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In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No they’re equal if the battery is designed to provide 1 hr of coverage.

A 1 GWh batter will last 1 hour if its discharge rate is 1 GW.

It’s the timeframe of 1 hour that makes these two measures numerically equal.

In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Batteries’ output is measured in watts.

The fact you can't tell anyone to go f themselves online anymore without getting banned is absurd and sad in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago

I mean, I want to be sympathetic

To be honest you don’t come across this way. It’s very easy to sympathize with OP’s position, for a person who wants to.

A national campaign to lessen polarization pushes states to ditch partisan primaries in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I guess democracy really is on the ballot here.

I wonder if they’re motivated by trying to make it okay that the DNC skipped its primary this year?

What’s the oldest you can be to go trick and treating? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Once you’re 54, it’s just too late man

Where does the energy come from to lift water by osmosis? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So the energy comes from sunlight and ambient heat, which provides the energy to evaporate that water, overcoming its adhesion and cohesion.

Alien-like creature washes up on beach, stunning visitors: ‘The freakiest thing I’ve ever seen’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago
  • freaky flotsam
  • oceanic oddity
  • vermicelli tentacles
  • longer than dog

They live

Hyundai unveils world’s first hydrogen-powered, silent stealth battle tank in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

And if your tank is electric, it can be modified later with a small nuclear or fusion reactor.

Hyundai unveils world’s first hydrogen-powered, silent stealth battle tank in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hyundai?

Yes, Hyundai.

Video shows Phoenix police burning man during arrest: ‘Like acid on my skin’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Maybe we should have a guaranteed right to bear arms.

Incidentally, the police police are the FBI.

"the enemy within" in c/[email protected]
What are some downsides to immortality that most don't think of? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

And after a while you’d come out of that state

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Skateboarding on multilevel o'neill cylinders is gonna be sick (lemm.ee)
 

O’Neill cylinder is that big rotating cylinder space station format that uses the spin for artificial gravity.

At higher elevations the gravity will be lower. BMX bikes will be fun too. Make a big jump and you can go across the center and land on the other side, or go into a zero-gee part in the middle, which works out if you’re always inside a curve.

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Sleep is when your brain's LLM retrains on the day's conversation (lemm.ee)
 

I’ve noticed ChatGPT gets less able to do precise reasoning or respond to instructions, the longer the conversation gets.

It felt exactly like working with a student who was getting tired and needed to rest.

Then I had above shower thought. Pretty cool right?

Every few months a new ChatGPT v4 is deployed. It’s got new training data, up through X date. They train up a new model on the new content in the world, including ChatGPT conversations from users who’ve opted into that (or didn’t opt out, can’t remember how it’s presented).

It’s like GPT is “sleeping”, to consolidate “the day’s” knowledge into long term memory. All the data in the current conversation is its short term memory. After handling a certain amount of complexity in one conversation, the coherence of responses breaks down, becomes more habitual and less responsive to nuance. It gets tired and can’t go much further.

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Summary of threats facing humanity (imgur.com)
 

I asked GPT-4 for a list of the most important threats to human civilization, their likelihood, and why they were considered threats.

GPT's output is also pasted into the comments.

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