tuatoru

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by tuatoru 4d ago
> Most energy consumption is for transportation and housing. Of course it is, if you have offshored energy-intensive industries.
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by tuatoru 4d ago
And still others who think he has an difficult personality and set of beliefs, but who greatly respect his achievements.
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by tuatoru 13d ago
Good point. Only have one new tech at a time. Generation II then.
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by tuatoru 13d ago
Surprised they are not using linear opposed piston crankshaftless generators to make an extended range EV aircraft. Smaller, lighter, simpler, cheaper, and more flexible about fuel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeG4zLlFka
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by tuatoru 20d ago
Things can still go wrong locally, for you and yours. I recommend "Practical Doomsday" by Michal Zalewski. [1] It's useful as a set of topic reviews and checklists if nothing else. 1. https://www.amazon.com/d
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by tuatoru 29d ago
Tagline: "What You Really Need Is an AI That Gets Things Done" Does not have a mechanical arm or any ability to move itself.
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by tuatoru 29d ago
Fernandez-Villaverde says he goes to each country's national statistical agency's website, and uses their numbers for births and deaths and population, and computes fertility and replacement rate, and the trajectory of population
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by tuatoru 29d ago
The tech connection on this is that phones expand the radius of the circle of peers - people that a given person can see and copy. But most of the problem is as Fernandez-Villaverde says: modernity itself, the expansion of money into more a
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by tuatoru 1mo ago
> The part I'd take elsewhere: Please, please do not write like an AI.
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by tuatoru 1mo ago
With all the world's knowledge freely available on the web, people still do this. Unless it's an April Fool joke, in June.
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by tuatoru 1mo ago
> it feels… deeply uncomfortable talking to a machine like you would a person. That's why the form factor should be a wand. Flourish it to activate, and speak your spell.
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by tuatoru 1mo ago
Now imagine them with a big lever in the form of AI.
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by tuatoru 1mo ago
TL;DR And saw a few AI tells on the scroll down. The use of the the word 'honest' in any of its forms, and short sentences in headings. Rule One for writers: respect the readers' time. Strip out every unnecessary word. Every.
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by tuatoru 1mo ago
The UK. It wants to steal Norway's vast stores of electricity.
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by tuatoru 1mo ago
Germany had no good alternative because its politicians deliberately put it in the position of having no good alternative. Something is wrong with Germany. Go to Our World InData's Electricity Production per Capita page and have a look
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by tuatoru 1mo ago
"It's just brute-forcing the search space."
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by tuatoru 2mo ago
In accounting this is the concept of "materiality". If some asks "is this material?", they are asking if it's worth spending significant time looking at it or deciding. Remember to * 3 when assessing. Choose wrong,
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by tuatoru 2mo ago
Early on Raspbian didn't specify noatime or even relatime; every time something was read off disk, a write happened. Let alone things like putting /var/tmp and/or /var/log in RAM, or long commit intervals. No i
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by tuatoru 2mo ago
On doctors, I read a substack by a doctor who stopped using an AI notetaker after trying it for a year. They weren't his notes, and there was too much extraneous detail. Can't find it with a quick search, but the point of the essa
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Baron von Masoch was European.
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Yes. Many industries are zero-sum-ish in nature,have winner-take-all dynamics or reputational costs for cheaping out. Financial trading. Big law. Military. National Security. Big insurance. Management consulting. Advertising. For others ev
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Europe has Mistral. You and readers may be interested in Europe 2031 1. https://europe2031.ai/
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Cheaper until you factor in security and liability, which are going to get increasingly salient over time.
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Deepseek's price looks unsustainable. Ant have said their operating margin is 70%. A leaner company could maybe raise that to 90%. Most of the cost of supplying inference compute is depreciation of the GPUs. Maybe Deepseek is anticipat
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Far canal, why is this news?
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
"Comeback" or "quip" for a low-latency sub-Haiku model.
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Industrial market economies. The demands of work have eaten childhood (in zero-sum education races) family life, neighborhoods and social life (people moving all the time for a better job), spiritual life (exhaustion). Market liberalism has
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Fear the time when lobbyists realise they can use AI to draft new laws...
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Good question. With a lot of old people, healthcare costs go way up. In practice that means taxes go way up. (Maybe smart AI can magically cure a lot of degenerative diseases like dementia and atherosclerosis and COPD and osteoarthritis and
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by tuatoru 3mo ago
Difficulty accessing birth control is greatly overstated by UN and other development agencies. In surveys by far the dominant reasons for not using it are "my husband does not want me to" or "my family does not want me to&quo

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