Posted by 0sake_rs 10 hours ago
I'd be interested to know if that's just a coincidence or whether there's an underlying reason.
For comparison: at 50 MPG, traveling one mile by car uses 0.02 gallons of gasoline. This is about 675 Wh of energy or 580 kcal. Travel by bicycle for a ~180lb person is about 60 kcal per mile.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34618613 ("Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003) (inference.org.uk)")
That book significantly decreased my appreciation of our statistics professor @uni, because it presented the same topics in a much more interesting and digestible way. Can recommend.
That book and Gershgorin circles (to work around all the stupid, constructed 3x3 matrix eigenvalue problems that they love to sprinkle into literally every early stem exam) helped more in university than anything else.
He had a direct personal impact on my life since my introduction to ML came from video recordings of his lectures on ML and information theory. I am grateful to have learned from such an excellent teacher. Like a Feynman of our times.
I remember him giving this talk to my physics class when I was in University. It was so inspirational to me that the UK just might be able to go 100% renewable.
From what I remember, the calculation worked out how we could do it all with Solar. I don't think he quite saw how close we are to achieving the goal, not with Solar, but with Wind within the next decade.