Voloskaya

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by Voloskaya 5y ago
You know what those emissions in China are for right? China is the factory of the world, they build the things that we consume. So applying a carbon tax in Canada will make those goods more expensive and reduce the demand, reducing China&#x
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
If, like me, you are surprised that Al Gore has 600M$ to invest in a single company: he doesn't. And he didn't put 600$M in it. The fund where Al Gore is serving as Chairman did.
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Dangerosity isn't a boolean, there are many degrees to it. And the article you are commenting on, makes it very clear that former and current employees of BO think that corners are being cut and safety is compromised by the lack of per
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> Predictive power is the final arbiter But how do you measure that predictive power? Humans do have to build an evaluation set. And that evaluation set will be biased one way or the other, you cannot just pretend bias does not exist and
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
DeepSpeed [1] is amazing tool to enable the different kind of parallelisms and optimizations on your model. I would definitely not recommend reimplementing everything yourself. Probably FairScale [2] too, but never tried it myself. [1]: ht
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
How many lives has education saved? Thanks to education we have developed science and technology that save and extend billions of lives. And if you were to drop everyone out of college today, how would the suicide rate evolve over the long
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> love the idea that computers figured out the knack in reading head bumps the humans just couldn't crack So, natural selection has evolved a criminal gene and a linked head bumps gene, but hasn't given us human the ability to
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
It is pseudo because it does none of the things you said with none of the accuracy you propose. What it does well, is tell you whether the specific picture of a person you feed it looks roughly similar to other pictures of other people that
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
An AI doesn't do "it's thing", it learns with the bias the researcher encoded in the model, and most importantly in this case, with the massive bias of the datasets. Correcting is just steering a bias from one way to ano
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
The article's author isn't saying the book is morally wrong for only taking about white european males, they are only saying that might be a contributing factor to explain why this book is not often read, namely that few people ca
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Or if you would rather do it on your own time I can recommand the CDR Primer: https://cdrprimer.org/read
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> Judging by this comments thread, it is working very well. Good. A company's motives don't matter. Companies are just reinforcement machines that go where they think money is. If they release a "privacy" feature, for
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Before everyones jump on the "GAN don't generate ground truth" bandwagon, that's not a concern here. From what I understand, this is about creating a dataset of [aerial pictures, building mask] pairs, to then train a seg
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
How would that be better for the environment though? Unless we have a way to electrify all planes (we don't currently), this is the next best thing. I think the key is to ensure biofuel never gets cheaper than regular fuel, to avoid i
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> can capture CO2 from the air with 36$, which is like 20-30 times lower than what current best tech can offer 36$ is their cost after reselling the fuel. The 20-30x is the cost to capture and then sequester a ton, with no revenue for th
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
That's quite a disingenuous way to describe the situation. Without ZEV credits, the polluters would keep on polluting. With ZEV credits, the polluters, for now, keep on polluting, but they have to subsidize the development of clean aut
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> The devilish details come in decisions about who should bear those costs. But even if they fell wholly on the purchaser, consumers would, I suspect, be willing to pay a few dollars more for a gadget if that meant reliable access to sof
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Forest has to be cut down (e.g. in Brazil) to create pasture land for cows to graze. More forest has to then be cut down to grow crops that serve to feed those cows. During their lifetime cows will emit massive amount of GHG in the form of
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> Saving the planet from climate change is the latest rally cry for people wanting to identify as do-gooders What about the people that, you know, just want the planet to be saved? You realize not everyone is a sociopath concerned solely
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
There is also a less drastic technique: Carbon tax. Natural meat production generates a massive amount of CO2 equivalent, this is currently free. I would be curious to see how much the ton of CO2 equivalent would have to be taxed for lab-gr
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
The entire world has been in lockdown for months, we have all survived without drones delivering one mug of coffee at a time.
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Because we all very well know it's overwhelmingly not the case.
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
The design of the nozzle is part of the design of the engine. They are starting with an attachment as it means it can easily be retrofitted to existing planes and tested. If it works there is a good chance it will be the default design on a
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Most startups don't offer dividends, even when they do it doesn't amount to much, and if they indeed never sell/IPO/raise a new round, then you have basically no way to sell your stock, so it's indeed pretty much wo
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> For the time being, rare or not, they post a much larger problem to deal with when they do occur. It seems to me that being harder to put off but occurring less frequently, and most importantly not exploding (leaving significant amount
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
> Facebook just makes it super easy for people to become obsessed with something by "connecting" with it. “Just”? I would say this is plenty enough. And this is done willingly. So is it their fault ? Yes (not exclusively though
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
It’s not a « or » it’s a « and ». We need to move toward 0 GHG emission as fast as possible, using the solutions you proposed among others. But even assuming the most optimistic transition plan, we are already too late, and too much GHG w
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Carbon removal technology reaches early milestone(eenews.net)
20 points by Voloskaya 5y ago|10 comments
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
The immediacy of a threat is directly proportional to the willingness and resources allocated to tackle it. 40 years ago, no politician was willing to bank their mandate on starting to tackle a problem that was (mistakenly) thought to be a
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by Voloskaya 5y ago
Providing an example of just one or two companies for each categories but there are obviously much more. * Carbon Capture technologies [1] * Any of the companies working on any of the renewable source of energy: solar, wind, geothermal etc.

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