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by berndi 1y ago
Someone claimed they used fiber optic drones [1]. So perhaps the drones were connected to the trucks via optical fibers and the trucks carried the modems. That way, jamming over the airbases would have had no effect. [1] https://
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by berndi 2y ago
> you're telling me it's possible to be functional enough to eat and sleep for a week, but not know that your wife is dead and the barking dog needs food and water Absolutely, in late stages of Alzheimers you’re a vegetable, bu
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by berndi 2y ago
Common sense means taking the less risky option. Assuming that the survival rate is constant as a function of trip length, the empirical estimate of the risk is fully determined by the number of deaths per distance.
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by berndi 2y ago
I’m not a vegetarian or animal rights advocate, but an argument could be made that cruelty to non-human animals is similarly normalized in today’s world, perhaps seen as a necessary evil to satisfy our appetite for food or fashion items.
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by berndi 2y ago
Assuming a bedroom with surface area of 50 m^2 and an insulation R-value of 2 m^2K/W and an outside temperature of 30C, 300W would be required to keep the room at 18C. Cooling down 8 billion such bedrooms would require 24TW, which rep
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by berndi 2y ago
Do the cows know they are herbivores? Why would the fact that they don’t predate on other animals in the wild make it “abhorrent” to feed them animal products in captivity?
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by berndi 3y ago
TLDR: no evidence is presented for automated terminal attack capabilities. Even a heat-seeking missile is more automated than these drones which simply maintain course.
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by berndi 3y ago
You’re right! The trapped ion approach (IonQ) is the most promising direction toward scalable quantum computing. Superconducting qubits — such as those used by IBM and Google — require extreme cooling while ions can be trapped at room tempe
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by berndi 3y ago
Is there any evidence that Ozempic causes more muscle loss than what is to be expected from caloric restriction? I haven’t seen any.
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by berndi 3y ago
You’re confused about what “statistical parrot” means and you don’t seem to understand the difference between an optimization objective and the resulting model. The term “parrot” is used to imply inference by something akin to a look-up tab
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by berndi 4y ago
The vast majority of people enjoy drinking and do so responsibly. I absolutely respect people who drink in a measured way to enrich their life, instead of trying to maximize their lifespan by some minuscule amount.
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by berndi 4y ago
Pretty sure earth will be fine, humans may not be.
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by berndi 4y ago
Thats not even close.
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by berndi 5y ago
We've been able to get a one- or two-dimensional control signal from average brain activity for a long time. This is infinitely more simple than actual "mind-reading" and "mind-writing" which, as any neuroscientist
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by berndi 5y ago
I just used the chat to cancel my subscription and they waived the early-cancellation fee without any issues. Maybe its some sort of damage control.
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by berndi 5y ago
Fig. 15 shows results for a single sample, I believe.
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by berndi 5y ago
You're right, an easy fix for this is to live and work outside of metropolitan areas where you get the same standard of living for a fraction of the cost.
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by berndi 5y ago
Free speech is not really a thing in Germany (e.g., until very recently, insulting foreign heads of state was a criminal offence). Our ruling class absolutely resents the fact that the German people may have a channel for at least somewhat
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Event-based backpropagation for exact gradients in spiking neural networks(arxiv.org)
119 points by berndi 5y ago|37 comments
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by berndi 5y ago
You would think that allegedly driving a PoC student to suicide would count for something in the PC twitter sphere…
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by berndi 5y ago
How is it possible that professors with impeccable academic credentials get fired for jokes nearly instantly [1], yet this student's professor was allowed to carry on until he resigned two years later [2]? [1] https://en.wik
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by berndi 5y ago
Wow, the amount of depravity in some academic circles is astonishing. The article links [1] the case of a PhD student at the University of Florida who was forced to participate in such a publication collusion ring and was pressured to commi
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by berndi 5y ago
Any reasonable definition of "observing" presupposes a conscious observer and it is possible for you to observe yourself being conscious (I assume). Indeed, consciousness is observable in a much more direct sense than gravity.
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by berndi 5y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding your post -- my depth of thinking may well not be on par with yours. Its obvious that science as a whole explains a hierarchy of phenomenona, with a given phenomenon (like radiation propagation) oft
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by berndi 5y ago
I think you are confusing science with philosophy. In science, solving a problem amounts to building a (quantitative) theory that allows us to predict phenomena and outcomes in the real world. We say that we have understood a phenomenon whe
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by berndi 5y ago
I'm sad to say its anything but scaremongering. I don't know about the US, but in Germany its common practice to spray either legal CBD weed or regular weed with synthetic cannabinoids and sell it as "Haze". The same goe
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by berndi 5y ago
You would be lucky if any actual THC is involved, nowadays its mostly synthetic semi-legal cannabinoids in the black market, at least in Germany (apparently even in some coffee shops in the Netherlands). The market desperately needs to be r
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by berndi 5y ago
Exactly. How are romantic relationships not a zero-sum game?
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by berndi 5y ago
The author clearly does not have a basic understanding of (quantum) physics, yet makes the bold assertion that his "theory" explains quantum mechanics and relativity. For example, his distributed simulation idea is obviously incom
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by berndi 6y ago
Its more like FB decided to go with the nuclear option, Z, instead of X or Y. This is reminiscent of mob-like extortion tactics, not of good-faith engagement with the legislative process of a democracy. >And the drafters of that law very

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