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by bladedtoys 11y ago
As the creator of a 4D game, I can attest how hard it is to make such a thing fun. Even though simpler, I think what I built is only partially successful at this. In the end I think the audience for my toy and Marc's game will only be
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by bladedtoys 11y ago
Another possibility is: they never feel like it. It's possible intelligent species inevitably overcome/loose the desire for infinite self replication. It's clear other animals will breed to occupy all available habitats. But
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by bladedtoys 11y ago
But GPS satellites have constant velocity so calculating this is pretty easy. For a future super probe that accelerates and decelerates and maybe passes through many different gravitational fields (giving a general relativity time dilation)
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
While calling the bursts FRB is certainly descriptive, I kind of miss the whimsy of names like LGM [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919%2B21
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
Has anyone thought much about an (admittedly near impossible) probe to burrow and submarine around in the oceans of some of the juicier Galilean and Saturnian moons?
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
I'm very glad of course but... ...technically all they did was lower the price by $19 a month. ...and bought a lot of press for that ...and a lot more shots at the 5% revenue. It's really great of course. But better yet, it's
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
Fibonacci( n ) = ( P^n - ( -P )^-n ) / sqrt(5) Where P is Golden ratio ( about 1.618 ) So yes it resembles exponential growth but as you can see it is slightly less due to the "- ( -P )^-n" part.
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
The camel transport is surely by far the most powerful since the camel it is loading is only found deep in land locked central Asia. Pictured camel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_camel
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
The vast majority of mammals have only black and white vision, quite likely because all the common ancestors the survived the K-T event (the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs) were nocturnal. Some groups such as fructivore primates ha
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
And a particular division even had little skull and crossbones on their hats for heaven sake. One wonders if Hugo Boss actually got ideas from comic books bad guys.
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
A subsequent attempt was made by the Great Eastern* which, in my humble opinion, is the coolest ship ever conceived. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
I wonder why they didn't just lay them along the alcan highway? Surely that would have been a zillion times cheaper.
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
I wonder do they just drop the transatlantic cables blindly over the mid-atlantic ridge and hope for the best or check that it's not a hot spot or something. And four cables connect Alaska to the lower 48? I wonder why.
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
Aside from a shibboleth, I think there might be other ways to tell men and woman apart.
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
>"Oh yes, mathematics, astronomy, physics, physiology, psychology – these all started out as philosophy, and once we philosophers got them whipped into shape we set them off on their own to be sciences. We figured out how to ask the
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by bladedtoys 12y ago
I wonder why 5th century invaders (Anglo-Saxons) are considered native while 11th century invaders (Normans) are not. Nor for that mater are 1st century invaders (Romans) Indeed, if Normans are considered an intrusion into a formerly pure B
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
To see how/right wrong it is, you can actually look at the primary source material and see for yourself. Here for example is an image of a pre Julian calendar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman-calendar.png A
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Actually I'm very surprised (read skeptical) of the precision and firmness of the claims in this article. For example "...the nautical mile – 1.852 kilometers – was introduced in the 15th century..." For one thing, there was
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Why hasn't Westeros had an industrial revolution? Because no one has ever had one[1]. There was no industrial revolution in China or India or the Muslim world who arguably were more advanced than medieval Europe. There was no industria
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
There are principled communities where it matters If you have a few examples of these I'd be very, very much obliged.
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Very roughly speaking there are at least three ways to measure distances. For "near by "objects on can use parallax: look at the object on a given date then again 6 months later and see how much it shifts against the back ground s
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
What would the wavelengths of the background radiation be at this time? Wouldn't there be an awful lot of high energy particles bouncing around? I ask because I wonder what limits there would be to complex molecules forming under those
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
I will look into that. Thank you for posting.
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
It's tricky because there is just no way to show 4D phenomenon without a lot of sacrifice. I ended up using a combination of "perspective" for size and differing transparency and a fair amount of movement. All of these are ar
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4D Tesseract: Fourth Dimension Game(fourthdimensiongame.com)
67 points by bladedtoys 13y ago|41 comments
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
True, there isn't even a claim of "all" (which makes it even weaker of course). But there is likely a plausible explanation why some property of the product improves its sales. And indeed, that property may really be necessar
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
"Fallacy of the undistributed middle" all A are X this B is X therefore this B is A then: for A: successful business. for X: has certain traits. for B: our new product.
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
It also raises a funny epistemic question: the likelihood of error in observation or recording is higher than the likely outcome. So the question probably ought to be "what are the odds of 76 heads and it being detected correctly + the
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Telefonica is also an isp. Or more exactly it is the isp in Spain: it owns the wires and has overwhelming dominance in the market. So (@dangrossman) the legal issue is averted: both costumers are in the same isp which, to them, works like a
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
If they get such classes, they sleep through them and have for decades. There are studies (Eddy 1982; Gigerenzer and Hoffrage 1995) that show only a small percent of physicians understand even basic statistics. Just Google same and you&#x27

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