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by chton 12y ago
That's definitely a valid criticism, and one that can be levelled to a lot of popular theories like string theory (where holographic theory originates from) and quantum loop gravity. It's a short-term problem though, since we&#x2
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by chton 12y ago
Indeed, it's amazing tech. It's even better than you think: size of the image is dependent on projection, not size of the medium. If you cut it it will show the same size as before, but with lower resolution. That is one of the
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by chton 12y ago
The 'hologram' in holographic physics doesn't refer to the standard 3d optical illusion things. It's a more general term for 3-dimensional information being encoded on a 2-dimensional surface. Just like the hologram yo
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by chton 12y ago
I'm very excited about this experiment. Even if it completely fails, we're bound to learn something interesting. Spacetime fluctuations haven't been examined at this level before, so anything they find out is new.
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by chton 12y ago
The Fermilab press release the article is based on is dated at today (august 26, 2014): http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2014/2-D-Ho... I've also asked Fermilab directly and they con
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What caused one of the worst Visual Studio Online outages ever(zdnet.com)
1 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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Reddit, Twitch, and Imgur have created a research partnership called DERP(theverge.com)
4 points by chton 12y ago|1 comments
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Camouflage sheet inspired by octopus(bbc.com)
20 points by chton 12y ago|2 comments
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Punchr: The social network that gets people punched in the face(youtube.com)
1 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
I've developed control software for LED panels of the kind you see in Times Square a few years back. While that was for a different manufacturer, the hardware and control techniques aren't much different. The article makes it so
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by chton 12y ago
To answer to your edited version: I agree that it should avoid an accident as much as possible, but I don't assume that that will be an option in all possible situations. The case given was a thought experiment to indicate the ethical
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by chton 12y ago
I agree with your conclusion, but for different reasons. There will be loads of situations that are far less clear-cut than this. A lot of times, they will involve other cars. By always taking the options that prefer the passengers, the
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by chton 12y ago
Every crash has the potential to be fatal, and forcing all self-driving cars (or indeed all cars, since the same argument applies to human drivers) to keep to extremely low speeds isn't a viable solution. Cars are only manoeuvrable at
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by chton 12y ago
Being able to stop for anything that jumps in front of your cars is impossible at any speed. You could be going 5mph, if the thing jumps close enough your reaction speed will never be good enough to brake in time. it's the same with
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Should your driverless car kill you to save a child?(qz.com)
7 points by chton 12y ago|19 comments
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Kinecting AR Drone: Remote controlling a drone with kinect(github.com)
1 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
This was not a huge experiment for NASA, most likely the budget wasn't there for vacuum-capable capacitors and the time to convert the equipment. It was either go with what they had, or don't go at all. I do hope that, with a ten
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by chton 12y ago
In an Alcubierre drive the total system does accelerate forward. The spaceship itself won't, but the total system ('bubble', contents and ship together) will increase in momentum to an outside observer. I agree that it may
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by chton 12y ago
While it's true that most reactionless drives break some of the most basic physical laws, that's not the case for all of them. An Alcubierre drive is a good example of a propulsion method that works within the current laws, yet d
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Researchers develop new wireless power transfer technique(phys.org)
2 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
I do the same, but for most subjects the english article is enough. I rarely need more detailed information than that, but if I do, and I need it, I will use a translator too.
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by chton 12y ago
It's exactly the same thing for me in Dutch. There are a lot of articles, sure, but the content is woeful. And there aren't even bots that artificially inflate the numbers there.
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by chton 12y ago
It's still working for me, but the big map is taking a long time to load. I expect they're having some trouble handling the influx of downloaders from the media attention.
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by chton 12y ago
I'm not sure how this fits into a big strategy change. It mostly seems like really eliminating redundancy, that's why most of the firings are in the Nokia department. They've recently acquired that, so there are bound to be
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by chton 12y ago
Some really wet-finger math: a cone is one third the volume of a cylinder with the same base and height. That means you could build the mountain 3 times as high as the tower for same weight. So you can get a 10.5km high mountain. Assuming,
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Geologic Map of Mars(pubs.usgs.gov)
87 points by chton 12y ago|21 comments
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by chton 12y ago
The drawing is very confusing. It looks as if the back wings are just obscuring clawed legs rather than being the legs themselves. I had exactly the same thought as you and came here to comment the same thing.
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by chton 12y ago
Not significantly, but they differ in the finer details. Event Hubs is less elastic (since you need to choose your number of partitions on create), but it has a few more advanced options like filtering and fine-grained message replay. Kin
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by chton 12y ago
There's a great blog post for an overview at http://fabriccontroller.net/blog/posts/getting-started-azure... You can learn quite a bit from the pricing page too: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-
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by chton 12y ago
the original submission isn't showing up on search, and if I try to submit the normal url (kotlinlang.org), all I get is "Please try again". Calling this a wilful duplicate is stretching it.

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