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Garbage in Garbage out is real and shouldn't be underestimated. Its about as useful as trying to understand quantum physics from the perspective of a flat-earther

In the Netherlands we have a completely seperated bus network. No speedbumps, traffic light priority and audible cue at the intersection. Works pretty well for emergency services.

There is, four abstractions down,my comment gets squished as a sardine

The reason is buried in another article

"WDL tables (.rtbw) store the outcome of positions, e.g. if a position is winning. An engine will use this very frequently to decide which endgames to aim for. WDL tables should be stored on the fastest disk (preferably SSD) you have." "DTZ tables (.rtbz) tell the engine how to finish the endgame once it is on the board. They are optional, but required to reliably convert complicated endings."

Seems reasonable to put the WDL table on the SSD for better engine performance. I do understand not choosing SSD's. The number of lookups for positions always remains the same per user per game. Yet the tablebase is growing more than exponentially.

https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/7-piece-syzygy-tablebases...

Any problem that has a large range of inputs and a large range of outputs with many possible permutations inbetween.

Yes, you could use specialised algoritms but why not let the AI design such thing? It might be better than you.

Assuming a drive contains helium at standard temparature and pressure, and contains about a liter in volume. That would be about 1 gram worth of helium per drive.

I dont see a price point here. Its probaly around 5000 if it is competitive. This makes me wonder what other storage tech could achieve with similar price points.

Exiting times are ahead for anyone with technology for better non-volatiles or better scaling volatile memory

I've bought a phone with a big battery so I could do exactly what the GP said, always charge between 30-80%. But that means I'm cutting half of the potential energy in the battery.

I'm lamenting the fact that we have to do this even though film capacitors can be drained from 100% to 0% without damaging the capacitor or reducing its capacity. This is far closer to how you want an energy storage device to operate. Aside from the fact that film capacitors store about a thousand times less energy by every metric.

No you can't. Anyone whose spent any time breaking glass into specific shapes knows how difficult it is. Glass can't handle the force required to break it in one go. Multiple perfect passes have to be made in order to do it with reasonable yield. Having corners inside your fault lines is asking for trouble. Chips arent that much different.

That defeats the point of having a big battery. You're sacificing battery life to gain battery longevity

You cannot cut straight lines trough hexagons. Triangles would work but would be even more inconvenient to design cut and process into normal chips. So squares it is.

Because not all chips will be stable at -100mV Intel is providing the chip with warranty/guarantee that the chip performs 'up to' spec.

Is your chip completely stable in all workloads? Would it be stable at 90c? when all Dram slots are occupied? When driving all pcie lanes at max?

I bet that you could make any chip unstable with the right tools and knowledge.

>Europe has a lot of passenger rail, and as a result, shorter freight trains, and more use of trucks for transport.

You can't generalise european train networks because they are not monolithic at all. Netherlands, germany and france all have different networks that cannot interoperate. It's a mess for completely different reasons. Switzerland, for example, has one of the best passenger and train networks out there but you can't take a direct train from any european country to switzerland nevermind freight.

How did you tell the difference between dutch roll and the plane catching a glideslope?

We've got no shortage of electron beams to use in an engine. The problem is that the engine runs out of electrons very quickly and will become positively charged. Meaning all your propellant will come flying back. You would have to capture 'free' electrons from space to make use of it.

Its certainly exiting that we'll have laser based communication in the near future. its like all ingredients for interplanetary missions are slowly coming together. all we're missing now is a very high specific impulse engine that could push the several tons for human habitation to another planet.

There's several projects for laser-based communication and research. It would also make it really difficult to aim since you can miss your target now.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-deep-space-optical-comm-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_A...

No, you're throwing away a random selection of 50/50. You would have to flood the algorithm with uniques or commons to set the algoritm to a probability of a known state.

Porn sites have questionable reputation. This is why your very legit hairdresser also has completely bald clients and why gangs ask for protection money especially in mom and pop shops.

His comparison to global warming and hurricanes was on point. The issues with his mom and global warming seemed equally difficult to resolve. With the obvious issue that there does not seem to be an adult in the room that solves the issue.

>The relationship between availability of guns and the amount of gun violence is extremely well-established.

Its also hard to prove which causes which. In some capacity, violence itself necessitates guns. Both statements could also be true at the same time. or playing the devils advocate, the increase in violence causes higher gun ownership, but once the ownership is there, reducing violence might not reduce gun violence itself.

What do you mean? Name 'countless locales' without guns. The only one that comes to mind are things like freight ships preferring water cannons over guns. There's also countless of examples where not having apropriate self defence is a death sentence to a culture, country or person living in a dangerous area

>This is the same semantic argument of "Guns don't hurt people". Of course, guns hurt people. A physical object can be harmful without a human being to give it intent. It's a straw man argument that delves into the meaning of words than actually addressing if something is actually harmful or not.

Given the proposition that 'objects' harm people without human involvement, that does not in any way improve the null-hypothesis of wanting to prevent harm. If an earthquake or tsunami hits we do not shrug it off as an act of nature or god. We have an intent to prevent the disaster even if no human was involved. The comparison to guns is an ill fitted one. A gun that no man knows about cannot hurt someone. A person still has to wield it, compared to AI, people are definitely the ones wielding the weapon. Weapons, like AI is a tool. whereas guns have a very clear target and modus operandi, AI has no such thing. AI is by definition innocent of every crime in the book since you cannot demonstrate it to have morality in the first place. Which is a problem if someone has used it to commit crimes. Obviously AI doesn't kill people, the people using AI want someone dead.

In the context of the article, it means we have to take responsibility for what the AI creates regardless of its intent, precisely because there might or might not be someone behind with intent.

My main gripe with nonlinear mouse movenement is that it breaks learned behaviour if you do it faster. This is why most gamers use raw linear mouse data.

I dont think the GP is asking for a universal reference frame in the same way physics describes it. I think he's asking for a universal programmatic reference frame to describe the offsets that sattelites and lunar stations have.

Even though time runs faster on sattelites, and the signal delay differs based on position. Because the vectors of sattelites and the moon is constant, as well as the moons gravity, you could calculate what those offsets should be and synchronise clocks anyway.

To put it another way, you normalise the clock drift and the delay, whats left over is the same clock drift you'll need to account for when you have a quartz clock in your computer and a time server that runs an atomic clock.

The point being, clock drift can become a huge issue unless you define a specification that allows any equipment to sync up with any other clock in Time And Relative Dimensions In Space.

Yeah, I used to be very adverse to such things, I still am, in part because I know just how impossible it is to read something you dont believe and get an understanding of the material at the same time. It requires suspension of disbelief. anyone can have an open mind sometimes, but no one can do that all the time. For some concrete examples I would implore you to read excerpts from 'Ageless Body, Timeless Mind' by deepak chopra. To put it mildly, I know I have my limits.

Required reading material is usually more mundane than some of the stuff out there. But that could also mean that it's not daring enough to require reading. So my philosophy is that you should support people in choosing their adversity, never mandating.

>but to suggest that people read her just because they’re required to is absurd

Its not, source: the OP

Your comment made me realise how much I hated being required to read X because of all the exact reasons you mentioned above. Just because what I've read didn't win a nobel prize doesn't mean I cant find it subjectively better.

That seems awfull. Here in the netherlands, most automatic signals dont really care about speeding. Though alot of green waves are also designed with trucks in mind. So this puts clear upper and lower limits on timings.

By going back to using interpreted languages. No more precompiled binaries where changing/adding patches and flags require full builds, just stream compiled/compressed source code directly to the target.

You could also extern the software to a webserver and only cache small parts of the software on the client. Instead of gigabytes of install sizes you'll be required to have a 1 or 10 gbit network link to run and stream features as you're acessing them.

"Once lit, the phase indicates nearby drivers should simply follow the car (AV or human) in front of them, instead of trying to anticipate something like a yellow light’s transition time to red."

I dont know what this means but it sounds similar to the green wave light that we have here in the netherlands. All it is is a lit green double wave that tells you that the very next traffic lights going straight will be guaranteed to be green. This way you dont have to anticipate breaking even if you can see the green light has been on for an entire cycle.

This is usefull because you can chain intersections so the worst case is that you have to wait two cycles on the entire chain, coming on and going off.