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by arcanus 10y ago
Anyone with more background in astrophysics than I know if this is primarily attributable to uncertainties in our estimates of \Lambda or something more fundamental?
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by arcanus 10y ago
Would be fun to have something that easily imported into pandas or another decent data platform so one could run some simple regressions/data science on it. Might be able to get some peoplease to help out if you open sourced it on gith
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by arcanus 10y ago
Is the Era of free email coming to an end? Is the Era of free GPS maps coming to an end? Is the Era of free social networking coming to an end? ...I see no reason music is any different. Nothing is free, but ads and other forms of monetizat
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by arcanus 10y ago
The biggest issue for VR is similar to that of Second Life: outside of gaming, it needs to seamlessly augment reality. If the pervasive influence of social media in our times has taught us anything, it is that a platform that does interfa
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by arcanus 10y ago
I've always wondered the moment where I finally resolved my childhood difficulty in choosing a character class was actually an indication I was growing into a personal identity in the real world. I chose a mage, and always play as the
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by arcanus 10y ago
> I wish there were more things like that. Perhaps not coincidentally, craigslist is not a public company.
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by arcanus 10y ago
"The first is, it will eliminate a lot of existing types of jobs. Gates said that creates a need for a lot of retraining but notes that until schools have class sizes under 10 and people can retire at a reasonable age and take ample va
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by arcanus 10y ago
> Understanding the probability of something is not the same as claiming the majority result of that probability. I see no evidence (empirical or otherwise) that this probability is accurate.
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by arcanus 10y ago
"Since I am feeling especially bold, I will make another prediction: deep learning will not produce the universal algorithm. There is simply not enough there to create such a complex system." While I (emotionally) agree, it will b
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by arcanus 10y ago
NASA is listed as one of the competitors, but really, NASA is also driving a great deal of this innovation through contracting rocket use (for ISS refueling, etc.) to private companies. They are creating the market. A real question is: what
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by arcanus 10y ago
Hoya Saxa ;)
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by arcanus 10y ago
I think it is far more than just legacies. The proximity to capital hill and other government internships opens up many opportunities. Being regarded as the best school in D.C. means it is a natural talent feeder for government agencies. It
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by arcanus 10y ago
Similarly, I was surprised at how few had gone to John Hopkins, which also had a prestigious foreign service/ international relations program.
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by arcanus 10y ago
It is an interesting and cool effort! I would however at least provide the option to sort by congressmembers, and likely would make that the default. That would be more informative: anyone can look up the USNEWS Top-25.
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by arcanus 10y ago
The title is incorrect. This is a ranking of the US news top-25 universities, with an additional tag noting the number of congressmembers associated with the school. If actually ordered by congressional representation the top-3 would be: 1)
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by arcanus 10y ago
Anyone know of any benchmarks on tensorflow that provide a baseline estimate of the expected performance for some off-the-shelf hardware(s)?
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by arcanus 10y ago
> this could become an incentive for people to have tons of kids Or, alternatively, to have fewer kids, if they were planning (as many parents in the USA do) to provide financial support for college to those children.
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by arcanus 10y ago
I largely agree. > Now that men and women are much more apt to work independently – each working both in and out of the home – there is little need to solidify a legal partnership to protect the partner not collecting the income. This is
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by arcanus 10y ago
Triangle opportunity?
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by arcanus 10y ago
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/03/138937778/plagiarism-plague-hi... I don't believe I can put it better than the article above, "These days, China is lavishing money on Mr. Science. But without the
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by arcanus 10y ago
I still agree with you, he did not place enough of the blame on scientists who are unable or unwilling to properly communicate the implications of their work.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> I'm guessing that the performance / watt claims are heavily predicated on relatively low throughput, kind of similar to ARM vs Intel CPUs - particularly because they're only powering it & supplying bandwidth via what
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by arcanus 10y ago
Sure... I think you are missing the point. In Nov., the Nature paper which contains the AlphaGo algorithm, the hardware detailed was exclusively CPU+GPUs. Between that time and the Lee Sedol match, the hardware running AlphaGo was switched,
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by arcanus 10y ago
> By revealing that AlphaGo was based on this hardware Interesting, as the nature/science paper made no mention of this, it was exclusively trained on GPUs.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Agreed, this is a terrible article. It does not articulate the stated main point, which is what diplomats do that might be considered espionage. Reading between the lines, the implication is that she passed information to Pakistan when &#x2
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by arcanus 10y ago
Not yet. The earliest a child has been prematurely born, and survived, is 21 weeks after conception. We have had embryos survive without a womb in a lab for 14 days (this is currently limited by federal law). Thus, we really 'only&#x27
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Scientists Talk Privately About Creating a Synthetic Human Genome(mobile.nytimes.com)
32 points by arcanus 10y ago|15 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
I think email (private communication) will always be useful. However, some general questions being publicly available would be also arguably have utility.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> When publishing in a journal, I think you transfer your copyright to them That is correct. I have done this for every publication I've ever put out (O(10)). There may be exceptions but this is certainly the dominant paradigm in th
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by arcanus 10y ago
> I'm not yet powerful enough to get out of the fraud/shit-show entirely :P In many organizations, the 'more powerful' are even more greatly hamstrung by mandatory (and fruitless) meetings.

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