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this exists and the chump is howard hughes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...

the better question is why does gradient descent work for them

or we could build like 200 more fission plants and rewild all that ethanol land. not really a compelling point in favor of solar land use this factoid...

ok sure but are humans a full decade of NSF budget better than robots

there is. bioarxiv.

a good mission burrito is like $10 and makes my life better

yes the US is laughably corrupt

certainly there exist nuclear ships with enough power but I fail to see how you would feasibly tug a train of containerships

oops. yes. still not that much though. i mean it's a lot but it's "one more large industrialized country" a lot not "kardashev 2" a lot

Is this not just a cellular automaton?

no

wiki article states "Up to 10,000 TWh/yr of power could be generated from OTEC without affecting the ocean's thermal structure". which converts to about 500GW which... isn't that much

they're in big concrete containers rated to withstand everything its fine

this... is not very good for an hour? i would expect an undergrad to be able to cook this up in an hour

that seems fine

68 years ago we already had fission plants. the engineering side of energy production has been solved since then, it's all political now

ah yes, direct democracy in california has famously never led to anything bad happening.

farming requires a _lot_ of water.

the movie would be over after 10 minutes if GBI intercepted why would you assume this is an accurate depiction

not at all realistic, awful movie. somehow even worse than annie jacobsen's book. they would not fire only 2 interceptors, and there is no urgency to retaliate when it is not a decapitation strike

farming with desal water is insane. even with abundant power.

and there was a huge fire at the moss landing plant which left heavy metals and god knows what else raining down onto sensitive marine mammal habitat. kayak up elkhorn slough and you'll encounter dozens of otters, seals... less than a kilometer from the battery plant.

I don't think we're going to be appreciating the environmental consequences of that accident for years. heavy metals don't decay, they'll be there forever.

a pox on david brouwer and his faux environmentalism, and the politics and economic machinations that ever proposed solar and batteries as an alternate to baseload fission plants. (in fact brouwer did his damage long before solar was ever practical, so he has even less ground to stand on)

this is just worse NIMBY rails

if you have a nice knife and cut by dragging the knife towards you with tip in contact with the board instead of cutting directly down, food will not stick

HHMI is a private org

JILA is the golden child of the physics dept for reasons no one quite knows. Better facilities, higher stipends, separate events programming, same department!

"The first scientists to succeed, in 1995, were Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman at JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics), a research institute in Colorado." incredible underhanded dig from the NYT (against the rest of the Boulder physics dept)

muni has "relatively level routes" because the routes that were preserved were ones with tunnels that buses couldn't fit through (or narrow ROW in the case of the J), and given sf geography those tunnels invariably go through hills. muni, and especially the J, is one of the steeper adhesion railways in the world

nuclear war is a lot more survivable than people make it out to be. if you can get your hands on enough clean water to hide in a basement for a week you'll basically be ok

Is finding a US Navy battlegroup a challenge in the modern era? And won't the nearby escorts still have their radars on?

yes https://www.navalgazing.net/Carrier-Doom-Part-1

BART's doing great. good headways, same schedule all day everyday. name another american transit agency doing a takt