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by 8bitsrule 4mo ago
This bacterial faculty for trans-generational memory reminds me of human epigenetics. "Epigenetics refers to how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes (mutations),
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by 8bitsrule 4mo ago
I've been looking for an excuse to get a RasPi for a long time ... this could be it!
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by 8bitsrule 4mo ago
The chess-playing Mechanical Turk of 1770 seemed to have a consciousness to its viewers. The viewers were encouraged to think that it did. The Turk's human chess opponent knew that there was an actual human chess-player inside the box,
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by 8bitsrule 4mo ago
>wonder if the website owners realise at all how many actual users they lose by this sort of "protection. Yesterday cloudflare blocked me from visiting the MX-Linux site ... including an old browser with -no- protections ... I have
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by 8bitsrule 4mo ago
I'd guess that, if this experiment produces enough value from a few dozen of the fragments, then all the work needed to OCR thousands of them will be easier to pay for. Hopefully some long-thought-lost works by major authors will turn
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by 8bitsrule 4mo ago
Article: >There is only one market that large: the global labor market. Dispute Owen's claim, the global felony and bullshit markets are bigger.
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by 8bitsrule 4mo ago
Addition of a source-paper link to complex science studies like this should be encouraged (if not mandatory) at the top of posts like this. Real-world reports can be valuable to some readers who are non-plussed by journalistic interpreta
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
The world is just as complex for machines as it is for humans. Analog will still resolve more than digital. Quality will still beat quantity. That which hasn't been resolved for centuries isn't going to be resolved as a result of
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Ringspace Trusted Webrings: Is a great idea returning?(ringspace.net)
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
We don't need popes or effing machines to tell us what we're doing wrong. We all already know that. What we do need is a lot more ordinary people to do something about it.
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
Readers (who haven't hearof it) might also be interested in a short story (published 1909) by E. M. Forster called "The Machine Stops". It "predicted technologies and cultural impacts similar to instant messaging, socia
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
IMO, most audio read by humans (esp. voice actors) are far preferable to machine readings. Also, I found no demos on that page.
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
Great project. Are many of the books in a format that can easily be converted into audio? Is there a way to search for them, and information on what software your readers find useful for this purpose? (Note: A lot of print media these days
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
Good question on privilege. Others were born into poorER families with musical backgrounds. Just this Monday I learned of lesser-known composer Johannes Wanhal, who was born into serfdom! in Bohemia, mid-1700s. He learned enough by 21 for h
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
I guess the days of advising that 'You're only cheating yourself' have come to fall on deaf ears.
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
Most fun I ever had with a 6502 was when I realized that, at 1 MHz, I could do 250,000 average instructions per second. So I divided my monitor up into 20 boxes to have 12500 (fairly complex!) instructions per per second for each box. I use
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
Many of the big names in classical music came from privileged backgrounds. Others needed a helping hand. Dvorak (Slavonic Dances, New World Symphony) Just the other day, I found this: "... the compositions of an unknown Czech composer
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
On the off-chance that someone wants to read the actual science paper rather than a 'sciencex.com' burp : https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/6/877
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
Trick question: World's oldest university in continuous operation is different from the 'oldest'. Otherwise, the university of flint tools is the oldest.
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
Since it's not actual A.I., I'm reminded of nuclear fusion, which has long been only 25 years away. It's not an actual invention yet. Yet, thanks to our times, at least one major company appears to be thought-bubbling. It a
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by 8bitsrule 5mo ago
And for pathetic AI outcomes like this, in many regions electricity rates are climbing like there's no tomorrow? Too many people drank the Koolaid. However will we escape this finger-trap?
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
More on the topic: Review of 2005 book "When Computers Were Human" 424pp. ISBN: 0-691-09157-9 https://web.archive.org/web/20060821120909/http://www.pupres...
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
When I thought I recalled 'computer' used to be a job title, I found this on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation) which says that "(the first known written reference dates from
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
Some parts are ... amusing to read. For example the article on stars [0]... "anything approaching a uniform distribution of the stars cannot extend Limits of the Universe. indefinitely. It can be shown that, if the density of distribut
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
Standard quotation applies. It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! — Upton Sinclair I ran into this one just today .... "Let the logician and the Godman show The foo
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
Impossible to recommend without knowing what works for you. For a one-stop-shop, try SOMA.FM ( https://somafm.com/ ) for a great variety of well-vetted choons in multople genres. After that, one can build up a list of hundred
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
Any business that won't accept cash payments is too dumb to patronize.
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
This problem threatens more than just business as usual. In the past, intense geomagnetic storms have caused big transformers to explode. Without a backup transformer supply, entire regions may face long-term power outages. https:/&#x
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
I was surprised to -not- see The_Transactor , which was full of details on how to get your C64 to boldly go where no BASIC type-ins had gone before. https://web.archive.org/web/20120519135652/http://www.
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by 8bitsrule 6mo ago
I'm reminded of my surprise when my Mac's 'super' (their name) floppy drive quit working because the CPU fan was pulling air through it all day. Post 90-day warranty, the replacement cost at the time was 1/5 of what

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