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> Pool together wind + solar + hydro Plus stored power, plus biomass, plus nuclear, plus gas. 90% renewables is better than 80% renewables. Throwing up our hands and saying "we'll …

I think he taught geography.

You apply a fuel tax to all vehicles, and an additional sin tax to ICE vehicles. They can still both be applied at the point of refuelling.

I wasn't allowed the soft-serve stuff (Mr Whippy). My mum didn't trust the machines not to be little food poisoning incubators. (And it looks like she was right: https://researchpo…

Weight and number of miles travelled aren't correlated though. If you go with a fuel tax (more difficult with EVs but not impossible) you get fuel efficiency, weight and miles trav…

I've found that "build X with framework Y" produces better results than "build X". Possibly because many architectural decisions have already been made by the framework authors. Be…

They're the ones AI is more productive in.... (It's an interesting question though - my prediction would be that AI is best in the languages it consumed the most examples of, and I…

Imperial measurements are often based on the human body: an inch is the width of a thumb, a yard is the distance between your nose and your outstretched finger, a fathom is outstre…

Paperclip research.

These documents always have a strong whiff of anarchy files about them to me. You're got copy-pasting of recipes between documents, warnings, threats, boasts, forbidden knowledge (…

But you can't read the original! That's why you built the pipeline in the first place! Only people who can read both versions can have a grounded opinion on whether or not the tran…

I should make my point more explicit so you can't misunderstand it. > after 6 years we have just claims of where it came from. Isn't that suspicious enough? No it is not suspicious…

> You know what you know from nothing at all. I've done it myself. Transcription of 19th century newspaper articles to markdown, mostly. Some earlier wills (which were an absolute …

The thing with LLM-generated code is you can test it on a real CPU - that's a tight feedback loop with a cast-iron verification mechanism. Translations of human language have no an…

> Would critics rather have NO translations of these pivotal works? I sent a Classicist the link because it's adjacent to his area of interest, and by chance he addressed this ques…

Where did Spanish Flu "come from"? Or HIV for that matter. We've got a fair idea where SARS-CoV-2 originated (horseshoe bats). It's the early path it took that's muddy.

Not OP, but: If it's something I want to work from, I get a printer to slice the spine off and rebind it with a ring binding. That way it lays flat on the desk. You've trashed the …

I think putting the works in a print-on-demand catalogue at an unreasonable price would be more likely. But there are worse outcomes.

If you like this, the Dead Media Project's working notes are fascinating, if they're still out there (90s project, Bruce Sterling-adjacent). I was on the mailing list, way back whe…

I think one of the very first public demos for GPT was a text adventure game?

> I have no clue what you're talking about tbh. Point an LLM at the conversation and ask it to ELI5 the competing arguments.

"I can use a lossy compression algorithm such that the original could never be recovered from the image I've produced, but that derived image would surely be under copyright." I've…

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Ok, reductio ad absurdum. Here's a highly compressed representation of The Lord of The Rings (all three volumes): 1 Obviously, fidelity when uncompressing it is not great, but I ca…