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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I don't object to using nuclear for grid power, but it's really not a great complement for solar and wind. What you want to complement those variable sources is something that ramps up and down easily, when you hit extended redu
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
It's a mathematically correct way of looking at it as long as you're clear that that the bases are functions, and you're considering how a particular mathematical artifact (the signal function) is represented as a sum of basi
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I agree, the comparison is inexact, and I expect that advertisers will have to change strategies. My use of the word "indistinguishable" overstates the comparison. I should have said "not entirely unlike."
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
There is an awful lot of content published on the internet that is highly predictable, which is to say, ripe to be generated by large language models. But that stuff is already so low bandwidth in new or useful information that I wonder &
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
That's what "an outside air circulating system fitted with a heat exchanger" is.
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Insulation and air control are absolutely key to efficient heating and cooling, regardless of where you live. We built a stand alone guest house a few years ago. Insulated the entire envelope with closed cell foam to R25 in the walls an
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
> That's a lot of hate for LaTeX, and some of it is warranted, but you have to think of the results, not the source I cannot think of the results separately from the source. I am not wired to appreciate Potemkin beauty.
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I don't think the fact that Knuth wrote it and gave it away has anything to do with the question I was asking. If anything, the fact that it's free may contribute to its ubiquity and longevity, notwithstanding its poor design an
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I am sympathetic with anyone whose livelihood and investments are threatened by external realities or evolving social expectations. But that has nothing to do with what I was saying, which is a realistic assessment of whether farmers will
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
We pay $50 per month real money for the service, regardless of the net metering. If we are net producers in a given month, we pay nothing additional for power, and get a credit (in kwh) that rolls forward to the next month. If we are ne
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I have a question: if what you have to write in order to create your beautiful and aesthetically pleasing proof, and thereby "establish your ethos and character" (presumably as a righteous and good), is an ugly and fragile instanc
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
It's only because agriculture is the big user, and the most dependent on overdrawing water resources. Farmers are no different from other people, and the oft-quoted line of Upton Sinclair that "It is difficult to get a man to und
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
To be fair, there is a lot of grid scale solar (and wind) being built, largely because they are the cheapest way to add generation capacity right now. But they are not a simple pluggable replacement for gas, coal, or nuclear, because they
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
That's how my distributed generation contract with our Rural Electric Cooperative works. We pay $50/month for the connection, but the actual use/generation is 1 for 1 net metering. We are limited in how much generation we
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I've worked that way for 20 years. The product group I lead, e.g., from 2006 through 2014 was a total of 150 or so people, located in 4 up to 8 campus facilities on 3 different continents, and at least 40 or so individuals whose only
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I haven't read the book, but I think that if he added one sentence to point 1 in his summary, the first three points are really everything you need to know to make remote work effective. Point 1 (treat everyone as remote) is the most
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
A great success for the idea that your BTC is a store of value not dependent on traditional financial infrastructure - now it takes the a whole morning and cooperation of 3 banks for you to get at your money.
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Link to the Nature Scientific Reports article on which the news item is based: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24314-2
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
My July 4th fireworks show was rained out this year, so the explosives sat on the shelf until Christmas Eve, when we set them off in the snow and subzero cold. Fireworks in the snow are magical. So, I truly was watching July 4th firewor
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Thanks for the links. Confirming, I guess, my instinct that we're near parity in computing power between chips and brains.
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
It seems to me there are some really fundamental questions about copyright and use posed here that have been submerged in the background of the internet rush to digitize all forms of content and expression. Even though these generative to
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Way more complex to be sure. The "more powerful" part requires a bit of interpretation. One transistor certainly can't do the work of one neuron, even given forever to do it. But a not-too-large-to-count collection of tr
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Yeah. I've never been able to think of wafer scale integration as "single chip." But your comment is fair. Won't fit in a laptop though ;-)
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
The mind boggles at what is being accomplished in semiconductor production at this scale. The smallest features in the (fin width, e.g.) in the 3nm process are roughly 5nm across. That's the diameter of a hemoglobin molecule. Or,
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
The whole tie-in with road salt does a very poor job of explaining what is going on in the refrigeration cycle the work described - it's not totally unrelated, but the relationship is not particularly obvious. The refrigeration cycle w
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Thin clients are fine for the general purpose computing devices, at least where they work. But in a medical and research setting, you have multitudes of devices that have an embedded OS and their own user interface - everything from infus
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Old machines and OSs are also common in medicine. At the hospital/clinic where I worked, we had a total of around 300,000 devices on our network, and at one point five or so years ago, counted over 5% of them running out of support O
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
The NY Times does this kind of "presentation story" all over. I rarely read more than the first few captions, because I can't stand the continuous scroll format - it reduces the rate I can absorb the information in such arti
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Trying to prove a priori that AI can neither think nor understand is an endlessly alluring fools errand. But in the end, the arguments all seem to me to assume their conclusion. AI is entirely computational, and human understanding clea
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by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
One very specific thought about the author's three ambitions: I really wonder about homomorphic encryption as a foundation for data science. It seems to me that any really good homomorphic encryption creates a dual space for a data s

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