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Theft by Finding(en.wikipedia.org)
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I rewrote Portal from scratch and solved the Portal Paradox [video](youtube.com)
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by areoform 3y ago
It would be indiscrete of me to say so. But always happy to chat privately! I can be reached on the username areoform via areoform.com
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Would you be open to giving a talk on the topic?
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To Dare the Realm of Jupiter(smithsonianmag.com)
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Feasibility of an implantable bioreactor for renal cell therapy(nature.com)
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Color Television Systems. January, 1951(rfcafe.com)
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I'd like to express my shock at reading something so uninformed and poorly thought out in a place like HN. HN goes through its phases; just as the moon waxes and wanes, but this anti-AI, primitivist phase is quite annoying. If you do n
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Ville Radieuse: Le Corbusier’s Functionalist Plan for a Utopian “Radiant City”(99percentinvisible.org)
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Then why should AI?
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Two quick things, journalism is important. And most journalists write factual stories not opinion pieces. This piece wasn't written by a journalist. It was written by a "Higher Ed" consultant, https://education.vir
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The problem is temperature. At sub-zero temperatures, these reactions are temperature dependent and they exponentially slow down the lower the temperature is. Here's a table from a monograph written by an expert, Effects of Cold
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Zaum(en.wikipedia.org)
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The solution is obvious, Disney should do more, take real risks and swing for the fences again. Because there's no reason not to. And what they should do more of isn't legacy content in a new medium — i.e. putting those same TV
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Father of Artificial Organs: The story of medical pioneer Willem J. Kolff(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Oppose Section 552 That Will Block Taxpayer Access to Research(sparcopen.org)
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Google absolutely controls communication. Two examples, Example 1: GMail. Google uses the mass adoption of GMail as a cudgel. It's no longer possible to independently host email without being marked as spam or rate limited by Google,
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> LK-99’s purported superconductivity drew immediate scrutiny from scientists. “My first impression was ‘no.’” says Inna Vishik, a condensed matter experimentalist at the University of California, Davis. “These ‘Unidentified Superconduct
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Cecil Kelley criticality accident(en.wikipedia.org)
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This comment is your regularly scheduled reminder that they were supposed to be the safe option. The people who'd come in clutch when SpaceX failed (and it was assumed in certain quarters that SpaceX would fail to deliver on time). T
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Archive link, https://archive.is/Zwxmc
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SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell launches ships, sells rockets and deals with Elon Musk(bloomberg.com)
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Speeding up our technological timeline by decades, and it was decades, has saved tens of millions to hundreds of millions of lives. The Integrated Circuit revolution wouldn't have happened at the same pace without Apollo. Apollo (and t
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Renaissance Reimagined: Thiel Fellowship, Direct Assistance and Belief Capital(1517.substack.com)
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Hollywood’s CEOs are suffering. Not primarily from labor disputes or industry disruption or public-relations issues, but from vincible ignorance, which seems to be endemic in C-suites of all industries. Under pressure to deliver to W
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To my understanding, infant mortality has less to do with quality of care, and a lot more to do with environmental and genetic factors. The biggest causes of infant mortality in the US are congenital defects and complications due to
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The background context of the joke photograph is deeply horrifying. Many of the children who worked in these mines would die before 18. The rest ≥75% of them would develop black lung & die before their 30s. Others would die crushed betw
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> no productive utility to us tiny human beings whatsoever. It’s a racket Do you use GPS? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5253894/ Have you ever used a MRI or undergone a CAT scan? https:&#x2
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I've noticed that the MacOS codebase seems to have kibble. Features that used to work have degraded in quality for seemingly no reason over successive generations. For example, Spotlight, ever since their updates, is now unable to find
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by areoform 3y ago
Then it's good that they've started! The ocean is large, but we can drain it drop by drop.

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