yenwel

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by yenwel 4y ago
I learned about permaculture from books in my native language (eg Louis De jager from food forest institute in Belgium). I'm no expert though. I did find docu like "The Biggest Little Farm" very inspirational.
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by yenwel 4y ago
My parents had a highly computerized feeding system on our farm. In the summers I worked student jobs in highly technological green houses picking tomatoes and pig slaughter houses besides the work on the farm. I've grown some form of
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by yenwel 4y ago
Well this does go back to traditional high yield techniques like terra preta which besides making superfertile soil has the added benefit of being a carbon capture and soil preservation solution or the three sisters system where you get yie
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by yenwel 4y ago
Nice project indeed, been following it for some time. I grew up on a farm, have agricultural and IT degrees and also worked in automation in farming, factories, cities and warehouses. This project focusses on a technological solution to soc
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by yenwel 4y ago
How art made the world A mini series about art and it's impact on humanity. The bridge Shows the other side of humans suiciding on the golden gate bridge and how every one them is missed.
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by yenwel 4y ago
blockchain could be used to put reputation systems on them.
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by yenwel 5y ago
The farm commodity hedge markets are dominated by players who leverage private access and knowledge to make massive margins. I think decentralizing this market (by anyone and their brother) would certainly benefit producers and end consumer
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by yenwel 5y ago
Well I do know the specifics, I've worked on our farm. I've worked in and for processing plants and at food retailers. I did an engineering degree in agriculture with a minor in economics (plus some post grads in IT). We produced
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by yenwel 5y ago
if you ever worked at the bottom of a supply chain you would understand that there are currently major issues with gatekeepers levying high margins (note I grew up on a industrial farm). If a farmer could sell his product under a smart cont
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by yenwel 5y ago
I do think NFTs are a bubble now. By investors that think that one NFT is worth the same as the next one minted while it is just the exact pointe that they are not interchangeable. You don't get a piece unique with significant history
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by yenwel 5y ago
This is all also described in the book "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams". Especially the importance of individual flowtime. I tried to explain this once to an agile coach and suggested he read that book. We then continue
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by yenwel 5y ago
I think causal inference is succesfull where it is impossible do an intervention to force a randomized trail on your population. Classical statistics like in agriculture that you set up a design and field trail to find out the interactions
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by yenwel 5y ago
Well isn't the point of ubi that people less people could work. Productivity with automation has never been higher and we still work ourselves to death for less pay. We need to take the path of increased automation anyway since we&#x27
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by yenwel 5y ago
Well autism is sometimes labelled as individuals that are less "self-domesticated". Animals can be domesticated by humans and breeded to be tamer. Tame animals are more sociable towards humans, also have lower intelligenc and brai
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by yenwel 5y ago
money printing is done by handing it to banks at zero interest and flooded on the stock exchanges. The rich get richer and the poor can buy less with the same money since wages are the last thing to raise (while the rich buy up houses and c
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by yenwel 5y ago
the fed already stepped in with money printing before covid was already a thing because of a corporate debt bubble about to burst https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2019/06/03/feds-po... (a b
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by yenwel 5y ago
how about physical limitations when oil well's permanently can't restart after stopping because of covid lockdowns and a lot of other reasons (mainly very rich people who became much richer and start looking at commodities at one
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Smart Cities Ontology for Digital Twins(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
2 points by yenwel 6y ago|1 comments
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by yenwel 6y ago
Using linked data to avoid vendor lock-in for goverments. DTDL is an ontology definition from microsoft to easily onboard new IoT devices. NGSI-LD is set of canonical data models that cities can re-use.
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by yenwel 6y ago
well you could validate data integrity based on - feedback from consumers of the commodity - some kind of built in monitoring with growth model benchmarking the different suppliers and instead of proof work do a decentralized/federated
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by yenwel 6y ago
I've worked at a mediacorp in user authentication team where one rogue junior developer from another team (with the most seniority though at that company subdividion because everybody else left) went behind my back to pressure my junio
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by yenwel 6y ago
In the more traditional domain of websites I don't think are adapted but in newer domains around iot, digital twins or smart cities there _is_ adoption specifically to avoid data silos and vendor lock in. https://fiware-data
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by yenwel 6y ago
Gut bacteria and even all bacteria en virusses that compromise the ecosystem that is your body greatly determines not only your physical but even your mental health. I don't really think this is a fad. The first 1000 days of a child (i
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by yenwel 6y ago
I've worked on two seperate old code bases with pms who read the lean startup and they believed that technical debt does not exist. Seriously aggravating the situation thus. They did not seem to understand that the main thesis for that
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by yenwel 6y ago
They already have a solution for that https://nifi.apache.org/registry.html
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by yenwel 7y ago
Decentralized monetization of data and media. F* central brokers like facebook.
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by yenwel 7y ago
thanks so much! my wife is a teacher in ceramics so this is superusefull for her...
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by yenwel 7y ago
I had a similar idea about green roofs and how they could have a net positive effect on happiness, liveability and energy efficiency in cities.
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by yenwel 7y ago
The whole discussion of typed vs untyped is stupid. Types and structures are all around us (albeit simple or infinitely complex, eg inductive vs coinductive). It is rather a discussion about typesystems that check type constraints immediate
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by yenwel 7y ago
I'm not sure if some of that innovation whithout prior knowledge of older tech is really rediscovery or just plain theft of prior art.

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