mlyle

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by mlyle 3d ago
Is this really true? Or are we counting like the games kids made in a computer lab somewhere. Or there's this 87% number, but it's based on "no longer a legal way to buy it," not that it's not archived/preserv
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by mlyle 3d ago
That doesn't really have anything to do with what I said.
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by mlyle 3d ago
I know the P/E isn't completely nuts. It still prices in revenue growth. It is possible that nv maintains an absolutely dominant market position and total amount spent on GPUs continues to rise. It's also possible that eith
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by mlyle 3d ago
I don't think anyone expects nvidia to "sink". We're concerned that competitive pressures and possible reductions from sky-high demand could make it really hard for nv to justify or maintain their current valuation. Tha
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by mlyle 4d ago
It's not like you can allow kids to shoot pellet guns out of a car indefinitely in a metro without substantial risk of something going wrong. We need to (be able to) trust the police to not escalate irresponsibly and to deal with situa
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by mlyle 7d ago
Sure. 99% of teachers don't know yt-dlp or use things like that, though, so you can expect minor disruptions in a lot of rooms. But, c'mon, we have complete power outages and still address our curriculum.
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by mlyle 7d ago
Believe me, without the internet we can still teach. We'll be pretty annoyed that we can't project the video that we think scaffolds today's science lesson best or show the approved choreography for the school play. And our o
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by mlyle 8d ago
There's an infinite number of possible math problems, but the things that make these open problems worthwhile is they're interesting to people who have worked in related areas. They're good to give to new mathematicians, and
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by mlyle 11d ago
Eating is not a weakness. But a strong requirement to eat is a weakness because you don't have the strength to be happy without eating.
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by mlyle 15d ago
Trying to do 4 Osprey flights per day, with refueling, for spartan resupply... is going to be tough. Sure, it's not impossible... In such a situation I expect you'd have a lot of other stuff competing with food for that lift, too
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by mlyle 15d ago
When we had crews that had trained for it and recent operational experience with the capability, it was deemed not worth it. Trying to stand it up in an emergency now is asking for trouble. You'd have to be in a really dire situation t
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by mlyle 20d ago
I have kids. I also travel, socialize, work, code, play video games, solve puzzles, etc. Love all that shit. I'd be sad to "miss" some novels, or to never see the Ocarina remake, etc. Or just the time I spend piddling aroun
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by mlyle 26d ago
Finding an answer isn't always an objective, though. I agree it often has been too much in baseline schooling. First, there's a certain amount of baseline knowledge we'd like students to possess. Without a certain prerequis
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by mlyle 28d ago
The time where "turns" are really great is when a whole lot of what you're doing is a phase accumulator.
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by mlyle 29d ago
I have added tooling so that I can get code listings into / out of the textbook that I'm writing so that I can easily and make sure that they work and produce correct code. And I'm doing it in LaTeX so I have templates doing
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by mlyle 1mo ago
> It'll be a hard sell for critical infrastructure of any kind Remember, critical infrastructure attached SCADA systems to the internet and has had trouble removing them all despite 30 years of warnings and audits. There's defi
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by mlyle 1mo ago
The way I read it was that he expects large industrial systems with AI to have safeguards to "fail closed." Which: it seems like we're already getting to the point of capability vs. unexpected behavior that having the ability
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by mlyle 1mo ago
Yup. Often one rod fully in is no big deal -- it has been analyzed and you keep operating. But no one has certified to run the reactor with a few rods fully in. The control systems are designed to err on the side of dropping the rods -- a
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by mlyle 1mo ago
No one knows the reasons yet. Some rods dropped. Something went wrong with the rod control system. Maybe an errant trip, maybe something mechanically wore, etc. When a few rods dropped "accidentally" into the reactor, humans pus
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by mlyle 1mo ago
> Meaning, we should be living a life where there is no manufactured societal stress we need to escape. I don't think that at all. I think struggle and making stuff better and working hard and feeling ourselves grow is great. And
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by mlyle 1mo ago
> We should all be picking berries all the time I don't think that he wants to pick berries all the time. Or be without his family all the time (even though he prefers being on his own with the berries). I envy the guy. I wouldn&#
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by mlyle 1mo ago
> Braking distances exist for AI-driven vehicles just as much as human-driven ones. Reaction times differ, though, and abilities to blend deceleration and turning and awareness of what else is around. (Waymo's tendency to be a good
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by mlyle 1mo ago
Dismissive is appropriate-- "By the time the confirmation renders, the request and its replies will have crossed North America six times" 35ms times 6 is 210ms-- so just about physically possible with current infrastructure. But:
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by mlyle 2mo ago
:D Kids can do amazing things. Adult engineers are already pretty bad at knowing with other people know and what's worth saying. This is the one area where students are markedly worse; "if I know it, everyone else must ."
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by mlyle 2mo ago
I think the big problem is administrative capacity. There are better run governments than we have in the US. The contempt for the state is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The state is incompetent because many of us believe it is inevitable tha
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by mlyle 2mo ago
Big humanoid robots are expensive, the actuators still suck, and the control problems are hard. Their big advantage is that they can occupy human-shaped spaces, but struggle to do anything useful. Not to say we won't get humanoid robo
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by mlyle 2mo ago
Picture being on the end of the wing and how much you move up or down when the plane rolls. An airliner entering a 30 degree roll over 3 seconds would have passengers pop up or down 25 feet, with at least +0.3 and -0.3G of acceleration.
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by mlyle 2mo ago
Again, anyone who cracks a decent success rate can basically print money. Unfortunately, despite lots of efforts in this area, we have not been able to get the clinical success rate up. It's pretty low effort to jeer from the outside
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by mlyle 2mo ago
If you can think of a way that you can have a much higher chance than 9% of success in getting a useful treatment to market, you can make a boatload of money. Go ahead, reform it.
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by mlyle 2mo ago
> There's many other considerations. Like the type and amount of fissile material. To name one that became well known: any plutonium needs to be refreshed (re-breeded I believe is the term) every few years. Already mentioned in the

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