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by Shrezzing 2y ago
It's less sustainable than renewables, but fills a practical requirement for peaker style powerplants (which fill sudden demand) without resorting to coal/oil/gas, which are considerably less sustainable. Drax already existed
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
Most likely it'd be burned in a bioenergy powerstation. Drax in the UK [1] is a quite good case study for this (assuming they get it all up and running), though they're not using algae. Right now they grow trees, and burn those in
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
Ironically, "Marxist" is also a classic motte-and-bailey word.
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
> The world relentlessly marches forward. However, I've learned human resilience is AMAZING. You'll be surprised at what you are capable of when life asks for it. What I'm about to say obviously pales in comparison to rais
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
'56 is too early, given how much of east Africa was under British colonial control into the 60s, and how much of S/E Asia was still looking for independence. It's likely the population of the empire was still above 100mn at t
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
There's quite a lot of other constraints too. Lots of goods aren't allowed to sit side-by-side, for example, anything explosive goods cannot sit within n containers of hazardous chemicals. Because goods codification is so low-fide
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
I'm not sure if this is concrete fact, or just a theory, but you can continue the line up Norway's western coast too. Then in the other direction, the line was broken, but restarts & progresses from Nova Scotia down through th
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
>employees are the most expensive thing a SaaS business has. I'm pretty sure for the overwhelming majority of (successful) SaaS businesses, the most expensive part is the marketing & advertising budget. 30-50% isn't uncommo
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
That's a fair summary of why the research is happening. Thanks.
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
The paper discusses this, and the approach taken in the paper implements a number-flip stage, so numbers are formatted with their least significant figure first.
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
Since models are very good at writing very short computer programs, and computer programs are very good at mathematical calculations, would it not be considerably more efficient to train them to recognise a "what is x + y" type pr
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
>deductive reasoning is just drawing specific conclusion from general patterns. something I would argue this models can do That the models can't see a corpus of 1-5 digit addition then generalise that out to n-digit addition is an i
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
I think these examples still loosely fits the author's argument: > There are some cases where big data is very useful. The number of situations where it is useful is limited Even though there are some great use-cases, the overwhelmi
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
This is a quite good allegory for the way AI is currently discussed (perhaps the outcome will be different this time round). Particularly the scary slide[1] with the up-and-to-the-right graph, which is used in a near identical fashion today
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
This was the big one for me too. The juxtaposed healthy versus unhealthy lungs resemble an uncooked chicken versus a roast chicken which was left in the oven for 30 minutes more than necessary. https://www.scotsman.com/webim
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
Hosting costs are £3m, but total expenditure is $160m - which obviously isn't covered by the interest on $250m.
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
The challenge in the UK at the moment is connecting willing high net worth individuals with entrepreneurs. Even with the tax incentives, and the relatively good incubator-ish organisations like Eagle Hub, there's some enormous disconne
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
The UK has an age-based advantage in this metric. Oxford & Cambridge are nearly 1,000 years old. Once you take that into account, the stat becomes "of the top 8 universities (ex. Oxbridge), 2 are in the UK and 4 are in the USA&quot
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
> I don’t think it’s any longer about access to capital The link provided as proof for this comment is Wayve receiving a $1bn injection from Microsoft and Nvidia [1]. The $1bn raise is not the concern of a budding 23 year old graduate le
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
>Yes, there will be a need for more research in safety, for sure, but this is not something any company can do in isolation and in the shadows. Looking through Antrhopic's publication history, their work on alignment & safety ha
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
IPO announcements need to come from approved/authoritative organisations. This one is distributed by the UK's authoritative organisation - RNS news. In the other territories, IPO announcements also have to be made by authoritative
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
While he'll be giving up a lot of wealth, it's unlikely that any meaningful NDA will be applied here. Maybe for products, but definitely not for their research. There's very few people who can lead in frontier AI research dom
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
> now that all of our basic needs are taken care of by automation An AI being able to consistently outperform us in recalling the syntax for switch statements, is a world away from "all of our basic needs being taken care of by auto
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
At some point in the future, economics textbooks will teach about "the programmer ouroboros". A group of high-skilled people who existed between ~1960-2040, whose collaborative and open approach to information sharing was ultimate
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
> Also note you can get precise JavaScript measurements (and threading) by adding some headers Though you can access these techniques now, in the weeks after Spectre attacks were discovered, the browsers all consolidated on "make ti
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
This is almost certainly intentional, and is very similar to the way web browsers mitigate the Spectre vulnerability[1]. Your processor (almost certainly) does some branch prediction to improve efficiency. If an application developer reliab
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
For the metaphor to reflect reality, the oil & gas industry is walking around the house breaking more taps, while saying that they'll get round to inventing a mop in the next few years.
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
It's remarkable that GitHub and Amazon appear to have both released essentially identical products within the space of 24 hours.
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
There are a lot of people who will find their workplace being singularly "mission focused" a good thing, but 5% of Coinbase's staff announced that they'd be leaving within one working week of that post[1], and others fol
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by Shrezzing 2y ago
Wait, it's not satire?

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