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Calabi's Question: Foundations of String Theory (2010)(plus.maths.org)
19 points by cbennett 11y ago|0 comments
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by cbennett 11y ago
For a dramatic international comparison, consider that the 15th-20th largest cities in China already have populations of greater than 7M: double this forecast to be reached over the next decade in America's 3rd Largest urban area http
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by cbennett 11y ago
"An interesting report, but is there any reason to conclude that "we are due"?" Yes, El Nino, which may bring torrents of rain this winter to the US west coast. The combination with epic drought will be disastrous, wheth
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by cbennett 11y ago
TLDR: There is a major mismatch between the device physics of the academic group and what is being marketed/sold. If the actual device they were selling represented what they did in this technical work, I would be very, very excited. T
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by cbennett 11y ago
Its not just for the AI field, if you read their About Us page you will see that a very interesting application has to do with UAV and algorithms for motion detection. The chip set design space for this is very low energy but efficient&#x2F
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by cbennett 11y ago
Related course readings and assignments for self-learning: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-s996-category-theo... couldn't manage to find any videos, though :/
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Category Theory for Scientists and Engineers (2013) [pdf](ocw.mit.edu)
49 points by cbennett 11y ago|11 comments
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by cbennett 11y ago
thanks for that. I just googled 'Improbable London'. On their website not much substantive , just a standard 'hello world' post: http://improbable.io/blog/ I'm personally interested in such an
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by cbennett 11y ago
vapid article but more than that the UI for actually getting through the story is awful. the recommended articles box above the much smaller 'Continue' button, is particularly egregious.
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by cbennett 11y ago
Having lived in Belgium, Sweden, and now in France - 3 different EU countries in 3 years- I can 100% confirm the parent commenter's almost comical ignorance about the heterogeneity of European life and mores.
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“Sneak Path” Breakthrough Heralds Arrival of Ultra-Dense Resistive Memory
1 points by cbennett 12y ago|0 comments
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by cbennett 12y ago
The paper is submitted but not accepted (passed review yet), in this you're right, but I think its a growing practice for reputable scientists (as well as nobodies) to post to Arxiv immediately after they've submitted to a '
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by cbennett 12y ago
Thanks for linking to this, Aaronson brings some good critiques (as did others on this thread). I do however think it is a bit disrespectful to the authors to use the word debunk,. Debunk implies a myth or a belief, or a completely unsuppor
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by cbennett 12y ago
"Also they are not ambitious enough. Assuming constant time arithmetic of the real numbers should get you more (like maybe even the halting problem)." Agreed. They do at least broach the idea though, this is from the companion pap
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Memcomputing NP-complete problems in polynomial time(arxiv.org)
87 points by cbennett 12y ago|64 comments
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by cbennett 12y ago
thanks very much for this! had been looking for some time for a quite recent Williams talk
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by cbennett 12y ago
Here is the paper for any one curious in a look at the actual configuration of the nanowire device: thankfully there is no pay-gating http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn505139m
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by cbennett 12y ago
“I doubt mr Obama is at all African” <Baracks> father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Kenya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
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Roger Penrose's Critique of the 'Big Fish' of Physics (discovermagazine.com)
2 points by cbennett 13y ago|0 comments
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Yellowstone Supervolcanoe begins de-gassing rare Helium 4 isotope(latimes.com)
7 points by cbennett 13y ago|5 comments
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by cbennett 13y ago
Actually, in contradistinction to buzz-wordiness, most of the terms he used such as tensegrity have quite precise definitions- conceptually, as well in mechanical terms. If you want to get a true introduction to the depth and breadth of his
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Hilarious Joke ML Papers, including "Kardashian Kernel"(oneweirdkerneltrick.com)
1 points by cbennett 13y ago|0 comments
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Balaji Srinivasan: mobile tech should 'decrease barriers to exit'(youtube.com)
1 points by cbennett 13y ago|0 comments
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Second Typhoon in Two Weeks Headed for Fukushima(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by cbennett 13y ago|0 comments
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by cbennett 13y ago
You are right to be skeptical in the fact that anecdotal evidence from a yachting voyage could establish a general case for mass bio-mass (or lets just say a sub-set of bio-mass, like catchable fish) decline, and your point that large porti
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by cbennett 13y ago
If definitely already does, and I think there is a systematic under-appreciation of just how catastrophic Fukushima could become if there is an additional criticality if not a series of them, it is truely an order of magnitude bigger of a c
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Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times at Fukushima well(rt.com)
9 points by cbennett 13y ago|2 comments
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by cbennett 13y ago
And the bad news gets worse, this is from yesterday: "Officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said on Friday they detected 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances - including strontium - a
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by cbennett 13y ago
I like this idea quite a bit, although I'm not exactly sure it would be a startup in the end because the willingness (ability?) to pay amongst the target market here must be quite low, I imagine. Just free styling here, but the way to go ab
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by cbennett 14y ago
this is correct. for those with a hazy understanding of quantum mechanics- or to lazy to read link- the adiabatic process basically adds an extraneous (kinetic) part to the Hamiltonian and then the commutation of these properties allows for

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