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Yeah sure, let’s put solar panels over the last section in Bakersfield where all the canals merge. More power, less evaporation. That’s great! But it’s not going to move the needle in California.

* if you go backpacking in the Sierras you’ll often run into one of the canals. They’re both cool and scary. It takes hours to get to them and every time I see one i have to wonder how they managed to build it (it’s been decades so any construction damage has mostly grown over)

Admiral Adama says otherwise.

So that’s how the Matrix got started …

An AUS Utopia reference would probably be more fitting though.

That is definitely a confounding factor, although I’m curious how much of that is the urban vs rural split in other states. (The construction company was not in California but oil boom-town adjacent in Texas)

Actually, we have quite a bit of evidence to evidence pointing at the order of development based on how strongly conserved some critical features of biochemistry.

The core component of ribosomes (which make proteins) is made from RNA called ribozymes. Other things like RNase P, self-splicing introns, the RNA cores of the spliceosome, and the fact that most central metabolic cofactors (ATP, NAD, FAD, coenzyme A) have ribonucleotide handles points to RNA as the initial building block, before viruses or archae or prokaryotes were even born.

It wasn’t until ribonucleotide reductase gets involved that RNA becomes DNA. DNA swaps uracil for thymine making the genome more error-resistant and a double helix to get stability over reactivity, as a clear evolutionary strategy because DNA doesn’t form like RNA does.

The core of the RNA world hypothesis is a ton of experiments that find that RNA and amino acids are stable in many different chemical conditions which cover a wide range of what the early earth would have looked like along with observed amino acids on outer space objects like comets and asteroids. What we don’t have is an experiment demonstrating how RNA becomes self replicating with the addition of amino acids, which would be one of the last steps to showing how life likely formed.

The problem is there is a huge bathtub curve in insurance quality between employers and the public market. It’s a rude awakening when you can’t afford COBRA rates and have to fall back to a “bronze plan” or whatever is available on the exchanges.

It was just timing. Their networking gear was built on some very impressive ASICs which became commodity chips a few years later before they could grow. Arista, Juniper, et al ate their lunch using other vendors’ IP. IIRC it was Broadcom and Fulcrum that released the chips that killed them.

For a todo cli. That doesn’t work.

It helps to be familiar with realism in international relations theory starting with Machiavelli and Hobbes, and postwar realism which developed over the Cold War. The ethics have been debated for centuries and the mainstream interpretation is that leaders have a fiduciary obligation to the population they are responsible for, which fundamentally changes ethical considerations.

It’s a completely different moral question when you’re responsible for a billion people, many of whom may suffer or die due to the cost of fuel. It is in principle a violation against their own people for Indian leaders to prioritize Ukraine’s people over their own.

Reinforcement learning by human feedback.

AI to the rescue!

Are they even the same base SKUs at this point? I don’t want to pull out my gaming desktop but IIRC it was at least three different entries in the Steam library. I wonder if the stats combine them.

At this point I’ve spent so much money on Skyrim titles I should get TESVI for free with lifetime DLCs.

Note though that even in the Mediterranean, routes where most of the enemy was killed were relatively rare.

There is a Thunderdome at Burning Man.

https://journal.burningman.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Th...

Did I miss something (all the twitter conversations)? What’s the “worst warning shot ever”? I’ve been pretty up to date on the AI news here on HN, but I still haven’t seen a proper response to all the incidents we’ve seen (HF, Ruby, the wikis, NS, etc). It’s just been day by day bloviating.

Each of these companies have released new models in the last… two weeks? And they have even more powerful out of control ones that they’re (ab)using internally? Can anyone summarize whats going on?

There’s a whole bureaucracy just to coordinate the implementation at the sector, provincial, and corporate level driven by the State Council, NDRC, and NPC. Governments at all levels are involved with coming up with their own implementation plans to execute on the Five Year Plan.

You can trace decades of Chinese industrial development to those plans but the Chinese system is very different from the Soviet central planning mechanism, which is why I think you’re misinterpreting Alibaba’s price competition. The CCP explicitly allows non-state owned enterprises like Alibaba and the manufacturers on it to compete; that’s their whole point within the system, and they operate within the regulatory environment setup to promote the five year plan instead of quotas like the Soviet system. The resolution of the planning is different, but it’s very much there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Five-Year_Plan

Sort of like large language models work on top of what our language has encoded in our massive training datasets, I think biological intelligence is built on top of the parts of the brain that encode the real physical world. These parts grow/train from embodied experimentation and instinct early on in an organism’s life and only then is higher intellect built on top of it (that’s my hypothesis). Their specialization and interconnections give rise to the hardest parts of intelligence long before we’re “thinking”.

Stuff like LLMs and chess engines work because we’ve done all the job of encoding the world into tokens/positions/etc they understand, but that’s wholly inadequate for the kind of AGI we’re striving for. Next up is giving it the tools to interact with the physical world and to really experiment with some self directed “play”. Time will tell just how high the resolution of sensor and mechanical control they’ll need (hopefully not the entire human visual cortex and entire sensory input worth). I think most of the RSI will have to occur in those lower level encoders, not LLMs.

Don’t even have to DIY anything, the equipment is often found in liquidation auctions for a few hundred bucks a piece. A decent lab can be had with a few thousand bucks and a pickup truck. The harder part is getting proper Sigma Aldrich access for the really interesting reagents.

This isn’t something you can solve with more scans because the tests test for data that is indistinguishable. They look the same on a scan, there’s an overlap in the assay with some random protein with the same binding sites that is only present in 1% of the population, the coding gene in one person gets repeated in a noncoding region in another, and so on. The “more data” that works is a doctor applying professional judgement (which they’re also famously bad at because biology is a fickle mistress).

Silly nitpick: the reason we don’t do daily cancer scans isn’t the cost, it’s the false positive rate. Invasive procedures like biopsies come with complications like infections that happen at a higher rate and do more damage than the cancer that doesn’t even exist. This dilemma is pervasive in medicine, because our tests aren’t perfect but the thing they’re testing for is rare.

Andreessen Horowitz is not being played like a fiddle here. This might be their only investment in a decade that isn’t entirely predicated on being a scam.

Decompression is a bitch when coming down from half a dozen psychedelics.