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by varelse 5y ago
There's definitely some survivor bias here - that doesn't diminish from what he's achieved in any way. But also as Krishnamurti said "Truth is a pathless land." And as Lin Chi said "If you meet Buddha on the ro
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by varelse 5y ago
The elephant in the room is that the West consumes too much resource intensive food. There's lots of opportunity to improve on that, but still no incentive apparently. There is also profitability in bespoke organic food, but that'
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by varelse 5y ago
After reading a description of the comma device and how it's being used it seems uncannily like how my Mach E drives. But also as both my first EV and my first semi self-driving car, perhaps I have a different set of standards. My TLDR
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by varelse 5y ago
Um... Have you driven a Mach E yet? No interest in its upcoming FSD, but the adaptive cruise control and lane assistance is wonderfully conservative and useful.
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by varelse 5y ago
So seems like some sort of front loading that the singularity isn't going to happen between the years 2030 to 2040 after all... But I'm biased to think the Galaxy is already inhabited for the same reasons people think we are livin
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by varelse 5y ago
Driving at ~50 mph IMO is not a practical driving style for a long trip on ~70 mph highways. But I do mostly set the adaptive cruise control and let it do the mileage management. When I drive around town I get between 4 and 5 miles per kWh
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by varelse 5y ago
If Elon Musk follows through on opening up the supercharger network to all EVs, it will be profitable for him and a gamechanger for all EVs. When I'm traveling, time is money, and I'm happy to pay for the charge. Electrify America
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by varelse 5y ago
I recently bought an EV with a 220-ish mile range, but that's really a 160ish mile range given fast charge craps out at 80%. I drove it ~900 miles and I had to recharge seven times. This added 3.5 to 4 hours to the trip. I'd say t
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by varelse 5y ago
I've been managing my physical and psychological state with weightlifting since my early twenties. I've never been really ripped but I've always been in pretty good shape. That's more than enough for me and it only takes
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by varelse 5y ago
So what you need to do is take each of these talkers and load their transcripts into a GPT3 model and then let people "talk" with that model. Call it GPP(tm) and see if anyone gets the reference. For giggles, expand the context le
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by varelse 5y ago
Why that's true! It's a real shame some people don't understand there's no first amendment protection on social media. Nor is there at your day job, but I digress.
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by varelse 5y ago
My cheat code for research publications is to go to a University library on weekends, one of the universities that will actually let you in if you're not a student or staff, and download all the publications I want or need onto a USB s
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by varelse 5y ago
>Over 10 years, that's $42/mo. Over 20 years, $21/mo. That's non-trivial if the solution to your internet woes might just be a couple years away. Except... The value of each house would probably increase by $10K-$15K
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by varelse 5y ago
I personally don't hate 20 Mb service and I don't think it is the problem except for streaming video. The problem is the metastasis of ridiculous dynamic content that is driving up bandwidth requirements and latency and delivering
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by varelse 5y ago
Same latitude, lucky to get 2 Mb in either direction. But down in Roseburg, Oredgon I got 135 Mb/s download sitting in a parking lot so it's not my phone. Edit: I just walked through the neighborhood repeatedly invoking speed test
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by varelse 5y ago
Yet unlike ground-based service in my experience, the situation is improving with time. It took 15 years for my old place to go from 2.4 Mb/300 kb to bidirectional Gb and that only happened because AT&T was feeling generous briefly
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by varelse 5y ago
HughesNet and ViaSat have both been around for a while but their rates and their service are terrible. But unlike Starlink, their service is reliably and predictably crappy so there's that I guess. There's nothing stopping them fr
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by varelse 5y ago
I imagine the more immediate threat is 5G internet. But currently the reception in this neighborhood is terrible for T-Mobile (despite their coverage map insisting otherwise) yet one of my neighbors claims he can get 50 Mb download with an
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by varelse 5y ago
I've had Starlink for about 6 months and it is a massive improvement on upload speed at 10-25 Mb. Download speed is a mixed bag wildly oscillating from 5 to 100 Mb and back. It's okay for downloading things but it's terrible
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by varelse 5y ago
When I fill my tank with gas, there's a preauthorization with my credit card before I'm allowed to pump a single drop. It seems like a similar arrangement could be made here w/r to hourly level billing. And it would be a huge
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by varelse 5y ago
Single most obvious customer obsessed (their tenet BTW) feature they could add, but after over a decade of requests, it's seemingly clear they won't. It keeps me from playing with AWS for side projects as well. Their loss.
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by varelse 5y ago
And there's the Robot Chicken vignette paying homage to this episode right there...
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by varelse 5y ago
In reality, more of a prophetic message given what people will pay for the right scarce variants of Star Wars toys. No more dangerous and speculative than cryptocurrency IMO, but with a much longer investment horizon. The part that's u
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by varelse 5y ago
Unreasonable homeowner associations are everywhere, sure, but homeowner associations that hate solar power do seem restricted to the states that didn't vote for the guy who won the last election in my experience. Not my house, I wouldn
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by varelse 5y ago
My mom has a beautiful house in Plano Texas. Her homeowners association forbids installing solar power panels. This should tell you what you need to know about Texas. But I agree gas is a great backup solution and her gas powered generator
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by varelse 5y ago
Humans in my opinion and perhaps my opinion alone are ultimately rational agents prone to do the right thing but only after they've done all the wrong things. I don't have time for that here so I support experimenting with freedom
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by varelse 5y ago
Perhaps our generation must rely less on ridiculous hyperbole whose only benefit is to drive engagement and instead consider more compromise solutions to situations like this?
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by varelse 5y ago
Enragement equals engagement. If that's the world you want, good news, that's the world we have now. And the magic of AI and recommender systems has disrupted that old and stupid model of if "it bleeds it leads" to get y
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by varelse 5y ago
Fascinating in the wake of Fei Fei Li's lab publishing significant work on embodied intelligence... https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02202 Not to mention a bunch of relatively inexpensive reinforcement learning research
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by varelse 5y ago
Transformers seem to be the successor to conv nets. But in my direct experience advocating for them, it's amazing how reluctant industry peeps were to trying them because they associated all the limitations of LSTM networks with them f

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