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by archgoon 10y ago
D-Wave isn't trying to build a general purpose quantum computer. As it stands, they've been trying to optimize a computer that executes a particular algorithm (and as it stands, it's not faster than optimized classical algor
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by archgoon 10y ago
Actually, Vulcan basically got discarded because a better theory arose independently (we still don't know what people actually saw that resulted in the Vulcan transits). People still on occasion poke around looking to see if anything s
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by archgoon 10y ago
Sure it is. It happens all the time. See N Rays and Vulcan. Small effects, barely reproducible results are expected when you've got people all over the world looking at something.
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by archgoon 10y ago
"They're making shit up" is a perfectly scientific explanation. See N-Rays or Vulcan.
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by archgoon 10y ago
Seems like it's unintentionally apt then ;)
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by archgoon 10y ago
I suspect that it's that you can manually select which tomatoes you want. It's a bit harder to select individual microbes. So essentially, the difference between the trait you want, X, and the trait that survives, Y, doesn't
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by archgoon 10y ago
Don't feed the troll.
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by archgoon 10y ago
The University of Washington has been doing a more in depth study of the minimum wage increase. The result (as of July) is more complex and nuanced (and difficult to extract) than the article suggests. https://evans.uw.edu/s
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GMT: The Generic Mapping Tools(gmt.soest.hawaii.edu)
1 points by archgoon 10y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 10y ago
They published a paper at scipy http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/scipy2013/html/pdfs/... The talk, with a demo of the software, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec38h1oB8cc
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Fatiando: Open-source Python library for modeling and inversion in geophysics(fatiando.org)
2 points by archgoon 10y ago|1 comments
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by archgoon 10y ago
If they feel inspired to work around the whole conservation of mass thing to avoid 'free work', then I'm not going to complain.
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by archgoon 10y ago
Makes you wonder about what they put in the coffee from the cafeteria. ;)
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by archgoon 10y ago
As others have said, most likely not, as the FBI was not inducing people to visit the website. http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633
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by archgoon 10y ago
No, the wording is ambiguous. I'd interpret it as a subset of Obama's executive orders are unconstitutional.
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by archgoon 10y ago
What aspects of orbitals do they get wrong?
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by archgoon 10y ago
Can you expand on how HIPAA and PHI impact testing? That sounds interesting and important.
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by archgoon 10y ago
Blasted clipping errors.
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by archgoon 10y ago
From the article: > In 2010, the United States passed a conflict-minerals law > to stem the flow of money to Congo’s murderous militias, > focusing on the artisanal mining of four minerals. > But this same diligence i
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by archgoon 10y ago
Title is "Region of the Americas is declared free of measles". The current title "The Americas is declared free of measles" is ungrammatical.
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by archgoon 10y ago
Then have him contribute rather than play a game of telephone.
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Horse2016(c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk)
1 points by archgoon 10y ago|0 comments
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The Virtues of Nuclear Ignorance(newyorker.com)
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by archgoon 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that comment was completely facetious. Note that The Singularity got lumped together with Docker containers.
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by archgoon 10y ago
A country where the some of the richest, smartest people in the country believe they have ownership of the country they live in and can influence it's future. It's a start.
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by archgoon 10y ago
The laws that would be used to classify Clinton as a criminal for leaking classified information. What other laws would be relevant? The one I've heard cited is this one: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text&#x2
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by archgoon 10y ago
"Maybe you should take ownership as a citizen of this country and actually work to change the injustice you see" Reading comprehension for a start. Last I checked this was supposed to be a forum for people who thought they could c
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by archgoon 10y ago
Maybe you should take ownership as a citizen of this country and actually work to change the injustice you see rather than whining about how you're powerless on Hacker News?
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by archgoon 10y ago
> It kinda makes me miss Bush. You mean how they knowingly and willfully revealed that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent as payback against her husband who had written an article critical about the basis for the Iraqi War?
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by archgoon 10y ago
The law is worded as "knowingly and willfully". This situation is a decent argument for incompetence, but in that case, she isn't criminal.

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