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MIT's D-Lab https://d-lab.mit.edu/research does a lot of similar work on fuels/cooking, evaporative cooling, and design with locally available materials/techniques

I'd suggest commercial aircraft as an even better analogy than cars. Most of the ongoing costs you mention for cars still apply--but there are also the occasional (possibly dramati…

Thanks for posting! Wild that that 20 years ago Clay put a name to these niche tools that are now trivial to make with vibes and an API key. Also fun to see a mention of Dennis Cro…

Fun! Very similar to https://www.dragonfjord.com/product/a-puzzle-a-day/

Yes, very dependent on the market. In some East African markets that don't have much history of recycling, Kubik [0] has a neat model of employing folks to recover plastic waste fr…

While there are some similarities, yes, our brains definitely don't have anything akin to backpropagation, which is the critical mechanism for how current AI models learn. Hinton h…

Fun fact: Hans Albert Einstein, son of Albert Einstein, helped with the design of the Old River Control Structure. According to Wunderground's three-part series about the ORCS[1], …

Maybe? The Scaling Hypothesis[1] suggests that greater capabilities of intelligence may emerge from scaling up 'scalable architectures' to large sizes. GPT-3 exhibits 'meta-learnin…

"Malachite Capital Management LLC, a hedge fund specializing in trading volatility, said that it would shut down immediately." according to https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/coronav…

Correct, here is their Kafka-based stream processing package that presumably ties everything together: https://faust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Uganda is home to a large regional hub for UN logistics, a state-of-the-art CDC infectious disease laboratory, and similar outposts--presumably due to Uganda's relative stability o…

For those looking for a modern take on improving on the CSV format, I'd recommend Frictionless Data's Datapackage specification[1] which basically consists of a json file of metada…

I'd recommend reading more about the 'information fiduciary' approach[1] promoted by Prof Jonathan Zittrain (and others) which I find to be among the most realistic steps in a bett…

Looks like a subset of the open-source https://mermaidjs.github.io/

The 'Retail jobs growth by state' chart in this article (approx 2/3 down the page) is lovely: one square line chart for each US state, positioned roughly according to geography, al…

Same with phone numbers. In most parts of the world, local numbers (not fully-qualified with country code), are written/dialed with a leading zero. Excel eats these and/or uses sci…

This is called a 'fiduciary duty' and is common in many professions (law, medicine, finance, real estate, clergy, etc) Here's a great explanation and strategy for applying to softw…

Its not just desire to avoid spending the money to provide chip+pin systems Most Americans have many credit cards, unlike consumers in Europe, for example, where chip+pin is the no…

Technically, The Expanse is financed and produced by Alcon Television Group, which is a division of Alcon Entertainment. Certainly having SyFy on board for US broadcast distributio…

Check out PanicKit: https://guardianproject.info/2016/01/12/panickit-making-your...

I have the Xiaomi Mi4C, which gets an OTA update every week. Most changes are cosmetic, but typically includes substantive android security updates at least monthly.

If you haven't watched Season 19 (which includes the serial saga with P.C. Principal mentioned in the article) I'd highly recommend it. It really embodies South Park's unique abili…

a recommendation from my friend is http://www.gearbest.com/top-brands/brand/xiaomi.html

i got my Mi4C in April 2016 and it has received several OTA android version update and monthly android security patches. there are certainly many insignificant UI changes, but ther…

yes. my Xiaomi Mi4C gets an update every week. sometimes some minor regressions, but they're always fixed the next week. i certainly prefer that to the typical android software upd…