Do you know that if I own a house and can't pay property taxes, it gets repossessed and sold? this is common. Let's apply it to stocks and billionaires too.
Fair enough, there's definitely a shortage, but there is capacity available for people that are willing to buy it. There are platforms that give easy access to GPUs for small players, while the large players can make direct contract with neoclouds or datacenter providers.
The companies discussed in the article are 493 of the biggest companies in US, so if there was value to be extracted from using bare metal + open-weight models, I am sure they would be all over it.
Everyone talks about how sophisticated those large players have become in trimming their AI spend, they're a lot more cost-conscious. Perhaps this narrative might be overblown or there is truth to it. We'll see.
>you can’t really use it to characterize the chemical content of the air
correct, that's not VOC sensors do. you need specific sensors for different gases for that. All VOC sensors are metal-oxide (MOx) sensors, i suggest reading on their supposed applications and uses.
What I mean is: the MOx sensors, in theory, measure some function of the concentrations of various gasses in the air. The datasheets even give you some flavor of this function for some of the sensors.
But the actual behavior, at least for the SGP4x series, is so outrageously unstable and path dependent that you still can’t learn the value if that function of the gas concentrations. At best you get changes on timescales of minutes to a few hours but not on timescales of days.
>you get changes on timescales of minutes to a few hours but not on timescales of days.
again, correct. That's how they're supposed to work. If the air is very slowly getting worse, MOx sensors might not catch it.
That being said, what "very slowly" means depends on the sensor. For example, for Bosch BME680 (very good with 'organics'), you can set the tracking interval between 4 and 28 days (i use 28). Sensirion SEN66 (very good with 'chemicals') can have a tracking interval of up to 1000 hours.
The SpaceX landing barges are named after capital ships of the Culture novels, I guess that is the Musk - Culture connection. Without that little tidbit, a connection does seem far-fetched.
I know. I find it very... peculiar not reading the Culture books, some of the best SF books ever written, just because Musk also read them. Not to mention they're a very direct critique of his (stated) ideology
Well, that's what it means, right. People who think technology can solve social problems, people who think "The Future" will be better than the past. That whole TESCREAL milieu. Where's the disconnect?
The Culture is Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, not TESCREAL. Musk picked the cool gadgets and the funny ship names, but missed or ignored the ideology
Not just gay, but trans. Some people don't just take on the opposite gender for a while just to see how it feels. Some become literal furries. Fluffy tail and all. All provided for free on a whim.
What sensor, exactly, are you describing here? Different VOC sensors have different gas sensibilities, as well as different algorithms to interpret the gas sensor raw data.
They were quite overpaid compared to other local government roles, and had very poor public visibility. WP says they were originally going to be called "sheriffs" but that was rejected as "too American". This does make it clear that it was an attempt to copy the US system, but I feel obliged to point out that the Scottish court system has had Sheriffs for longer than the US has existed.
The French are just exercising their second amendment rights as originally envisioned by the founding fathers. They're doing America better than Americans!
Decades of reckless deregulation and -er- corporatism, the inevitable corporate consolidation that that behavior encourged, and "Stranger Danger!"-type fearmongering... I reckon.
The previously-super-illegal pervasive domestic surveillance programs sure don't help things, either. No cost is too high to stop "terror" at home and abroad, amirite? :(
A loan is subdivided and sold in different allotments each year at a different interests rate, principal, and terms. You want to sell the entire debt at some point in the future. How do you calculate the price such that you don’t sell at a loss?
If you learnt calculus, you could check their work and see that it's accurate. And it only takes algebra and a few minutes of work to see that your bank statements match the formula that's been given.
I know calculus, and I also know that mortgage payments don't follow that formula - or, maybe they do but they're so buried in noise and extra charges and costs you'd never know it.
Generally, banks try to get as much of the interest early on, and move the base to later. This is why it usually makes no sense to pay off a debt after 5 or 10 years when you paid 80% of the interest already (but also why refinancing works for banks: more upfront interest which they put into books as profit right away).
On some things, governments put the cap on how much can early payments be loaded with interest and how much at least should be paying off the base debt — otherwise, you'd be paying only the interest for the first 15 years of a mortgage.
Though, these things work slightly differently in different countries.
Bookkeeping normally computes interest based on some accounting period - days, weeks, months, or quarters. It's a sum of discrete charges, not an integral.
It was usually monthly in the paper and pencil era; today it is usually daily.
Look up "double declining balance" and "Rule of 73".
Financial calculators do integrate, though. "Present value" is computed by integration.
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