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GPUs are optimized for matrices of floating point values, so current neural networks use this as a basis (with matrices containing the scalar weights).

Very convenient, thank you!

It is a very hairy cow, which likes to bite and is stuck in the mud. Also it has a wierd high-frequency response. There is a description of tractors to get it out, but we'll skip how the controls work for now.

If we want back the old internet we must build it. Create your own website, link to those you like, get in contact with the people running them. Mine is mglz.de, check out the link collection and get in touch about linking between sites :)

Well, who can realistically oppose billions of dollars coming to ruin something?

Well, the old internet was partially based on people knowing each other. Then the large players made it all about mass engagement. Maybe we should go back to linking your friends webpages from your own and have a small amount of readers.

For beginners it is super annoying that many tutorials say "there is a magical switch or oscillator here which is integral to the function of the boost converter, but we will not tell you how to actually realize it". Additionally, that needs to work at the voltage level you are starting out from and in many cases should be galvanically isolated from the converter. This is a lot to keep in mind and it is actually not trivial.

The answer here is usually to find an IC that works at your desired input voltage or to have a linear regulator provide a small amount of power for the PWM generator. Also be wary of just running with an AI generated answer. Claude 3.5 Sonnet suggest you connect an Arduino straight to 230V and after some back and forth generates circuits which contain strange elements like "antiparallel diodes" which makes no sense.

Interesting, I wonder how they manage wireless comms under water. Ultrasonic? And what is the reliability of these devices?

NASA has a handbook on it:

https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/static/resources/NASA-HDBK...

Apparently you attach all grounds to some common component, like the chassis and then you have a zero volt reference. As long as it is stable and the relative voltages to it are consistent, that should suffice for electrical systems. Handling overall charge of the craft might be a bigger challenge, but no idea how that would be handled.

> Where is the colonialism within Europe?

If you see colonialism as a foreign group establishing control over a people and region over a long time, then:

* The Roman Empire colonized Europe for hundreds of years

* Napoleon colonized most of continental Europe (this one might be debatable)

* The British colonized Ireland and Scotland

* The Ottomans colonized the Balkans

* Muslim Caliphates colonized Spain/Al-Andalus

* The Vikings colonized areas around the north sea.

And probably a lot of smaller scales things I am missing.

How much incoming solar power ends up in the methane? And how do you get the energy back out?

A look at a microscopic image of any CPU is mind boggling, even older ones. Layer upon layer of stacked complexity, almost down to the single atom level.

Has there been any change in Boeing management (which is what led to the mess they are in)?

It is a massive failure and also very public. Some flight booking websites now allow you to filter for non-boeing flights. Sure, Boeing can take a lot of hits due to its size, but damage accumulates, trust erodes and a tipping point could be reached somewhere. It's similar to how countries collapse in a war: First not at all, then very fast.

Does overflying the US in low Earth orbit count as reentry? Or do you need to re-enter the atmosphere im order to re-enter?

The damage to Boeing is already done I am afraid. But moving forwards there needs to be accountability for management types that destroy companies in such a way. This is a massive destruction of capability for the USA and will continue to be extremely expensive in the future.

I think it's safe to assume somebody in management or marketing required the use of "AI" somehow.

If you are new make sure to contact your local beekeeper club (if available) to learn about bee diseases. From parasites like varroa mites, to fungi, to viruses: They can get really sick and if you accidentally produce an unhealthy hive it can be bad for other hives nearby.

Definitely go ahead, this is a great thing to do! Just positng this as a hint :)

Hard to create and the results seem to get more and more unstable, making it very hard to do any science on them. However there is a theorized "island of stability", where superheavy elements might stick around for a bit longer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

In research you often learn that such totally unexpected, out of place things are often artifacts. Being too quick to get excited about that leads to disappointment and can seriously damage your reputation in the scientific community.

It seems terrible, but a dampener on excitement is often needed for focus.

The LLM is trained by measuring its error compared to the training data. It is literally optimizing to not be recognizable. Any improvement you can make to detect LLM output can immediately be used to train them better.

No, but the scrapers cannot tell it apart from LLM output.

> The reason is that the true wealth of the world isn’t a number on a spreadsheet — it’s a bunch of real, physical stuff.

This is correct. World wealth is the amount of ressources made usable by humans through work. The economy is the production of those ressources plus moving stuff around (via logistics or virtually). The debate about siezing rich people's wealth is about how the ressources are allocated and who has the rights to decide upon their use. And there is a good argument to be made that an extreme concentration in the hands of very few is not efficient.

I tought some Computational Geometry courses and efficiently computing the intersections of N line segments is not as straightforward as you might initially think. Since somewhere some computation must be done to recognize this and LLMs are not specifically trained for this task, it's not suprising they struggle.

In general, basic geometry seems under-explored by learning.

The UK is part of ESA, which should be independant from EU membership. I am not sure where Ariane 6 parts are built though.

Normally I am a big fan of the EU but this is crap legislation. If you want to stop speeding, just do what France is doing: Frequent speed cameras and high fines. It is very rare to encounter somebody speeding there.

One thing the article totally skips: WHO is stealing the cars? Organized groups? A bunch of individuals then reselling to organized smugglers? That seems to be at the root of the issue. Also, what made this become and issue now and not before?

Whcih ones and why? Wierd load balancing? Or dumb bureaucracy?

Interesting proposal, but can this really be done?

> The ISS be stripped of whatever of the billions of dollars of still-useful hardware and tech it has aboard. This can be auctioned to one of the several new commercial space station facilities, or even, if appropriate, transferred to NASA’s planned lunar orbiting “Gateway” facility.

Are there any such reusable systems aboard the ISS? Can they be removed?

> The station be moved to a medium-high orbit, sealed, and declared a Universal Heritage Site.

What system would be used to bring people and supplies to that orbit? How much would it cost per launch?

And the elephant in the room: How can this project guarantee the safety of the station long term? We already know about cracks appearing and Mir also decayed over time.

Lots of chopping trees seems to come from a laziness of thinking, where certain people in the city adminsitration are just used to the idea "trees cause costs". They never think any further about benefits beyond finances.