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We re living in a tick nightmare

nytimes.com
2 points·by yeknoda·3 gün önce·1 comments

Self Balancing Inverted Pendulum

github.com
2 points·by yeknoda·25 gün önce·1 comments

Create Streets City Design

createstreets.com
1 points·by yeknoda·8 ay önce·0 comments

Toxic Fumes Are Leaking into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers

wsj.com
50 points·by yeknoda·10 ay önce·16 comments

Dtype_dispatch: A Beautiful Hack

graphallthethings.com
2 points·by yeknoda·geçen yıl·0 comments

Bluetooth Jammer

github.com
43 points·by yeknoda·geçen yıl·22 comments

Ractopamine

en.wikipedia.org
4 points·by yeknoda·geçen yıl·0 comments

Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations

academic.oup.com
62 points·by yeknoda·geçen yıl·15 comments

Buffett: America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us [pdf] (2003)

berkshirehathaway.com
81 points·by yeknoda·geçen yıl·83 comments

Magnetorquer

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by yeknoda·geçen yıl·0 comments

Indirect costs and potential unintended consequences

nanoscale.blogspot.com
2 points·by yeknoda·geçen yıl·0 comments

Python Package for NeuroEvolution Optimisation with Reinforcement Learning

neorl.readthedocs.io
1 points·by yeknoda·geçen yıl·0 comments

Helion's $425M Series F

helionenergy.com
2 points·by yeknoda·geçen yıl·0 comments

High Quality Collections of Digitized Art and Archival Finds

simonsarris.com
2 points·by yeknoda·2 yıl önce·0 comments

Carbon Dating: Radiocarbon Laboratories [pdf]

radiocarbon.org
2 points·by yeknoda·2 yıl önce·0 comments

Vibration Data

vibrationdata.com
1 points·by yeknoda·2 yıl önce·0 comments

Efficiency of Road Networks

christopherwolfram.com
2 points·by yeknoda·2 yıl önce·0 comments

Anonymous Prime

anonymousprime.org
4 points·by yeknoda·2 yıl önce·0 comments

Relativity Space Faces Cash Drain, Exploring Options

bloomberg.com
2 points·by yeknoda·2 yıl önce·1 comments

Fruits (2020)

graphallthethings.com
147 points·by yeknoda·2 yıl önce·24 comments

comments

yeknoda
·8 ay önce·discuss
what printer are they using?
yeknoda
·geçen yıl·discuss
-2.5% to US GDP
yeknoda
·geçen yıl·discuss
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yeknoda
·geçen yıl·discuss
This is good. The users this caters to are also higher than normal earners. Hate to ask, but what is the monetization plan?
yeknoda
·geçen yıl·discuss
Depending on the market, market prices can be decided by a very small number of transactions that set things. Probably true for houses in Spain (limited supply) and foreign wealthy buyers (very high potential demand)
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Sad to see them ignore Stilform, which are really well built and with genetic latch. https://stilform.com/?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAABRx75Fc4ynfn...
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
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yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
There is no way the 6x yield increase per cow did not negatively affect the taste, nutrition, and quality of the milk. Indeed, most of the "milk" you buy in large industrial countries barely deserves the term - it's got no taste or subtle flavor. It's even worse regarding derived butters and cheeses.

Yield is a great and easy thing to optimize becuase it's easy to measure. And if you increase yield at the expense of taste at suffiently slow rate, the change is impercetible to the customer. Happens slowly over decades so that a nice glass of milk is now like drinking dirty wash water. And a nice fat steak becomes ground up crickets and synthetics.

Moral of the story. Get your own low efficiency cows.
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
something like a white paper with a mood board, color scheme, and concept art as the input might work. This could be sent into an LLM "expander" that increases the words and speficity. Then multiple reviews to tap things in the right direction.
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I've found using these and similar tools that the amount of prompts and iteration required to create my vision (image or video in my mind) is very large and often is not able to create what I had originally wanted. A way to test this is to take a piece of footage or an image which is the ground truth, and test how much prompting and editing it takes to get the same or similar ground truth starting from scratch. It is basically not possible with the current tech and finite amounts of time and iterations.
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
PWR pressure is on order 2-3x higher than an HTGR, so that’s a 2-3x thicker vessel. So good savings there
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Is the cost of cryocoolong capex or Opex dominated?
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Has anyone tried to see the net value generation of YC. Total revs - costs - money invested, all discounted appropriately. It’s been around long enough that the true net value created can be assessed, without resorting to BS valuations.
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
it's not plutonium. it's americium
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
feature request: please let me change the voice. it is slightly annoying right now. way too bubbly, and half the spoken information is redundant or not useful. too much small talk and pleasantries or repetition. I'm looking for an efficient, clever, servant not a "friend" who speaks to me like I'm a toddler. felt like I was talking to a stereotypical American with a Frappuccino: "HIIIII!!! EVERYTHING'S AMAZING! YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL! NO YOU ARE!"

maybe some knobs for the flavor of the bot:

- small talk: gossip girl <---> stoic Aurelius

- information efficiency or how much do you expect me to already know, an assumption on the user: midwit <--> genius

- tone spectrum: excited Scarlett, or whatever it is now <---> Feynman the butler
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Death penalty serves multiple purposes

1. Remove from society, with no additional cost to society. 2. Signaling to dissuade new offenders.

You can go one step further and punish the family, parents, and friends. Seems to be happening in the US for underage mass killers.

It’s a simple, effective, and low cost way to deal with crime of the highest magnitude. Why should it be off limits for corruption?
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I wish stripe or some company would create a zero fee credit card that is truly equivalent to using cash. The wealth transfer from cash payers, merchants, and some card users to other card users and the cc companies is one of those gross injustices, a small and persistent leech on society. Surely there’s a way to do cc transactions for near zero? What is the point of all this tech otherwise?
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Also weed and drugs.
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
You realize we are mechanical, thinking beings. What else is left for us to do?
yeknoda
·2 yıl önce·discuss
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