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adampk··on Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis
Can someone here make some kind of an app/platform that let's me know where I can go to plant a tree and how to do it?

I would be a big fan of a long weekend/vacation planting trees part of industrial scale joint operations where I am making an actual difference.

Maybe include payment and and donations for seeds/land/water/etc. I worry about climate change all the time but I don't know how to affect change at an impact level.

adampk··on Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking?
Thanks for the info! We are actually approaching it from a more computer vision angle. Think several RGBD sensors (kinect/structure) placed around your home and fusing the data into a real-time 3D model.

Interesting approach using radar for tracking, if you make any progress would be interested to hear about it.

adampk··on Ask HN: Best technologies for indoor position tracking?
If you don't mind me asking why would you want to do this? We are working on technology for a "digital twin" and have not really thought about applying it to inside the home. What benefits are there of knowing where you/other people are around the home?
adampk··on Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn
It seems like you independently came to the conclusion of Naval's thesis.

https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103497725173760?lang=en

Maybe you are looking for sovereignty, where you do things not because you "have" to but because you "choose" to.

The idea your touching upon might be bigger than just your "day job" but how you spend your time and what decides that.

adampk··on Ask HN: How to Get Good at Algorithm Design?
Try projecteuler.net.

There are some pretty great problems in there and your solutions might be novel.

adampk··on Swizzle Inventor: Data Movement Synthesis for GPU Kernels [pdf]
In short, they created a tool that makes it easier to optimize for GPUs.

Currently you need a good grip of- https://devblogs.nvidia.com/register-cache-warp-cuda/ to optimize your pipeline which is not pedestrian.

Now you can define what you want to do, and let Swizzle Inventor come up with the best way to exploit the register cache, apparently as well as top CUDA engineers.

Great for real-time computer vision applications that might need to solve large nonlinear least square problems.

adampk··on BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models
So "Specification Gaming" seems to be a new age The Monkey's Paw?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw

adampk··on A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit
When chefs get $1m it makes every great cook think they are chefs

lexicon ripped from: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-s...

adampk··on The Collapse of Complex Business Models (2010)
To pick a couple of examples more or less at random, last year Barry Diller of IAC said, of content available on the web, “It is not free, and is not going to be,” Steve Brill of Journalism Online said that users “just need to get back into the habit of doing so [paying for content] online”, and Rupert Murdoch of News Corp said “Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use.”

Was that dog whistling the repeal of net neutrality?

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