That is not non-determinism; it's just difficult to predict determinism.
I postulate that we cannot build non-determinism out of deterministic pieces - we can just get it complex enough that we can't accurately pre-determine what will happen. With enough data, and a system of sufficient predictive complexity, we can still predict everything, I'd wager.
It is not possible universally. I like the proof of this, it is simple and resembles to many similar no-go theorems (like the halting problem).
1. Imagine a finite formal system which universally can identify if an input is regular (compressible) or random (not compressible) / So we are using the Kolmogorov-complexity definition of randomness here...
2. Assume the above formal system can be described using L bits (e.g. it is an L bit long program)
3. Lets take the first (e.g. smallest in numerical ordering) 2×L (or 10×L, 100×L, ... take it as large you want) long bit string that the program classifies as random bit string
4. "3." is a definition of a 2×L long string in L bits (the formal system itself) + constant
5. The 2×L long string is therefore compressibe so it is not random - but our original algorithm is misclassify it as random (it is in its definition) - so the algorithm is not universal...
There has been significant noise in the space, with a SoftBank project set up to install 200GW of solar projects. That project was cancelled relatively quickly though.
I know you're being facetious but these are the types of industries and activities that don't get the SV disruption treatment, partly because nobody there knows about them. It's partly why I love when these "off-topic" posts get made here. There's now a lot more people read this post and who are now aware of this strange thing that keeps our world working in the way we expect it to- and might have ideas on how to make it better.
I was being facetious, but I also love these kind of stories. Like the one last week about the guy sells onions on the internet. We live in a weird world.
I'm really more surprised that a truck with a boom-mounted rotor that simulates helicopter downwash wouldn't do a good enough job. Clearly someone has to have thought of that (note that they already tried fans), so I wonder what the difference is. The operational costs have to be a small fraction of a helicopter's.
The fans they were likely talking about are probably the horizontal-style fans you see in orchards for (mainly) frost prevention (they look like small windmills).
But why not very large rotor fans - maybe mounted HVLS fans, perhaps a bit larger, and maybe spinning a bit faster. Surely something like those would be cheaper to install and run 24/7 - assuming they worked as well?
Then you would need access roads throughout the orchards so your land use would be less efficient. Same as with tree farms and why they transport them with helicopters, too:
In other words, you won't get rich trying to mine bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies from your home. Because if there's money to be made, many others will jump in. To get rich, you'd need some advantage, like incredibly low cost of power.
Proof of Stake currencies do not require more power than a desktop PC or reasonably sized cloud server to run a node. Cosmos (https://cosmos.network/) is one such currency, and Ethereum is moving to a PoS system.
Seems to me it's at least as equitable as PoW. With either one, you get returns in linear proportion to the resources you commit. To the extent that miners have economies of scale, PoS actually does better.
but it distills nicely to a dichotomy of two terms that can easily be discussed on forums by "investors" who do not understand the first thing about the underlying tech they are buying into. So you will hear about it for a while, as being the ultimate game changer no less.
Today, yes. But in the past, all you needed to be profitable was some kind of advantage, such as not valuing your time, a video card that sits around doing nothing anyway, a use for the heat byproduct (such as room heating).
At scale, there are expenses that the hobbyist doesn’t have. The hobbyist already has space, climate control, doesn’t need/get business licenses, etc.
But it can be hard to compete with any trifecta that can scale with cheap land, labour and capital.
Even a skeptic philosopher, who would say most things can't be proven beyond the self, would probably agree that one of the things we have direct experience of is change.
"How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?" -- The Man In The Shack, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
True, but that's why I said "probably agree". You can be a solipsist and disagree with the existence of time, but that doesn't seem to be a very useful philosophy.
It's not unusual to see deer around my house in the DC suburbs in VA(way beyond the zone depicted in the map), but we had a young one acting strangely last summer. It was just standing there, and wouldn't run if your approached it. It was very thin.
A neighbor called animal control, who came out and diagnosed this disease. They had to put the deer down, right there in the middle of the suburbs, which alarmed many neighbors.
the degree to which deer have become comfortable around humans in the area in the last 5 years is incredible. I can be feet away from them on a jog and they won't flinch. I guess that's what happens when your only predator is a car
Coyotes will take deer, but they're not that quick to target healthy adult deer. In the suburbs, they generally end up in smaller packs going after both garbage and scrubland prey like rabbits, so they're not an especially good check on white-tailed deer. (Wolves would be, but then they're not going to be allowed to stay in most suburbs.)
Got a recruiting email about a company working in Augmented Reality, remote. Normally I'd ignore recruiting emails, but the idea of sitting at home wearing a hololens sounded too cool to not at least LISTEN to the pitch.
Yah, they're not doing AR. The guy explained it was a marketing gimmick for VCs (though he made it sound nicer than that).
Just turned 40 this week. I don't know if I'm happy then when I turned 30, but I am less stressed.
I had typed out a long paragraph about why I'm less stressed, but I realized the tl;dr is - I figured out what matters to me, and, more importantly, what doesn't. When you figure out what's NOT important, it's like a big weight being off your shoulders.
That and probably decreasing testosterone levels ;)
I'm not quite 40, but am happier now than when I was younger. A key part of that is financial. After 20 years of working I have a nice nest egg saved up. It is not enough enough that I can retire, but it is enough that I don't have to worry.
When I was younger, I was always stressed about how I would pay the bills. When layoffs would go around I would be super stressed , worrying about what if it happens to me. I'd also be stuck dealing with some asshole boss because I needed the money again causing more stress.
Right now there is a rumor going around that my company is not doing too well financially. In the past I would have been worried about it. Now my only thought is if I do get laid off, is where I do some traveling to. If it is during the summer, think I'll go spend some time in the Canadian Rockies. If during the winter, I'll go back to Australia.
I'm in my late 20s and a nest egg is years away, but having a a basic emergency fund and financial safety net did wonders for my peace of mind. For those who haven't done it yet, I think it's the most important financial goal to hit as early in your career as you can.
Long-term disability insurance and life insurance are nice to have too. Patio11 has been preaching this [1] but it took me a while to really get it. The technical detail of "own occupation" is really important here.
Yes long term disability is a must have. I usually get it through my employer.
When I was laid off last year I did have the option to continue the disability insurance, but it was a bit more expensive that what I was paying as an employee. IIRC it went from $50/month to $100/month.
What is nice is that my new employer picks up the tab 100%, but it is only 60%. Usually in the past I would pay a bit extra to get 75%, but that is not an option.
I've never thought about private disability insurance before, but it is something that I should look into.
...well crap. Time to update my side projects to handle this new flow. I wasn't aware this was even coming. Looks like there are a lot of exemptions (my side project costs customers less than 30 euros), but it's ultimately up to the customer's bank.
I guess I'll move to Stripe checkout instead of my custom form.
I built Quaderno to deal with the VATMOSS nightmare on Stripe. More information at https://quaderno.io/integrations/stripe/. Let me know if you have any questions. Glad to help.
I've tried Quaderno in the past for a simple SaaS I built but found it didn't really work, it was a while back so I may be misremembering but I believe you couldn't use Stripe Billing's built-in free trial system with it, because the Quaderno checkout would create a new customer.
