Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
by kwhitefoot on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:45AM
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Efficiency is still the wrong name. What you are describing is usually referred to a coefficient of performance, abbreviated to COP.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance
Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
by faceplanted on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:05AM
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The Deja vu sensation of this conversation happening almost identically 2 days ago (everything from wondering how >100% efficiency works, someone explaining it's from the environment, and then someone else explaining efficiency is inappropriate and COP exists) is kinda wild.
Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
by adolph on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:59AM
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Nothing to worry about. Its people alpha-testing the Copilot internet commenting plugin.
Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
by SamBam on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:18PM
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Can't wait for all our text input boxes on the web to be GPT-3-enabled, and then all comments on HN and Reddit and Twitter will be just people accepting the defaults, and it will end up just being GPT-3 talking to itself, and we can all go back to doing something productive.
Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
by adolph on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:16PM
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Pretty sure FB has several instances of itself with all the users played by GPT-3 trained on the users’ previous activities so they can monte carlo various changes, like pre-A|B testing or estimating impact of various new ad types or congressional testimonies.
Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
by Scoundreller on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:37PM
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Reminds me of a post here where it was some neural network chat/excuse generator. Just two people back and forthing about why they couldn’t meet up.
I lost it when one of the excuses was, 3 weeks later “oh, I can’t meet for lunch on July 29th, I have to go to my mother’s funeral”
Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
by SamBam on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:36PM
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Amy way you can link to that conversation? I tried to find it on Google.
Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
by Scoundreller on Saturday July 03, 2021 @09:38AM
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I think the convo is different each time. You’d have to search here for the chat itself. It was 2-3 months Ago
Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)
by mrfusion on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:25PM
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Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/
A heat pump is another common example with efficiency numbers in the same ballpark. With a heat pump, the heat is being moved from outside to inside (or vice versa for air conditioning and refrigerators). In that case, it requires, for example, 1kW of electricity input to move 3.85kW of heat.