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by achille 2y ago
these are going to be the dominant lifeforms on earth exceeding bacteria, plants and humans in terms of energy consumption cellular automata that interact with their environment, ones that interact with low level systems and high level inst
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by achille 2y ago
> "At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity" my understanding was that this was d̶i̶s̶p̶r̶o̶v̶e̶n̶ mathematically incorrect: - https://news.yc
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by achille 2y ago
Just listened to Vogue on my headphones, and I'm unable to notice anything unique about the soundscape of this song. What do you folks hear and when do you hear it? At what point in the song?
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by achille 2y ago
It's more significant than that. These self-replicating alife systems will dominate energy consumption and will be the largest forms of life.
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by achille 3y ago
Same thing happened to OpenAI. Will you steer clear of OpenAI forever as well? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35294082
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by achille 3y ago
They can absolutely outperform gpt4 for specific use cases.
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by achille 3y ago
Are the PDFs of the posters available?
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Ex-Google & Stability Ai to Build AI Inspired by swarm intelligence(bloomberg.com)
2 points by achille 3y ago|1 comments
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by achille 4y ago
Absolutely agree that this is an incredibly hard skill in any medium, digital or otherwise. It's also possible that Van Eyck may have perceived the world the same way we do, and the inclusion of small details such as the beads came on
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by achille 4y ago
The author claims that Van Eyck notices details we'd otherwise miss out and uses the Arnolfini portrait as supporting evidence. However it's possible that artifacts such as the beads appear not because he saw the world differently
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by achille 5y ago
Technical explanation by minutephysics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT19VwBAqKA The amount of privacy is configurable, and researchers who would like to tune it (in either direction) can make a plea so the public can de
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by achille 8y ago
This is a standard feature of many browsers, including Safari. E.g: On OSX you can download a .dmg file or .zip file, and when opening the OS will warn: "XYZ is an application downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open
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by achille 8y ago
How many projects would be affected if the Supreme Court sides with Oracle and rules that APIs can't be reimplemented? Java is open source, but copyright is retained by Oracle. Would this affect say, Amazon's ability to rip off th
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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Partisan Conflict Index(philadelphiafed.org)
1 points by achille 8y ago|0 comments
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by achille 8y ago
There's a book coming out in a few weeks with more details. The authors were provided with all the data. What would you do with 1000 games that's not possible with 100?
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by achille 8y ago
> The change is estimated to impact about 85 percent of AT&T's 64.5 million postpaid phone lines in service, making for about $800 million in additional annual revenue. 85% * 64.5 million * $1.23 = 67 million Where did the other
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by achille 8y ago
> but that also applies to the rotisserie chickens ($5/3lb vs grocery stores at 2lb). It's a common myth that rotisserie chickens are cheaper than frozen. If you do the math you'll find that rotisserie chickens are slightl
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by achille 9y ago
They got hacked years ago. I know this for sure because I'd used a unique email address to sign up on their website: equifax@<my name>.com No one else had that email address. Guess what, I started getting phishing emails to that
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by achille 9y ago
Not at all. I would argue the opposite. Ignoring it leads to ugly consequences. It's why we got Trump. For a lot of people, the idea of illegal immigrants cutting in line to get to the US, feels unfair and they took the bait. Same thin
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by achille 9y ago
Yes, it makes mathematical sense, but it feels bad at a visceral, gut level. From personal experience, when visiting some countries, taxis would quote 2x or 3x the standard fare just because they saw I was clearly a tourist. This is essenti
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by achille 10y ago
That's a pretty neat study. Essentially they show how the placebo effect can have such a big impact on health. Getting medicine treatment -> Rewards the brain -> Leads to increased production of antibodies -> Patient is health
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Next Silicon Valley (list)(brighton.io)
39 points by achille 10y ago|44 comments
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by achille 11y ago
Edit: Found it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=SVYegdh2CbE
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by achille 11y ago
Does anyone know if there's a recording of the usenix talk given? (Referenced slides)
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by achille 11y ago
There's an excellent Radiolab Podcast that covers the same study, I'd highly recommend listening to it: * http://www.radiolab.org/story/169879-patient-zero/
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by achille 11y ago
Note that the SEL4 kernel is only a small portion of this project. They've secured the entire stack, top to bottom. HACMS leverages a number of other projects including the CompCert verifying C compiler, Verve OS Theorem prover, model
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Chicago introduces 9% tax on cloud services (on AWS, Netflix etc.)(reedsmith.com)
4 points by achille 11y ago|1 comments
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by achille 12y ago
Just note that DNA itself is code and completely useless without an interpreter/compiler. The DNA is just a storage mechanism, the true complexity relies on the cell. See: http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/ If we lost al
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by achille 12y ago
Could this be a plan for Netflix to even out the upstream & downstream traffic? Upstream traffic is significantly more expensive for ISPs to absorb (esp at the last mile). ISPs are demanding payment because they claim they're absor
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by achille 12y ago
If you pay attention to the video, the card sends a notification to the phone with the transaction amount & merchant information. Knowing the transaction amount is not possible from the "sender" portion of a magstripe. You&#x2

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