Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app
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co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
@veronica brittleness definitely seems like an annoyingly undesirable property for "wire" 😅
@veronica and yeah, the 20T demo last year (and subsequent reveal they already have supply-chain in place to crank out more) was when I suddenly got optimistic about fusion again.
@veronica I was in the DOE's National Undergraduate Fellowship program at PPPL back in 2012 and ended up deciding I'd rather do grad school in CS so I didn't have to spend the rest of my life implementing PDEs in Fortran, but one of the guys from the program who stuck with it is now their (CFS's) Head of Tokamak Operations.
@veronica CFS is an *incredibly* well-funded ($2B) spinout from the Alcator C-Mod team at MIT with productized 20T high-temperature superconducting magnets.
https://cfs.energy/technology/#sparc-fusion-energy-demonstration
@veronica It's expected to be online in 2025 and generate sustained fusion, and they're actively working on siting grid access for the commercial scale version a few years down the line. If you haven't been following their work, I highly recommend checking it out.
@veronica The folks at CFS are confidently spinning up supply chain to crank out superconducting magnets for a fleet of magnetic-confinement fusion reactors (entirely different tech from NIF's inertial confinement).
They are still 2 years shy of having their prototype online and generating, but putting their money where their mouths are in terms of readiness for commercialization...
Thomas Dickerson
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For the average person online, algorithms actually do a lot of good https://bit.ly/3FCX9Ic
@steve back before Swift, I loved pointing out to people that Objective-C was a proper C-superset while C++ was not.
@andrewliptak @annaleen I’ve had to coordinate getting an employee up to Burlington from Boston twice now. If you drive it’s easy, if not the easiest options are usually bus or flight with a layover at JFK (🙄), but as of this summer I think it’s theoretically possible to fly Cape Air into Rutland and take the train up the rest of the way which might be the most fun option if the connection timing works.
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We’re hosting a GAME JAM with a $2500 prize on itch.io for creators, starting Jan 1 2023!
Theme: NYC (we’ll provide New York City as a customizable game environment, for free!)
Deadline: Jan 31, 2023
Prize: $2500
More info: itch.io/jam/new-york-new-york
#gamejam #indiegamedev #itchio #gamedev #indiegames #digitaltwin #nyc
@mmasnick thank you!! :)
Grades are nearly universally a bad proxy for learning.
Kids who are primarily extrinsically motivated realize they can cheat for the same payoff (within *that* game), and trying to fix that by making it harder to cheat rather than making it more fun to learn is a failing game.
Kids who are intrinsically motivated come out even worse off because playing the stupid grades game just detracts from the time that could be spending actually learning
@annaleen I bet @andrewliptak has some good connections with the bookstores around here!
@annaleen needs a stop in Vermont!
@Sunfishstanford the trick to understanding so much of math seems to be finding the right explanation!
@normative speaking as a former kid who was intrinsically motivated both to learn math and to eat vegetables and generally found the formal education system’s emphasis on jumping through hoops for grades on stuff I already knew tedious and demotivating….I don’t think “the obvious answer” is the right one.
@mmasnick random question but is there anyway to make techdirt respect a device’s dark mode settings?
meta, activism talk
@malcircuit yes, it’s just half-baked - whether or not the quoted toot is displayed is client-dependent (most don’t), and the person being quoted doesn’t receive any notification.
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meta, activism talk
@malcircuit And of course people are going to use Mastodon/the fediverse for incompatible reasons - that’s one of the selling points. It’s not a single platform, it’s a federation of platforms who interconnect as much or as little as their users want to.
meta, activism talk
@malcircuit And of course people are going to use Mastodon/the fediverse for incompatible reasons - that’s one of the selling points. It’s not a single platform, it’s a federation of platforms who interconnect as much or as little as their users want to.
- Personal
- http://sfgp.cemetech.net/
co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
