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Can a computer devise a theory of everything?(nytimes.com)
2 points by aj7 6y ago|0 comments
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2020 Popular Vote(cookpolitical.com)
6 points by aj7 6y ago|2 comments
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by aj7 6y ago
I think some people don’t get that a nonlinear interferometer IS a switching element, its use is AS a logic element. In the late 70’s, Toni Bischofberger and YR Shen put a liquid crystal inside an interferometer and observed switching effec
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by aj7 6y ago
When we have cheap, manufacturable coherent X-ray sources, I will reconsider.
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by aj7 6y ago
They are crap. You get lulled if they work a few times. Then…
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by aj7 6y ago
Never, ever believe in dense all-optical computers. The deBroglie wavelength of light is huge. There could be niche applications, but their markets are microscopic.
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by aj7 6y ago
What about birth control pills? Or any prescription, for that matter?
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by aj7 6y ago
One time, I bought a brand new HP ink jet for $29, I think at Walmart. When the ink ran out, and I saw the price of a new cartridge, I quite calmly pulled and saved the line cord and USB cable, and any paper inside. Then I picked it up, wa
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by aj7 6y ago
The work-at-home cultural change makes the pressure on mass transit less. Remember we had to do work at home with current, somewhat neglected technology. Just wait.
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by aj7 6y ago
Is it just me, or does this not really explain anything?
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by aj7 6y ago
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/0... “ Our work is motivated by the popularity of retro video games…“
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by aj7 6y ago
“this approach will be feasible if it is possible to design gravimetric devices that are four to five order of magnitude more sensitive than current devices.“ Catch that?
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by aj7 6y ago
Exactly. Except perhaps for aesthetic reasons. But much of the old stuff was grotesquely ugly. A loaded entry-level car has more luxury and performance than an old land yacht. My phone has more computing power now than the Pentagon, then.
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by aj7 6y ago
This fails. You can lift the pieces. Try that with a single module from real “big iron.” The disk drives of the CDC6600 at the Courant Institute shook the floor when operating. The punch card readers in the MIT computer center in 1970 could
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by aj7 6y ago
Pans,resizes slower than s___.
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by aj7 6y ago
Why?
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by aj7 6y ago
PDP11/34 ain’t big iron. An IBM 360-67, or a CDC6600 is big iron.
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by aj7 6y ago
1. Can someone explain to me the obsession with rewriting software for, and rebuilding obsolete and con temporarily incapable hardware? 2. Or even simulating such sytstems on modern, 50 times faster, hundred times more memory, $35 systems?
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by aj7 6y ago
I.e avoid suffering or accept it or deal with it, rather than cure its causes. What a fine recipe for well-being, enlightenment, and humanity.
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by aj7 6y ago
Aha, so the frame rate of my TV sufficiently undersamples the motion of the ball that a blur would appear. Clearly, a zero phase noncausal filter used because there is a pre-echo, and it’s symmetric. But I’d still like to know something ab
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by aj7 6y ago
In the U.S., 95-98.
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by aj7 6y ago
Stupidity is like charge. Stupidity mobility, hence conductance, hence current has dramatically increased. Stupidity mobility.
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Ask HN: Why the pre- & post- baseball artifacts on a well-hit ball?
1 points by aj7 6y ago|2 comments
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by aj7 6y ago
This may be NOW. Sounds like “they” could save a lot of money automating the boring stuff. I wonder if they are working on that...
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by aj7 6y ago
You are thick! (I’m not trying to insult you!) You capture value by OWNING shit! That’s a syllogism. Sorry that I used “corporate” words when I was suggesting the opposite.
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by aj7 6y ago
And I had just switched from 5000 to 2000 IUs.
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by aj7 6y ago
I found the reason why you have a cheap Chromebook more interesting.
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by aj7 6y ago
You weren’t wrong. You gave up too early, accepting the salaryman fantasy of steady growth if you just “work hard.” If this works past 50, you are 80th percentile. Past 55? 98th percentile. How will you feel when you begin to be handed b
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by aj7 6y ago
The problem with intelligent early discard is the potential cost of missing something cleverly disguised, that might be seen by an analyst, but not by an AI program. Equivalently, were AI to advance to the point of dispensing with the anal
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by aj7 6y ago
Especially northern region US.

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