ericvanular

This is awesome. The focus on climate pragmatism is exactly what we'd like to channel. I'll post about it on Collective.Energy - if you're involved with tmrow, get in touch!

Thank you! I was facing that dilemma myself for quite some time. The intention here is that you don't need to start huge - writing just one valuable comment on Collective.Energy can have a downstream impact that motivates/inspires others and creates positive effects. The ability to do good from your couch is really empowering I think. It makes it easy to get involved. Have you added your voice yet? There could be others that want to hear what you have to say

Thanks! I leveraged an open source Node.js based discussion platform called NodeBB. It's similar to Discourse but not made in Ruby on Rails. I cloned the base repo but then was quite liberal in customizing it to my own needs and extending the functionality. Any other feedback is very welcome, it's a work in progress!

I think Climate Colab is great. They are coming at it from a slightly different angle, which isn’t necessarily any better or worse. It is very contest oriented, with highly structured judging processes. Our objective is to include as many people in the discussion as possible, opening up the dialogue beyond a judged format (which can feel exclusive and prevent some people who might otherwise contribute their voice). Their approach has more of an academic focus (which is natural being a product of MIT). To me Colab feels more like Kaggle than HN/Reddit. Awesome work though!

Absolutely! The more people that are working together on climate solutions the better as far as we're concerned.

It looks like that initiative is working together through a Google doc for now? Perhaps they might be interested in also leveraging a forum-type environment to foster ongoing discussion in addition to their document! Love what they're doing though. If you're involved with that, get in touch!

Hi HN!

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the global climate crisis. I made this as a response to the problem, ”I don’t know what I can do to help”.

https://collective.energy is a community for crowdsourcing climate solutions & actions. The platform empowers individuals by providing inspiration, feedback, and an audience. Turn climate ideas into plans into reality - all in one place.

Feel free to make an account and post. It's far from perfect but let me know what you think. I'd love helpful feedback.

Thanks, Eric (Collective.Energy maker)

We can use the same economic engine which drove us down the hole of a carbon-based society to pull ourselves back out of it. Regardless of how you feel about capitalism, it is a strong machine for getting things done. Let’s line up the financial incentives with the well-being of the planet.

Imagining the future of energy and transportation naturally leads to a collision of those worlds. I've discussed some of the impacts that I think this might have on everyday life and business. What are your thoughts?

The motivation here was to expose most people who probably haven't heard of RL concepts like rewards, Markov decision processes, etc to the ideas. Appreciate your comment and I understand that a naive search method might be basic for advanced practitioners such as yourself :)

Thanks for the comment. 100% it is a naive random policy search. The intention is to help those who might not be familiar with RL concepts understand basic tools & how to start playing around rather than diving into things like DQL, PPO, etc right away

Hi everyone, I've received so much from this community over the years. I wanted to start to give back so I decided to start writing about topics that I hope will help people to learn. Please let me know if you have questions!