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by borissk 3y ago
Hmmm, "We're sorry, but this video is not available." - probably because i'm not in the USA. Good thing we have YouTube :)
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Can We Make Life? Full Episode – Nova Wonders America(youtube.com)
2 points by borissk 3y ago|3 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
Wonder how does it compare to https://github.com/UiPath/CoreWF
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by borissk 3y ago
Are you in the "academia"? Are you making conclusions about all the academia, based on one person's summary of a news article?
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by borissk 3y ago
All the business series laptops offer it as an option.
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by borissk 3y ago
A lot of laptops have a built in 5G modem, or just a slot and antennas for a 5G card that user can install if needed. https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/laptop... https://www.del
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by borissk 3y ago
Sure, there are problems with crypto. But the stuff you mentioned has nothing to do with using say BitCoin as virtual gold - as a long term store of value, instead of say a savings account.
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by borissk 3y ago
How is it the same seat? The creation of new coins is ruled by algorithms, not by well connected people.
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by borissk 3y ago
There's too much money in the finance industry, creating very strong incentives for the players to resort to shady tactics. A strong government can enforce regulations, but given the current political situation in the US that's no
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by borissk 3y ago
Haha, you're an Apple fanboy. Intel CPUs are more than fast enough for current software. Just today I took out of storage an almost 5 year old laptop (a Dell Precision) with Intel i7-8750h (6 cores, 12 threads) and 32GB RAM. Put in a n
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by borissk 3y ago
Makes the Fermi paradox even more interesting and the hypothesis of a great filter more likely. IMHO there's a fair chance we're past such a filter. The origin of life from simple organic matter (abiogenesis) may be extremely unli
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We should ‘lift heavy’ as we get older(archive.ph)
50 points by borissk 3y ago|67 comments
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What a Comb Can Tell Us About the History of the Written Word(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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by borissk 4y ago
Maybe he's trying to protect himself from a totalitarian dictatorship (that can do whatever it wants) and not from a democratically elected government, whose authority is constrained by independent courts, free media, fair elections an
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by borissk 4y ago
Such a definition of creativity can make you feel good, but it's of little practical use. Say you're shown a newly invented piece of tech, but not told who or what invented it - you're saying there's no way to decide if
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by borissk 4y ago
100% of human learning models degrade over time :) And it's not only aging. There's a well known saying: "Science Makes Progress Funeral by Funeral". Humans have very hard time changing their believes to adapt to new dat
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by borissk 4y ago
Hmmm, but what's stopping devices like this to use dns-over-https currently?
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by borissk 4y ago
Some people are naturally born slaves and do prefer living in a society where their lives are completely controlled by a strong arm dictator...
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by borissk 4y ago
We are great at predicting. The number one task of the huge human neocortex is predicting the future. If you look at the past HN comments there were users who predicted the raise of OpenAI, the war in Ukraine and so on.
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by borissk 4y ago
How? By having armies of semi-intelligent armed drones, that will kill the poor if they decide to riot?
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by borissk 4y ago
Sounds like a good guess. Computers, the web, mobile drastically increased the productivity of office workers, but somehow they don't work 15 hour work weeks.
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by borissk 4y ago
Today they may be thin wrappers over OpenAI APIs, but if they start bringing in big money they can hire data scientists and build their own models.
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by borissk 4y ago
Do tell - how do you analyse and predict events and trends NOT based on the history.
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by borissk 4y ago
The companies that stuck with paper and didn't adopt computers, the web and mobile went out of business. The same will happen in the near future with the companies that are unwilling or unable to adopt AI/ML in their business.
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by borissk 4y ago
From the point of view of a dictator like Xi Jinping it's the people who support him vs every one else.
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by borissk 4y ago
Obviously you haven't lived in a dictatorship. Spend a few years in Russia or China or Turkey or Iran and then come back with your hypothesis about the raw truth.
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by borissk 4y ago
They may continue until they are ready to invade Taiwan. And then the US and the rest of the West will have some very hard choices to make - harder than the choices Germany had to make over the Ukraine invasion.
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by borissk 4y ago
Don't know about US, but in many other countries there are online marketplaces where you can sell an invoice and get cash fast.
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by borissk 4y ago
Have you seen the documentary that came this year, think it's called "Last Of Us" - fungus can turn humans into zombies :) But yeah, fungus directly controlling ant muscles, while it's brain is helpless is quite terrifyi
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by borissk 4y ago
The DNA code is software, the hardware and the runtime are RNA and proteins.

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