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angrycontrarian

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    Comment #33984899

    It needs to produce about 100X more energy if it wants to produce grid power. It didn't achieve net break even compared to the amount of energy that went into the NIF equipment to …

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    Comment #33836575

    His mom literally runs a major fundraising arm of the DNC.

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    Comment #33836236

    We're talking about a major political donor who just defrauded people for billions of dollars, whose parents are extremely well connected to the DNC and have actually written a sub…

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    Comment #33836145

    >claims >it's possible >I don't know if that's true, but it's possible. Sounds an awful lot like a conspiracy theory, my dude.

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    Comment #33836067

    So 0.6% of his overall contributions? Not even a full percent?

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    Comment #33835932

    > despite having donated to both parties extensively > both He was the second biggest donor to the DNC after George Soros. I'm not aware of any RNC contributions.

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    Comment #33703328

    Truly incredible that such a small group of people could be so well represented in academia and media. My hat goes off to them!

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    Comment #33700037

    I don't think that's correct. It appears that this was designed using topology optimization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_optimization

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    Comment #33664895

    Again, as with the sibling comment, I would like to see empirical data on the cost viability of existing solar and wind installations. Most of the links posted so far seem to prese…

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    Comment #33664858

    I am not asking for forecasts of what could theoretically happen in the future: I want to see an analysis of existing installations.

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    Comment #33664303

    The PDF you linked does not contain empirical data on existing solar and wind installations. It's an investment pitch.

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    Comment #33664067

    > A clean power grid means cheaper power. That's a pretty wild assertion, given current events. Care to back it up with some evidence from a neutral source?

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    Comment #33503407

    I am still struggling to understand how migrating to a censorship-resistant platform will mitigate concerns about a lack of strict content moderation at twitter.

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    Comment #33479656

    Would the article have been published if the author found evidence to the contrary?

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    Comment #33479625

    Same, just signed up for a paid account today. Looks like the full $8 blue checkmark experience hasn't been released yet though.

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    Comment #33475744

    Except then it became "Fuck you, do what they tell you."

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    Comment #33448911

    State of the art is 1D convnets, bleeding edge is transformers.

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    Comment #33271938

    Having implemented them myself on an ad hoc basis in pytorch, I don't see how they're much different than training a deep learning model.

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    Comment #33271212

    What about interior point methods?

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    Comment #33271113

    There are a lot of large-scale optimization problems in industry that are still compute bound. Currently available solvers are either single threaded on the CPU, or offer "parallel…

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    Comment #33271053

    For all of the success applying GPUs to optimization problems in ML, why don't any of the common optimization packages seem to support GPU acceleration?

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    Comment #33148649

    Believe it or not, the bond market predicted covid months in advance with another yield curve inversion.

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    Comment #33101232

    If you don't have an authoritative source, then you're spreading misinformation.

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    Comment #33099093

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim that printing away 127% debt-to-GDP won't lead to hyperinflation is very extraordinary, and yet you still haven't pos…