alphydan

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by alphydan 10y ago
> all the immigrants coming into our country When sorted by % of population that is composed of immigrants, Germany does not have much immigration (it's country # sixty-something in the list) [0]) https://en.wikipedia.org
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by alphydan 10y ago
> Left relatively unsupervised, the kids today will voraciously seek youtube videos to teach themselves how to make a Turing machine in Minecraft I am currently teaching middle school and high school and I think nothing is further from t
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by alphydan 10y ago
> arbitrary programs It would be really fun to see a web app built on those principles! User clicks on /login/ link -> neural network {"hum ... I wonder what she's after ... let's send her a login form"}
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by alphydan 10y ago
I don't know how sound that data was, but in one of the cases the rats were solving a maze on the other side of the world (Australia) ... and yet started solving it better than the first rats in the UK. I'm not sure what the conc
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by alphydan 10y ago
I haven't published there in a while but I don't think so. > We are no longer able to accede to requests from authors that we withhold their identities from the referees. Such "double-blind" reviewing has been discont
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by alphydan 10y ago
Popularity plays a role. Here's a real life example: One of my quantum physics mentors submitted a paper to PRL (a high prestige physics journal) and it was rejected. Why? Because it came from a small, rather unknown university in
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by alphydan 10y ago
> great silent majority of unemployed physicists Do you have a reference for that? When I graduated (~10 years ago), I recall a statistic saying that 98% of physicists found employment (not all in physics, of course).
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by alphydan 10y ago
Pricing for solar panels is quite complex. The price will mostly involve: - The state of the roof (does it need reinforcing? will the installers need scaffolding?) - The complexity of the installation (lots of little roof sections with ear
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by alphydan 10y ago
I assume that mutating. We release 1bn sterile mosquitoes, most die, but 1,000 of them have a random mutation on top of the original mutation and become hermaphrodites. Now they reproduce on their own and become invincible microbots that
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by alphydan 10y ago
I don't know the answer. But my first guess is that (to a first approximation) a magnet inside a metal box does not create a magnetic field outside of that box [1]. Of course this depends on the material of the tube. [1] http:/
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by alphydan 10y ago
> an ordinary human on earth. Somebody on HN pointed out that "an ordinary" human is probably not what you think it is [0]. [0] http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/43616/1/626014360.pdf
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by alphydan 11y ago
Clearly you haven't done the back of the envelope calculation. Many people have looked at the problem and it's not a trivial one. First, to see how much wind could be harnessed see for ex. [0] or [1]. Assuming 100TW of power, i
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by alphydan 11y ago
To be slightly more specific: Astronomers think there is a black hole when you see gas moving very very fast towards an invisible and massive object. That gas heats up from the friction of its particles moving rapidly towards the black hol
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by alphydan 11y ago
I have given advice on nearly 20 CVs. I have improved and redesigned CVs for friends and relatives. All with pretty good outcomes :) So at least you have one person on that side of the marketplace. However, I think petervandijck's q
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by alphydan 11y ago
Isn't all communication on HN public? (I thought the only additional info on the servers was the votes. Or are IP addresses and timestamps stored for visitors?)
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by alphydan 11y ago
According to the Canadian government [0], if I'm reading it correctly, the money coming in was around $150bn/yr in 2013. So 60bn may be a high but reasonable figure. edit: more recent stats [0] show 104bn coming in, 5bn spent is
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by alphydan 11y ago
Program robots with those skills?
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by alphydan 11y ago
Well, there are terrible neighbourhoods in California. And for Texan universities, some of the locals have accents. I would restrict it good neighbourhoods and well spoken gentlemen/women. This should avoid all the dilution. /s
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Darknet: C and CUDA open source neural network framework(pjreddie.com)
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by alphydan 11y ago
Exactly what heuristics would they use to know how an omniscient being would play? Unless there are some strong arguments behind it, it sounds like arrogant BS.
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by alphydan 11y ago
> a number of moves that made absolutely no sense at all even to way lower level players. Another possibility is that it was looking way deeper than anybody, and there was a 1% chance or turning the whole game around with those seemingly
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by alphydan 11y ago
Watching the game and the commentary there's an eerie sensation that AlphaGo is just going along playing the petty local games with Lee Sedol. It's very anthropocentric, but you could imagine AlphaGo saying "I could have crus
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by alphydan 11y ago
I agree with EliRivers. I'm pretty sure that if I wrote a child from scratch (AGCTTAACGGUAA ... etc), understood the underlying mechanisms connecting proteins to wining a baseball tournament ... I should get some credit for the win :)
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by alphydan 11y ago
When you are at the cutting edge of your field (able to publish in Nature or Science), you know exactly who the peer reviewers are (there is usually only 5 to 10 teams in the world who are experts in your area). So you know it's one o
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by alphydan 11y ago
Because we are trying to have a rational discussion. And it's possible that "Nations act in their self interest" is often wrong, or is not well defined. For example, if a Guatemalan dictator commits genocide against its own p
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by alphydan 11y ago
I think he/she meant it as a mathematical argument. Infinity + 20 = Infinity. So if Hell is eternal, it doesn't matter if you get there today or in 20 years.
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by alphydan 11y ago
What about the sardine rolls? Surely there's a big business waiting to happen there!
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by alphydan 11y ago
That was not my experience. I did a PhD in quantum physics in the UK (Imperial College) in 3 years + 6 month extension. I collaborated with Oxford University and I was able to publish in Nature Physics, PRL, etc ... (in other words, the t
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by alphydan 11y ago
Gotta love the references too, with the wink to Sokal :)
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by alphydan 11y ago
from the downvotes, il semble que vous êtes le seul a ne pas parler français dans ces contrées ;)

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