dojomouse

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by dojomouse 7mo ago
> The cloud deployment surface covered in our contract would not permit powering fully autonomous weapons, as this would require edge deployment. … What?? Much of this seems duplicitous, but this isn’t even coherent. Is their implication
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by dojomouse 2y ago
Natural radioactive decay is also an example of fission - just not a fission chain reaction (… except when it is! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo )
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by dojomouse 2y ago
I think it’s very much a magical fantasy computer :-) A thought experiment, rather than a claim to something that’s been built or exists. The questions you pose are interesting ones, for the sake of the experiment I think at least: - Progra
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by dojomouse 2y ago
Perhaps. I was thinking along the lines of MarkBurns response - ML will allow us to efficiently look in those places we might otherwise only have searched by accident. If ops point was rather that “accident”/“luck” are uniquely human…
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by dojomouse 2y ago
I think ML is likely to be material to us making many more such discoveries. So much of the current constraint is not in the knowledge to identify the interesting pattern, but the capacity to look for it at scale.
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by dojomouse 3y ago
In New Zealand we have a pretty effective system that covers all fossil fuel use nationally, as well as several other greenhouse gas emission classes (notably not agricultural emissions though hopefully they’re included soon). The EU has so
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by dojomouse 3y ago
This is extremely cool! Nice work. What data does it rely on and do you have any plans to support other countries?
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by dojomouse 3y ago
It wouldn’t help with kinetic energy harvesting from the raindrops as that would go into the funnel as heat. It might provide a way to harvest the remaining gravitational potential energy of the rain (possible funnel being your roof and gut
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by dojomouse 3y ago
Love you for this! I had exactly the same “solar freaking roadways” thought, although at least that idea qualified by basic theoretical analysis of available energy and area for harvesting and conversion efficiency. It was an obviously terr
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by dojomouse 3y ago
Correct, but what the parent here presents is a theoretical upper bound. A working product wouldn’t even get close. When the theoretical upper bound shows that something could never aspire to more than a vastly inferior alternative to exist
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by dojomouse 3y ago
It also ignores the fact that there’s no need for it to become “alive” or “conscious” to be a threat in the way he describes. It just needs to be an agent with an mis-specified, poorly specified, or maliciously specified goal. And there are
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by dojomouse 3y ago
> One reason is that there are some problems that a company will only encounter once it begins testing fully driverless operations. Waymo and Cruise’s problems with fire hoses and caution tape is a good example. A human driver would dise
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by dojomouse 3y ago
No. That wouldn’t be a battery by any meaningful definition, nor have any similarities in implementation or enabling technology or physics. But it would deliver 24 trillion wh/kg… so by that metric at least we’ve room to progress :-)
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by dojomouse 4y ago
Yup - or higher load factors, or electric drive, or higher efficiency engines, or some synthetic fuel produced in a low emission way… all of which the tax provides a nice incentive for :-) I like the framing ;-) Maybe it could work for clim
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by dojomouse 4y ago
It’s adding a tax to the fuel type for the category, not the category as a whole. The tax will increase the commercial incentive for cleaner shipping which will reduce emissions. The tax isn’t remotely large enough to result in freight migr
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by dojomouse 4y ago
In the case of transferable concert tickets that’s already the ‘solution’. Even if someone ‘poor’ is lucky enough to beat the odds and buy a ticket under the current system at the initial offer price, they still have the same opportunity co
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by dojomouse 4y ago
I have an innate desire to write a book. But I haven’t because the effort would be significant and I have other things to do, including work. I am glad that the many professional authors whose work I’ve enjoyed had financial reward providin
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by dojomouse 5y ago
Do what Canada does; add a carbon tax and distribute the proceeds. This is generally a progressive tax scheme so low income people end up with MORE money.
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by dojomouse 6y ago
I’d argue another consideration is the land occupied by the corn - it’s the real constrained resource, not the corn growing on it, and were the demand for corn displaced by something else (like direct air co2 capture) then that same land co
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by dojomouse 7y ago
Was going to ask the same question and scrolled through the comments to happily find yours. The answers basically seem to explain why there's no robotaxi business model NOW though... I still don't buy the argument that there would
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by dojomouse 7y ago
There were numerous direct references to Valve, explanations of issues in the context of Valve, and commentary from Valve employees. As someone who really liked the ideals and concepts of the Valve handbook but struggled to see how to ext
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by dojomouse 7y ago
Haven't looked at the proposal, and not commenting either way on the risk of using water in this context, but the water/reactive-metal issues have been widely investigated in other liquid metal reactor designs and generally interm
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by dojomouse 7y ago
I suspect we're going to end up seeing evidence that the first accident was also the result of known risks being down-played / swept under the rug in the name of profit. One perspective is that the first and second accidents happe
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by dojomouse 8y ago
I should qualify that a bit... - The promoters are likely to present at least a realistic (if not optimistic) estimate of mid term cost, the technologies involved are all mature (so the potential for further reduction I'd low), and the
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by dojomouse 8y ago
If the promoters themselves are only claiming $150/kwh as a goal this doesn't have a chance of success given its other limitations.
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by dojomouse 8y ago
Gah, what a formatting train wreck :-/ sorry...
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by dojomouse 8y ago
I looked into this in a lot of detail about 5 years ago. There were a couple of studies, and one somewhat-active company I saw (Stratosolar - didn't seem to be very well resourced/capable). My main focus was on aerodynamic modelli
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by dojomouse 8y ago
The main reasons they don't do this are that it's a fairly known quantity from an ML perspective (going from sequences of images to representational features), so wouldn't be proving that much to be able to do (c.f. the vario
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by dojomouse 8y ago
This seems basically the same as an ion engine without the need to BYO ions, relying on the existing ion/electron mix in plasma being sufficient and suitable. Which makes it seem fairly credible. Potential for much higher efficiency th
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by dojomouse 10y ago
Finish working through 'AI - A modern approach' Finish reading 'From AI to Zombies' Get to a point with Rust that it's my go-to language for personal app development and general scripting. Super happy to see Rust fe

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