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Decentralized trust is an interesting concept because at least we know that so far trustless systems have been extremely bottlenecked and inefficient.
Still, I'll hold judgement until there is a repo I can fork. If it's anywhere close to NFTs that's a no for me. High likelihood since it's coming from the same crowd.
I think the web version is great, but it doesn't have extensions, and it has limited exporting functionality. You can't have the freedom you used to have in 2018 anymore.
I think Sketchup was at it's best when it was under Google. Their interest was to put it in more hands for the sake of Google Earth. So they gave users a lot of freedom.
Air tightness is a critical step forward. I'm glad we are talking about it. Thinking more holistically, I would not go with the double-stud wall. You get lots of thermal bridging, and when it gets cold, your outer studs freeze. I know it's considered a straightforward system, but venturing out of one's comfort zone to do an exterior insulated system has enormous durability and performance benefits. Let's build our homes for centuries, not decades, folks!
> When we get to larger matrix-matrix operations, such as 100x100 * 100x100, we can effectively write off any overheads due to memory allocations. But we definitely see that there is a potential for some fairly significant performance gains in the lower end! Notice too that these gains are realized by using the pure-Julia LoopVectorization.jl as the standard BLAS tools tend to have extra threading overhead in this region (again, not optimizing as much in this region).
> But, if you have been riding the GPU gospel without looking into the details then this plot may be a shocker! However, GPUs are designed as dumb slow chips with many cores, and thus they are only effective on very parallel operations, such as large matrix-matrix multiplications. It is from this point that assumption (2) is derived for large newtork operations. But again, in the case of small networks such GPU kernels will be outperformed by well-designed CPU kernels due to the lack of parallel opportunities.
That is as if to say "I've gone to the music school, why am I not a k-pop mega star yet?"
A lot of people will not look at the 200k this person didn't make as "lost"; rather the cost of learning expensive lessons.
The first lesson should have been that we're not in 2007 anymore. Sprinkling tech on random things has a small chance of working out. They did not have any domain knowledge or connections to schools nor restaurants. They were just users of them, like everybody else.
Building a startup is a beautiful thing but it requires relentless optimism and actually feeling the problem. Enough to say that's how YC finds its cohort.
That's why despite my bookkeepers protests, we moved to another accounting service and when they bought MailChimp I pulled my whole company out of that too.
I understand workplace is not always a place for activism, but I could switch with reasonable effort and it made me feel good not to fund this sort of behavior.
As a fellow start up founder, I see most of my job being just buying time for the business. Buying time to make, to talk, and to think.
It wasn't like the tool had no value to Susan, maybe with a booth at her go-to annual expo, mentioning a few past lawsuits the tool could avoid, and an affinity partnership with her industry association, the tool would have become a fact of life for her.
It's a lot of work, I'm not denying that. Yet, this is the sort of thing YC's idealized startup stories often fail to say. If "instant Product Market Fit" is so good, then how come practically every new high flying SV startup is using loads of VC money to "bend the market to the product"?
Exciting Startups have to venture far, it's not about "we let you buy your potatoes online" anymore. Chances are you won't get deals by talking to people once. I wouldn't say that means your idea is bad.
When I think of "Safe" for air, I also think of PM2.5 and other airborne compounds. A more permanent fix to make the air fully safe is improving building ventilation.
That's taking about what's generally accepted. The body of literature in this field defines a "comfort zone" that spans around and above 20°C. it's been studied that with better comfort there is better attention. Also being cold appears to weaken the immune system.
It's not naive. Going to "pure" building science (I studied this in uni) the formula for the building heat loss is Q=U.A.dT where dT is the temperature difference between indoors and the outdoors.
If you assume that outdoors is 5°C on average in year, and indoors is 21°C, dT is 16. reducing the indoor temp to 18°C puts the dT at 13.
Since everything else stays the same, you'd expect a 23% decrease in heat loss (Q). And that much less energy need to be replenished.
In the real world buildings are more complicated than that. Also you may risk giving more people diseases and reduce cognitive abilities when things get cold. So perhaps also tell the public to dress warmer and drink more hot fluids.
Here is the thing, a lot of that tech is coming from oil and gas. An industry with a track record of leaving the land they enter in terrible shape.
I think we have to start over with geothermal and look at it more like hydro electricity. We should harvest the electricity on the way down, not the way up. I wish I'd get rich enough one day to devote my life to this.
You can try it with this! In one of the road scenarios make lots of lanes. Then give the system a "shock". I.e. move one of the sliders until you cause a traffic, then move it back. See how long it takes for it to clear up. The problem is that cars start changing lanes and cause mayhem. Lots of failure of this kind in the USA.
Their offering is so shallow that the high prices seem paradoxical. Which is a great thing for a brand because the paradox hints that the value is intrinsic. "It's big because it's cool". Whatever technical issue we have with them is irrelevant... Until June when no one even remembers this.