the closest computational equivalent to writing that sentence we have today involves executing a model with 1.5 billion parameters. (and I couldn't find an estimate of the energy cost of that)
Nor should we accept false equivalencies.
Interesting implementation detail while "pigs" != "fly":
Citation needed.
I lived in China for 6 months and saw plenty of cops with guns and saw undercover cops roughly throw around a street vendor who had gotten too close to the forbidden city for their liking. Your view here seems to be…
Maybe this works for people in finance, but I can't see it being useful otherwise. The concept you're using as an analogy just isn't widely known.
It should be noted that public github repos are _not_ public domain and not even necessarily open source unless the author specifies a license.
I like the look of your mountain ranges. Is that done using a published method or something of your own devising?
As the poster above mentioned, Methane has a greater immediate impact, but it only stays in the atmosphere "for 11-12 years"[1], making it a relatively short term problem. CO2 stays in the atmosphere for "approximately…
From Wikipedia[1], "In the past 540 million years there have been five major events when over 50% of animal species died." So if your measure for bio-diversity is the number of unique animal species, it dropped by half…
If anyone else was curious about Scott's usage of "God" in this lecture, he talks about it here[1]. TLDR: they are "tongue-in-cheek references to an Einsteinian God." 1: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=189
>Right now Liberia has about the population and land area of Virginia, which means it's already overpopulated. First, that assumes Virginia is 'optimally populated'. Second, according to Google, the population of…
The drivers have to pay for their own insurance, so it's not that. Hard to see how a background check requires 20% of all revenue.
There certainly does seem to be a lot of political posturing going on, but I don't think it is coming from the scientists.
It can be very difficult here to get by without knowing chinese unless you live in a foreigner-friendly area (i.e. a tourist area or near a university). I'd suggest using a tour company if you want to travel more…
"He had no idea who was behind it until last August, when he provided malware samples to a security firm at the request of a Bloomberg reporter. A forensic analysis of the malware by Joe Stewart, a threat expert at…
The HN reaction to this story is pretty sad, I have to say. Yes, journalists are poor at providing technical coverage. That's not really their job. Yes, this guy could have created a more secure network system, but if a…
One of these, at least, is supported by a pretty weird edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reason&diff=51...
"stealing other's content" that was completely user generated...
You really have to be a member of the clueless aristocrat club to write for Forbes. "Two million bucks is the great dividing line between middle-class comfort and worry in America right now. That $2 million is $100,000…
Hah, don't mind my snarky comment. Just get these kids off my lawn.
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I presume Closure is only being used as a post-processing step to optimize the javascript that's produced.
the closest computational equivalent to writing that sentence we have today involves executing a model with 1.5 billion parameters. (and I couldn't find an estimate of the energy cost of that)
Nor should we accept false equivalencies.
Interesting implementation detail while "pigs" != "fly":
Citation needed.
I lived in China for 6 months and saw plenty of cops with guns and saw undercover cops roughly throw around a street vendor who had gotten too close to the forbidden city for their liking. Your view here seems to be…
Maybe this works for people in finance, but I can't see it being useful otherwise. The concept you're using as an analogy just isn't widely known.
It should be noted that public github repos are _not_ public domain and not even necessarily open source unless the author specifies a license.
I like the look of your mountain ranges. Is that done using a published method or something of your own devising?
As the poster above mentioned, Methane has a greater immediate impact, but it only stays in the atmosphere "for 11-12 years"[1], making it a relatively short term problem. CO2 stays in the atmosphere for "approximately…
From Wikipedia[1], "In the past 540 million years there have been five major events when over 50% of animal species died." So if your measure for bio-diversity is the number of unique animal species, it dropped by half…
If anyone else was curious about Scott's usage of "God" in this lecture, he talks about it here[1]. TLDR: they are "tongue-in-cheek references to an Einsteinian God." 1: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=189
>Right now Liberia has about the population and land area of Virginia, which means it's already overpopulated. First, that assumes Virginia is 'optimally populated'. Second, according to Google, the population of…
The drivers have to pay for their own insurance, so it's not that. Hard to see how a background check requires 20% of all revenue.
There certainly does seem to be a lot of political posturing going on, but I don't think it is coming from the scientists.
It can be very difficult here to get by without knowing chinese unless you live in a foreigner-friendly area (i.e. a tourist area or near a university). I'd suggest using a tour company if you want to travel more…
"He had no idea who was behind it until last August, when he provided malware samples to a security firm at the request of a Bloomberg reporter. A forensic analysis of the malware by Joe Stewart, a threat expert at…
The HN reaction to this story is pretty sad, I have to say. Yes, journalists are poor at providing technical coverage. That's not really their job. Yes, this guy could have created a more secure network system, but if a…
One of these, at least, is supported by a pretty weird edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reason&diff=51...
"stealing other's content" that was completely user generated...
You really have to be a member of the clueless aristocrat club to write for Forbes. "Two million bucks is the great dividing line between middle-class comfort and worry in America right now. That $2 million is $100,000…
Hah, don't mind my snarky comment. Just get these kids off my lawn.
How I Advertised All My Websites To YCombinator
I presume Closure is only being used as a post-processing step to optimize the javascript that's produced.