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the closest computational equivalent to writing that sentence we have today involves executing a model with 1.5 billion parameters. (and I couldn't find an estimate of the energy c…

Nor should we accept false equivalencies.

Interesting implementation detail while "pigs" != "fly":

Citation needed.

Agreed. I was definitely expecting a reference, and I was confused that the table of contents listed the authors & their positions before mentioning the title of the chapter.

I lived in China for 6 months and saw plenty of cops with guns and saw undercover cops roughly throw around a street vendor who had gotten too close to the forbidden city for their…

Previous discussion of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8901357

Maybe this works for people in finance, but I can't see it being useful otherwise. The concept you're using as an analogy just isn't widely known.

It should be noted that public github repos are _not_ public domain and not even necessarily open source unless the author specifies a license.

Nice! Now I just need someone to make an emacs mode that does this.

I like the look of your mountain ranges. Is that done using a published method or something of your own devising?

As the poster above mentioned, Methane has a greater immediate impact, but it only stays in the atmosphere "for 11-12 years"[1], making it a relatively short term problem. CO2 stay…

From Wikipedia[1], "In the past 540 million years there have been five major events when over 50% of animal species died." So if your measure for bio-diversity is the number of uni…

If anyone else was curious about Scott's usage of "God" in this lecture, he talks about it here[1]. TLDR: they are "tongue-in-cheek references to an Einsteinian God." 1: http://www…

>Right now Liberia has about the population and land area of Virginia, which means it's already overpopulated. First, that assumes Virginia is 'optimally populated'. Second, accord…

Do you mean PARC circa 1970s?

The drivers have to pay for their own insurance, so it's not that. Hard to see how a background check requires 20% of all revenue.

There certainly does seem to be a lot of political posturing going on, but I don't think it is coming from the scientists.

It can be very difficult here to get by without knowing chinese unless you live in a foreigner-friendly area (i.e. a tourist area or near a university). I'd suggest using a tour co…

"He had no idea who was behind it until last August, when he provided malware samples to a security firm at the request of a Bloomberg reporter. A forensic analysis of the malware …

The HN reaction to this story is pretty sad, I have to say. Yes, journalists are poor at providing technical coverage. That's not really their job. Yes, this guy could have created…

One of these, at least, is supported by a pretty weird edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reason&diff=51...