ColanR

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by ColanR 8y ago
I wonder if by the time we solve a 'theory of everything' (or understand by some other means the basic mechanisms of our universe), we'll be able to efficiently, procedurally, generate a simulated universe. Also, the Fermi pa
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by ColanR 8y ago
Well, a better conclusion is, if it matters to you, then it matters to you. You can't make a more general statement of meaning out of your very specific declaration.
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by ColanR 8y ago
It claims to have 1000 scenes of 20 seconds each....unless I'm reading that wrong, their entire dataset is less than 6 hrs of driving. A human couldn't learn in that time, much less a neural net.
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by ColanR 8y ago
As an aside, reading the wikipedia link, it seems like that journal does fulfil a very useful function. Not that it's a publisher of accurate articles, but that it can help the medical field escape local maxima. "There are ideas t
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by ColanR 8y ago
Too bad the founder was kicked out for political reasons. It would have been nice if FF could have focused on technology, while being agnostic to the politics.
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by ColanR 8y ago
I looked at vivaldi about a year ago, and the only thing I missed was bookmark synchronization. Looking forward to trying it again.
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by ColanR 8y ago
Anyone else get a certificate error on the princeton website?
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by ColanR 8y ago
To satisfy my own curiosity, do you have a source on that issue with the Everett interpretation? I'd love to read up on what you were talking about in that second paragraph.
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by ColanR 8y ago
No paywall: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04302
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Indefinite Causal Order in a Quantum Switch(journals.aps.org)
2 points by ColanR 8y ago|1 comments
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AMD Contributes 8.5x More Code to the Linux Kernel Than Nvidia(phoronix.com)
76 points by ColanR 8y ago|14 comments
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by ColanR 8y ago
> So you can't tell flat earthers the earth is round because that would be 'unprofessional'? I mean, that's exactly what Columbus did a few hundred years ago. Should he have followed the 'scientific consensus&#x
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by ColanR 8y ago
Sure they're misused; but they're still relevant as a first-level analysis. If the results are promising, more studies can be justified. No one is claiming that humans and rats have more than the most minor physiological similari
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by ColanR 8y ago
awesome.
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by ColanR 8y ago
I was curious, and did a google scholar search on the Finland folks. Didn't see anything to back up your claim. Just people who have expertise in related fields. Care to elaborate?
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by ColanR 8y ago
> this current of concern is on the conspiratorial thinking side I wish that it could be possible to address the questions of science directly, without mudslinging. It's a simple question of what the effect of EMF radiation is on t
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by ColanR 8y ago
They do back up their claims, and they give careful citations. > The world’s largest study (25 million US dollar) National Toxicology Program (NTP), shows statistically significant increase in the incidence of brain and heart cancer in
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by ColanR 8y ago
have they been useful yet, or just sounded good?
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by ColanR 8y ago
There's a big difference in user control between safety features and a self-driving car.
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Briar Project(briarproject.org)
114 points by ColanR 8y ago|10 comments
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by ColanR 8y ago
Actually, if you read to the bottom of the discussion [0] you'll see that it was fixed, and FF respects the Do Not Track setting. In addition, they negotiated with google special terms for their analytics. This is the description [1] a
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Flash Memory Survives 100M Cycles(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by ColanR 8y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 8y ago
My guess it's the standard caveat: if you don't pay for the service, you and your stuff is the commodity.
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A password manager that doesn't store passwords(duudl3.xyz)
2 points by ColanR 8y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 8y ago
umatrix with first-party scripts disabled had no problem.
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by ColanR 8y ago
> if the same tasks were in the hands of people who wanted CNNs or CNN+RN to work well, the results might have been different. I guess that's an undesirable symptom of CNNs (etc.) still being an empirical rather than theoretical sci
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DnSpy(github.com)
2 points by ColanR 8y ago|1 comments
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by ColanR 8y ago
early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise... early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and socially dead. -- Ben Franklin, who had similar difficulties.
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by ColanR 8y ago
Who's downvoting this? I don't see any unfactual or inappropriate statements.
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by ColanR 8y ago
This is a really old story. The article is new, but I don't see any new data. It should be labelled (2013). hn.algolia.com/?query=rigmaiden

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