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by bd 18y ago
"[...] Vecchione suggests a feeding behavior that is more like trapping than hunting. He speculates that Magnapinna passively waits for prey to bump into the sticky appendages." Fascinating, reminds me of barnacle monsters from Half-Life.
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by bd 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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by bd 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
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Robots with lips and vocal chords(takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp)
2 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
It's actually complementary, aging has many factors. Heavy water is supposed to make harder for free radicals to do damage in the first place. Sirtuins should help with switching on repair mechanisms after damage is done. And then there are
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Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives?(newscientist.com)
33 points by bd 18y ago|25 comments
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by bd 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascon
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Limits to running speed in dogs, horses and humans(jeb.biologists.org)
3 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
So bailout ($5 trillion) is about half of this: http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/seventeen.asp While these are all pennies currently in circulation ($2 billion): http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/twelve.asp
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by bd 18y ago
It's 2,189 kilometres per hour (1,360 miles per hour): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus_%28moon%29%23Possible...
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Carbon dioxide detected on extrasolar planet(space.com)
8 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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Saturn's icy moon shoots supersonic jets of water(nature.com)
2 points by bd 18y ago|2 comments
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by bd 18y ago
And what if somebody was slowly replacing your real neurons with artificial ones? Start with one chip-neuron, finish with the whole artificial brain. In all steps of the process your "self" being preserved. Credit goes to Stanislaw Lem "Do
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by bd 18y ago
Around 15% got it right, which is quite consistent with Sturgeon's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon_law
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by bd 18y ago
If I may suggest, please change your demo video soundtrack. Looping music was very distracting, as if something went wrong. Thanks to this it was painful to watch otherwise awesome demo.
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by bd 18y ago
Maybe there is a secondary objective for excessive interviewing: "Hazing is often used as a method to promote group loyalty and camaraderie through shared suffering (male bonding in fraternities), either with fellow participants, past part
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Understanding Adobe Alchemy (C/C++ to ActionScript compiler)(automatastudios.com)
18 points by bd 18y ago|7 comments
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by bd 18y ago
They use analog building blocks, not digital ones: "Mead succeeded in mimicking ion-flow across a neuron's membrane with electron-flow through a transistor's channel. This should not have come as a surprise: the same physical forces are at
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by bd 18y ago
"Large-scale neural simulations are difficult for computers because neural models do not map onto the Von Neumann architecture. " http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.html These guys have been doing HW neuro chips for a
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by bd 18y ago
Maybe you could split "reward" into two parts: a) some award that will be prestigious by itself (by being labeled as one of the top kids from the school); and b) financial help available for winners of a) with family income under X. Isn't i
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by bd 18y ago
It's probable that they didn't use 48,000 brand new hard drives, but reused whatever they already had in their datacenters. Which would have a mixture of different drive ages, I guess.
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by bd 18y ago
They mention that they did some extra optimizations ("stragglers") for petabyte test (that were not there yet for the terabyte test).
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It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations(newscientist.com)
42 points by bd 18y ago|27 comments
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Camera Tracked Head Gestures for Interacting with First Person Games(torbensko.com)
3 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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Oblong’s g-speak spatial operating interface brings Minority Report UI to life(crunchgear.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
I skimmed over the original article (Burson et al '06) to decode "noise and bias model": The authors found out that on easy tasks less skilled people overestimated their performance while more skilled people estimated correctly that they di
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by bd 18y ago
In Slavic languages yes, but in Spanish it has indeed negative connotations: http://www.google.com/dictionary?langpair=es|en&q=malo
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Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World(cato.org)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
From the conversation buildup it looks like these requests (use Smalltalk, Lisp) were common at Google, thus could be responded to with "precomputed" no (i.e. it was not the first time VP had to ponder the request).
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by bd 18y ago
It's a small calculator-like device, more or less the size of the credit card. Their reasoning for why it's supposed to be better than SMS: a) you are not dependent on a third party (mobile phone operator), so that you couldn't access your

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