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by wcoenen 4y ago
> I am mainly interested in what tools, settings, and themes people with astigmatism use, and if you have any preference for light or dark themes. Personally, I cannot stand light, whether it is physical light or light on screens. Cont
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by wcoenen 4y ago
ChatGPT cannot correctly perform step by step operations within strict formal systems. On the other hand, it can provide a high level sketch of how tomathematically prove something[1]. I think this is amazing, because this is the opposite o
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Usage of an image generator to produce passable music fragments, even if they sound a bit distorted, is very surprising. That type of novelty is why we come here.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
If a hack based on an image generator already has promising results for music generation, then imagine what will happen if something dedicated to music is built from the ground up.
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If the reason to pull out 1K/day is a 1K/day limit imposed by the bank, then the reason is obviously not to avoid reporting requirements and therefore it cannot be considered structuring.
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> Any reason that can’t be organized into dark matter planets with dark matter people running around? Yes, there is a reason why this can't happen. Dark matter doesn't clump.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
It's a joke... They're saying GPT-4 is doing the research now.
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I'm not sure "hallucination" is the right word. I've seen it referred to as "stochastic parroting" elsewhere, and that probably gives more insight into what is happening. These large language models are trained
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by wcoenen 4y ago
My first guess, after seeing the title, was that this was going to be about the Australian firehawk. But I guess those only use fire, not "master" it. https://wildlife.org/australian-firehawks-use-fire-to-catch-...
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Once you start paying attention, you can find bad tasting details in almost everything. For example, steak can taste metallic. People don't mind or even notice such things because they are used to it.
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The actual notice document doesn't seem to say anything about bathing. It's yet another quirk of the infographic.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
That infographic is pretty awkward. The colon punctuation is wrong: it should be "step 1:" instead of "step: 1". "Boiling all water" should be "Boil all water". The instruction to boil for at least 3
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Cold hands/feet are a consequence of your body deciding that it needs to reduce blood flow (which implies heat loss) to those extremities, in order to keep your core temperature stable with minimal energy expenditure. Therefore, heatin
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As a fellow European, my reaction was the same. Energy prices still seem very low in the US compared to here. I could afford to pay the extra 400 euro/month. But it feels like a perverse luxury now that there are many people who can&
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by wcoenen 4y ago
That's pretty much the use case of the ShakeAlert system which can provide notice for earth quakes a few seconds in advance. https://mil.wa.gov/asset/61f184c815ef0
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Sounds like you're thinking of a heliostat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliostat There's a Dutch company selling such things to get more sunlight in your house: https://www.heliostaat.nl/
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by wcoenen 4y ago
It was the value of the contracts for delivery at a certain time and place (e.g. the "May 2020 WTI crude" contracts) that went negative, because there was no capacity to accept delivery. Sure you could have received money by buyin
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by wcoenen 4y ago
The metric prefix kilo should indeed be abbreviated with a lower case k instead of upper case K. But if using metric prefixes correctly is the goal, then the submitter should have used 2 Mm ("megameters") :-)
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Refrigerants typically have a greenhouse effect that is thousands of times more potent than CO2. For example, the refrigerant R-410A does about 2000 more greenhouse warming over a 100 year period. So a leak of 1 kg of R-410A is equivalent
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by wcoenen 4y ago
I don't think Robinhood had any choice there. Trades don't settle instantly. Robinhood needs to post collateral with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation while settlement is pending, and the required collateral goes up
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I tried this once on a cold winter day: I let the bath cool down to room temperature (which was <20C) before letting it drain, with the bathroom door open. The result was a lot of condensation on the windows in the surrounding rooms. I f
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by wcoenen 4y ago
For some designs of small nuclear reactors (SMR), the reactor is completely buried underground. That would probably eliminate most of this risk.
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Would a person with low income prefer A) having an option to lower the electricity bill or B) pay more because there is no such option, and more expensive power needs to be sourced from peaking power plants? There are already day-ahead elec
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"time of use" tariffs will be important to keep things balanced. People who want to minimize their power bill should have the option to pick the "time of use" pricing and shift some of their consumption off-peak. Others
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I think people just hate all the administration that needs to happen when dealing with large task backlogs in general. This hate gets projected onto Jira, but it's not clear to me that there is a good alternative. E.g. we were forced t
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> Surely the close the blocking object is to the sun the better how close could we get a parasole? Moving an object closer to the sun will enlarge its penumbra, but this does not mean that it will block more light. Because its apparent
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> Yes, the occasional home has geothermal The use of the word geothermal like that feels like a silly marketing thing to me. The "geothermal" you are referring to here, is just a ground source heat pump. A ground source heat
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It is not clear to me how they use the solar and wind power. Are they heating the steam from a geothermal source, higher than the source's temperature, and sending it back down the geothermal well when power is cheap? And then later ru
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by wcoenen 4y ago
The UN published a report[1] estimating that 17% of the people of Bangladesh will have to relocate by 2030. Bangladesh has a population of 165 million and is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, so this seems problemati
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by wcoenen 4y ago
The paper looks very professional. Well structured, good English, nice math type setting, nice color figures... I can't help but be impressed, despite the intended goal of spamming the night sky with advertising. It might be good mater

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