countvonbalzac

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Comment · 1 year ago
We just need much cheaper catalysts to enable these sorts of industries that could be a very efficient use of ultra cheap excess electricity. Right now catalysts to create hydrocarbon fuels from the atmosphere are so expensive that it isn't worth it to build them, only to run them the ~20% of the time when electricity is so abundant that it can't be stored.
Comment · 1 year ago
You should add the ability to change the public holidays. My company doesn't give veteran's day
Comment · 2 years ago
There's a reason people watch movies on planes - it's to distract you from the uncomfortable environment you're in. VR is more immersive than a 2D screen so it's more distracting.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's per year right?
Comment · 2 years ago
Same - take lightbulbs for example. Thanks to LEDs, the amount of energy you need to generate X amount of light has reduced considerably, but we still have as much if not more lighting than ever. And it's not like our GDP is suffering due to a lack of sufficient lighting, at a certain point there's no gain to productivity gained from having another lightbulb. Same thing can be said about cars, CPUs etc.
Comment · 2 years ago
where do you get it filled in 3 month increments?
Comment · 2 years ago
You misspelled screenshots in the title of your website.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is folding at home still relevant after alpha fold?
Comment · 2 years ago
The median age in China is higher than in the US.
Comment · 2 years ago
In theory none? Stock buybacks increase the stock price but reduce the number of shares. So the market cap should stay more or less the same.
Comment · 2 years ago
Are GANs useful for synthetic data generation for transformer based models?
Comment · 2 years ago
Interestingly there are extremely profitable industries on either side of this fight
Comment · 2 years ago
Why would anyone use Google cloud? No one ever got fired for using ~IBM~ AWS
Comment · 2 years ago
Does DuckDB cache the S3 downloads? Otherwise it could get pretty expensive, no?
Comment · 2 years ago
What's the minimum spec chip you will need to run the smallest whisper model (looks like that's 39M parameters)?

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