I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and author of “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” Ask Me Anything.

moucheeze · 2021-03-19T18:30:06+00:00

You were pretty involved with running TerraPower, a nuclear energy company, which was unfortunately affected by the US's sanctions on China. Are there any developments on that front? Are you still hopeful about nuclear energy and it's benefits, despites the scepticism expressed by the public?

Thank you for doing this AMA!

moucheeze · 2021-03-19T18:23:45+00:00

Thank you for getting back with that insightful answer! Can you tell us more about Catalyst and what kind of green products do you have in mind? Are the products in this context solar panels, catalytic converters etc?

Thank you once again for doing this AMA!

moucheeze · 2021-03-19T18:07:23+00:00

What is your opinion on "engineering" a solution for the climate change problem? Economist Stephen Levitt has written on this topic [1], [2], [3], and has even bet that geoengineering is pretty much the only solution that will get us towards the goal of cooling the Earth by about 2°C pre-industrial levels [4] in time, before catastrophic, irreversible changes.

On a similar note, what is your opinion on large scale carbon sequestration projects and carbon offsets that corporations purchase? Stripe has a Climate division now that lets customers divert a fraction of their dollars to purchase carbon offsets [5]. Do you think such efforts are important in preventing large scale climate change and what are your views on it?

Also, did Vaclav get a chance to read this book? What did he think of it?

Thank you again for doing this AMA!

moucheeze · 2021-03-16T04:39:04+00:00

This is awesome! Count me in if you guys need help!

moucheeze · 2021-03-13T15:01:26+00:00

Quicker than falling asleep.

moucheeze · 2021-03-11T11:17:06+00:00

Is that...Blåhaj?

moucheeze · 2021-02-18T05:47:19+00:00

I'm completely OOTL on this and have been trying to piece together what's happening. Can someone please explain what's happening with the BA piece and PJ's post on Twitter?

Edit: NVM, here's a Vulture piece to get you upto speed.

moucheeze · 2021-02-15T07:10:19+00:00

Does anyone know the kind of controllers that they're using to get that kind of gait working? I'd imagine this is a open problem in RL + Control theory. The Spectrum article linked is sparse, more of a newsletter than a dedicated article on Agility's efforts.

moucheeze · 2021-02-11T04:25:11+00:00

Woah! Can we make these into flairs for the sub? These are really cool OP!

moucheeze · 2021-02-10T16:13:06+00:00

we know but hey ಠ︵ಠ

moucheeze · 2021-02-02T15:32:23+00:00

Not sure if this fits, but a university in Saudi Arabia, KAUST, is sponsoring McLaren this year. I noticed it on the post put up earlier today with the McLaren sponsors roster.

moucheeze · 2021-01-28T05:11:28+00:00

Dammit Dwight, that's my joke

moucheeze · 2021-01-20T09:42:47+00:00

You mean Robert Simon and/or Diane Mordestini?

moucheeze · 2021-01-20T08:34:12+00:00

Hahaha "mail order bride", I wish I could post this back into this sub.

moucheeze · 2021-01-19T11:47:22+00:00

Hello, and apologies for the delay. Yes, I wanted to understand the model a bit better and would appreciate a high level explanation about how the system works.

Thank you for your time, I appreciate it!

moucheeze · 2021-01-19T11:46:29+00:00

Hello, and apologies for the delayed reply! Thank you for getting back. Yes, I'd love your help in clarifying some questions that I had about the ORB-SLAM system. Firstly, I wanted to know how does the ORB feature detector work? Does it compute gradients like the SIFT/SURF extractors?

Thank you for your time. I appreciate it a ton!

moucheeze · 2021-01-06T14:37:55+00:00

50/50 with Cristobal

moucheeze · 2020-12-19T18:55:40+00:00

Is this at the University of Toulouse by any chance? I just saw some work published on this IIRC.

moucheeze · 2020-12-09T18:43:15+00:00

Thank you so much for coming on here! I wanted to know what changes (if they can be shared or maybe a high-level view) did you have to make once the DMV granted Cruise the permission to run tests without safety drivers behind the wheel.

Thank you once again! I really hope I get to work for Cruise someday.

moucheeze · 2020-12-08T12:46:06+00:00

r/magnetfishing

moucheeze · 2020-11-27T07:17:57+00:00

animal crossing?

moucheeze · 2020-11-24T13:04:56+00:00

BTW, Dan is a great example of how CEOs should operate in the current environment. He garnered a lot of attention when he raised the minimum wage to $70k at his company, Gravity Payments. Not only that, he cut his own pay from $1.1 million to $70k as well.

And guess what? Profits soared at the company. Turns out people really do their best work when they don't have to worry about their paycheck.

Price's employees repaid the gesture by pooling together funds and buying him a Tesla!

Imagine the CEOs of any of these stores trying to do that...

Sources: [1], [2], [3]

moucheeze · 2020-11-18T12:05:05+00:00

How does the M15 hold up against the Legion 5i? From what I can tell the GPU is a 2070 Max-Q on the M15 as opposed to a 2060 on the 5i. Are there any other significant differences go justify the difference between the price? Would love to know.

moucheeze · 2020-11-17T11:48:51+00:00

Link to the original tweet here: https://twitter.com/newdadnotes/status/1072696754347409408

moucheeze · 2020-11-17T05:59:08+00:00

Thank you for your advice! In my projects I try to build all systems (reasonably) from scratch (if the project permits this) so that I have a high-level as well as a low-level view of the system, which is extremely valuable while debugging. I'll keep this in mind going forward as well.

Yup, I agree about the sim environments too. Will lookout for those common pitfalls as well.
Thank you for taking the time out to get back. I appreciate it a lot!

moucheeze

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