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"Qualitative" means that the field had good conceptual theories, but didn't have sufficient observational and computational resolution to determine the detailed numerical values

Using the 80/20 rule to plan, is like that other old saw "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is, I don't know which half"

Fun fact, Anglo American is a British company, founded by a German Jew, with a South African CEO. The company name reflects where the startup capital came from.

These apheresis machines are removing microplastics and PFCs, but that is a byproduct of their process. They are not TARGETING these molecules, nor do we have a reliable way of doi…

The comic doesn't answer the question "how many energy slaves is 100 horsepower?" but based on the assumptions therein, the answer is 4,706 energy slaves.

Seconding this. I particularly love how clear his POV on design is. Put simply, he believes good design (and technology) boils down to doing more with less. Others have written in …

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Here is the revised post title that follows ASD‑STE100 Simplified Technical English rules: "Agent Skill to Enforce ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English in Documents"

Why did people downvote this? Virginia, Rhode Island, DC and Puerto Rico public schools all mandate the HPV vaccine for kids, regardless of sexual activity. Many people think it's …

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Yes, just like cow farts.

We are doing a lot. Almost 90% of electricity capacity added last year was renewables. Nearly 1 in 3 cars sold are now EVs. The world is spending over $2 trillion every year on low…

That's because many (most?) LLM chatbots were pre-trained by Kenyan ESL people

Missing one of my favorite in USA which I will not mention here because it is unofficially open to the public and i don't want that to change...

The folly is thinking that getting hiring right is the solution at all. As has been pointed out a) leaders matter, b) the difference in impact between great and mediocre/poor leade…

>this is all downstream of structural incentives You are mostly right and the structural incentives are more related at root to unsustainable national debt than any legislative cho…

At age 22, FLW was specially trained, working at the equivalent of a frontier AI lab (the most important architect in Chicago) and in the most booming city at the time (Chicago, es…