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But think of the children!


I usually don't like to make such a meta comment, but in this case, it appears HN fails basic heat transfer and thermodynamics.


' As a consultant, this should make my expertise even more valuable. '

Consultant logic at its finest.


More garbage outputs being produced faster, paired with expertise which makes it credibly sound like more fast garbage will solve any remaining issues, probably _is_ approaching peak consultant value.


Only if that's what the clients want or need to justify actual improvements!

Usually the goal is to produce less garbage outputs slower.


The goal isn’t to generate billable hours?


We like to find win-win situations.


I tend to view parenting discussions on HN with a strong gell mann weight.


I supposed generalization outside the training set structure may occur by chance should the outside set share enough of the same 'structure'. Basically if you can find magical maps to your training set then perhaps generalization may occur.


Yes, this is a big deal. You can think an analogy to the photoelectric effect where a photon excites an electron and for the photomolecular effect, a photon with the proper 'excites' a molecule, breaking the molecule free from its bulk.


Nothing in the abstract seems to tell the magnitude of the effect or how it differs in hydrogels vs other natural surfaces. Anyone have details on those from behind the paywall?


I found https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.10385.pdf by the same authors.

If I read it correctly, it says the theoretical limit for thermal evaporation is 1.45 kg/(m²h), while experimentally, values as high as 4-5 kg/(m²h) and over 10 kg/(m²h) have been reported in two-, respectively three-dimensional structures.

That’s a huge difference, but in my uneducated opinion not likely to be completely caused by this effect.

Edit: reading https://news.mit.edu/2023/surprising-finding-light-makes-wat..., which says “and the excess has been significant — a doubling, or even a tripling or more, of the theoretical maximum rate”, I read that correctly. I’m beginning to doubt my “not likely to be completely caused by this effect” hunch, though,


First pdf source says it happens in darkness with hydrogels too, but doesn't directly say the magnitude (has another reference), just that it is smaller.


After checking a widely-used hub of scientific articles, in this case unsuccessfully, a possible next step is to send an email to one of the authors of the article to see if they have a draft or preprint version of the article that they can email back to you. Often the differences between the preprint version and the published version are insignificant.


Perhaps it was never a liberal 'free' democracy in the first place. Or if it was, then it resides at an unstable point, and the stable points are full of nightmares.


You can have social convention without the debt. The social convention in the US is to have debt.


Sure, any system with a false negative and false positive rate 'works'.


As a prof, I use GPT for any boilerplate statements such as DEI required as part of grant/fellowship/scholarship applications.


If GPT isn't trained on the latest Twitter data, this can backfire. Yesterday's political correctness can get you fired today.


show us the prompt


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