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I had a professor that used to say that engineering is modelling problems with a set of differential equations and finding a numerical approximation to the solution. No differential equation ==> Not engineering.

It is trivial for any country that is not land-locked. You just have to sail to international waters. What is difficult is to stay there.

The same expression "tocar ferro" was used traditionally in Catalan instead of knock on wood. Ferro translates as iron. Iron in this expression refers to a sword. More than trusting in good luck or some sort of supra natural protection, the expression "tocar ferro" conveys a sense of self reliance, of being prepared and confident.

I cannot read the paper that this article is based on, but it seems that it refers to the use of big data analytics and AI in 2024, not LLM. It concludes that the use of AI leads to a 4% increase in productivity. Nowadays the debate over AI productivity centers around LLMs, not big data analytics. This article does not seem to contradict more recent findings that LLM do not (yet) provide any increased productivity at the company level.

Grokipedia seems like a useful product from xAI to me. It is the first major change in how to write an encyclopedia since Wikipedia. On the topics that I have compared, Grokipedia entries are more comprehensive and relevant than Wikipedia ones. The only minus is that it lacks pictures. As an example compare the entries on the Norwegian lake Tinnsjå: https://grokipedia.com/page/Tinnsj%C3%A5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnsj%C3%A5

What is the rate of security flaws in code written by humans? Difficult to asses the results without a base rate for comparison.

One solution is to have several markets. Norway also has transmission problems. The land is divided into 5 areas, each with its own price.

How do these tiles compare to a green roof where there is some cooling via water evaporation through plants?

Exactly. Los Monegros was until 1766 Europes largest oak (encina) forest. It had been a communal forest. The forest was privatized and cut to cultivate cereal.

Ukrainian civil society leaders’ six asks for the world

I wonder if this letter is truly from Guardia Civil or is it from someone else impersonating it. The content reads amateurish, such as the claim "Tsunami Democratic's main goal is coordinating these riots and terrorist actions by using any possible mean" without refearing to any specific actions or events. The assertion that Tsunami Democratic has been declared a terrorist organisation by National High Court is simply not true, and no official communicate would reference the media as a source. I wonder if this is the reason why the content is still available on Github (at least from Norway)

This is from 2015.

It seems like they didn't get much far with the open source software they claim to be using/developing. On their website there is a link to a Dropbox folder where people can download some spreadsheets and documents to implement their method, but nothing more.

I am a little bit skeptical, because some of the claims are hard to believe. For example they cite noise reduction as a benefit, but no plantation, no matter how dense, provides any significant noise reduction.

There was a story on HN a while ago about Bootstrapping 10er, a Patreon-similar service for Danish creators https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18820196 It was a single person running it.

As long as the part that wants to split is also willing to take a fair share of the national debt, I don't see anything amoral with it.

Interesting. Thank you