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by archgoon 13y ago
Better writeup (cites sources!) and discussion from 5 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157157 And the Riken Lab press release http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/2013080
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by archgoon 13y ago
The original article is more interesting and sheds light on the hidden assumptions that go into the calculation. It also considers under which sets of assumptions the answer is not 1/2. http://scienceblogs.com/evolution
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by archgoon 13y ago
> I’m kind of amazed at how fast Javascript executes, at least in Chrome. I’m iterating over 16,384 pixels every time you hit the button, and there’s no perceptable delay at all, at least on my Macbook. You have a computer that can execu
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Chaitin's Constant(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by archgoon 13y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 13y ago
How do you know if a number is constructible? It is described by a computer program. Although the set of computer programs can be enumerated, determining if a program it will print out any digits is not something that cannot be determined.
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by archgoon 13y ago
The actual study, which you have buried in that list of links, is actually quite nice. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... They achieved about .3 bits per second. Components needed to replic
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by archgoon 13y ago
Thank you (and others). I feel silly for not checking the man pages for the macros I didn't recognize.
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by archgoon 13y ago
> So another, privileged process does the open on its behalf and sends the resulting file descriptor to the primary process for processing. I must be misunderstanding something. I assume that the unprivileged process still cannot actuall
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by archgoon 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that Twitch will happily fill the gap here.
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by archgoon 13y ago
Can you point to resources to safely and legally begin dabbling? Are you familiar with the process to obtain proper licensing? How are simple reactors like the Farnsworth Fuser regulated, or why are they exempt? Are non power generating rea
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The Curious Case of the Exploding Pig Farms(nautil.us)
4 points by archgoon 13y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 13y ago
>> "a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime" #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("%d\n",2147483
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by archgoon 13y ago
For those who, like me, were baffled by the term "Quantum Insert", here's a Schneier article that describes the meaning of the term: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/how_the_n
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by archgoon 13y ago
Hi, I downvoted you, and here's how I think your comment could be improved: You seem to be implying that this is not a good use of their resources. Note that $1500 is approximately 1 week of developer time. If they have any interest in
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by archgoon 13y ago
From the bottom of the page, "During the 1950′s, a number of stimulant and sedative drugs were widely used and were promoted in the mainstream media. At the time, many amphetamines were available over the counter without a prescription
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by archgoon 13y ago
And this is the type of poisonous, vacuous comment that makes Hacker News a worse place. If you want to make an argument that Climate Change is not an issue: Make it. If you want to say that this person's reaction is irrational, make t
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by archgoon 13y ago
This post seems to be a scam. The rather sensationalist claim in the title has nothing to do with the post, nor is it referenced at all. The post is mostly about reimplementing Notch's 'Javascript Minecraft Rendery Hack Thingy&#x2
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by archgoon 13y ago
True, but theoretically we could construct an energy field that surrounds the user, his opponent, and all other living things. Just don't try and fight drones.
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Magic [the Gathering] Turing Machine v5(toothycat.net)
1 points by archgoon 13y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 13y ago
> Use the sjs binary to compile your sweet.js code: That isn't JavaScript.
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by archgoon 13y ago
A nice cogent summary of the goals of the project: "The main reason TempleOS is simple and beautiful is because it's ring-0-only and identity-mapped. Linux wants to be a secure, multi-user mainframe. That's the vision for
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by archgoon 13y ago
Why is testing an issue? The Trinity test was successful on the first run. Nation-states only conduct tests to calibrate destructive capabilities and fallout effects (a non-issue if you just want a big boom) and signal to other nation-state
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If You Can’t Hide From Big Brother, Adapt(nytimes.com)
1 points by archgoon 13y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 13y ago
Honestly, not even that. For android, the median is probably zero. If you were to plot apps and their revenues along a line, I would expect them to be fairly clustered around different points. You'd probably find highly polished, quali
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by archgoon 13y ago
Apple clearly does not wish to make money off Genius Bar appointments; if they did, they'd charge a fee. They're providing it as a service to their customers to improve their experience. This is akin to taking food from a soup kit
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by archgoon 13y ago
The main thing that this new release reveals is not the scope of the data collection, but confirmation that analysts are given free reign to perform queries. Until this, there was an outside chance that the system required all database quer
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by archgoon 13y ago
>...and if I were a producer that discovered how to make a resistant orange by genetic engineering, I'd just do my best to spread the damn disease and wipe out natural oranges together with the competition, making more money to fina
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by archgoon 13y ago
> Though seriously, when was HN ever about health and safety? The computer version of safety is called security. And HN cares a lot about computer security.
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by archgoon 13y ago
Another aspect is that some opensource licensing schemes may require you to link dynamically. The LGPL, for example, requires you to do this unless you release the rest of your source code.
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by archgoon 13y ago
DWave's Adiabatic Quantum Annealer does not run python. It is not Turing Complete. The python component is used to manually generate a matrix that corresponds to a travelling salesman problem. QCL (and Quibble) are languages designed t

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