bawana

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   by bawana 6y ago

   I can’t wait to build my next hackintosh
2. 272.▲
   by bawana 6y ago

   Why are Russians so depressing?
3. 273.▲
   by bawana 6y ago

   don't know why, but i was thinking this was 'scatology'. My brain is in the gutter.
4. 274.▲
   by bawana 6y ago

   but the calculation of time dilation due to a gravitational force results in a DIFFERENT amount than time dilation due to accelerating in a spaceship at one G. So the equivalence principle would fail- I can tell if I am accelerating due to
5. 275.▲
   by bawana 6y ago

   Andromeda strain here we come.
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   by bawana 6y ago

   wait a minute, instinct? So hard wired behaviors are different than acquired behaviors when it comes to self awareness? Come to think of it, no one has defined self awareness so how can we begin to say who has it and who does not? Is a thr
7. 277.▲
   by bawana 6y ago

   Wouldn't that be evidence of NOT being self aware? If the animal is self aware, it knows a fart is coming and where it's coming from, so it should not be surprised.
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   by bawana 6y ago

   I am trying to understand why they approached this ML problem this way- as a conv net. Conway's game of life is in itself a convolution. The state of a cell is calculated from the state of the 9 neighboring cells. When these authors ma
9. 279.▲
   by bawana 6y ago

   So when is the app coming out that reads the epub of my choice in the natural voice of the narrator I like? You cant tell me that Google didn't already show this a couple of years ago - it was making restaurant reservations back then.
10. 280.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    Of course not. They ARE AWASH in income. They just figure out how to spend it fast. Fancy buildings, fancy retirement plans, outrageous administrative salaries.... For example the Chairman of UMASS Medical Center makes 2.3 million. The CEO
11. 281.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    Another example of how humans turn good tech into bad shit. Could all of this be solved by blowing up every explosives factory?
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    by bawana 6y ago

    Ok. Well, I guess ‘social media’ is a nonstarter for him. OTOH, maybe his insight says something about our addiction to social media. He has a real life and the rest of us have less of it. Who knew that computer scientists could craft a too
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    by bawana 6y ago

    how bout a gas version for us poor folk? Given the increased efficiency, it wouldn't need a big motor? or would the software installed in one of the many sailboat designs using foils prevent their high accident rate?>
14. 284.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    this is why we need to park a guillotine in front of Congress. To remind them who they serve. Term limits NOW.
15. 285.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    Absolutely. The whole constellation of diminished brain function and obesity brings to mind a hibernation switch that is getting turned on. Perhaps further research will elucidate the biochemical pathway that is active in these patients and
16. 286.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    could someone give me a high school explanation of this?
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    by bawana 6y ago

    Would COVID have been a "pandemic" if we did not have the internet? The Swedish perspective is interesting. I wonder if Google trends can be broken down by nation to reflect what the concerns of different countries are. How many C
18. 288.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    Open sourcing code is one thing. Open sourcing the email addresses of vulnerable victims is something else. It’s like publishing the largest vulnerability of all time before it can be patched
19. 289.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    They could get even more traction by adding a blockchain ride.
20. 290.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    Thank you to all who replied. My clue should have been the use of the same theta instead of alpha, beta and gamma.
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    by bawana 6y ago

    I thought I knew what rotation matrices were until I read this article. Now I am confused. I used to think I needed a 3x3 matrix to rotate a point (with x,y,z coordinates) in 3 D space. But the article refers to Rx,Ry and Rz EACH of which a
22. 292.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    What happens if I send somebody money with PayPal/cash app but then reverse/undo the transaction? Are the fees kept?
23. 293.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    Is the distribution of dark matter correlated to regular matter in a way that suggests one is more causal to the other than to itself?
24. 294.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    Sabine has made a name for herself being a contrarian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZI8-9i0SOo https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/physicist-s... She'll even take your money to an
25. 295.▲
    by bawana 6y ago

    obviously, bezos downvoted my comment. I dont think they are bad, they are just too big - and monopolies are breeding ground for evil.
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    by bawana 6y ago

    What about all the other stack exchange sites? Are they separate and not deserving of support because they are not about software? Is it because software makes money so a public support group for software is monetizable? I miss usenet.
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    by bawana 6y ago

    is google sinking? Between their mothballing/deletion of services and the obnoxious signup ads on youtube. I am wondering what is going on?
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    by bawana 6y ago

    Exactly. There will never be a crash as all the world just prints money that seeks the highest ROI, and this is only found in financial markets. Witness a booming stock market that is decoupled from record unemployment. Witness the lowest m
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    by bawana 6y ago

    Money may be printed but it causes inflation only if two conditions are satisfied: 1) the money stays in country 2) the money is used to buy goods or services. Our monetary system is based on a plan instituted 1oo years ago, before credit c
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    by bawana 6y ago

    Amazon is more of a threat to the ‘American way of life’ than Communism ever was.