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Say what you will about Texas, but they are adding energy capacity, renewables especially, at a much faster rate than any comparable state.

~$125B per year would be 2-3% of all domestic investment. It's similar in scale to the GDP of a small middle income country. If the electric grid — particularly the interconnection…

If you doubt the computer’s influence has made its way into every walk of life, you haven’t met New Hope’s Jim Woolsey. For a decade, Woolsey has worked with the Tibetan government…

Jim Woolsey, a hippie and early-ish computer hacker from New Hope, Pennsylvania, was an important and early force in the digitization of the Tibetan language. This interview[0] wit…

Sounds like you're referring to https://www.explainpaper.com/ :)

Powell has mentioned[0] that the Fed is unable to affect fiscal policy, which is the fastest and best solution to certain economic crises. Does this bring the Fed closer to being a…

If you get a lot of value out of the pull request view, you might enjoy adding partial committing to your workflow. Rather than committing entire directories or folders at a time, …

Even if you do benchmark something, maintainability can be more important than a marginal performance improvement. I've seen this happen a lot with JavaScript, particularly in the …

This is The Onion's "we're thinking printers", but for karaoke machines. What a world.

I asked ChatGPT if it understood the rules of the board game Codenames; it did. I described the board and asked it to play the role of the Spymaster, and it provided a pretty solid…

By coincidence, the median estimate and world population are both fairly round numbers: 20M deaths on a planet with 8B people. Put another way: 1 in every 400 people on earth died …

I'd argue it's worse. Slower, at least.

I appreciate a provocative title, but I think the practical lesson in almost all cases is the inverse: fixing race conditions can introduce performance bottlenecks.

As an environmentalist, I have plenty of friends who are interested in degrowth, or even actively promote the concept. Curiously, however, none of them are interested in moving to …

Sure. I'm not suggesting it be used to this effect; I'm noting the generality as an interesting point.

Something that people may not see immediately is that flatMap is more general than map and filter. Say, for a contrived example, that you'd like to filter out the even numbers in a…

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Some of the largest companies in the world are named after fruits, misspelled big numbers and rainforests, but even with that set of comparands, this seems a bit silly.

I've always wanted to explore the word2vec space to find the most sparsely populated region, then (assuming you can train some sort of reverse vec2word model) coin that word that t…