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Are you talking about the input-output thing? It assumes each sector produces exactly one thing, and is agnostic of growth, change and multiple non-equal possibilities existing. I'm skeptical.

It's not really covered up, either.

I mean, it's endorsed by the same people. He has a page on their website and everything.

Based Cox.

Don't put that cursed shit on mathematicians, lol.

Oh god, the cringe.

Strangest? Functional analysis, maybe. I understand it's used pretty extensively in quantum field theory, although I don't actually know firsthand.

That's a body of mathematics about infinite-dimensional spaces and the operations on them. Even more abstract ways of defining those operations exist and have come up as well, like in Tseirlson's problem, which recently-ish had a shock negative resolution stemming from quantum information theory.

There's constructions I find weirder yet, but I don't think p-adic numbers, for example, have any direct application at this point.

Aren't there AC systems that just evapourate water from municipal supplies to the atmosphere?

I mean, yes, I'd agree that blowing air over a standing water body isn't AC, but we're getting close.

From what I've seen that's one example where you could totally just use trig and pairs of numbers, though. I might be missing something, because I'm not an electrical engineer.

They also have a defined multiplication operation consistent with how it works on ordinary numbers. And it's not just multiplying each number separately.

A lot of math works better on them. For example, all n-degree polynomials have exactly n roots, and all smooth complex functions have a polynomial approximation at every point. Neither is true on the reals.

Quantum mechanics could possibly work with pairs of real numbers, but it would be unclear what each one means on their own. Treating a probability amplitude as a single number is more satisfying in a lot of ways.

That they don't exist is still a position you could take, but so is the opposite.

I mean, quaternions are the weirder version of complex numbers, and they're used for calculating 3D rotations in a lot of production code.

There's also the octonions and (much inferior) Clifford algebras beyond that, but I don't know about applications.

The critical detail being that you don't actually know what's inside (and it's definitely bad). Just using LLM assistance for a your boilerplate code doesn't count.

Because if not, I feel like this could get the team in legal or at least financial hot water with investors.

Which doesn't mean it doesn't happen, just that it's not normal and okay.

You can also run the pipe through an evaporative cooler to cool the air even more.

At some point there, you've just reinvented AC.

Yeah, I'm not saying proprietary enshittified hardware is good, lol.

You feel that it’s not something that the community would or should immediately balk at

This happened to you recently, right? This post itself is getting a negative reaction because we can tell, and it comes across as whiny.

People have opinions on and offline. You can contradict them, which is okay, but people are never going to like it, and that's okay. Lemmy has a strongly left-wing, open-source bent, and reacts accordingly.

They're becoming more common in the populated areas of Canada, although it's still a minority that has it where I live as well.

Climate change is really obvious at this point, and the smoke is awful...

In hot and dry climates, a breeze in a shady place works well, actually. In humid places it's harder.

That actually has results counterintuitive to temperate people when it comes to clothing. Arabs don't just cover up for modesty.

So DIY ground source heating/cooling, basically.

I suspect that's not long and deep enough, but if it is, it will produce air at the local year-round average temperature, at all times. (Whatever that happens to be)

I was also wondering if plants could also help inside, any ideas ?

They shouldn't. Plants can raise humidity, but they have no power to break the the laws of thermodynamics. Once heat is in your house you can only really move it out of your house; there is no destroying it in place. Note this does not apply to plants just on the outside of your home, like on a roof.

Watch your use of appliances carefully. Even a fridge generates heat - it might be better to place it outdoors or semi-outdoors if you're going to be really hardcore about your approach.

A better insulated house will keep heat out as well as cold, so all usual tips on building or renovating your envelope apply.

AI may well be done it's explosive growth anyway. Assume all my predictions in that case are "x existing application continues to expand".

I actually think AR is still coming - it just needs really specialised hardware to work and have acceptable battery life.

The issue with mobile OSs on desktop is that they're designed to depend on conventional OSs right now. There's no way to develop an Android app on Android, and debugging your Android from itself is possible, but only as a hack.

On to my own predictions. I'm limiting this to computers, not all technology, which I think was intended.

The fediverse slowly grows.

Geopolitics significantly weakens the US tech monopolies. FOSS benefits, although they probably are replaced by more commercial platforms for the most part.

More likely than not somebody actually mandates cryptography backdoors. It's a boondoggle, although it might not fully unravel in the window given.

There's a chance crytographically-significant quantum computing comes early and causes pandemonium. Bitcoin becomes (nearly?) worthless.

Okay, I will mention one AI thing. It's going to find a place in rendering pipelines for videogames.

The trend to heterogeneous computing continues. Analog and reversible chips become part of the mix.

Nix-type immutable systems become daily driveable.