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The cortex is a neural network of neural networks(medium.com)
297 points by curtis 8y ago|127 comments
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Why we think giant pterosaurs could fly (2018)(markwitton-com.blogspot.com)
129 points by curtis 8y ago|51 comments
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Elephants Took 24M Generations to Evolve from Mouse-Size(news.nationalgeographic.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Deaf Men Helped Shape Nasa's Human Spaceflight Program(nasa.gov)
61 points by curtis 8y ago|6 comments
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Millennials Are Financially Trustworthy(motherjones.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms(newyorker.com)
7 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
Fair enough, but I'll observe that in my experience deadlines and deploys are often strongly correlated. Management generally doesn't care when code is done, they care when it's done and deployed. I suppose my experience
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by curtis 8y ago
I guess it depends on why you're doing the deploy. If the whole point of doing the deploy is to pick up new code changes, then the people responsible for doing those code changes run the risk of having to work over the weekend to make
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by curtis 8y ago
A corollary to "Don't deploy on Friday": "Don't deploy on Monday." Unless you really want to work over the weekend.
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by curtis 8y ago
The biggest problem I saw with the High-Speed Rail plan wasn't the outrageous cost, but rather that it was a plan to spend 60+ billion dollars to solve the wrong problem. The state should have been working on some plan to give high-sp
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Do-it-yourself ultralight tent (2017) [video](youtube.com)
25 points by curtis 8y ago|3 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
One of the techniques used to eradicate malaria in the past was to spray the interior walls of houses with DDT. After feeding on human hosts who were infected with malaria, the mosquitoes would land on a nearby wall to digest the blood. I
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by curtis 8y ago
Asimov's way of writing was very typewriter-centric, so maybe it's not surprising that he in particular would fail to imagine word processor-like technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Characte
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by curtis 8y ago
I couldn't really see any of them until I started moving my head back and forth a little bit, then they popped. The effect was really noticeable with the red-black-dark blue images.
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Drug which makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes can reduce malaria: study(independent.co.uk)
20 points by curtis 8y ago|8 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I don't know if Kubrick ever traveled through the terminal since he apparently had a serious fear of flying. It seems likely that some of the people involved with the production of 2001 would have, though. And it would have been bran
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by curtis 8y ago
I think the author is using a much narrower definition of "meritocracy" than many people might. There's a difference between thinking that people who occupy some position of responsibility are "the best" and thinki
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by curtis 8y ago
It just occurred to me that the chairs are a very similar color to the chairs in the space station Hilton in 2001 A Space Odyssey: https://filmandfurniture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2001...
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by curtis 8y ago
I've not seen that claim before but it certainly seems plausible. It does seem less tiring if you're sitting next to an empty seat rather than a person.
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by curtis 8y ago
This reminded me of the Uluburun shipwreck[1]. This ship was built using "pegged mortise-and-tenon joints"[2]. It's not entirely clear how the Nile ship's construction was different -- as another commenter mentioned, i
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by curtis 8y ago
I've often complained that flying is the most exhausting thing you can do that involves not doing anything at all. Long meetings are number two on the list...
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An American Citizen Was Forcibly Drafted Into the South Korean Army (2015)(allkpop.com)
57 points by curtis 8y ago|57 comments
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No Big Deal(sites.google.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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TWA Hotel Inside Eero Saarinen's JFK Airport Terminal Open for Reservations(dezeen.com)
97 points by curtis 8y ago|22 comments
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The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Won't Die(gizmodo.com)
184 points by curtis 8y ago|131 comments
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Robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but can lift 100 times its weight(theverge.com)
198 points by curtis 8y ago|34 comments
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Broad Arrow(en.wikipedia.org)
30 points by curtis 8y ago|9 comments
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The Dangers of Riding in a Stretch Limousine(nytimes.com)
4 points by curtis 8y ago|2 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I suspect that a lot of the impediment to JITing Ruby and Python effectively was due to large and important libraries (standard and third-party) being written in C using interfaces that were not JIT-friendly. JavaScript in the browser also

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