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Boston Dynamics Spot Mini(bostondynamics.com)
1 points by alphydan 9y ago|0 comments
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by alphydan 9y ago
Unrelated, but I really enjoyed this guy's hands on approach to moving 20 ton blocks by himself, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5pZ7uR6v8c It goes to show that wood, levers and clever engineering could have achieved
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by alphydan 9y ago
> profitless basic research May not scale in 20 years. Useless research can become very valuable in a decade or two.
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by alphydan 9y ago
A few years ago I read a comment on HK which addressed that very point. The argument said that if PoW was useful, the security could be compromised unpredictably. It goes something like this: Imagine that you are mining Bitcoin and protei
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by alphydan 9y ago
Maybe nit-picking ... but shouldn't a very sophisticated algorithm precisely incorporate the reliability/speed of the various exchanges (maybe based on past and current latency or downtime which weighs the risk of a transaction no
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by alphydan 9y ago
Remember that problems in high school typically can take 1/2h to solve, in college a couple of hours ... as a PhD typically a couple of years and as a professional researcher ... many years. So for him, a problem where he was confused
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by alphydan 9y ago
> But now I know the fields are continuous. Wait 'til you hear of quantum electrodynamics ;)
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by alphydan 9y ago
It seems we are both cherry picking to back up our beliefs. Just to show the other side of the coin: > the number of [Usenet] hosts nearly doubled to 940 in 1984. More than 100 newsgroups existed, more than 20 devoted How does that com
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by alphydan 9y ago
> Bitcoin is turning 10. It all depends on where you start counting. In 2008 it was just Satoshi and a few cypherpunks. I would argue it looked a lot like Arpanet [0]. So Fast forward 10 years from 1973 ... and was the internet really
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by alphydan 9y ago
>emergent phenomena in complex systems Emergent phenomena in complex systems are not necessarily quantum. Weather, population dynamics, neural networks, chaotic systems can all be described with good'ol lagrangian mechanics. Other
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by alphydan 9y ago
What a whole load of bad and unnecessary analogies. A "classical physics + some constraints" analogy for Economics would also do the job. Just because some magnitudes are discrete in a system, it doesn't mean quantum mechanic
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by alphydan 9y ago
> You cannot buy food with Bitcoin let me google that for you https://www.menufy.com/bitcoin http://spendbitcoins.com/places/c/food/
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by alphydan 9y ago
I have not read the full article, but usually you need a laser which can produce single photons and which can control their polarisation (Other sources produce quantum superpositions of having 1 photon, 2 photons, 4 photons, etc. It's
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I'm Brian Fox, Author of the Bash Shell, and This Is How I Work(lifehacker.com)
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by alphydan 9y ago
Could a similar strategy apply then? > state is much bigger. Can AlphaGo not care about it and just play better and faster?
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by alphydan 9y ago
I regularly buy hosting, domains, hardware (heck, I bought some electronics which would be worth $50,000 today). I don't see a problem.
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by alphydan 9y ago
That's why if you look up a reasonable definition of "renewable" is has the 'in a small amount of time compared to geological processes', or something of the sort.
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by alphydan 9y ago
> is there any unavoidable reason Unless the economy fully decouples from energy and matter [1], then Thermodynamics [2]. Solutions to this include Steady State Economy, reduction of population or the decoupling mentioned above (for exa
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Galactic Scale Energy(dothemath.ucsd.edu)
2 points by alphydan 9y ago|0 comments
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by alphydan 9y ago
> promise you that your investment will go up. I challenge you to find a single ICO which says that (or something very similar) in their terms and conditions, homepage, or white/yellow papers. So far, every single one I have read a
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by alphydan 9y ago
No it isn't. Imagine that A convinces B to sign up. A pyramid scheme pays "A" with the signup fees from "B". If people stop signing up, then you can't pay B. Here, "A" is paid IFF "B" make
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by alphydan 9y ago
Of course they do. What do you call: "Taking a person's life with your own hands?" - For a white westerner: Crime, Murder, etc - For the government/military: war, being a hero, etc - For "brown" people in the
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by alphydan 9y ago
I don't know the answer, but since the vulnerability is because there is some structure in the chosen primes, you don't need to check all possibilities between 2^1024 and 2^2048. Only a known subset (i.e. a subset which is likely
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by alphydan 9y ago
Exactly what do 419 scammers have to do with Kenian who has worked hard to learn programming, was a top developer for Git awards and is learning about cryptocurrencies?
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by alphydan 9y ago
That is a 100+ year old hypothesis. But as far as I know, there's no hard evidence to support it.
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by alphydan 9y ago
if you untick [font-family: "ObjektivMk1-Thin"; */] it does the job.
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by alphydan 9y ago
Do you have a reference for "when the brain was drives and pulleys"? I've never heard of such a theory.
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by alphydan 9y ago
$100,000 x 1,000,000,000 people = $1 x 10^14 (assuming most people in the US+Europe are vaccinated). I assume it's hyperbole and you don't mean to say that the studies required by the FDA are comparable to the GDP of the US? Are
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by alphydan 9y ago
I had a similar experience while doing undergrad physics. I would dream up incredibly elegant solutions to hard calculus problems ... wake up, write them down and go back to bed. In the morning I would find stuff like dx/dx = c or so
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by alphydan 9y ago
Did the author just spend $300,000 USD to become a master node and write the review!? That's a dedicated blogger!

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