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by kirrent 13d ago
That sounds like the breakeven if you're holding wing geometry constant and want to compare cantilever weight cost to bracing drag cost. The real advantage is in allowing for thinner and higher aspect ratio wings like in the Boeing X-6
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by kirrent 23d ago
Systems such as this might be useful as an in situ energy source you can couple to quantum gates for gate driving.
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by kirrent 1mo ago
I'll bite. How does Gitana 18 and the general continued technological progress in the Ultim class fall short? If you had something to contribute, couldn't you just get involved in one of these projects?
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by kirrent 2mo ago
Ah, another example of multiple equilibria! Investment in intelligence and defence spending can lead to entrenched interests which demand continued spending. The famous military-industrial complex. The coordination needed to break out of th
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by kirrent 2mo ago
Yeah, that clarifies that you're missing the core idea here. Brett Deveraux is pretty popular here, so maybe you'd like the analogous discussion of high-equilibrium and low-equilibrium ancient economies? https://acoup.b
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by kirrent 2mo ago
The piece is actually quite concise, but you're right in the other respect. You definitely didn't read it. Private equity as an explanation is explicitly rejected.
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by kirrent 3mo ago
By all means please caveat away! This is HN after all. I was torn between pithyness and qualifying those statements myself. Obviously there's a lot of interesting variation that's not being captured by population means or the limi
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by kirrent 3mo ago
I had to look up the concept of a framing definition so I might have gotten these wrong but I would equivalently state: 1. Modern margarine is healthier than butter. 2. Seed oils are generally healthier than animal fats. 3. PUFAs are health
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by kirrent 3mo ago
The title is inadvertently correct only because modern margarine is healthier than alternatives such as butter.
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by kirrent 3mo ago
Bartz v Anthropic is some good authority on fair use ( https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43... ). Still, it can't be said to be definitive because the plaintiff's arguments on market har
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by kirrent 4mo ago
I come back to this every so often as well. After so many years of looking at Markov chain outputs that almost looked like they made sense or chatbot systems rewriting your sentence back at you, software which can simply talk is a heady thi
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by kirrent 4mo ago
There are birds that go far longer than typical aeroplane flight times without a single flap of their wings either using thermal, ridge, or other sources of lift. Are these flying birds? I've shared thermals with eagles flying the same
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by kirrent 4mo ago
Not to mention, when you use a Monte Carlo model, you can easily count the samples which lead to certain outcomes. In their review, they noted that the correlated polling miss in the Midwest was one of the most common scenarios making up th
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by kirrent 5mo ago
None of us are your doctors but Naproxen has well-known gastric issues up to ulcers and stomach bleeding which is why it's advised to be taken with food and why it's also often prescribed with a PPI or H2 Antagonist. Cox-2 selecti
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by kirrent 5mo ago
The only caveat is that AES is not necessarily a black box. It's possible there may be hidden structure to take advantage of, but if there is there's no reason to suspect it's one that's amenable to a quantum speedup. As
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by kirrent 8mo ago
Sean Duffy is no longer acting administrator of NASA. This proposal was apparently part of a bid to get the support of a coalition of old-space companies and new-space non-SpaceX companies. As part of that strategy he apparently leaked Isaa
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by kirrent 1y ago
Very different in character. The US fair use four factor test ( https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/ ) is really flexible. You don't need to fall into an enumerated exception to inf
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by kirrent 1y ago
'Which you would think is fair use' - I must admit I wouldn't think that. When I consider Indian content creators making use of clips from Indian media organisations I can't really imagine why Indian copyright law fair d
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by kirrent 1y ago
It's 19 June 2020 and I'm reading Gwern's article on GPT3's creative fiction ( https://gwern.net/gpt-3#bpes ) which points out the poor improvements in character level tasks due to Byte Pair Encoding. Peop
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by kirrent 1y ago
TFA is based on the ruling which found that Anthropic training on these books was fair use.
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by kirrent 1y ago
As another example you can consider the apparently successful DOTA2 and Starcraft 2 bots. They'd be interesting if they taught us new ideas about the games in the same way that AlphaGo's God move uncovered something new about Go.
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by kirrent 1y ago
Popularly it's been reported by mariners that the whales are asleep. It makes sense, they need to stay on the surface to breathe and there's no evolutionary reason not to sleep there. It's really not that simple though becaus
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by kirrent 1y ago
I lived on a catamaran around 2000 onwards as a kid. Solar panels were surprisingly widespread, particularly on multis with outboards (and therefore limited ability to make power through alternators). Obviously the $/W sucked, but peop
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by kirrent 2y ago
I read the whole presentation. The physics experiment criticism Guttman makes that I referred to is at page 16/30. Nothing after that engages with QC to the extent that the first half of the presentation did, so I didn't refer to
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by kirrent 2y ago
I agree! People who predicted QC soon over the last few decades should lose credibility. They were wrong and they were wrong for no good reason. There is a real opportunity cost to focusing on the wrong thing. There are definitely grifters
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by kirrent 2y ago
Man, some real "Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence" energy here. Seems unnecessary given what I read of Gutmann's history. I get it must be annoying to be someone working in cryptography a
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by kirrent 2y ago
My housemate during our honours year had large portions of his thesis plagarised by the student who took over his work afterwards. We were surprised to discover that of all the lifted sections it was the acknowledgements that had the highes
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by kirrent 3y ago
Amusingly he was unwittingly writing about his own future. People still make fun of Silver for Trump's win in 2016 because 538's final prediction of about 30% likelihood for Trump was 'wrong'.
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by kirrent 3y ago
Much less appealing to even read in the first place. Plus you're also in competition with other publishers who will happily gobble up the impressions you used to take. So even if you're willing to play hardball as a publisher, you
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by kirrent 3y ago
Yeah, the publishers want compensation for the headline, photo, and text excerpt that appear on the social network. While these are really small excerpts, the publishers contend that it's sufficient to reduce demand for the article its

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