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Not quite what you're talking about, but there are at least some US utilities & regulators trying things to that effect.
E.g. new rate classes for large loads with long forward contracts & minimum payments for x% of the contracted capacity whether or not it's used.
Dominion Energy in VA is one iirc.

Wow; what does using this "look like" day-to-day?

The analysis contained in the balance of this Opinion may strike the average person and indeed many lawyers and judges as tortured and strange, and the result may seem contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law. But it represents the Court's committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court to the charges in this case. The law must be the Court's only concern.

Proving (or not) that it was him is what the trial's for. The thing here is (afaict, correct me if I'm wrong) because you can in principle stalk someone without using violent force, the stalking charge doesn't count as a "crime of violence" to which these specific murder & weapon charges can attach.

The day before Valentine's Day is an interesting one to try to kill your customers' robot girlfriends

It's not clear to me that the 'inner world' in either case is more or less rich, but in the second case they'll be more similar, queued by whatever was in the illustrations.

I don't dare guess if it's good or bad.

I think the difference will be more in the level of shared experience *between* kids than the richness of any particular kid's recollection.

As an example, think of reading some beloved book (no builtin visual), vs the same book with a picture on every other page.

We've seen some of this in SW already, where the harness & interaction mode make a big difference to the usefulness of a model ("chatbot" does everything, but nothing well).

I guess the same will happen for law & other fields as people explore what works, but who knows how far that can go.

I do wonder how much other fields can "transform" tasks to take advantage of e.g. some harness or process change that could make Gemini's errors downthread either *not happen* or *not matter in context*, even without improving the models..

I think we software people overestimate the utility of these things because we very often have work that divides neatly into steps where verifying that a solution is good enough is much easier than writing it, and so we tend to underestimate how rarely that's the case in other work.

To "write a song like Nick Cave" is definitely not a crime anywhere I know of, unless you also try to pass it off as something Nick Cave actually wrote or endorses.

May change in the future depending on how well companies can mitigate memorization. At least for now though It doesn't strike me as ethically different from most human art, except that it's a machine doing it. That is: specific works/artefacts may infringe, but the models are fine imo.

...Meta's recent cases, where neither judge was convinced that LLMs or their outputs meaningfully substitute for the copied works. Though the latter was much more sympathetic to your view.
Put differently: "society doesn't owe me the job I want. It owes me fair dealing for the work I actually do"...

Ty for the article. But while I agree this sucks for those affected, my understanding is (so far) it isn't market substitution in the legally relevant sense. That being direct substitution for the actual works copied, not just competition for work in general. This was mentioned in Anthropic &...

... I think you're pointing to a version of copyright (or morality) that, taken seriously, forbids you from e.g. applying knowledge or insight gained from a book to your own work / "being inspired". Unless the salient difference is "a machine did it", but why should that be?

What, to you, makes the use of ideas from a book/work wrong here, either legally or morally?
Imo language model training is pretty clearly transformative, and doesn't create an obvious direct market substitute for any of the original works...

Most of my family and many friends are Follett-heads (follecles?). I was offered A Column of Fire to borrow *yesterday*.
Mildly surprised you'd never even heard of him given your posting, but the world is a big place I guess.

Per the article, the suit did happen, and the judge held that using legally purchased works (destructively or not) for training was fair use. Anthropic still in trouble for digital piracy and settled for ~$1.5B (details still being worked out). Other cases resolving similarly afaik.

PM Mark Carney gives a big hug to Bonhomme Carnaval

"The powerful have their power. But we have something too..."

Yeah, there's
"damn. I guess there was always a chance"
and
"damn! I need to buy bullets!"

I think the important thing there is the interval, showing that even 20% in 2027 is to be reasonably expected and won't cause a "panic" or "freak out the entire market". As ever though, I don't really know what I'm talking about.

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I'm Dad

Idk what "sensory" for an llm means, but I wonder if it makes sense conceptually to take this kind of claudsmic microwave background token astronomy thing "up" to higher concepts/later layers, as a way of making patterns visible without having to know what you're after

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Godogly's intuition (d^2 twice) comes up in radars where you often have the transmitter & receiver in different places, so you can't collapse to d^4. E.g. a missile seeking a target illuminated from an aircraft or ground station. Probably also in sonar/seismography, but i know < nothing about those.

Aside: are you using a bluesky client that has inline latex, or is that just a reflex for you?

Credit to Tim for snapping me out of the "radiation sucks" thought-terminator.

I still like the ISS as a toy example of easily googleable current technology that collects & dissipates >=useful power, even with deliberately worse efficiency & mechanical tradeoffs vs hypothetical space DC

Are those dogs asleep? Wake 'em up

Isn't internalizing things the problem here?

I had been thinking something like

"if you have equipment dumping ~60° to the radiator, and it's coming out at -40°, what 'effective' radiator temperature can you get? Worse for bigger radiators w/ longer loops?"

"How good are heat pipes?" Basically

At assembly complete, each ammonia loop will supply coolant to five Interface Heat Exchangers (IFHX) and five cold plates (three Direct Current-to-Direct Current Units (DDCUs) and two Main Bus Switch Units (MBSUs)). Two MBSU cold plates, each designed to remove 495 watts watts at 80 lbs/hr. Three DDCU cold plates are each designed to remove 694 watts at 125 lbs/hr. The cold plate interfaces with the component base-plate via radiant fins. IFHXs transfer thermal energy from the Interna Control System's (ITCS) water based coolant to the ETCS anhydrous ammonia coolant. Ammonia supply temperature is currently set at 37 °F (2.8 °C) The ITCS supply temperature varies as a function of the modules' thermal load. IFHX can isolate and bypass the IFHX core on the ammonia side in the event a cold slug is detected at the pump outlet to prevent ITCS coolant from freezing.

Internal Active Thermal Control System (IATCS) The purpose of the U.S. Destiny Laboratory ITCS is to maintain equipment within an allowable temperature range by collecting, transporting, and rejecting waste heat. The ITCS uses water because it is an efficient thermal transport fluid and is safe inside a habitable module. The IATCS is a closed loop system that provides a constant coolant supply to equipment, payloads and avionics to maintain proper temperature. The U.S. Laboratory contains two independent loops, a Low Temperature Loop (LTL) and a Moderate Temperature Loop (MTL). This approach allows for segregation of the heat loads, simplifies heat load management, and provides redundancy in case of equipment failure. The LTL is designed to operate at 40° F (4° C) and service systems equipment requiring low temperatures, such as the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Common Cabin Air Assembly (CCAA) and some payload experiments. The LTL contains approximately 16.64 gallons (63 liters) of fluid. The MTL nominally operates at 63° F (17° C) and provides most of the cooling for systems equipment (i.e. avionics) and payload experiments. The MTL contains approximately 52.83 gallons (200 liters) of fluid. Th The IATCS loops can be configured and operated as a single loop. This capability is used for a variety of purposes, including the reduction of wear on the pumps, reduction of pump power usage, or to compensate e for for a pump failure. Descriptive alt text

Nice. I think my concern was about the realism of getting a uniformly high radiator temperature.

I didn't see input temperature to the radiator, but on second perusal it must be somewhere between 3—17°C, which is colder than I would have guessed.

Helps your point though

A page showing a diagram of one ISS radiator wing, and a photo of a man dwarfed by one of its three elements. Text: Heat Rejection System (HRS) Radiator during deployment testing at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. Heat collected by the EATCS ammonia loops is radiated to space by two sets of rotating radiator wings-each composed of three separate radiator ORUs. Each radiator ORU is composed o eight panels, squib units, squib unit fi b controller, Integrated Motor Controller Assemblies grated Controll (IMCAs), instrumentation, and QDs. Each Radiator ORU measures 76.4 feet (23.3 meters) by 11.2 feet (3.4 meters) and weighs 2,475 pounds (1,122.64 kilograms) Radiator ORU (8 panels) Radiator beam Each ammonia loop contains one radiator ised of omprise three Radiator ORUs mounted on th Radiator Beam and six Radiator Beam Valve Module (RBVM)and one Thermal Radiator Rotary Joint (TRRJ). The Radiator ORUs utilize anhydrous ammonia to reiect he EATCS Each Radiator ORU contains a deployment mechanism and eight radiator panels. The deployment Note: All three radiators shown deployed mechanism allows the Radiator ORU to be launched in a stowed configuration and deployed on orbit. Each radiator ORU can be remotely deployed and retracted

This thing says the ISS can reject 70 kW with ~475 m² of radiator, for ~150 w/m², so real world losses look huge (?).

They're doing -40°C at the radiator outlet, which i guess is most of the difference.

Can a DC do better just with the higher (?) source temp?

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