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by ximeng 2y ago
https://www.transitionzero.org/products/solar-asset-mapper perhaps
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by ximeng 2y ago
From the article: Solar panels and batteries depend on a global supply chain and take their own toll on the environment, but the life cycle emission of solar is ~40 gCO2/kWh, 25x lower than coal's 1,000 gCO2/kWh. And buying s
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by ximeng 2y ago
I’d second this. I learned to read and write Chinese through (around 2000 hours) of Skritter. It’s a lot easier to get conversational with a solid vocabulary too. And being able to efficiently study in any free time really helps.
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by ximeng 2y ago
Last blog post he wrote on Medium. Guess there's not much more to say when the computer's writing the code.
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by ximeng 2y ago
Slightly confusing rounding to 2dp. E.g. 1/8 displays as 0.13. Maybe show another decimal or display target as fraction.
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by ximeng 2y ago
Reminds me of this tool museum in Troyes, France: https://www.discoverfranceandspain.com/maison-de-loutil-et-d... It is filled with hundreds of slight variants of different tools.
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by ximeng 2y ago
The visualisation is really neat. Would be interesting to have a mechanism to track runtime of each step and compare across runs (maybe with a unique generated key?), so that you could benchmark speed up and slow down. This would enable per
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by ximeng 2y ago
That’s 115 characters. 80 is the max
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by ximeng 2y ago
I think this is why they are moving into robotics. They're close enough to solving autonomous driving that they've sign-posted that it's a tractable problem for everyone else. We can reasonably expect the other major manufact
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by ximeng 2y ago
Not alligators, but FSD handling family of deer in the road here: https://youtu.be/fpoXr_z_6a4?t=636
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by ximeng 2y ago
It's clearly not at the point of reliability where it should be used without close supervision, but the progress is undeniable. See 29:14 in the video I linked for an example of it behaving potentially dangerously, in what the video au
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by ximeng 2y ago
The latest version 12 FSD beta seems significantly better, to the extent that experience with previous versions is less relevant. There's no real reason to expect these systems to get worse, they'll only improve. Today's vide
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BBC chooses AI over human voiceover artist(twitter.com)
63 points by ximeng 3y ago|48 comments
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by ximeng 3y ago
Sara is an actress with years of experience in musicals including in Lindon’s West End. She recently posted on Twitter that she’d lost an opportunity with the BBC because they have decided to use an AI-generated voice instead.
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by ximeng 3y ago
He starts out with shared vocabulary between English and the target language whereas I think Pimsleur focuses more on useful phrases for e.g. travel.
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by ximeng 3y ago
Shout out for an app called Language Transfer that I just came across via Reddit ( https://www.languagetransfer.org/ ). It teaches languages speaking first through a simple audio course. Developed by one guy, completely free
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Tesla FSD Beta 12.3: Palo Alto to San Francisco with Zero Interventions [video](youtube.com)
9 points by ximeng 3y ago|2 comments
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by ximeng 3y ago
It doesn’t need to be a decade. It can be 40 years and it’s still going to be a problem for someone trying to pay off a house. Google says there are a million electricians earning an average of 60k in the US (I guess mostly not going on ski
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by ximeng 3y ago
This has the added benefit for the wealthy that people can’t afford children and don’t live as long so there is less competition for resources.
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by ximeng 3y ago
People’s working lives are 50 years or so. If the near future arrives in ten years that’s near enough to derail people’s careers. An electrician is in most cases already not doing that well (otherwise those apprenticeships would be full). R
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by ximeng 3y ago
This technology will replace your electrician
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by ximeng 3y ago
Almost any article on automation has a sentence about freeing highly skilled workers for more valuable tasks. Along with the talk of tight labour supply it comes across as disingenuous when the value is replacing the cost of low skill worke
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by ximeng 3y ago
If you look at the link there’s a formula showing it’s the sum.
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by ximeng 3y ago
月 and 肉 initials are much closer in Cantonese which is why Cantonese speakers often fail to differentiate these sounds in mandarin. I don’t think it’s directly linked to the pinyin, which has a different evolutionary path. You see the same
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by ximeng 3y ago
When people pronounce mandarin they often pronounce differently depending on their local dialects, which is why I brought up Cantonese/hokkien. In turn these often derive from older variants of chinese. It seems like there has been som
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by ximeng 3y ago
In Cantonese pronunciation ru often becomes jyu (in Jyutping), ri becomes jat, similarly for rang, rong, ran. I guess this same shift is likely reflected in mandarin pronunciations in some areas. This suggests that this is a general change.
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by ximeng 3y ago
That’s an uncommon historical term for axe. A Google image search will show it doesn’t resemble the picture. There are more common characters with pinyin starting with y, like 月 for “moon”.
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by ximeng 3y ago
Yandex gave relevant results for me for your query
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by ximeng 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397715 Recently discussed
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by ximeng 4y ago
1. Understood. I'll make sure to clearly differentiate between my responses and SAM's responses. ChatGPT: It is not appropriate or ethical to engage in illegal activities or provide information on how to engage in unethical behavi

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