jakebol

6 ms·

1.
by jakebol 17d ago
That is one part, the other part is that you would get more persistent high pressure blocking patterns over Europe due to reordered atmosphere circulation which will lead to more intense droughts. That is what happened this summer.
2.
by jakebol 17d ago
Current research is that it would get a lot drier than it is currently. Also the AMOC collapse process would play out over many decades (~50-100 years) it will not be a sudden event.
3.
by jakebol 20d ago
SSRIs have much more clinical evidence of efficacy for addressing anxiety disorders vs a placebo than depression. The effect size is ~0.7 vs 0.2 in meta studies.
4.
by jakebol 20d ago
A good book on this is Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness. Describing the history of how many of these classes of drugs came about is pretty eye opening, I would say the book is pretty nuanced
5.
by jakebol 28d ago
We are certainly seeing higher monetary velocity in certain sectors. That usually follows from real economic expansion but could also be due in part to inflation.
6.
by jakebol 28d ago
Extensible trait support seems like another big one if the ecosystem is going to significantly grow. Not having clearly defined traits in the language made larger projects composing many libraries in Julia difficult.
7.
by jakebol 1mo ago
You forgot to add that he was in a relationship and later engaged to the chief of staff at Anthropic while raising and running his fund, but I’m sure he had no access to material non-public information.
8.
by jakebol 1mo ago
I don’t know if I would trust opinion writing to be predictive of a growing reactive populist movement. I would caution people being dismissive of how angry people are, data centers are just a political focusing mechanism. It will get wors
9.
by jakebol 1mo ago
It acts as a negative feedback signal for producers because there is limited physical pipeline capacity. I think there are some financial incentives to reduce flaring for the LNG export market, but only a small amount of gas was flared in
10.
by jakebol 1mo ago
What polls are you seeing where public opposition is starting to break? All the polling seems to be heading strongly in a negative direction. The Texas governor even had to accept political reality and seem like he was recognizing public
11.
by jakebol 1mo ago
Reuters/Ipsos did some polling on general sentiment about data center construction nationwide last month. “Building data centers at a rapid pace across the US is mainly a good thing” only 33% support, which is a +15% change from local
12.
by jakebol 1mo ago
It’s largely associated methane co-produced from oil production in the Permian. The economics of co-production means that the gas is often the cheapest in the nation and can have negative prices during large oil production swings. I belie
13.
by jakebol 1mo ago
Advancement of normal technologies can bring about profound conflict, I feel that is one of the main takeaways from the history of the Industrial Revolution.
14.
by jakebol 1mo ago
Many polls were done post election about preferences among non voters. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-elec...
15.
by jakebol 2mo ago
There have been a lot of published retrospective cohort climate model studies, ex https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL08...
16.
by jakebol 2mo ago
This is an incorrect way to frame the impacts of temperature increases. 1.5, 2, 3C makes extreme events like the one you stated significantly more likely in a probabilistic sense. The ability of adapt is in part driven by frequency of ext
17.
by jakebol 3mo ago
Imagination applies also to how we organize society and “rights” we hold over nature and natural resources. Reforming outdated water law is the true fix no pipeline needed.
18.
by jakebol 3mo ago
The southwest isn’t really over populated with people, it’s overpopulated with cows which require tremendous land and water resources.
19.
by jakebol 3mo ago
138 MW is also nameplate capacity multiply that by effective utilization rate for ex solar (~20%) and it’s meaningless compared to the scale of the project.
20.
by jakebol 4mo ago
Oil products are a fractional distillate of a barrel of oil. How are you going to pave the roads all these EV’s are going to drive on, or produce the plastic they consume (EV’s require ~40-50% more plastic)? If gasoline demands softens it
21.
by jakebol 6y ago
How is ancestry.com a startup at this point? It was founded in 1996.
22.
by jakebol 6y ago
Just to note that language "duplicates in sparse arrays" doesn't make sense, if you allow for duplicates it is no longer an array by definition.
23.
by jakebol 6y ago
Most every (analytic) RDMS database system can model sparse arrays. A sparse array is modeled by defining a clustered index on the table "array" dimensions and defining a uniqueness constraint on that clustered index. This works
24.
by jakebol 6y ago
Unfortunately "its just geography" is kind of one of the talking points for not really addressing the problem. Although true, concerted reductions in pollution have happened when there was political will to make it happen (mostly
25.
by jakebol 6y ago
this is true (and a property of all? cloud formats Delta, Hudi, Iceberg, parquet, etc.) I was referring more to the fact that the cloud vendors can co-design their infrastructure and software to support their database services.
26.
by jakebol 6y ago
There are a lot of issues though with S3, latency, poor performance for small reads / writes, timeouts, api rate limits, api costs, and consistency issues poorly understood by third party developers. A "thick-client" also doe
27.
by jakebol 6y ago
This is a good description, except that TileDB (the open source client) is not transactional but eventually consistent at least for S3 and other object stores. I like your point about consuming S3 cleverly, it's often difficult to get
28.
by jakebol 6y ago
Underrated it is not, just search for Cottonwood Canyon traffic jams to see what skiing really is like here when the snow flies. 30 minutes no traffic, can easily be 3+ hours now.
29.
by jakebol 6y ago
Moral of the story was that his dreams came true? https://twitter.com/mikeandersonKSL/status/12577783769258024...
30.
by jakebol 7y ago
they already provide this as a service

More ›