
I've climbed that route in late summer and it was the closest I've ever felt to death while climbing. We didn't have the right gear or skills and shouldn't have been there. I remember throwing myself on to the ridge at t