aesch

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by aesch 4mo ago
The main point is that BYD is an existential threat to Germany and Japan. Per Wikipedia (List of countries by exports + List of countries by vehicle exports, latest available data): - US: ~$144B vehicle exports / ~$3.23T total exports
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by aesch 4mo ago
It seems like BYD is a much bigger threat to Europe (specifically Germany) and Japan. The auto industry is big in the US but an insignificant amount of total exports. Germany and Japan could both lose their cash cows if the Chinese auto ind
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by aesch 5mo ago
I don't know if America has done anything quite like this. The example I'm looking for is where a company starts in the US but leaves and incorporates outside the US and then the US attempts to block acquisition by a foreign compa
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by aesch 8mo ago
It's not meant as a slight against Iranian engineers, I believe Iranian engineers can be as talented as any engineers in the world. I just imagine they may be resource constrained. So the question is more about geo-politics, who stands
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by aesch 8mo ago
Props to the teacher for putting in the work to thoughtfully grade an AI transcript! As I typed that I wondered if a lazy teacher might then use AI to grade the students AI transcript?
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by aesch 8mo ago
One could ask, who is giving Iran and North Korea this technology? Most of it they aren't developing themselves.
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by aesch 8mo ago
Yeah, I agree there is some manipulation of the narrative in the use of pain tolerance to describe China's citizenry. It is in the CCP's interest to convince their population that pain tolerance is a virtue, rather than allow an a
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by aesch 1y ago
I'd be interested to hear about your experience working with suppliers. How did you go about finding suppliers and haggling with them?
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by aesch 1y ago
While I don't think this will ship in time. There is a global online hackathon using these robot arms on Hugging Face June 2025, 14-15. https://huggingface.co/LeRobot-worldwide-hackathon
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by aesch 1y ago
It is unfortunate and confusing that copyright and patents are described as intellectual "property" because intellectual property is fundamentally different than other property rights. Property laws as originally formulated applie
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by aesch 1y ago
Are we entirely sure that energy and information aren't the same thing, or if they aren't the same thing they are both highly overlapping echoes of some more fundamental concept? Or maybe they are two sides of the same coin?
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by aesch 1y ago
Sounds like an extension of the second law of thermodynamics.
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by aesch 2y ago
I read a fascinating article on this dam removal last week! https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-other-side-of-the-wor... The article tells both sides of the story of the dam removal in as fair a way as I think is po
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by aesch 2y ago
I'm glad you mentioned 'perceived' loss in quality of life. I think that is what is being argued, does the perception meet the reality? It could be that the major reason for 'college kids perception of loss in quality of
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by aesch 2y ago
Casey Handmer's company is creating synthetic hydrocarbons from renewable energy. Here is a good video where he gives a tour of the company and talks about its goals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NngCHTImH1g . Curiou
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by aesch 2y ago
There was a recent Kaggle competition with the goal of developing a small molecule - protein model hosted by Leash Biosciences: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/leash-BELKA .
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by aesch 2y ago
China is currently cornering the market on solar panels and batteries and some would say "flooding" the global market to lower costs. If the West doesn't figure out an alternative source for the solar+battery supply chain the
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by aesch 3y ago
I wonder about the first point. As you explain in another comment the value of pi, 3.14159, can be derived from number theory alone but magically it plays a huge role in shaping the physical world we know. Would a different universe have a
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by aesch 3y ago
Look at the influence of sampling in hip hop. Sampling is literally taking music from different time periods, genres, cultures and making something new from it. If the mothers and fathers of hip hop had respected cultural ownership hip hop
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by aesch 4y ago
It's cool seeing the map of the cable he writes about, FLAG: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/flag-europ...
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by aesch 4y ago
It depends on the state-space over which you are optimizing. When they say sub-optimal, I think the state-space they are referring to includes only the pieces on the board. However, if you include your opponent's mind in the state-spac
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by aesch 4y ago
Reciprocity is necessary but one of the best strategies for iterated prisoner's dilemma is tit-for-tat or "equivalent retaliation". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat You always start out by coope
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by aesch 4y ago
The Vital Question discusses Nick Lane's hypothesis on how the first cell came to exist in Part II: The origin of life. Energy at life's origin ; The emergence of cells
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by aesch 4y ago
He was just on Sean Carroll's podcast Mindscape, good listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZ_CVu2M68
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by aesch 4y ago
I haven't read that one but after reading The Vital Question I will recommend anything with Nick Lane's name on it. There are very few people who have thought about the origin of life as deeply as he has.
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by aesch 4y ago
Evolution doesn't take millions of years for fast reproducing microbes. Another example is Covid, we've already seen half a dozen evolutions (that we know about) within the past several years.
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by aesch 4y ago
Why would your benchmark for intelligence in the human brain be something that less than 1% of humans are capable of achieving? To me that type mathematical proof is an example of a very specific type of intelligence rather than general int
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by aesch 4y ago
Do you remember the name of the book and the author?
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by aesch 5y ago
Coconut oil is very high in saturated fats which some people may want to avoid.
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by aesch 5y ago
Not an expert, just a gardener. Short answer: just letting leaves fall on your lawn for a period of time is unlikely to provide fertilization, in fact it may hurt your lawn, because the leaves will not break down fast enough and will instea

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