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> Braking distances exist for AI-driven vehicles just as much as human-driven ones. Reaction times differ, though, and abilities to blend deceleration and turning and awareness of …

Dismissive is appropriate-- "By the time the confirmation renders, the request and its replies will have crossed North America six times" 35ms times 6 is 210ms-- so just about phys…

:D Kids can do amazing things. Adult engineers are already pretty bad at knowing with other people know and what's worth saying. This is the one area where students are markedly wo…

I think the big problem is administrative capacity. There are better run governments than we have in the US. The contempt for the state is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The state is …

Big humanoid robots are expensive, the actuators still suck, and the control problems are hard. Their big advantage is that they can occupy human-shaped spaces, but struggle to do …

Picture being on the end of the wing and how much you move up or down when the plane rolls. An airliner entering a 30 degree roll over 3 seconds would have passengers pop up or dow…

Again, anyone who cracks a decent success rate can basically print money. Unfortunately, despite lots of efforts in this area, we have not been able to get the clinical success rat…

If you can think of a way that you can have a much higher chance than 9% of success in getting a useful treatment to market, you can make a boatload of money. Go ahead, reform it.

> There's many other considerations. Like the type and amount of fissile material. To name one that became well known: any plutonium needs to be refreshed (re-breeded I believe is …

> High end compute also existed in the 60’s. Believe me, I know-- my dad did some work on the 360/44 and other large systems. High end late 1960s compute -- of the sort used to go …

> Because you need those calculations to "pump" nuclear weapons. They are needed to calculate both the geometry to make fusion bombs possible at all and to calculate the effect of …

It's my understanding that it was traced definitively to Taylor Farms, but the only positive test may have been a false positive. You don't always get a positive test, but this doe…

I think if you expect to be under 60K/s and suddenly find yourself at 20K/s heading for 200K/s-- you have a better problem than if you built for 1M/s and actual load is 20K/s. The …

Yes, because we're currently in a GPU and RAM supply crunch, things have held value well compared to historical averages. We are increasing production of GPUs and RAM a lot.

Strictly true, but finance being able to predict this pretty closely is how the entire modern economy works.

That still doesn't tell you what GPUs will be worth in 5 years, because it depends upon what inference demand is like and what the alternatives are. What will an hour of NVL72 be w…

I guess the point he's making is that the orbital velocity is pretty slow, so it's not too different to "get there" and "orbit there". Of course, the rocket equation often makes "j…

> and create a narrative like we know anything about the unknown thing. It helps us feel like we understand it more. In fairness, this very often helps us understand the unknown th…

Chunks were made with different versions, but I wonder if there's any viable approach to figure out the seed & generating version of minecraft and store just deltas.

> broadly applicable FEM solver gmsh/Calculix is great. Sure it doesn't reach quite as far as Ansys, but you can solve real meaningful problems with it. > we currently don't have a…

There's room for lots of improvement to our world, and "lives saved" is not the only metric.

> which purports to gauge a study's rigorousness as a simple percentage That's not what it does. Some of the studies showed a causal relationship clearly. Some showed merely an ass…

Which, if chickenpox is really the cause of a lot of dementia (as this article implies) might have been a pretty grave mistake.

I got shingles at 45 and it was -not fun-. My arm is slightly disfigured. I think the age 50 target is dated. With reduced childhood incidence of chicken pox, we're all exposed to …

Nor does he say he was the first to create them. The bro has posted hundreds or more pictures functions, many of which are well known... But well-colored and cropped into interesti…