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This is really interesting, thank you for sharing!

From a French education, I have learned a different order of cases for Latin declension tables (NVAGDA: Nominative, Vocative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Ablative). I was curious to know where it comes from, and apparently the order you used is more common in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension#Order_of_the_...

This is what I meant indeed. Edited original question.

How is solar/wind + batteries cheaper than nuclear? Any numbers I saw omits batteries which would be an unfair comparison.

EDIT: I had asked the opposite question of what I intended.

This was done to prevent badly affecting the ecosystem of the rivers. The water from the river is used to cool down the plant, but the resulting warm water is poured back into the river. The temperature of the water going back to the river is carefully monitored and during heat waves it may be decided to shut down the plant. By the way this is not specific to nuclear at all, coal plants work the same, but France is the major exception in the world with 74% electricity coming from nuclear, and most of the rest coming from dams (extremely low carbon footprint for electricity). Some plant designs only use closed-circuit cooling which doesn't have this problem. The towers people usually associate with nuclear plants, is in fact a cooling tower that uses the air to cool the water. Again despite popular belief, these cooling towers are not just for nuclear, they are also used for coal plants (any thermal power plant)

Can you share the methodology on how you calculate a carbon footprint/offset?

This comment reminded me of the last lines of Hotel California: "You can check out any time you like // But you can never leave!"

Thanks for sharing! Curious to learn more about this. Have you posted it in the HTM discourse forum? I would be interested in what the community thinks of it!

Are you going to implement WASI ?

What I'm really looking for is being able to debug any production Go binary by inspecting the stack trace behind an error. Could be gated by an environment variable.

Elon just said, they recovered the fairings from the water undamaged and they are intending to reuse them for Starlink later this year. Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1116514068393680896 and https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1116514534557016064

There is a link in https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys/wiki/VHDL-frontend-efforts

Correct, that's what I was referring to. Apologies if I mischaracterized his stance.

I'm very pleased to see Numenta on HN front page, as they're doing incredibly difficult and ambitious work without deep learning's spotlight. They take a philosophically very different approach: instead of warming up biologically implausible neural models from the 60s and hope that with enough data we'll reach artificial general intelligence (AGI), Numenta founder Jeff Hawkins (way before Hinton's or Hassabis's recent declarations of DL reaching a deadend) thinks we shall understand our biological neocortex better and reverse engineer it because it's the only piece of hardware most scientists agree is at the source of intelligence. Although planes don't have wings, we had to understand wing-flapping first to find better ways to fly. If you're interested, I highly recommend you follow https://discourse.numenta.org/

The best part is "Scroll down for video" from https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample3 :)

I also paused. I was thinking that oxygen is coming from previous stars exploding.

Admins: the title needs "(2014)"

I’ve been following Numenta’s work since 2010 and today I’m happy to see this at the top of HN. Hopefully the deep learning community longing for AGI, will finally take a look at Numenta’s work. I also would like to shout out to Matt who’s been involved in the open source work as well as the amazing HTMSchool YouTube videos which I highly recommend for anyone interested to learn about the underlying concepts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3yXMgtrZmDqhsFQzwUC9...

This reminds me of Russ Cox's toy Webscript language: https://research.swtch.com/webscript

>> Why is US GDP growth so weirdly constant?

> My guess is energy.

Your guess is correct. Energy is what drives the economy. We've been going from least concentrated to most concentrated energy sources: human/animal muscle to wind, river flow, to coal, oil, nuclear. Oil being the best tradeoff between ready-to-use and energy concentration. GDP is what people are paid, but the people have magical machines that run on energy.

Any bell curve looks exponential in the beginning, but when you run out of that concentrated energy you're left with less concentrated energy unable to sustain the same level of growth.

The chart should either have a title with "Number of Direct Queries" and Y-axis numbers such as "20M", or keep the title "Direct Queries in Millions" and have Y-axis numbers simply be "20".

Any reason it doesn't serve HTTPS?

I had a profound feeling when I understood the algebraic completeness of complex numbers thanks to one of his videos about complex numbers.

Interesting WaitButWhy, but in my opinion, the real big decision is about children, not marriage. The difference of responsibility is light years apart. Marriage can be undone.

Am I the only one who found the following typo anachronistically funny: "Steve Jobs quotes Alan Kay at iPhone 7 launch" ?

From https://hackaday.io/project/18206-a2z-computer/log/71637-5-a...

I’m afraid, Linux and a C compiler is totally not feasible.

A2Z lacks many things to achieve the goal of C retargeting and Linux porting.

- A2Z only manages Direct Addressing in hardware. No complex address computation. If you want to implement data stack, recursive functions, then direct addressing is not enough. You cannot retarget a C compiler with only direct addressing (or if you emulate complex addressing modes by software, it would be very very slow).

- A2Z has not interrupt management. You cannot implement/port a pre-emptive multitasking OS (Linux) without interrupt management.

- A2Z has no memory management unit.

- A2Z’s ALU is compatible with nothing.

I'm a self-taught moderate guitar player and I feel like this is really cool, but I don't understand any of it. Can someone explain how to read this, and what to do?

I really wish WebAssembly didn’t use the word “Web”. Its best usecase is for the server. It just happens to also be great for challenging JavaScript in the browser.

I wanted to find out, so I looked at vgo's source code, and found that vgo does indeed have some solution to this using Github Access Tokens and ~/.netrc: https://github.com/golang/vgo/blob/b6ca6ae975e2b066c002388a8...

To all the skeptics, please try it out and provide constructive feedback. Experiment with the corner cases you think won't work. Judging just by the blogpost won't help anyone.

Personally, I'm very excited and impressed by the ability of the Go team to innovate by diving deep and understanding every aspect of the problem at hand and the existing solutions, instead of just blindly adopting whatever already exists.