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Comment Huh (Score 1) 158

So you can imagine the futuristic version of this presumably everyone wants.

"from the AI : Hi Tim/Suzy. I've gotten you a date for tonight. Here's the outfit to wear from your closet. Please turn on the stream when you're getting dressed so I can make sure you look sharp"

"factoring in your preferences, $match_name is the best you can do at this time"

So it's a cool fantasy but when it's frictionless to get another partner, who would stay? Tim and Suzy are going to hang out, they will be highly likely to fuck (because the AI matchmakers are RL trained to maximize this outcome so they have manipulated and coached both partners), and then in the morning both will be wondering if they can do better.

Comment Duty Cycle (Score 2, Interesting) 154

Because solar only operates 4-7 hours a day, the capacity factor is about 1/5 of the time (10-25%), while nuclear is 92%. So nuclear is 4.6 times as much energy generation for the same nameplate capacity. So China is only installing about 1.23 nuclear plants worth of renewable a week...which is still amazing and more than 50 times faster.

Comment Re:Liberal arts majors... (Score 2) 80

It's almost always gigawatts = 1-4 hours at that rate of discharge. Usually 1 hour (1C discharge is safe for long life cells) but some facilities it may be 4 hours to save on inverters.

This sounds like you could run out but the peak times are usually brief, just a couple hours in the evening, and the grid can 'catch up' at night (from wind + natural gas) and especially the next day (massive solar overproduction from 10am to 3pm)

https://www.caiso.com/ has the details in real time

Comment Re: Empathy? (Score 1) 173

While yes it's terrifying it's the fate for a large fraction of all elderly people. This is considered "normal". Most elderly people don't get to enjoy expensive parties and celebrations of ones birthright title on taxpayer funds though.

Comment Re: The FAA is greatly to blame (Score 2) 191

Past generations of Boeing leadership understood the reason they get paid this quarter is from building quality aircraft and not taking shortcuts, where mistakes made 10 years ago will eventually be found.

Current leadership seems to be optimizing for more revenue this quarter. Costs money to be careful, let's get those planes built faster.

Comment Re: April Fool's day? (Score 1) 130

1m of data. And yeah that's still a stupid amount. An entire laundry load worth of events - timestamps for when the machine was started, rpm measurements over time sampled often, pressure and water temp and flow rates - that must be what is in the data.

Yeah 1mb or 14mb is reasonable if the sampling rate is fast enough, 10 Hz or higher, and it's lots of values, and no effort to compress them - every value is 4 byte float/int.

As for why, LG is likely trying to build a ml model to predict when machines will fail and why.

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