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by clomond 2y ago
I also don't believe in the 'bitter lesson' when extrapolated to apply to all 'AI application layer implementations' - at least in the context of asserting that the universe of problem scopes are affected by it. I t
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by clomond 3y ago
Li-ion is a very big umbrella of battery chemistries, and within can have broadly different safety and stability profiles. More important is that Li-ion cells are no joke, and are not equivalent to ‘AA’ or ‘AAA’ battery formats. You can NCM
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by clomond 4y ago
You are missing the core technology point that drives the underlying thesis here - ‘every manufactured good, gets cheaper per unit as you make more and more of it’. Whether this is from the lab, a recipe of plant inputs, or some other curre
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by clomond 4y ago
That is because CdTe is actually a stable molecule that isn’t water soluble, turns out the problem of panels from a toxic leeching perspective is largely from the small amounts of lead used at soldering points which is a common point with m
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by clomond 4y ago
Not to be incredibly nit-picky, but the costs of the product right now don’t matter nearly as much as the ability to scale production and variable unit costs. As a ‘hard tech’, they need to work themselves through the technology readiness f
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by clomond 4y ago
‘Sustainable’ in the food context is much more around total resource use (land, water, materials), waste products (ghgs and waste water) rather than a primary focus of energy efficiency. Besides - heatpumps are largely the exception in ther
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by clomond 4y ago
But Neutral < Negative. Capturing CO2 is not ‘energy cheap’ and therefore it is best when and where possible much of what we start capturing to rid it from the carbon cycle rather than re-introduce it.
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by clomond 4y ago
This would be an interesting choice. a) it will not necessarily last longer, li-ion in the right conditions (particularly more stable chemistries) have superior cycle life experience in practice b) yes, newest batteries decay slowly over ti
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by clomond 4y ago
Hypothetically this is not a binary option, they could significantly ramp up the strictness of 3rd party sellers increasing the costs of making multiple, temporary fake seller accounts more challenging. That said though - this would clearly
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by clomond 4y ago
For getting an intuition on it, I would recommend the clip from HBO’s Chornobyl which ELI5’s a nuclear meltdown. [1] If the reactor is air cooled, that can be translated as “the heat can just burn off” as there isn’t a liquid cooling system
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by clomond 4y ago
As someone who never got “hooked” onto twitter (turned into an active user) each time I viewed Twitter I found two main issues: - a discoverability problem for topics, authors, and tweets - too much garbage, spam, low quality tweets To the
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by clomond 5y ago
TCOs for individual consumers will be vastly different depending on the parameters of the situation, with particular impact driven by volume of miles driven annually. Due to this, commercial fleets in my view have a much clearer picture her
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by clomond 5y ago
If I may riff and provide a potential view of a tangential alternative force that was at play that made the project destined to be doomed (via this approach you mention about un-implemented features across lower cost legacy hardware) The de
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Omicron possibly jumped from mice host [video](youtube.com)
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by clomond 5y ago
Can't say that 'it is the end' yet - but given that pandemics end when there is no more 'room' for the virus to move through naive hosts (places to infect). The fact that Omicron is SO contagious means it will effec
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by clomond 5y ago
An attempt at a serious answer now that it looks like you fixed the units in your post. One key part is recognizing that “energy TRANSITION” accounts inherently that we are not talking about the design of the final end state 50-100 years fr
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by clomond 5y ago
I think thread parents point is that the problems are obtuse and plentiful enough that in order to understand them you need to be involved in point 1, which is arguably the hard part. You need to do your own discovery.
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by clomond 5y ago
This happens often enough and is far from a new phenomenon. Look up the meme and phrase “funds are safu” that covers this. https://youtu.be/DelF6zEHXpE
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by clomond 5y ago
When thinking about “carbon stores” - it is significantly more preferable to turn managed forests into manufactured wood products for buildings and furniture (where the CO2 gets functionally stored and then possibly tossed in a landfill far
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by clomond 5y ago
Abundant renewable energy, driven by decreases in costs of solar, wind and energy storage could be used with no other inputs but energy* via the Haber process + electrolysis. I suppose I don’t know the chemical compound that constitute “sol
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by clomond 5y ago
I can't help but think that this action could very well spur out some 'unintended consequences'. Prohibition can restrict and reduce participation and usage at an overall level, but certainly some portion of this will be push
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by clomond 5y ago
Had to look into MLPerf as I don’t follow super compute. But I don’t see them not doing that test as an issue as they made it quite clear that their entire system is tailor made, like an ASIC, to focus on neural nets and specific, relevant
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by clomond 5y ago
External mouse - agreed. Trackpad support though has had many issues over the years in my experience across devices & distros.
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by clomond 5y ago
And to further add, electrified energy end use cases can benefit from the decreasing costs of solar and wind as prices drop and deployment increases overtime. An ICE vehicle can not get any cleaner or more efficient after it rolls off the l
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by clomond 5y ago
Just a few points to consider here. 1) the companies may be agile, but there is a very big difference between competency in mechanical device/metal working/plastic moulds etc and ramping up electrical / battery / materia
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by clomond 5y ago
That’s a theory, utilizing reversion to the mean as it’s basis but it is not a rule. With different market conditions, housing prices could also correct for rental prices. Meaning if rents stay down after decoupling from an increase in hous
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by clomond 5y ago
Yes there is a waste prevention piece, but the key thing on a personal level is preventing the purchase of the new item of clothing for some purpose that you were looking for. The moment the money exchanges hands for the new product, that i
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by clomond 5y ago
But once you make a formal structure flat enough, informal structures can start to solidify and dominate (think High School). I always try to keep this in mind, Valve which famously has a completely flat structure, ended up turning into an
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by clomond 5y ago
My understanding is the following. While BEVs are the clear technological winner based on “source to wheels” efficiency - you could make the case that, if looking at Hydrogen vehicles in isolation, that Japan would be one of the best places
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by clomond 5y ago
This is directly related to their set of battery day announcements [1]. Some of the key points from their battery day are: - focus on simplifying process from ore to EV in order to maintain cost declines per unit energy while enabling scale

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