egloo's comments

egloo | 6 years ago | on: Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia

Throw as much engineering and innovation at the problems as possible. Conservation alone is no longer sufficient.

And I meant problems. As in, protecting the food supply chain, protecting the electronics supply chain, adopting a defense posture to prepare for a far more desperate global population, finding ways to save coastal cities or quickly relocate people, throwing everything at the wall for innovative new exotic energy generation and storage systems (far past nuclear) and, most importantly, preserving the knowledge and means of humanity.

We're past the point where pretending this will get fixed politically is reasonable. We need to assume it won't and work to protect the future in spite of the horrors to come.

egloo | 6 years ago | on: Cryptocurrency Startup School

A startup school for a singular technical solution that has now gone years without any demonstrable killer app and which faces immense scaling and regulatory hurdles seems like putting the cart well before the horse here.

I very much doubt that the key roadblock to realizing the crypto dream has been the lack of availability of a startup school around it.

egloo | 6 years ago | on: Meta-learning neural Bloom filters

Neat, but I'm not sure this has practical value - being 400x slower without a GPU for a 3-40x space savings puts this into a different bucket of usefulness than regular bloom filters. Space is far cheaper than GPU compute.

Also, going from 0.02 ms latency to 5.1 ms (cpu) - 13 ms (gpu) is a huge con to this approach.

That said, I think it's really cool and might be the jump off point for other innovations.

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