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there's never a time I've been glad an article used Excel's 3D surface plot lol

I worked for a company where the main workflow was to download an entire postgres dump at the start of the day and work off that. It took 25 min. I aliased our download command to play run a profane version of `say "beep beep"` after it finished. Then one time it spoke up during our stand up and everyone heard. It got more polite thereafter.

as a major julia enthusiast I gotta say this is not how you get people to check it out buddy

that's not very vc-minded of you /s

maybe I can offset your disappointment by sharing a very cool nail exhibit I saw a few years back :) https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/writhing-sculptures-j...

indeed, it's more of an emergency landing

the article says that

1. I want a human drilling because I want empathy in my care 2. 90% detection rate on cavities isn't great

Pros: this is just like the Dark Knight! Cons: privacy nightmare

yeah this is an immediate show-stopper for me, at least for professional usage

It appears Enel "plans" a gravity system in ERCOT (May 2024) https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/05/22/enel-energy-vault-bui...

WE COME TO A NUANCED CONCLUSION. DOWNLOAD TO FIND OUT WHAT.

world's best abstract

came to comment this :)

I think it's a bit underwhelming, yes

The whole point of homoiconicity is that a language (lisp) is implemented in itself. This is lisp implemented in python (not itself).

"antennas so big that we cannot even simulate their behavior. " - does anyone know what that means?

I wonder what that will mean for charging infrastructure that suddenly has to deliver 10x power to enable that. Not sure that sort of charging could be as ubiquitously placed as gas stations

As the article mentions, the curves are unstable. This is delightfully apparent when you drag one control point in a circle around another. Interestingly, it can also make fairly sharp corners if the control points approach each other.

I don't either put code in or use it's output directly. I treat it as a conversational oracle over stackoverflow / all documentation ever written :D

If anyone successfully uses this in a dating app context please leave a note

clearly they don't know any coders

Scientific American I think did a balanced article about this character: https://web.archive.org/web/20231231040033/https://www.scien...

My favorite quotes:

when provided with some of the responses from other physicists regarding his work, Wolfram is singularly unenthused. “I’m disappointed by the naivete of the questions that you’re communicating,” he grumbles. “I deserve better.”

“There’s a tradition of scientists approaching senility to come up with grand, improbable theories,” the late physicist Freeman Dyson told Newsweek back in 2002. “Wolfram is unusual in that he’s doing this in his 40s.”

There's a difference between deep tech research (which truly can be revolutionary) and "revolutionary" consumer gizmos. I don't think the analogy holds.

askbeeves.com

This limit comes from using int32s. Does anyone have an idea why on modern machines it isn't making use of int64s?

forgive me for not engaging with your core ideas, but as far as I know the vernacular term is "cattle prod" and "cattle prick" sounds rather like something else

Drug cartels might disagree with the 'nothing of value' statement

I read it as "for Barbies"

Two reasons. 1. A microwave receiver on earth is much smaller than many solar farms, so we don't use a lot of our finite land for energy generation 2. This could actually bring solar to some geographies which aren't well suited to solar due to weather

To achieve the energy transition, you need SO MANY solar panels and they will take up a lot of land. That land is most expensive near the very population centers which need the most power.

According to Jesse Jenkins, to power America, "the solar farms are an area the size of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts."[1] (this isn't the most precise source I could find, but it's reputable)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...

ok but gravity scales quite nicely as force right?