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by FD3SA 12y ago
The interesting thing about this project is that they're using transistors to physically simulate synapses and neurons, which is quite an inefficient method. Transistors are expensive, and your brain has about 100 billion neurons, and
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by FD3SA 12y ago
A minor nit about Chrono Trigger's plot. It was actually based on the Chicxulub asteroid impact [1], which caused the K-Pg extinction event [2] and was followed by a severe impact winter. The game itself masterfully explores this event
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by FD3SA 12y ago
The only thing these "social web apps" achieved was turning trust fund millionaire kids into billionaires. Give me a break. Real science and engineering, pushing the state of the art, is what changes the world. Not building a Farm
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Exactly. I am constantly astounded by professional scientists who try to find a deeper meaning in mathematical models whose only purpose is to predict experimental results. Human brains work on intuition, but when dealing with imperfect mod
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by FD3SA 12y ago
@krapp Here is an expert who agrees with you, and has the results to prove it: http://vimeo.com/7441291
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by FD3SA 12y ago
It's naive to the point of absurdity. It's basically saying: The NSA/CIA/FBI/etc. couldn't even see Ukraine coming! They were on their coffee breaks, those silly spooks! They never get anything right do they?
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by FD3SA 12y ago
For one thing, Binney also points to NSA intelligence failures in the same article, and if NSA is missing major activities of other countries (the Russian intervention in Ukraine) and nonstate terrorist groups (the "Islamic State&quot
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by FD3SA 12y ago
We are just reverting to the historical mean society: oligarchy. Just a few years back I was very optimistic that we would correct our course back to democracy, but a cursory review of history shows incontrovertible proof of our destination
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by FD3SA 12y ago
I ponder this very question daily. I don't believe there are different types of intelligence. Instead, there are intelligent people who optimize single variables, and those who optimize multiple variables. The stupid interview question
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Ah, a careless omission on my part. What I meant to say was: Fans and followers will make one an artist, not art alone . The creation of art is a necessary, but not sufficient requirement to becoming a successful modern artist. For that, y
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by FD3SA 12y ago
The model that runs the internet: advertising. Fans and followers will make one an artist, not art. It has already happened. T. Swift is one of its greatest beneficiaries. Paul Graham's nightmare scenario...the entire adult world becom
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by FD3SA 12y ago
All great points. Yet Eisenhower defeated his opponents, both abroad and at home. Eisenhower was a champion of his era. He was a soldier who had seen war and death firsthand, and understood the costs. He also understood the severe costs of
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Not to mention that returns to capital have enjoyed the greatest 50 years since the roaring 20's. Thomas Piketty has exposed this fact in great detail in his new book. Robert Reich has even made a documentary about this very book. If &
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Precisely. Eisenhower/FDR style "New Deal" policies would be ridiculed as Communism in today's political arena. Modern politicians are just prudent businessmen who only care about the needs of their most affluent custome
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Brilliant. Every time someone asks me whether they should go to Harvard or MIT, I'll send them this link instead of my usual rant. Moral of the game: Connections trump everything. Talent means nothing. With seven billion people on this
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by FD3SA 12y ago
As a scientist, it is fascinating to watch developed societies slowly but surely chomp down at the very hand that feeds them. The U.S. is the world leader in scientific research, and what they do, others follow. The absolute gutting of the
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This argument comes up from time to time, but it's first order thinking. The real question he should address is the following: Why does the modern economy incentivize negative and/or zero sum endeavors (e.g. trivial startups, exp
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Good luck to them. They'll have some pretty tough competition from Mission Motorcycles, Brammo, Yamaha, KTM and countless others. Electric motorcycles are undoubtedly the future, but bikes are totally different vehicles than cars. They
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by FD3SA 12y ago
He's giving "feminism" far more respect than it's due. Empirically, it is a baseless ideology on par with Astrology, but far more sinister because of its political and economic consequences. In the real world, the study
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Precisely. This article, and all others like it just come off sounding like childish boolean logic applied to billions of people, each as different as a randomly generated hash code. If the only observation one can make about a case is that
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Such a fascinating article. Let's break this post down: - Anecdotes used for evidence (check) - Moral outrage declared (check) - Call to arms based on emotion (check) - Appeal to baseless fanatical ideology (check) - Vilification of a
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by FD3SA 12y ago
The most interesting aspect of the modern mating paradigm is the opportunity costs associated with mate-seeking behavior, and the impacts on successful societies. Most primate societies are focused on mating and survival, without much surpl
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by FD3SA 12y ago
And thus evolutions is of course false by your perfect mathematical deduction? I recommend you broaden your understanding of science. Scientific hypotheses are always one iteration in a series of increasingly accurate models of the known un
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by FD3SA 12y ago
The topic is relevant, but the article is extremely vacuous. There is literally no content other than random opinion polls. For those interested in some of the facts underlying this assertion, please read Capital by Thomas Piketty, or wat
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This may surprise you, but I absolutely agree. I am very much in favor of a religious lifestyle. I have come to understand that humans need to feel that there is a greater purpose for their existence in order to temper their destructive des
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by FD3SA 12y ago
I've said it many times before, but humans are primates. No matter what we say to the contrary, if we act like primates, look like primates, and have the DNA of a primate, we are most likely primates. Why are adults still surprised whe
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by FD3SA 12y ago
What fascinates me the most about this and related issues is that there is a relentless drive towards reducing the rights and compensation for salaried workers, while increasing the rights and powers of entrenched, powerful, wealthy elites
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Fwd.us?
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This is a fascinating piece. That you still don't understand your motivations is a testament to evolution's sinister machinations. My friend, you are describing your evolutionary impulses with incredible accuracy. Humans are prim
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by FD3SA 12y ago
So, just for the record, you're betting against Elon Musk himself on hydrogen fuel cells [1]. This is a guy who has stated, multiple times, that hydrogen fuel cells make no sense from first principles analysis, even considering the bes

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