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sjg007

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    Comment #31264529

    All new construction in California has to have solar panels. So the long term end game is set.

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    Comment #31259680

    There is a huge pile of money for Lego if they can execute. * Metaverse concept with Epic. * AR applications * Movies * Next generation Mindstorms

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    Comment #31244232

    How about smaller more performant models? There’s so much redundancy in language that it should be possible.

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    Comment #31244041

    Drewmal is wrong, it’s just nonsense. Call up your local university extension program and ask. Not hard.

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    Comment #31244003

    A racist would make the same argument about Brown vs Board.

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    Comment #31243855

    Maybe something about the Thomas’s …

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    Comment #31243827

    If the Supremes overturn Roe vs Wade they will lose all of the legitimacy they’ve spent the last 70 years building. At that point the Court itself is fubar. It probably already is …

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    Comment #31243336

    How do you know they don’t? The bacteria will die if they don’t get what they need to live.

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    Comment #31243223

    We use less herbicide if the crop is roundup ready vs conventional crops.

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    Comment #31243204

    Talk about selective quoting… Read the whole paragraph. Less herbicide if the crop is roundup ready.

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    Comment #31242835

    You all think you know what you are talking about but never look at the research. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14865

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    Comment #31242386

    Nope I meant herbicide. Look it up.

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    Comment #31242142

    Ummm no, less herbicide actually

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    Comment #31241081

    It is a strange hill to decide to die on. Even if you are the expert in the area, AI is weird and changing the world. Most Nature papers have something wrong with them. I don't see…

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    Comment #31241027

    Checks a box that outside regulators can look at. Otherwise outside regulators would likely try to investigate and regulate. Also Google's own research can be used to counteract AI…

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    Comment #31239393

    Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Data.

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    Comment #31238123

    Assign the role to one of yourselves and rotate the position. When you get large enough, hire someone when you understand the role.

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    Comment #31229653

    >PhD are super-specialized Yes they have specific expertise in some field. But also they know how to do intendent research. This is the critical skill.

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    Comment #31229643

    We do need a big ARPA like investment in research. Right now we depend on defense spending but we are simply not spending enough on research.

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    Comment #31229635

    I use to think this way. I do not anymore. A PhD is independent research training which is by far the most important skill for new knowledge and hence new business and new technolo…

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    Comment #31229608

    There's epigenetics. This is why we see differences with monozygotic twins.

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    Comment #31229595

    It's APIs all the way down to the ones and zeros.

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    Comment #31229585

    What do you call architecting?

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    Comment #31229565

    That's a weird definition of engineering. I think you are confusing implementation (construction technique) which is of course valuable, with the more general principle of designin…