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Many good points, but with respect, electricity costs in the US are near the lowest of any large economy (see, for instance, https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/estimate…

I (American) worked in Spain (Cáceres, Extremadura) ~2015-2017 in tech. It was a wonderful experience. Extremely talented, hard-working, and friendly co-workers. Great health-care …

Adding % !TEX program = lualatex to the top of your document allows you to switch LaTeX engine. This is required for recent accessibility standards compliance (support for tagging …

Swap "solid rear axle" with "De Dion axle" and your description fits the Slate truck pretty well.

"one mushroom species in five is poisonous"? 20% ??? That seems like a crazy high estimate to me, at least if you mean deadly poisonous to humans. In the USA there are only a few s…

As an educator, one great use for me is classroom use. Students can run R/Python/Fortran in the browser on any OS without installing any software: https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/late…

You may enjoy this: https://bwlewis.github.io/cassini/

Very cool. I regularly plug logs with various spawn (lately hericium) and have had good luck covering the plug with natural clay instead of wax, which unfortunately I have tons of …

I'm coming from an applied math perspective. A few of my favorites (and ones I find myself regularly referring to) are: Matrix Analysis by Horn and Johnson (perhaps the best end-of…

as others pointed out i misread the article, which says 2kwh per hour. indeed that is easily do-able.

My partner and I have been living "off grid" using PV + battery for electricity for the last 5 years in the Appalachian mountains. We track energy use meticulously. We try to use m…

Kersten led amazing research and MonetDB was really ground-breaking in many ways (columnar, shared memory interaction with client languages, etc.). A sad day.

Maybe? There exist some extreme-performance ARM CPUs like A64FX from Fujitsu.

Wow, this was almost my exact experience (except that I had somehow gone through life never using Windows). Using WSL is working out pretty well for me for the most part, except ne…

The current work https://proceedings.mlsys.org/paper/2021/hash/3636638817772e... seems mostly about tuning the original idea instead of expanding its scope. But it's still a neat i…

when i was a kid in the 60's and 70's milkmen delivered milk in glass bottles to your door (a locked insulated metal box at the door in our case), talking away empties to be washed…

I used OpenBLAS on my cheap last-generation AMD Ryzen 7 4700U laptop like so: git clone https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS && cd OpenBLAS && make PREFIX=/opt/openblas install && cu…

I enjoyed this comparison, thanks! Here is a related generally R-centric comparison that you might enjoy of DuckDB, dplyr, data.table, etc. applied to five data-sciency problems I …

A nice, short, recent paper along these lines (not mentioned in the article) is "Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine": https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

Yes, to the R foundation.

Also my first computer, bought as a kit and I soldered it together. Mine lasted a long time. It was so limited though I learned Z80 assembler, which turned out to be really cool. T…

Also don't forget the really interesting Transmeta processors, also ultimately a failure. VLIW is very difficult in practice.

yes, we've had this in Ohio for over a year ($200/year for full EV, $100/year for hybrids).

Another good example of a pretty neat, autonomous personal rail transport system is in Morgantown WV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Tran...

We foragers and amateur mycologists use smell, touch (slimy, dry, etc,) sometimes taste (bitter, acrid,...), habitat (on wood, ground, type of wood, is there a bulb below ground or…