Art Berman @aeberman12 Natural gas combined cycle is cheaper than wind and solar with backup based on Lazard’s 2024 levelized cost of energy No way to get away from natural gas or coal for peak demand periods at present #energy #EnergyTransition #ClimateActionNow #renewables #NetZero #EnergyStorage https://pic.x.com/jhl16z3j1s Replying to @aeberman12 The energy stored in “chemical bonds”
Read More »
Roger Grosse @RogerGrosse Amortized variational inference is neither amortized nor variational nor inference. x.com/jpillowtime/st… Jonathan Pillow @jpillowtime Amortize means to “to pay off a debt with regular payments” But in amortized inference you pay a big up-front cost to train an inference network, then inference is cheap per datapoint. Isn’t that the opposite of amortization?
Read More »
All human languages, all domains, all places, all devices – global open resources for all humans Computer memory and processors changed the face of human navigation in cities, so too can it change the face of navigation through fragmented and Byzantine sets of rules for every discipline and topic. It is not only memory devices
Read More »
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: This is a bit of an odd question, but I mean it seriously. What would people think of “Olympic war games”? Rather than ad hoc wars and armed conflicts like Israal Palestine, or Ukraine Russia, or dozens of countries having armed conflicts. Suppose wars were supervised and controlled. Part of
Read More »
Military Affairs: US Tests Its Monstrously Powerful Laser Carrier To Beat Hypersonic Missiles at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmN23S8GmWk For SpaceX type earth to orbit and orbit to earth field generators, many modular 2 GigaWatt units only have to store and deliver for a few minutes, so they can be small and if some fail, sufficient backup is available.
Read More »
Dear SETI, Looking at the whole Internet, and the potential of true AIs to allow systems to essentially live forever, I realized that exploration and development of galaxies is likely the norm, not the exception in the universe. An evolved natural lifeform might well develop systems that record all knowledge and process it. The system
Read More »
owl @owl_poster Things I learned talking to the new breed of scientific institution https://owlposting.com/p/things-i-learned-talking-to-the-new A deep dive on the vibes of scientific institutions I’ve been curious about. 9 weeks in the making 4.1k words, 19 minutes reading time Replying to @owl_poster I found this interesting. This kind of analysis is what I have been doing
Read More »
Simple Pendulum Hamiltonian Equation | Hamilton Equation | bsc 5th semester physics Shane Sir at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l570EfViEgY There are about 5.4 Billion humans using the Internet now, and many of them can understand English and mathematics and physics. Do you know your viewers? Do you know how many places Hamiltonians, Lagrangians and principle of least action
Read More »
Faraday Paradox Solved! He was correct – the field does not rotate with a rotating magnet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl0-sKbZsKM It was hard to follow you. But I liked your emphasis on the D orbitals. Generally, there is a large range of “magnetic quantum numbers” and many situations where orbitals have unpaired electrons. The D and F orbitals
Read More »
Fusion for SpaceX levitation, industrial and space needs. Global open tokens and global open resources I was reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitated_Dipole_Experiment today and encouraged. While the economics of bulk electricity production are not particularly favorable, there are many new transportation, industrial and space applications where GigaWatt and larger power modules are needed. For instance to
Read More »