andbberger

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by andbberger 29d ago
unbelievable amount of coarse graining to get from a real fly to this. same leve of ethical quandary as giving your dog a stuffed bear to tear apart. besides, you should see the things we do to real flies...
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by andbberger 29d ago
cursor input get scripted into loom input to the LC4s which are evidently simulated faithfully enough to drive giant fibers, which is actually how fly escape behavior works. what more could you want
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by andbberger 1mo ago
both to facilitate flying junctions
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by andbberger 3mo ago
this exists and the chump is howard hughes
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by andbberger 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore... the better question is why does gradient descent work for them
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by andbberger 5mo ago
or we could build like 200 more fission plants and rewild all that ethanol land. not really a compelling point in favor of solar land use this factoid...
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by andbberger 6mo ago
ok sure but are humans a full decade of NSF budget better than robots
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by andbberger 6mo ago
there is. bioarxiv.
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by andbberger 8mo ago
a good mission burrito is like $10 and makes my life better
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by andbberger 9mo ago
yes the US is laughably corrupt
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by andbberger 9mo ago
certainly there exist nuclear ships with enough power but I fail to see how you would feasibly tug a train of containerships
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by andbberger 9mo ago
oops. yes. still not that much though. i mean it's a lot but it's "one more large industrialized country" a lot not "kardashev 2" a lot
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by andbberger 9mo ago
> Is this not just a cellular automaton? no
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by andbberger 9mo ago
wiki article states "Up to 10,000 TWh/yr of power could be generated from OTEC without affecting the ocean's thermal structure". which converts to about 500GW which... isn't that much
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by andbberger 10mo ago
they're in big concrete containers rated to withstand everything its fine
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by andbberger 10mo ago
this... is not very good for an hour? i would expect an undergrad to be able to cook this up in an hour
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by andbberger 10mo ago
that seems fine
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by andbberger 10mo ago
68 years ago we already had fission plants. the engineering side of energy production has been solved since then, it's all political now
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by andbberger 11mo ago
ah yes, direct democracy in california has famously never led to anything bad happening.
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by andbberger 11mo ago
farming requires a _lot_ of water.
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by andbberger 11mo ago
the movie would be over after 10 minutes if GBI intercepted why would you assume this is an accurate depiction
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by andbberger 11mo ago
not at all realistic, awful movie. somehow even worse than annie jacobsen's book. they would not fire only 2 interceptors, and there is no urgency to retaliate when it is not a decapitation strike
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by andbberger 11mo ago
farming with desal water is insane. even with abundant power.
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by andbberger 11mo ago
and there was a huge fire at the moss landing plant which left heavy metals and god knows what else raining down onto sensitive marine mammal habitat. kayak up elkhorn slough and you'll encounter dozens of otters, seals... less than a
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by andbberger 11mo ago
this is just worse NIMBY rails
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by andbberger 1y ago
if you have a nice knife and cut by dragging the knife towards you with tip in contact with the board instead of cutting directly down, food will not stick
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by andbberger 1y ago
HHMI is a private org
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by andbberger 1y ago
JILA is the golden child of the physics dept for reasons no one quite knows. Better facilities, higher stipends, separate events programming, same department!
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by andbberger 1y ago
"The first scientists to succeed, in 1995, were Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman at JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics), a research institute in Colorado." incredible underhanded
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by andbberger 1y ago
muni has "relatively level routes" because the routes that were preserved were ones with tunnels that buses couldn't fit through (or narrow ROW in the case of the J), and given sf geography those tunnels invariably go through

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