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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
> creating enough food for a family of 4 from a home garden requires something like 8 square meters of land, chickens, and loads of labour. It’s non trivial, and if you make a mistake you go hungry. Not even close. Potatoes produce mor
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
For years I spent a week every month or month and a half in Paris. Dined at dozens of different establishments, ranging from street vendors to starred restaurants. The best food and experience were in a not-ranked-by-anyone-anywhere Leb
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
Turing completeness is a theoretical construct that ignores that errors in execution inevitably occur during a sufficiently long program, due to the second law of thermodynamics (entropy must increase in a closed system). Any realization
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
There is significant added risk. Failure to observe traffic rules by a subset of vehicles means that the drivers - human or otherwise - have to guess the intention and actions of vehicles with less information, and greater uncertainty.
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
Actually, I think your view is the revisionist one. I have lived my entire life in big corn country, and I can tell you that without question, ethanol production was billed as an energy play. Note that the blending standard for ethanol
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
In the last century, kinda sorta. In the major corn producing region of the US (I live in Iowa, the heart of the beast), crop rotation is largely reduced to choosing, based on markets whether to grow corn or soybeans on any particular acr
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
Not literally true from the energetics point of view, but close enough that when you add in the other carbon releasing side effects (degradation of soil carbon, land clearing) that comes with increased corn production, it is a net carbon pr
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
There are all kinds of things "wrong" with the way we raise corn in this country. It's environmentally unsound (among other things, it's killing the Gulf of Mexico). It's not economically viable, absent signific
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
There is a law in Iowa that sets the date of our party caucuses earlier than the earliest primary. Our primaries are not first, rather it's the party caucuses here that are held as the first selection event in the Presidential race.
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
It is a clear cut HIPAA violation if the data sold to the data aggregator contained personal identifiers of any kind. The standard is not that data be "anonymized" but that all personal identifiers be redacted from the data. T
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
I agree that de-identification is imperfect, and re-identification is a risk (re-identification is, however, illegal in several states). However, the notion that there is big business in re-identifying medical records to target individual
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
I spent a good deal of my professional life in the last decade dealing with the problem of de-identifying medical data. You are correct that it's hard, but the HIPAA rule is actually not a bad go at it. See https://www.h
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
Very sorry about your pregnancy. But I can assure you that your pregnancy was not revealed to a marketing organization by your doctor or insurance company. HIPAA prohibits that kind of information transfer, and the consequences of violatin
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
The data is de-identified, and thus not subject to HIPAA restrictions. It's not made entirely clear in the article, but most of this data is insurance claims data, not medical records per se. That's why employers have it. If y
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
I am of the generation of "back to the landers" that did what you are you doing back in the 70s and 80s of the last century. My wife and I moved to bare land, built a house (well, in fact, we moved an old one room school house o
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
I live in Iowa on what I call a small farm (we do raise animals and crops, but nowhere near enough for it to be our primary source of income), but which my neighbors who actually make a living farming would laugh at. But I can tell you th
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
Nurses are hourly employees and their employment terms are strongly influenced by the fact that many of the nurses in the employment area were unionized. The fact that they are hourly means there is a compelling financial incentive to lim
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
The author's analysis is so entirely subjective as to what constitutes "work" as to be meaningless. I certainly believe that most creative workers cannot spend 8 hours a day being creatively productive, although even there
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
Pitty the article didn't mention farm equipment manufacturer's in their survey of the right to repair landscape. John Deere is in a multi-state fight with farmers and state legislators over their restrictive covenants blocking f
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
If you're asking whether we could image the actual magnetar (assuming that's what they observed) with JWST, the answer is no. If it's a magnetar, the object itself is less than 100 km in diameter. JWST has an angular reso
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
This should be called Artificial Intuition, in that it mimics what human intuition on a give subject does.
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
As I understand history, Slater reconstructed technology of which he had gained a robust understanding. That's quite different from theft of an actual constructed artifact, or knowledge that you've licensed. And if he violated
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
> Piracy is not a theft in a sense that it's just illegal, not fundamentally immoral. I think it's actually cool historical constant that moves the world ahead. In as much as the Chinese firms (which in many cases are quasi-sta
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
Minnesota's twin cities plus Rochester. Excellent place if you're interested in biomedical, health care technology innovation. Top ranked companies headquartered there, a great university, the Mayo Clinic. Really top notch.
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
From the article: "As you can see, the most advanced consumer devices do not come close to supercomputing power." Which is true, but on the other hand, the Nvidia Titan RTX at 100+ TFlops is as competent as the top supercomputers
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
"prions are also responsible for 'mad cow disease', Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) as well as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease" ... and scrapie in sheep, and Chronic Wasting Disease in deer and other wild Cervidae in No
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
Not a fan of doing this via twitter, but otherwise a beautiful exposition. Deserno is a gifted teacher.
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
I don't know anything about the T0pp, so can't comment on that. I agree with you on tuning of LLMs. We did some work at my last job before I retired (as CTO of a major medical clinical and research organization) using GPT-3 up-t
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by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
The idea that a general language model like GPT-3 can answer questions intelligently is utterly absurd. It's trained to get language right (where "right" is defined as similar enough to the way people speak (or mostly write