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In order to reach a trillion we will have to get off earth alone, that alone is sure. So let’s assume that we will not die, and keep growing. We’re doubling about every 50yrs 2075: 8 B to 16 B (50 years) 2125: 16 B to 32 B (100 yrs) 2175: 32 B to 64 B (150 yrs) … 2425: ~1 trillion (400 years)
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Pretty cool playground tool to run MuJoCo (a physics engine + sim) with JAX as a jupyter notebook playground - a great way to try out sim2real https://playground.mujoco.org/
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Language is alive - it’s a living reflection of the speakers of that language, their wants, their desires, their needs, their hopes and dreams and history and past. Of course it’s one thing to explain it; but it’s another thing to live it - and I do think a good amount gets lost in the translation
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I love that dialects of different languages are untranslatable unless you learn the language I love this fact almost unreasonably
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When someone asks me for advice
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Great art and great music are one of the pinnacles of human achievement
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Losing your loved ones, especially your own child, is something that I wish to never experience, and wish it on no absolutely no one - including my enemies
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Her: I wonder what he's thinking about July: (well you know, here's the deal -- at the end of the day, if we were deep in enemy territory, and our supply line was cut off, and we were in battle for days or even weeks, and some of my men started practicing cannibalism, I would absolutely condemn them externally, because they'd be out of line, but internally I'd understand, extreme circumstances produce unspeakable horrors -- that is the case, and we will all individually have to find ways to live with that)
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Do you ever think about how peanuts are like nuts that look like peas
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Xenophon’s Anabasis (March of the Ten Thousand) would make a fantastic film I want the trailer to be 2000s core, Troy like, but a bit more serious, in the vein of Rome, set to Requiem in D Minor; ill take Dies irae, or Lacrimosa
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Someday we will have 1 trillion humans spread across our solar system
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This was an amazing book The audio book of Tony reading it is… *chefs kiss*
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Antenna design / RF has traditionally been closer to Bayou voodoo than it has to science, so this tracks, but still pretty wild https://x.com/dr_singularity/status/1876648394644418838?s=46
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I mean if you think about it restaurants have PMF they just have a ton of competition
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If you think of reality as a simulator (now you've got me thinking @aviationdoctor.eth) - you essentially have to represent the entire world as some sort of convex objects, that are running at discrete time (since we can't do continuous time in any sort of the types of computers / machines we have today. They'd also need to be programmed to have rigid bodies, collision detection etc - and handle friction etc. Also photo realistic sensor simulation i.e. sensor simulation of your perception is pretty expensive. We don't even really have the compute to run a full world physics engine, we have to use stuff like ray-tracing to only show what you see, and then on top of it, we do rasterization to increase the speed in which we can show what we see. I think that's why "domain randomization" is interesting, because if the model (our RL policy) sees enough simulated variation - then transferring sim2real -> moving the policy to the real world works well (treat the world like a simulator) - that's interesting
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By "manufacturing" you mean "by hand" By "America" you mean "my garage" Then yes, we're manufacturing Roc Camera in the USA
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Reality fundamentally is a high entropy system - higher entropy means more information is needed to describe the system - it also represents the minimum number of bits required to send that information. Stories are lossy compressions of reality
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Mistaking local maxima for global maxima, or mistaking local minima for global minima, happens way too often. This happens across everything (peak child, global reproduction rates, covid, stock market etc)
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Imagine you’re Sisyphus but every time you roll the ball up the hill, it grows in complexity and it accumulates mass in the form of technical debt
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pretty much
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