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by wcoenen 2y ago
LLMs process text, but only after it was converted to a stream of tokens. As a result, LLMs are not very good at answering questions about letters in the text. That information was lost during the tokenization. Humans process photons, but o
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by wcoenen 2y ago
I don't understand what 50 kW could possibly be needed for. Part of the electricity bill here in Flanders is based on monthly power peak. I charge an EV at home, and by setting up the charging station to take into account consumption d
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by wcoenen 2y ago
The obvious reply is "you just did". Then they will respond with "can I ask you another question" and you reply again with "you just did". Finally they'll have to ask "can I ask you another question a
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by wcoenen 3y ago
Or just test one new prediction made by the selected model, which isn't accounted for by existing physics. Edit: to clarify, I agree that it is important to avoid picking a model which happens to fit noise in existing data, which wou
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by wcoenen 3y ago
I think a simpler approach is to limit the number of flights. The local airport authority already has to decide how many slots are made available and allocate them, so there's no additional admin overhead.
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> is it not better to just "aim" for an ocean Anything released from the ISS will initially be in an orbit very similar to the ISS. That's because the initial difference in velocity between the object and the ISS will be
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> Drinking around 1 liter of water for each 30kg of body weight per day I don't think there is any scientific basis for drinking water when you're not thirsty. I suspect this idea originated from marketing for bottled water.
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by wcoenen 3y ago
This Anchorage Daily article confirms that it's a Spot robot. The first image caption mentions Boston Dynamics. They just named this individual robot "Aurora". https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2024/03
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by wcoenen 3y ago
There are a bunch of different types of special vessels needed to build and maintain offshore wind: https://www.dco.uscg.mil/OCSNCOE/ORE-Support-Vessels/Types/
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> secret phone number You have to give this phone number to a bunch of services that you use, i.e. all the ones that do sms confirmations. One data breach, and it isn't "secret" anymore.
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by wcoenen 3y ago
The article talks about a "detailed analysis by rail industry", but doesn't link to or even mentions the title of the report. Which analysis are they talking about exactly?
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> The IPCC's own predictions are that temperatures will peak and thereafter fall due to reductions in anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Yes, but it's important to understand why. I believe it's because the oceans and atmosphe
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> a temporary thing for a few centuries, after which the climate goes back to what it used to be Reduced or even zero emissions are not negative emissions. By what processes and at what time scales will 100% of the surplus accumulated
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by wcoenen 3y ago
Florida's measles vaccination rate is "not great, not terrible". It is not among the 10 worst states. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/01/12/childhood-v...
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> When talking about the electrical grid you have to be able to generate energy in any amount whenever you want. Not exactly. It is possible to manage the demand side to some degree. For example, Octopus Energy in the UK has a "In
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by wcoenen 3y ago
There is much worse out there. We were forced to use Rally[1] for a few years, and I'm absolutely thrilled that we're going back to Jira. [1] https://www.broadcom.com/products/software/value-stream-mana..
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by wcoenen 3y ago
No, the hypothesized planet X would have a mass of on the order of 10 Earth's, and would therefore be too heavy for that. A quasi-moon is a relatively lightweight object which shares an orbit with a host planet, but doesn't (notic
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> but why doesn't that also affect jet aeroplanes? Jet engines pull in air and expel it out the back, creating thrust. The energy to do so comes from fuel, but almost all of the reaction mass is air. Rockets don't have this l
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by wcoenen 3y ago
We have homologated Chinese EVs here in Europe. The actual reason that China does not export cars to the US is a 27.5% import tariff put in place by the Trump administration. https://www.politico.eu/article/china-us-eur
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> the shipping industry right now uses the absolute worst, most polluting terrible fuels they can find as soon as they're in international waters This was the case before 2020, but I think it has now been addressed by IMO 2020. h
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by wcoenen 3y ago
And yet there are no such stories from the many Tesla drivers in places like Canada and Norway. Just guessing, but could it just be that rapid EV growth resulted in a lot of relatively new EV drivers in Chicago? And some of these new driver
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by wcoenen 3y ago
That's where the focal point is, where we can capture the light, not where the exoplanets are.
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> How big would it have to be in order to get a Google Earth resolution on a planet many light years away? If you're ok to settle for a lower resolution, then a couple hundred astronomical units. Surprisingly, this may actually be
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> It seems to me like you could easily implement regenerative braking in the same way by having the brake pedal respond to light pressure with regenerative braking, and firm pressure with brake pads. It already works exactly like this.
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by wcoenen 3y ago
The article is not very clear what the 6.67 multiplier is used for. It gives more weight to electric vehicles, when calculating the overall average efficiency of all vehicles produced by a manufacturer. As a result, a manufacturer can produ
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by wcoenen 3y ago
The liquid electrolyte in EV batteries is typically a lithium salt + organic solvent. It doesn't freeze, and these batteries can actually operate in extreme cold. They just perform less well because the chemical reactions slow down. (M
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> So it doesn't matter if it makes up 10% of the mass consumed - what matters is how much impulse it provides. Minimizing the final dry mass at the end of the burn is also very important to maximize delta-v, according to the Tsiol
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by wcoenen 3y ago
To get a glimpse of how cell "logic" works, I think clocks are a nice starting point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7v1Z2SmdQ
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by wcoenen 3y ago
@Longhanks wasn't specifically talking about hardware. They said " Maybe don't try to shut down public services that millions of people actually rely on " and implied Google wouldn't do such a thing. Google did exac
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> Imagine if Apple or Google were retroactively removing a feature. The shitstorm would be outrageous. Is this sarcasm? Just in case it is not: https://killedby.tech/google/

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