Torkel

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by Torkel 23d ago
How does it work if I have a US credit card and use it abroad? Do I still get the kickback even though the merchant fee is capped? This feels like a potential arbitrage opportunity... I live in Sweden, but if I can use a US credit card I ca
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by Torkel 25d ago
Is that actually the silicon that's on top of a cpu? I've always assumed the silicon is super thin - "wafer" thin. And then some material is added where the bonding wires etc are embedded in and the pads or pins are atta
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by Torkel 2mo ago
There are products in this space, eg https://www.crysound.com/ Very cool stuff, can be used for drone detection at up to 200m. Accuracy is not super good, unless you make mic spacing a bit large.
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by Torkel 3mo ago
Yeah, I was looking at the same chart and was very surprised at where the curve is relative to opus... Feels like sonnet 5 is "what if opus had an extra-low effort level"?
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by Torkel 3mo ago
"Internal power supply, AC power 110-240V" I wonder if they mean that? Japan is 100V.
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by Torkel 3mo ago
Fun fact: back in 1600s the Swedish government wanted to make our old history grander than perhaps it had been. As part of that they instituted a law that if you find gold or ancient things on your grounds you would be paid more than the wo
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by Torkel 3mo ago
It's a couple of months since I did the calculations, but I do believe 2035 is for all energy, not just electricity. It's easy to drag out a flat line in an exponential graph - but the line better start bending soon or we'll
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by Torkel 3mo ago
The growth of solar is astounding. I dug into data a while back and tried to do some visualizations of it, mainly for my own understanding: https://torkeldanielsson.se/solar-energy-forecasts/ Solar is already by far ou
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by Torkel 5mo ago
*yet
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by Torkel 7mo ago
See, this is why I put "inmates should have decent drinking water" first in my comment, and "inmates should have clean water" as the very last words. It seems to me you are making the exact error in argument I react agai
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by Torkel 7mo ago
Of course inmates should have decent drinking water. But I strongly disagree with "human rights" that are defined this way - something someone has to go out and bring to you. A human right is something that someone cannot take aw
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by Torkel 8mo ago
Here's a study from 2023 where they apply external electricity to improve healing rate of wounds: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/LC/D2LC0... It enabled healing of diabetic
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by Torkel 9mo ago
I.e. No pain, no gain.
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by Torkel 11mo ago
I asked gpt5, and it worked really well with a correct result. Did you expect it to fail?
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by Torkel 1y ago
So the messor male line is without sexual reproduction. Essentially a clone army, all with identical genes? I find it interesting that this has not led to all the clones knocked out by diseases, as happens to eg our banana plantations.
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by Torkel 1y ago
Does it depend though? The water (heat) leaking out is what you need to add back. As water level drops (hotend cools) the leaking will slow. So any replenishing means more leakage then you are eventually paying for by adding more water (hea
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by Torkel 2y ago
I saw this post from a professor this morning: https://x.com/lxeagle17/status/1899979401460371758 Students are not asking questions anymore. Small assignments work well! But then the big test comes and scores are
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by Torkel 2y ago
So it's a fisheye lens? If you plot pixels per degree over the field of view of a fisheye lens you will see that vastly more pixels are dedicated to the center "eye". And also the field of view is large. Which is what this no
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by Torkel 2y ago
And the talk itself is in English.
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by Torkel 2y ago
+1 on the podcast, it is excellent. I only wished he would have dug deeper on details on what they are building at Terraform.
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by Torkel 2y ago
Agree. This text relies heavily on traditional mathematics to define and work through things. It's quite good at that! But it does become weird when it starts out by declaring that it won't do what it then does. It also felt like
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by Torkel 2y ago
https://youtu.be/eXsT2HT171o?si=gUmdFvU4l-9ZiWrv&t=4237
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by Torkel 2y ago
I thought the same, screamed out "ouch that doesn't look good!" right before the catch. The last part of the live stream they showed footage from a different angle and there it didn't look too bad though! For sure contro
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by Torkel 2y ago
+1 My BS-meter also went off on this.
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by Torkel 2y ago
Just turn off the screen with youtube video playing and there's no difference from a podcast? I listen to Perun at the gym every week, audio only.
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by Torkel 2y ago
Yes. Exactly this. Monument Valley was awesome! And I had the exact same experience with Journey - good the first... 10 minutes? Then nope. The Witness was also wonderful, that one worked. A Monster's Expidition was ok.
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by Torkel 2y ago
I have feelings about Stray... What an awesome game it could have been! I played it with one of my daughers. Lovely father/daughter playing session. Guiding the cat through the maze/puzzles. Cat can't fall, it's just cal
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by Torkel 2y ago
Multimodal models are not limited by semantic understanding though, right? They are given photos, video, audio.
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by Torkel 2y ago
After I started my first startup, I had dreams of an inbox full of love from users, wild tech crunch reviews, and a bank account trending exponentially up. Alas, that’s all it is. A dream. No one will use your startup's products or se
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by Torkel 2y ago
Yes, please! To me it feels like 90% of road works I pass actually has nobody there working at all. Some go on for years it seems. Another option is what they do in Japan - just get 10X the number of people on it, with all the tools for the

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