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- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 3 days ago:
It’s certainly not going to dry very much in 30 seconds though
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 week ago:
Don’t forget the fundamental scaling properties of llms, that openai even used as the basis for strategy to make chat gpt 3.5.
But basically llm performance is logarithmic. It’s easier to get rapid improvements early on. But at later points like we are now require exponentially more compute, training data, and model sizes to get now small level of improvements.
Even if we get a 10x in compute, model size, and training data (which is fundamentally finite), the improvements aren’t going to be groundbreaking or solve any of the inherent limitations of the technology.
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 1 week ago:
Even accounting for inflation arcades should be cheaper.
The compute hardware costs much less and is much more power efficient.
Other power hungry features like lights and displays are both cheaper and more power efficient.
The argument that they still need to be expensive makes so little sense, other than the physical space they occupy.
- Comment on The case for a land value tax is overwhelming 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 months ago:
Yes of course, but how do you propose we get that to happen?
Why are these homes empty in the first place? Are they in the same places where housing is needed?
And even if you could house all homeless people, that still leaves the problem of the crushing expense of housing in many places.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 months ago:
That’s kinda exactly my point? If someone could print a fuckton for new bitcoins it’s value would drop. The same is true for housing. We may have technically enough housing for everyone, but that means nothing if that housing is not also where people want to or need to live.
- Comment on Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years 2 months ago:
While these investors are absolutely soulless and deserve to be called out, there’s another aspect of this problem that I feel doesn’t get talked about enough.
If we just built enough housing this problem would go away. And it would be easy if we had a system that allowed people to build new things and undercut competition. But we can’t because regulations make it nearly impossible to make anything other than houses.
People investing on houses are a symptom of the larger overall problem, of there not being enough fucking housing.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 4 months ago:
Even better for hummingbirds is native plants that feed them. We have planted red cardinal flowers that attract them and butterflies
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 6 months ago:
I mean you do have a messaging problem. Your leadership has received bad messaging about what “AI” can do!
- Comment on Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds 7 months ago:
No offenses, but I’m gonna put a lot more weight behind a peer reviewed Nature paper, rather than some random podcaster.
The explained their methodology pretty well. They extrapolate the microplastics amount from a small bit of cortical tissue, and compared it to previous results. Yeah there might not be as much in other parts of the brain, but we don’t have a reason to think it would be drastically different.
- Comment on Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds 7 months ago:
It’s up to a credit card now (9g)
- Comment on If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin? 7 months ago:
Neither are really bread as they are not leavened with yeast.
- Comment on Every time you eat, you're trusting many strangers to not have tampered with your food 8 months ago:
I feel it’s rude to call them freeloading, without them we wouldn’t be able to digest nearly as much food.
- Comment on Bigscreen Announces the Beyond 2 VR Headset 9 months ago:
Why is the resolution limited at 90hz?
There should be plenty of bandwidth to run 2x2560x2560 at 90hz. That should only be ~28.3gbps, which is less than dp 1.4 max of 32.
And it’s less bandwidth than a 4k monitor at 240hz, though that requires DSC.
- Comment on How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught 9 months ago:
These people got caught because someone found their car and thus license plate.
Another had left a fingerprinted bottle that went missing when watching surveillance footage.
And then were able to confirm after finding the same outfit from the surveillance footage.
The lessons to be learned are to not use cars anywhere near the scene, leave no trace, fingerprints or digital evidence, including a phone, and make sure any recognizable clothing is well hidden, or even better thoroughly destroyed.
Oh and don’t post anything on social media.
- Comment on Every hour children spend on screens raises chance of myopia, study finds 10 months ago:
I think part of it is sun exposure, my eyesight is much worse than my close relatives, and I was born in Iceland which has much weaker sunlight.
- Comment on Every hour children spend on screens raises chance of myopia, study finds 10 months ago:
More likely a lack of sun exposure
- Comment on Every hour children spend on screens raises chance of myopia, study finds 10 months ago:
This is old science.
Increased time outdoors is correlated with a lower risk of myopia. It’s no surprise that more screen time = less time spent outdoors
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- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 1 year ago:
The original question was why solar systems and galaxies are in planes, and your explanation is wrong.
What do you even mean by similar orbits? Most orbits are circular for a totally different reason, and that is tidal interactions.
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 1 year ago:
I hate to be that guy, but this is wrong.
The solar system is mostly in one plane because it formed from a cloud of gas. The cloud of a gas has some total non zero rotation and interactions flatten the cloud into a disk, where all of the planets formed.
This same principle applies to galaxies.
