walnutclosefarm

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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I think the bar for what constitutes unacceptable outside of work behavior changes significantly as you move up the responsibility ladder. Once you are in any significant leadership position where credibility and moral authority matter, d
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
> The COVID devastation is also about long COVID, and even people who had COVID but either recovered “fully” or never displayed symptoms. None of this is over, and we are so, so fucked. SARS-CoV-2 is certainly with us to stay, so in that
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
The Andromeda Strain!
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Not necessarily. Black locust (Robinia psuedoacacia), e.g., is one of the faster growing hardwoods in North America, but produces very hard, dense, and strong wood.
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Without question, if you've got a tractor you can rely on, I would get a PTO-driven generator for backup. Even a little 30HP diesel tractor will power a 15kw generator, which is big enough for almost any household as backup. Farms
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I don't see how this conversion makes much sense. He started with a generator that was junked because the ICE was shot. He could have replaced that ICE with an off the shelf 4 cycle engine for under $1000.00. Instead, he's g
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Are you saying that these exchanges are trading at prices to a precision of 10 ^ -10 dollars (or other currency)? I saw private exchanges pricing to hundredths of a cent (a long tim
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I'd like a report back from TigerBeetle on how many applications they actually support where the high order 64 bits are nonzero. I would note that the entire US GDP is less than 10^15 cents, and that 2^64 accommodates just shy of 10^
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I'm not a collector, but I'm tempted to bid on this book. It's remarkable to imagine the effort the original owner had to put in, over a couple of decades, to collect all those signatures, and it really is a who's who o
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Well, the details are at least somewhat impeached by the fact that she got the date wrong (or you did, in your comment). There was no Trinitite to be had at Los Alamos until 1945.
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I'm happy for you if that's working out in your enterprise. It was not our experience in the time frame we're talking about (VB was sunset over 20 years ago), and frankly it was not our experience 5 years ago - when we were
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Of course, if you want to twist VB, or Delphi, or any of the client-server construction sets into pretzels, you could build a well-factored system. And yes, your data has to scale to your system size, regardless of the architecture. But
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Well, that, and all those wonderful apps were inherently client-server architectures, with the business logic on the client. Nobody ever built a properly factored, with stateless layering, and high-end scalability on such an architecture.
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Probably. But what seems much more interesting is to have a spatial model pre-seeded in the LLM, so that it "attaches" language to that as part of its training. Ditto for other models of the world we want the language module to
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Obviously, you didn't read how it is intended to work. Baking the rock gives them a stream of nearly pure CO2, which can be sequestered underground. The powdered rock then efficiently captures CO2 from the air (where it is of course
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
It's interesting that discussions of this process don't mention the potential to combine the carbon sequestration with, say, nuclear power generation. This process basically requires a lot of heat. So, maybe build high tempera
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I'm really thinking of the energy scaling. Suppose you want to use such a technology to offset burning oil for some purpose. Even for highly efficient processes, you're going to get generate a ton of CO2 for a MWh of usable ener
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
There are no energy free ways to resequester atmospheric CO2. If you accept that we will have to do so to meet the world's climate change goals, then the question is really, how energy efficient can you make your process, and where ca
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
It would be interesting to see someone dig into the differences between the capture of language and culture, and control over how it gets fed back into cultural discourse, that we fear corporations achieving with commercialized LLMs, and th
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Seeing that old Friden mechanical calculator under it's cover take me way back. We used them to do basic statistics on data sets in an NSF summer research school I attended after my high school sophmore year. What a sound a roomful
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
When I was in junior high, I was given the opportunity to program on a GE Time Share BASIC system, through KSR 33 teletype, and a 100 baud dialup modem. Between January and May, I got maybe 25 minutes a day on the machine. The most impr
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
There are chemical processes, most notably photochemical processes like photosynthesis, that funnel molecular states into new configurations so rapidly, that observation of the details of the reaction is impossible. This research simulate
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I wasn't looking for a "gotcha." Just saying that you need to consider all the input costs to know how this pencils out. 50% is almost exactly the paper's claimed efficiency for the lab cell, so it's a reasonable
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Sure, and that is an option if you're using propane as storage for renewable electricity, or for large scale industrial uses like cement production. You won't get to full recycle, but you can get close. It's not an option
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
If the efficiency of propane production (from atmospheric CO2) can be made even close to that for hydrogen from hydrolysis, then the systems benefits of propane over compressed and/or liquid hydrogen will blow liquid hydrogen out of th
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Recovered CO2 if it's recovered from the atmosphere. Essentially all concentrated CO2 today is recovered from fossil fuel consumption, and while turning that into propane and then burning the propane (in a ship or home furnace, e.g.)
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I get why people might want white noise in their earbuds, but why would you want to stream it? You can easily download a multi-hour recording of, say, a waterfall, and just play it from your device. And who in heck would listen to white n
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
Not Arsenic, but rather bitter almonds contain compounds that the body degrades into cyanide.
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
I have no opinion on the value of the study as a matter of changing practice, or patient outcomes. I referenced it to illustrate that AI algorithms for diagnosing LV function from ECGs are already in the field, being tested.
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by walnutclosefarm 3y ago
It's highly likely that they analyzed images because they could not reliably access the digital signal traces. ECG machines, including networked "digital" ECGs store digital ECGs only in proprietary formats, and do not make

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