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One of the wild things is that despite Statewide YIMBY success, San Francisco, where the movement started, has not yet increased the rate of housing approvals.
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The thread of details about how it was done is pretty cool. Still very labor intensive, despite all the AI stuff involved.
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Again, Maximum Canada is seeming more likely than One Billion Americans. I think combining the two for One Billion Canadians is a bit ambitious though.
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This is pretty cool, but it is insanely processor intensive to encode/decode, it barely runs in real time on a modern processor. Skimming the paper, I couldn't find the memory requirements, but I suspect that's also pretty significant.
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And of course, Bolsonaro himself has driven the distrust in voting proceedures that are causing people to refuse to accept the results. I recall being taught in my Computer Security course: the goal of an election is to convince the loser that they've lost and that they don't have support to try to overturn the results extra-judicially.
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• Really beautiful example case study of a single staircase apartment development in Seattle. The single-staircase allowance is special and Seattle-specific unfortunately.