Simorgh

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by Simorgh 11y ago
Has anyone any knowledge of machine learning being combined with nuclear fusion data? I ask because I may be pursuing this intersection. (Anecdotes from HNers can be more insightful than research papers).
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by Simorgh 11y ago
The Economist just recently published an article on geoengineering. If you read between the lines it's actually very scary stuff. Some academics, notably Chomsky, openly talk about the extinction of our species as a plausible outcome o
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by Simorgh 11y ago
ITER (located in France) will build a fusion device to produce net energy, in the next few years - 50MW input and 500 MW output. The project has about €13 Billion investment committed. Perhaps we're on the edge of a new energy area. h
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by Simorgh 11y ago
Sam Altman and Elon Musk ponder whether we're all living in a simulation, as an explanation to the Fermi Paradox. Very eerie...! https://youtu.be/SqEo107j-uw?t=17m3s
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by Simorgh 11y ago
Cartesianism is of the philosophy of Descartes (I just discovered). Descartes was a fascinating individual. Something I recently read (but couldn't easily corroborate through the web) was that when he was a young man he had three dream
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by Simorgh 11y ago
good luck to the team. the mission website states that one of the aims is to measure gravitation waves. I would love to see the data. NASA open sources a lot of space data. Here's to hoping ESA does so too for this mission. http:&#x2F
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by Simorgh 11y ago
I am quite curious about the OODA loop. I understand that the concept was pioneered by John Boyd and was actually borrowed by Steve Blank (who cited it in developing the 'customer development' approach to starting a start-up). How
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by Simorgh 11y ago
Sometimes the timing of unconnected events is curious on a cosmic scale. Only a day or two ago New Shepherd reached a milestone. Today parts from a past SpaceX mission wash up onshore. The proximity of these events show that space explorati
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Blue Origin Successfully Flies (and Lands) New Shepherd(spacenews.com)
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by Simorgh 11y ago
As a musician, I would tentatively suggest that it is unbelievably difficult to build genuine connections with large numbers of fans. Call it the data deluge or whatever, the sheer volume of attention seeking content out there just swamps t
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by Simorgh 11y ago
There is a nice book by Brett Lantz called Machine Learning. The first edition (which I have) built machine learners in R, I assume the new second edition does the same.
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by Simorgh 11y ago
I agree with your assertion that R is slow, yet quick to develop in. I recently had to loop through 1.3Gb of data (5000 files) and merge just one column from each file into a new dataset. It did so in ~2 hours. Yet the loop was just ~5 line
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by Simorgh 11y ago
Book Recommendation: There's an absolutely stellar book on Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Descartes and several other brilliant people written in a very readable fashion. It's called 'What Galileo Saw' and it's by Law
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by Simorgh 11y ago
As someone fascinated with web design, typography, UI and the like, it may be worthwhile to point out that design can markedly enhance the rate at which salient information is digested, the real bitrate, if you like. The website of an indiv
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by Simorgh 11y ago
I assume a benefit is that, using icebergs.io, you could run/access linux on a lower spec machine? So for instance I've heard it would be difficult to install linux on a macbook 2015, but using icebergs through your browser you co
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by Simorgh 11y ago
Why do you think that 'the establishment' is so hard to innovate within?