angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why is news about fusion ignition not a bigger deal in popular media?
It needs to produce about 100X more energy if it wants to produce grid power. It didn't achieve net break even compared to the amount of energy that went into the NIF equipment to produce the shot. Not even close.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?
His mom literally runs a major fundraising arm of the DNC.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?
We're talking about a major political donor who just defrauded people for billions of dollars, whose parents are extremely well connected to the DNC and have actually written a substantial amount of legislation put forward by Democratic lawmakers, and who was sleeping with the niece of the current head of the SEC who was appointed by Biden. He has every single motivation to lie about this.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?
>claims
>it's possible
>I don't know if that's true, but it's possible.
Sounds an awful lot like a conspiracy theory, my dude.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?
So 0.6% of his overall contributions? Not even a full percent?
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?
> despite having donated to both parties extensively
> both
He was the second biggest donor to the DNC after George Soros. I'm not aware of any RNC contributions.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived
Truly incredible that such a small group of people could be so well represented in academia and media. My hat goes off to them!
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: We just built the world’s largest 3D-printed aerospike rocket engine
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
Again, as with the sibling comment, I would like to see empirical data on the cost viability of existing solar and wind installations. Most of the links posted so far seem to present projections about the future, which seems to imply that wind and solar tend to be higher cost today.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
I am not asking for forecasts of what could theoretically happen in the future: I want to see an analysis of existing installations.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
The PDF you linked does not contain empirical data on existing solar and wind installations. It's an investment pitch.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
> A clean power grid means cheaper power.
That's a pretty wild assertion, given current events. Care to back it up with some evidence from a neutral source?
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: Mastodon Is Awesome
I am still struggling to understand how migrating to a censorship-resistant platform will mitigate concerns about a lack of strict content moderation at twitter.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: The Effect of Research Universities on Student Partisanship and Turnout
Would the article have been published if the author found evidence to the contrary?
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
Same, just signed up for a paid account today. Looks like the full $8 blue checkmark experience hasn't been released yet though.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything
Except then it became "Fuck you, do what they tell you."
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Data Scientists, what libraries do you use for timeseries forecasting?
State of the art is 1D convnets, bleeding edge is transformers.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: A large scale non-linear optimization library
Having implemented them myself on an ad hoc basis in pytorch, I don't see how they're much different than training a deep learning model.
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: A large scale non-linear optimization library
What about interior point methods?
angrycontrarian
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3 years ago
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on: A large scale non-linear optimization library
There are a lot of large-scale optimization problems in industry that are still compute bound. Currently available solvers are either single threaded on the CPU, or offer "parallelism" by running copies of the same problem on multiple threads, but with different initial conditions in hopes that one happens to converge faster.
