KineticLensman

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by KineticLensman 8y ago
> Once we get computers as smart as a mouse, we'll be at most 3-5 years But how long did it take Nature to get from a mammal with mouse-level intelligence to a human-level brain. I think 200-ish million years [0]. You might be right
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Ermm - Haskell and Cobol?
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
> Will VR be the new "hot thing" like smartphones were after the 2008 recession I don't think so. Mobile phones were already a significant thing before 2008 and the morph to smartphones was already in train (first iPhone w
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
In the UK we have the 5% club [0], whose aim is to "to make at least 5% of its employees apprentices within a 5-year period". It does take commitment from the company, and it's perhaps not a surprise that its more common in c
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Ditto supermarkets / malls / etc
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
> It was exciting and new but not really that useful Well, the FAQs under the comp.sci usenet newsgroup hierarchy were a truly awesome resource when I was a C++ dev in the early '90s.
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
LEMV = Long Endurance Multi Intelligence, in this case a specific programme [0] ISR - Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance - a generic term EW = Electronic Warfare - a generic term There is recent operational history of using blimps in
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Press release from HAV themselves at [0] [0] https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/news-and-media/news/hav-aw...
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
The Guardian [0] suggests that Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) is not going to rebuild (repair?) the prototype that crashed but is now instead going into production. HAV themselves have more on the move to production at [1] [0] https:/&#x2F
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Each of my two 1080Ti GPUs is about half the size of a laptop.
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
> saying foxes are "meant" to hunt hares, or predators are "meant" to hunt prey, can just be a compact way of describing their long, mutual historical co-evolution. Certainly, if you remove all prey from an environmen
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Spatial OS is wholly different from game streaming. Here is the overview provided by one of Unity's streaming partners Genvid [0] "Genvid provides an easy to use SDK, with a C interface, which can be used to automatically capture
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Back in the 80's Penguins were used to illustrate a classic reasoning challenge associated with belief systems - non-monotonic reasoning [0]. The story went like this: you are an AI building a cage for a bird called Tweety. You reason
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Yes, I’ve held my phone through a small hole drilled in a ceiling to locate a dripping water pipe.
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Not all submissions to HN are made by the people who made or host the referenced website- it's quite common to see a reply along the lines of "Hi I'm the author of X, really pleased to see it on HN". If someone isn'
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
> I don't know who this author is, but based on this post she is certainly anything but scientific The article is credited to Sabine Hossenfelder, who according to [0] is "an author and theoretical physicist who researches quan
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
The amount of reflected Earthlight would depend on your location on the Moon's nearside and the phase of the Earth. The corollary of one side of the Moon always facing the Earth is that the Earth hangs in about the same place in the sk
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
> If you believe everything you read somewhere online, then pretty much anything today is poisonous Amongst the tools in our armoury here is 'kill or cure' [0], whose mission is "Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ong
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Your reference says that there will be continued exploration, but doesn't mention another actual fly-by. Funding beyond 2021 isn't confirmed, and even if they top up the funding, they can't top up the manoeuvring fuel.
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
> Vast lebensraum and resources for colonization Well 'vast', yes, but not much else. Mainly rock and ices.
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
I haven't found a definitive 'no' but with a bit of quick googling - the current mission extension runs until (at least) 2021 and there is very little onboard fuel for significant course updates. Some of the other potential t
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
NASA press release at [0], with a better (pre-flyby) image of Ultima Thule. [0] http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20...
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
If you like this may I also recommend [0] which has fizzbuzz in: Java, VBA, php, cobol, forth, C++, brainfuck, python, Groovu, BASIC, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, sh, PowerShell, Clojure, Ruby, C#, Haskell, ABAP, Lua, Matlab, Common Lisp, Orac
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
I totally agree with the 'Risk-first' approach. This idea fits in very nicely with risk driven technical assurance, where the goal of project reviews (even including those covering pre-project activities such as bidding) is to qua
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
I think you can make your manifesto page 'more like a manifesto' by starting it with a sentence something like "Our goal in ResearchCoders is to draw the attention of programmers to research that has not yet been realised and
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Thanks for the update. For many images users, the T&Cs are just as important as the images, so it will be good to clear this up.
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
If you want source material, it's a paper that was published in Nature in November (abstract at [0]) including video [1] and full system parameters [2]. It weighs 2.45 kg and has a wingspan of 5m. It flew multiple times and the distanc
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
'Free as in speech but not as in beer'?
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
What the about page [0] giveth "You gain access to many high-quality stock graphics and photos and that's all for free!", the terms of use [1] seem to taketh away "Images, other than comp images, may only be used commerc
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by KineticLensman 8y ago
Lots of people (e.g. [0], [1], [2]) have blogged the Feynman technique, which seems to have been first documented in Gleick’s biography [3]. The various descriptions identify the following four steps: * write down the name of a concept * w

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