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by bd 11y ago
Assuming those mutations have effects on neurons functions (and not e.g. just remnants from ontogenesis) seems this should make future "immortality" tech much more difficult (post-cryonics resurrections, brain uploads, etc). Not
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by bd 11y ago
Thinnest notebook from GTX 980 launch lineup is Aorus X7 DT: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-announces-GeForce-GTX-98... While it's not yet listed on Aorus site, it's quite likely chassis would be same/si
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by bd 11y ago
Yup, selection effect bias. There was a long term study on this (sorry no link, I don't remember exact details, just that it was pretty solid, could have been famous Terman study [1] or something similar). People who were admitted to e
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by bd 11y ago
If you have trouble understanding what "magnetic wormhole" means / what researchers actually did, this figure from the original paper explains it pretty well: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep12488&#x2F
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by bd 11y ago
And that was exactly my point :) In case it wasn't clear from the context, I was suggesting getting a notebook with a discrete GPU instead of integrated GPU (that's what iGPU/dGPU stand for, not a desktop GPU). If you are gam
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by bd 11y ago
I'm a game developer, and it might just be the first time I can work on a laptop with integrated graphics. Please don't :). New iGPUs may be catching up to old dGPUs, but meanwhile new dGPUs are just skyrocketing in power far be
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by bd 11y ago
Yup, this is exactly the marketing angle Nvidia CEO was using in his GPU Technology Conference presentation (10x speed-up on deep-learning vs their current Maxwell architecture): http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/0
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by bd 11y ago
Yup, fluoride in toothpaste is indeed pretty efficient. And apparently more of it the better. There are even benefits of using stronger fluoride concentrations than just regular toothpaste's 1400-1450 ppm. Humble old fluoride seems to
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by bd 11y ago
Wouldn't these computation limits get invalidated if some future advanced civilization / super-human AI came up with warp drives / could use wormholes / any other loophole around the speed-of-light? If you could "pi
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by bd 11y ago
That WebKit issue about WebAssembly was filed by engineer working on "compilers and language runtime systems at Apple": http://www.filpizlo.com/ https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146064
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by bd 11y ago
You may like Witcher 3. Probably the best open world foliage out there today: gorgeous colorful world that feels alive. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vasiljevich/17906407432/ https://www.flickr.com
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by bd 11y ago
This was surprising. With all that poking fun of audiophiles, I expected there would not be much of a difference. I got 5 out of 6 correct, and the one I missed was pretty near miss (I picked at random between 320 kbps and uncompressed samp
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by bd 11y ago
Something that's maybe not clear from that page, but was mentioned in the Google IO keynote: this is not just stitching of multiple video streams. Google does some heavy-duty machine learning / computer vision on their servers to
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by bd 11y ago
BTW in addition to amazing content, this documentary is also technically interesting: this is not a video created in some motion graphics production software. It is a hand-written JavaScript code, rendered realtime in WebGL using three.js (
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by bd 11y ago
HairWorks is not something to be particularly upset about. Vast majority of players, even on high-end GPUs just keep turning off those "premium" IHV-specific features as they are just so heavy. BTW AMD kinda started this with thei
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by bd 11y ago
Murray Shanahan, the author of the book pointed to by this Easter Egg was actually a scientific consultant for the movie. Here is reddit AMA with the director of Ex Machina - Alex Garland - and two scientists that helped him - Adam Rutherfo
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by bd 12y ago
If you are "blue and black" person and can't understand how somebody could see "white and gold", here is the best explanation I have seen so far: "I think my brain is interpreting the bluish part as a white su
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by bd 12y ago
Yes, that's true. But for people who don't notice changes there isn't much help anyways. Even much more primitive phishing will still work on them (just think about those "you have virus / clean your computer"
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by bd 12y ago
Uhm, I strongly disagree with making fullscreen https only feature. For WebGL and WebVR community this would be a big step backwards, making browser applications again second class citizen vs native apps. And it's not like there aren&#
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by bd 12y ago
Here is fresh "back-to-reality" report from Engadget journalist who just tried working HoloLens device prototype (at the same event where it was announced): --------------- "Does it work? Yes, it works. Is it any good? That&
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by bd 12y ago
Since recently you can also get notebooks that have already built-in support for external GPUs: new Alienware line with "Graphics Amplifier" (Alienware 13, 15, 17) and MSI GS30 Shadow with "GamingDock": http:/&#x2F
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by bd 12y ago
Notable: these are all just low-power ultrabook range CPUs. If you want high-power Broadwell CPUs that go into regular faster notebooks (e.g. Macbook Pro, workstation Thinkpads, all gaming notebooks like MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, Clevo, Alienwar
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by bd 12y ago
Nice, though several examples don't work on Windows with ANGLE (OpenGL seems ok): - DX11 ANGLE: no specular in Blinn-Phong, nothing shows in Variance and Exponential Shadow Mapping, nothing shows in HDR - DX9 ANGLE: nothing shows in Va
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by bd 12y ago
First images from Philae's ROLIS camera: ----------------------- 1) 3km above comet: https://twitter.com/DLR_de/status/532587248555143169 2) Few seconds before landing: https://twitter.com/nan
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by bd 12y ago
Emily Lakdawalla tweets from the control center: Ulamec: signal kept coming and going "but we always got it back." Possibly indicates unstable, or tilted. Ulamec confirms the harpoons did NOT fire. There is much they currently
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by bd 12y ago
Here is 3D WebGL view of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with more natural colors :) http://www.elmarnieser.nl/demos/rosetta/ And another view, with Philae lander landing site "Agilkia" marked: htt
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by bd 12y ago
Good books (mostly). Though if you like sci-fi, you have likely already read most of them (this list is mostly "classics" category). Here are two better lists if you are after lesser known / more modern sci-fi gems: http:&#x
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by bd 12y ago
ExoLance project is supposed to use that dead mass to shoot darts under the Mars surface to look for signs of life: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/exolance
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by bd 12y ago
There is also a follow-up demo by the same author called Disintegration, with skinned animated mesh driving particles: http://david.li/disintegration/
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by bd 12y ago
Here is a WebGL version, with skeleton mesh: http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/webgl_walker/webgl_walker.p... It works quite nicely on mobile (Android Chrome and iOS 8 Beta Safari).

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