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Comment · 12 days ago
The main enemy fire here are FPV drones. The flying evacuater gets out of danger quicker, even if it is spotted by a reconnaissance drone.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Has what students are expected to know changed since the 60s?

No, basic algebra and calculus has not changed.

Comment · 2 months ago
Yann Lecun is "famous" for (besides being one of the fathers of "modern" AI) his opinion that transformers are inadequate and other directions should be explored.
Comment · 2 months ago
As always and everywhere, it's who you know (and who knows you) that matters.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes. It's like looking at the (Apollo) moon rocket launch and then suggesting teenagers should learn to build rockets in their garages for the coming space age.

It is viable as a toy project, but there are vanishingly few career opportunities.

Comment · 2 months ago
For games in general, one measure of complexity is branching factor. It means average number of possible actions or states at each turn. It is knowable.

"Solvability" would mean number of turns to solve the game. It is known for some puzzles and can be found by brute force, otherwise you need to figure out a proof.

Comment · 3 months ago
Stuff like this exists for bicycles. For mopeds and motorcycles there are electrification kits.

It should be possible to just replace the flywheel altogether with a generator/motor that both brakes and powers during each cycle, cancelling vibrations. Then more generation during deceleration, and more power during acceleration.

Comment · 4 months ago
This (classic) argument is symmetric with respect to the value of money and quantity of goods. As in "if you know money will buy more in the future, it increases your incentive to sell now rather than wait for higher prices. And if you know prices will increase, you will hoard products." The argument doesn't favour either side.

One mechanism of inflation is that it effectively lowers wages (and other contracts) without negotiation. Asset prices are valued by markets and increase with inflation. It effectively transfers wealth from wage earners to capital owners.

Deflation would effectively increase wages instead, and require occasional renegotiations if productivity isn't keeping pace.

Comment · 4 months ago
4) add taxes to effectively double price of gasoline
Comment · 4 months ago
Normal use means loading data into the GPU for each batch. The load is not even, though training might be worse than "production".
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Testing was the annoying flood barrier. AI is the rainstorm that shows why it was necessary.
Comment · 5 months ago
The point of automation is that it reduces the bargaining power of human workers, but they still have to trade their time and effort for wages. When automation improves, the wage proportion of the created value shrinks.
Comment · 5 months ago
Housebuilding is motivated as much by need for housing as the prospect of increasing market value, "building equity" and so on. This prospect depends most strongly on location, which means the land price dominates the cost of construction.
Comment · 5 months ago
> Sweden had nothing like this

Not entirely true. AstraZeneca and ABB are examples that remain partly Swedish but many companies were merged into big multinationals and eventually marginalised.

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