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I think air transport and oceanic shipping will probably still take time owing to energy density concerns, but there are electric trucks already (with trials of roadside charging r…

What is the "frontier" in EVs that Chinese automakers are yet to achieve? And what automaker is at this so called frontier?

There are variants and flavours of this already at smaller scales like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalPERS?wprov=sfla1 But the US in general hates "state owned enterprises" in th…

Fundamental research shows progress on timescales that are incompatible with most "free market" timelines, i.e. the stock market does not want a company to spend 10 years developin…

Not all high schools but the US has some schools which allow you to take very advanced material / even get a head start on your college credits.

Renting a 2b2b in the middle of Manhattan probably costs 100k a year, but that is very far from a "moderate-cost area".

Why would it be consistent with the scientific mainstream? Unless there's evidence that scientific reports and material are specifically up-weighted during training and prioritised…

Tangentially related to the idea of "apply a random rotation matrix" is one where you apply a random matrix to a set of points to preserve distances between them but transform them…

They also sell/have sold the Arya, the Sundara, and the Ananda.

It has more to do with the nature of the industry and firm. If your TC yearly is all cash and exceeds 500k, asking 100k of that as buy in is not too different from being granted st…

What continent contains Iran, Syria and (as the other comment pointed out) North Korea?

The "mass market" in almost every country outside of NA is already adopting EVs, and a large part of that has been Chinese cars which aren't sold in the US due to protectionism and…

It exists in the US as well (Zelle), except due to the super high number of banks, not all will have feature parity / have it enabled. The major banks like Chase support QR code sc…

Is it clear if it uses the rotors in flight for lift or for forward movement? I think it would be wrong to call it a helicopter if the only time the rotors provided active lift was…

There is no consistent scale on that graph, so any local maxima of reports received would look similar to any other.

This was a historic period for low rates, but rates have been higher and have been changed faster before, for example during the late 70s / 80s. It went from 4-5% to nearly 20% ove…

Data point of just 1, but even in a small college town in the Midwest US, 50% or more counters at the grocery stores I've visited have been self checkout. Some places are almost en…

Venture Capital and Hedge Funds are similar in the sense of "they both invest money and try to make superior returns". Just like all software is similar since "it uses computation …

That global persistence model across executions is very fascinating. If you don't mind, could you explain what line of work this is and how it helps the use case? I have encountere…

A lot of finance companies sponsor events / prizes like this simply as a means of advertising and PR. If you come across this prize as a math student, now XTX is in your head and m…

https://imo-grand-challenge.github.io/ This is a similar contest where the plan is exactly as you describe - to develop a way to solve formal descriptions in Lean of IMO problem.

I know this comment is just adding on to the joke, but the number of people who can speak / read English in India is very high. There are more English speakers in India than multip…

Is it the same as avoiding AWS because they will take your software and run it themselves to steal your clients?

A few of the current F1 drivers already have sim setups and play driving sims as well as the official F1 video game. What you're suggesting isn't too far off.

The near current generation chip being talked about is the one in the latest Huawei phones, made in collaboration with SMIC. I believe SMIC have older machines that can still be pu…