dav_Oz

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by dav_Oz 4y ago
There is only one playground I remember which didn't bore me like after half an hour (unfortunately it got dismantled some years ago and doesn't exist anymore) and had the heights, challenges, speeds (steep long slides) exciting f
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
The bots/machine vs human reminds me of that famous experiment from the 30s in which Winthrop Kellogg[0], a comparative psychologist, and his wife decided to raise their human baby (Donald) simultaneously with a chimpanzee baby (Gua) i
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Let's kid not ourselves. There are lot of very powerful interests behind the "energy industry", roughly divided into four large sectors: fossil fuels, nuclear power, renewables and electrical generation itself. At this point
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
> Look at the French very very imaginative. They are providing over 30 million terminals in homes, free of charge, despite the fact they are going to cost something about £40 each because it is cheaper than producing telephone directorie
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
> because they are working in energy regimes that are not reachable in the ordinary physics of the universe as it exists today. This isn't accurate. Actually because of the higher energies (> 10 orders of magnitude) naturally fo
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
"Science" doesn't care about individual careers or generations (in that case of physicists) who are left with "nothing else" to discover (fundamentally) and are simply "condemned" to pass the torch (determ
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Under very specific circumstances: > The radiative properties of an atom in a cavity differ fundamentally from the atom's radiative properties in free space. Spontaneous emission is inhibited if the cavity has characteristic dimensi
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
One omitted hard part is to accurately determine caffeine content which can fluctuate widely depending on the beans, roasting, brewing method, water temperature ... E.g. 100% robusta coffee can be nearly double in caffeine than 100% arab
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Yeah, Papa John's is bragging about this first ever BTC tx to buy pizzas from them when in fact some guy from overseas in GB (Laszlo was living in Florida) took up the offer from the online forum [0] and paid for the pizza via credit c
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
I have aphantasia and I found the drawabox approach especially appealing and quite similar to how I go about learning a new language, a musical instrument, grasping new math concepts etc. So, in a sense I wasn't at all surprised to fi
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
For anyone confused about heat and temperature (which in everyday speech get often mixed up) here is a good thermodynamics recap about the definition.[0] A lightning strike can heat up the air around it because of its relatively high
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
So this interesting review [0] from 2017 is very cautious; from the last paragraphs of the concluding remarks: > Detection of autophagy markers such as LC3-II and/or of accumulation of autophagy substrates such as p62 has been attem
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
A very potent way to induce autophagy seems to be through fasting [0]. As far as I understand measuring autophagy accurately across different cell types in a living organism/human as autophagy flux is still a big challenge and e.g.
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Yes, you might be on the right track here 'cause I honestly lack a well founded overview over the scene as a whole. So I correct myself: From the things I've selectively listen to or read about [0] they at least are more knowledge
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
To further increase the sells of your shovels as a next step you pay successful gold diggers (or actors) to amplify the message how easy it is to find gold, as a side job you show how easy it is to sell shovels ... at some point you arrive
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Yes. One could easily argue the other way. > The magnitude in East Germany was likely unique. Unbeknownst to them, the athletes were given heavy anabolic steroids along with sex and growth hormones, often in extremely high doses. For man
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
I really enjoy blonde roasted single origin 100% Robusta beans (like this Coffea canephora from India [0]) if served with care the deep richness of the flavour is unparalleled. But since I'm quite sensitive to caffeine the rush of a
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
To stay engaged with a lot of interesting material I would have otherwise forgotten after college or at that time I didn't fully grasp, and because "teaching" actually teaches you the most (close second after "applying&q
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
From occasionally repairing modern bicycles the way the chain is falling off "regularly" doesn't click with me: If one spoke is bent so much (more like a serious wheel wobble) that - at some point - it touches a "dama
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Second this. For someone enjoying long formats his compilations are also great[0]. [0] https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=anton+petrov+comp...
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
I guess one could argue that it is technically "free" for personal use, as tap water is (1 cubic meter (1000 litres) in the Netherlands is about net cost .87€ [0]) if one is not trying to abuse it for a agricultural hobby, a priva
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
The opening track to Carl Sagan's Cosmos is actually taken from Vangelis' - still prog-rock influenced album - Heaven and Hell (1975); the 3rd movement. I still really enjoy his early/progressive stuff and to this day canno
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
It reads like a telephone (gone through India?) mod of that version I am more familiar with: > Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetoot
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Your very valid points are - in my reading - addressed in this paper, albeit in a milder and more forgiving form, in the Results section under A Baseline for Maximally Efficient Computation. A simplistic model relates physics to neurosci
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Stablecoins are the grease for CEXs the gateway (drug) for - since a lot of people trust their keys in the hands of the exchanges themselves - "claims" on listed cryptocurrency tokens. In service of efficiency and maximizing pro
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
Isn't there a sweet spot though? As Elon, by virtue of his massive wealth now, is depriving an ungodly amount of people of financial resources and opportunities. I mean on that scale I venture to say it's like a Usain Bolt suckin
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
I wonder how "mind chatters" manifest in different people. There seem to be some who really experience an inner voice talking in full-fledged sentences and others with no inner monologue at all. My "mind chatter" as I a
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by dav_Oz 4y ago
It's more like intermediate (most vulnerable to the DK-effect) to advanced (utmost appreciation for professionals). Taking the piano example: after 1-2 years of progressive learning you can certainly give off the impression to somebody
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Reminds me of those good ol' days of what.cd interviews ;) A bad transcode means that during the transcode process, the file has either been converted to a lossy format more than once, or the file has been converted from lossy to loss
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Robert Warden (original author of the paper "Cryogenic nano-actuator" (2006)[0]) did the first prototyping with Lego Technic [1]. From Lego to the JWST, I mean damn, like childhood dreams come true (: [0] https://www.esm

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