wolfram74

6 ms·

1.
by wolfram74 29d ago
I'm not sure how it became the norm in text adventure games, but for platformers part of it was a hold over from games being designed to be quarter eaters in arcades. Kids that played those became adults that made the next ones. I &#x2
2.
by wolfram74 4mo ago
The CIA didn't read his contract carefully enough. He snuck it into one of the rider clauses.
3.
by wolfram74 5mo ago
Though even if you're getting an hybrid assist bike, if you're paying much more than 1500$ for a commuter, probably overpaying [1200 from the manufacturer] https://www.aventon.com/products/soltera-2-5-ebike?va
4.
by wolfram74 6mo ago
I suppose if we had access to a public data set like this receipt bank, programmers could time themselves setting up a solution with off the shelf OCR algos. If they could clock in at under 10 hours they could advertise themselves as being
5.
by wolfram74 6mo ago
I mean, at over 1000% the cost, the machine solution doesn't scale either?
6.
by wolfram74 7mo ago
Your name is well earned! "can't cure cancers" is impressively counterfactual [0] as 5 year survival of cancer diagnosis is up over almost all categories. Despite every cancer being a unique species trying to kill you, we&#x2
7.
by wolfram74 8mo ago
Also, not like it just keels over and dies, that's just the 80% performance criteria. Most people wouldn't need to replace the batteries at that point.
8.
by wolfram74 8mo ago
this[0] page makes it seem 500~1000 cycles till 80% starting performance is common. So if you were charging it every other day from a 40~50 mile round trip commute, after 3~5 years you'd go to charging it every day. [0] https:/&#x
9.
by wolfram74 8mo ago
Do you think it's odd you only listed companies with already existing revenue streams and not companies that started with and only have generative algos as their product?
10.
by wolfram74 9mo ago
/Owning/ the truck would be imaginary/aspirational as you imagine yourself using it often enough to justify the expenditure. If it's for trips that are 3~4 times a year it probably makes more sense to rent.
11.
by wolfram74 11mo ago
Fortunately other chemistries are making their way down the learning curve lithium's been on, and after a few moment reflection it would be astounding if the same types of storage that are optimal for mobile consumers also happen to be
12.
by wolfram74 1y ago
What, did you read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time recently?
13.
by wolfram74 1y ago
I'm juggling a baby approaching lunch time at the moment, so I can't go into too much depth on this paper[0] I found 40 seconds ago, but the conclusion seems to think that solar panel EROIE in siwtzerland is somewhere between 7 an
14.
by wolfram74 1y ago
It has some elements of standard tragedy of the commons, suppose nearly everybody is following the same rotation scheme, and holding some antibiotics out of rotation entirely as emergency last resort type of deal. Anybody who isn't pla
15.
by wolfram74 1y ago
You got me wondering. Supposing the average post is 10 words, and a typical page of text is 250 words, that would only be ~50 pages of text a day over the last 10 years. Which I don't think I manage, but over 20 years I am probably in
16.
by wolfram74 1y ago
People without cars subsidize street parking and parking minimum mandates by forcing all other uses for land to be more expensive. People without children subsidize public schools. Healthy people subsidize sick people's insurance. Part
17.
by wolfram74 1y ago
No, it's definitely shifting, based on [0] the carbon emissions per kwh globally are down from 542 g/kwh to 481 g/kwh in the last 10 years, that's over a 10% reduction. Countries that are staying flat are the exception,
18.
by wolfram74 1y ago
My impression is it's auto and fuel companies putting out this unworkable alternative to current technologies so they can appear to be concerned about climate change without having to actually stop making money, also if it does work th
19.
by wolfram74 1y ago
I would imagine the supernova rate to be higher in the early universe, as we've already passed peak stellar formation rates and the heavier (and shorter lived) stars were more likely to be formed earlier when the average density of the
20.
by wolfram74 1y ago
You're in luck! The author's earlier piece on the subject attempts to address that exact question. Learning curve effects and piggy backing off the computer chip industry are major factors if I recall, but I haven't reread th
21.
by wolfram74 2y ago
I don't know, it's been a while since I've read on the subject, but I thought part of what drove the Irish to subsisting off of a monoculture was somewhat driven by necessity from the english consolidating lots of holdings to
22.
by wolfram74 2y ago
This is a thing I've been curious about lately, how close do they have to be? 100 meters? 50 meters? 10? Grid tie ins at a certain point get way beyond my V=IR and V^2/R=W intuitions. Given the length of the interconnect queue the
23.
by wolfram74 2y ago
I wonder if the waymo solution is very vehicle specific or if it could be easily applied to say, a 10~12 person van that could accommodate a wheelchair? It would be interesting to design a transit system around 4~5 times as many vehicles wi
24.
by wolfram74 2y ago
What makes an "idea" atomic/discrete/cardinal? What makes an idea "complex" vs simple or merely true? Over what finite duration of time does it count as "simultaneously" being held?
25.
by wolfram74 2y ago
The rationale mentioned was it was under the subheading of people interested in strong encryption, people who care about being unobservable might have something to hide. Maybe it's a good list? People who you might want to ramp up a ne
26.
by wolfram74 2y ago
I've also been told learning too much about linux or the nuclear reactions in power plants or bombs puts you on a list. I just assume I'm on several.
27.
by wolfram74 2y ago
Lovely word "materially" there, doing a load of work. That way you can just say that subsidizing renewables, or battery manufacturing, or efficiency refits for housing isn't "material" and now you aren't a liar
28.
by wolfram74 2y ago
Please provide a source for 110E3 TW for all fossil fuels, the US electrical grid time averages over a year about 0.4 TW in generation [0]. Did you actually mean TWh over a year, comparing instantaneous generation with annual production? wa
29.
by wolfram74 2y ago
We have such low standards for republicans, it's amazing. We complain that democrats are increasingly acknowleding that science is done by humans and humans will tend to ask questions based on what phenomena they've encountered an
30.
by wolfram74 2y ago
1) 200,000 monkeys is considerably fewer than the trillions, nay, quadrillions of single celled organisms doing mutations through out biological history 2) They are not generating random ACTG strings ~3 billion pairs long, they are permutin

More ›