rpearl

The thermostat is an ecobee, which is a pretty polished IoT device but I'm frustrated i couldn't get something _more_ local. It speaks homekit so I can do a number of actions entirely locally, and if the internet is down it still works, but I do wish it were more self-contained. So again, if I sell or get angry at technology and chuck my HomeAssistant Pi out the window, the thermostat will just work as a thermostat.

Likewise, my blinds are motorized--but they have a working remote paired directly to them. It's incredibly convenient to raise the blinds in the morning for some sunshine automatically and close them after sunset, but they'd work perfectly well without a smart home.

If you purchased my house, you probably wouldn't even know to rip out the "smart home" components because they fail over to just being normal components.

It is not particularly hard to make this method of operation happen, although it admittedly requires a budget above "dirt cheap."

and image processing with FHE is really not a stretch of the imagination. https://github.com/microsoft/EVA/blob/main/examples/image_pr...

> more enjoyable living

> freedom to live in more humane settings

> nightmarish big cities

You appear to be arguing as if this was an axiom--cities are this way, and you struggle through it until you can leave. As if the goal is to make bank and leave the city. But this is the cycle, not the cause. It does not have to be this way, and in many places (many European cities, Japanese and Korean cities, and more) it isn't this way. Tokyo is huge, for example, and it is very much not "nightmarish". Nor London, or Paris. Certainly in all these places there are space tradeoffs, but that is very much different than the only reason to be there being to suffer through.

At least in part, cars cause American cities to be this way. Cars are too big for city streets; cars push people out of cities at night making for different concentrations of activity, and so on. This article is a decent enough jumping off point, top of mind because I read it literally today: https://thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/keep-on-trucking

I believe we can have liveable, walkable cities, and it has nothing to do with "spreading out business activity".

Instead, it appears to investigate psychoactive drug deaths not to do with overdose.

There appear to be no "traditional" psychedelics (serotonergic hallucinogens like LSD, psilocybin, etc) covered here _at all_ except perhaps one death categorized as a "hallucinogen", which is definitely a lot less than 100% of the 147 deaths investigated.

You can just write decorated functions in python.

English speakers tend to have a vocabulary of 30k words or so depending on what exactly you measure.

GPT-4 has 1.7 trillion parameters.

Of course scaling up is quite unpredictable in what capabilities it gets you, but It's not that much of a stretch to imagine that a GPT-4 sized model would have a reasonably sized vocabulary. Certainly worth testing if you have the resources to train such a thing!

In the same way, a human competition in advent of code is an interesting challenge--and wouldn't be, if people cheat with AI solvers.

This study found these uses for indoor residential use: 18 gpd toilet (~10 flushes), 15 gpd washer (~1 load every few days), 11 gpd shower (~5 minutes), 11 gpd from faucet (~5min of flow, this one surprises me), 9.5 gpd from leaks, 1 gpd dishwashing

that's 65gpd right there. A ten minute shower and slightly more frequent laundry would easily get you 82gpd on indoor use only, ignoring any irrigation / outdoor use.

Is that wild?

In principle this frequency can be measured in any inertial frame. Seconds are not defined on Earth specifically.

I don't see anything referencing any planets?

To use cooklang, it appears that I have to rewrite recipes to include ingredients inline. No other recipes tend to use this style, because it is harder to read.

If I write recipes in cooklang, the plain text of the recipes is harder to understand without tools that speak cooklang, forcing me to use the tools to get an understandable format. The output of the CLI tool seems like a better format than the format itself!