The point is that we have a group of humans that are incentivized to live in an area that isn't safe to live, full stop.
Said with tongue firmly planted in cheek:
"The Himalayas are the highest, youngest, and most unstable mountain system on Earth. Let's terraform these bastards to extract energy and incentivise people to live there. They can build these giant, terribly unsafe, concrete buildings right on the bank of a river fed by a an unstable glacier. Let's also have one way in and one way out! The mountains are too steep for meaningful egress upward, so rock crawl your way out there for the bi-seasonal melt floods!!!!"
Are SF, and LA not built on fault lines? Is Tokyo not built in the middle of them? Is Omaha not right in the middle fo tornado valley? Why do people settle in Florida when it gets hit by tornados. Everywhere has a inherit risk with it, maybe they like it there or are from there. Victim blaming them isnt helpful
I completely disagree. The variables in these situations are WELL known. The difference is scale, and in the Himalayas there is no cost effective, completely safe way to deal with them. The hydroelectric potential in that part of the world is the main driver for the continuous build -> flood --> destruction --> build cycle. Obviously, the last event was nothing short of astonishing, devastating and horrific. The worst part is that it will happen again, just differently.
It seems to me that the two of you are actually in agreement. If we had a better understanding of the variables we'd have been able to predict what happened in advance from the reams of satellite data we have.
No. It will happen again the only thing that will change is the amount of water and debris. More or less people will die depending on the incentives to live in the district. Humans should not inhabit those valleys.
That's not a response to what I wrote? If we had a better understanding of the variables then we'd almost certainly be able to leverage all the data we have to warn people in time to evacuate. Similar to how wildfires used to kill a lot more people but these days even in the most fire prone regions you'll almost always have time to get out if you heed the evacuation notice.
I agree with you that flood prone areas are generally a poor choice of place to live but it seems to me that's neither here nor there.
I think they mean a resource ripe for extraction. There is huge stored gravitational energy in that ice and water up so high, which is also exactly why it was such a disaster.
Potential as in possibility, not as voltage. It's an awkward phrase...
Huh? I mean, if you look at the actual damage reports you see quite a bit of energy taken of both Nepal and Chinese grids. Further deduction leads to the obvious conclusion that hydroelectric generation in the district is VERY important.
Yes, most of our problems with the shifting climate are not physical, their not engineering, they're nothing but stupid, stupid "social studies". The kind of thing billionaires want to buy their way out of, which they can't, so they do the next best thing: abandon all hope and build their bunkers cause real philanthropy is complex, and real society isn't just something an LLM can dictate and people will just follow.
What do you need to track? I have a personal app I call Genomicly where I am, quite amateurishly, trying to replicate MaxGen panel and similar precision medicine with whoop, and LabCorp integration. My main goal is privacy which is tricky without the right hardware. The whoop is really easy to use from someone with ADHD and 20 years on a fire engine. I need simple.
A good index is a software and LLM problem if using the LLM for indexing. Are you looping "agents" in an embedding and encoding cycle before retrieval? There are thousands of RAG agents at this point and RAG is still not super great. A dedicated specialized model? You want to take on Qwen3.6 or Qwen3.8 wrapped a pi.dev harness agent that has been dedicated to be the "search" agent? How would you stack up?
you can look it up in the blog. RAG is not super great because of two reasons, single embedding vector models are not that good and stopped improving and second most models are not good at looking up information. we spend great time on improving the modeling side by inventing on the indexing level [1, 2]. and now we trained our model to be very good at search. it is matching the quality of Opus 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol while being faster. it helps your main agent to do the task at greater quality, while reducing cost per task.
I don't think so, but could be wrong. It seems to be a specialized layer like a lora or a merged model. So a RAG-agent-model thingy. No clue if it actually works. I don't understand why I would want to use it.
the thing is most agents waste most of their tokens looking up information which can cause context rot. most small models are not as good as looking up information. this model helps to lookup information for your main agent, which helps you to save tokens and still maintain quality.
Qwen3.6-27B has been the main LLM powering my little agentic stack. I have adopted the test and verify approach to any models allowed to run on my machine. When the "heretic" version drops, I will fire up the harness and test. Super excited to see how it stacks up against Qwen3.6!!!
Qwen3.6-27B has been the main LLM powering my little agentic stack. I have adopted the test and verify approach to any models allowed to run on my machine. When the "heretic" version drops, I will fire up the harness and test. Super excited to see how it stacks up against Qwen3.6!!!
I am not sure why you are downvoted. This is absolutely a MAJOR fucking problem in the US. I work with strong men and women that almost all have dental issues. We have "amazing" insurance as professional firefighters in most jurisdictions.
Dental insurance is an absolute scam. Dental coverage in the USA is beyond abysmal. I am very fortunate (or unfortunate depending on perspective) to live close enough to Mexico to investigate the prices there.
I recently had three, previously crowned, teeth removed and the posts for implants placed. The least expensive I could find in my city of 1 million was $16k out the door. I drove to the Mexico border, walked across and paid $3350 for the implants and they replaced a broken crown. I still need to heal completely before they place the arches (the new teeth) and they are going to charge me $2250 for those.
WTH? Its not like they are using TEMU veneers and implants. Its the same stuff, I could pick between zirconia and porcelain. Same machines, same tools, same training. And as a bonus, the dentists and staff were some of the most caring and thoughtful "dental people" as I suffer from "dental anxiety" like no other.
I think a lot of dental anxiety stems from the cost. Furthermore, the fact that we can't really tell what is going on in our mouths like a strange growth on your face or something, means we have to implicitly trust the dentist. Is a $2000 crown really necessary? We have no real way to actually hold a dentist or their practices accountable. There is just too much friction built into the dental system for a normie to really know what is needed versus the dentist needs to pay off a $15000 bicycle so everyone is getting crowns for a month. lol
I think I can beat this on price. Broke a tooth recently in Tbilisi, Georgia. From the top of the tooth it looked like 1/4 broke off, but it was a diagonal break from center to exterior and was all above the gum line.
I really didn't want to get in repaired in Georgia, but with the pain it didn't take long to decide to get it repaired.
Got in repaired for 150 Georgian Lari which is about 57 USD.
Other interesting notes, first day they didn't even ask my name just gave me a temporary filling and charged me 50 GEL. On return visit I was asked my full name and birthday. Got the tooth repaired and paid the remaining 100 GEL. I never filled out any paperwork.
The tooth is quite sensitive to hot and cold but I'm not ready to get a root canal yet. I am pleased with the repair.
This is so easy to do because we are unable to contemplate every edge case at the time of inception right? At least that is what I am telling myself as I brick myself on a "manifest driven system" that surely will detect drift as I bolt more and more on, right? no... bricked as fah.
At least I am learning to build modular so I can reuse parts like image gen, audio gen (STT/TTS), knowledge management. I have probably built 4 of these systems in the last year, each one gets better and lasts longer until I brick the crap out of it. Super fun.
Said with tongue firmly planted in cheek:
"The Himalayas are the highest, youngest, and most unstable mountain system on Earth. Let's terraform these bastards to extract energy and incentivise people to live there. They can build these giant, terribly unsafe, concrete buildings right on the bank of a river fed by a an unstable glacier. Let's also have one way in and one way out! The mountains are too steep for meaningful egress upward, so rock crawl your way out there for the bi-seasonal melt floods!!!!"
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