drichel

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by drichel 4y ago
"First, you copy the master. Then, you master the master" Can't find the source of the quote but it was about the Chinese approach to learning.
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by drichel 5y ago
Counting bits was the bottleneck in the genomic scan I co-authored (Kanoungi et al. 2020). popcnt resulted in insane perfomance gains comared to all other methods. However, we re-discovered the fact that some Intel CPUs, including the Nehal
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by drichel 6y ago
Well actually you are starting to convince me of the opposite. My horizon is limited to the galaxy. The hypothesis here is that the Earth is an early bloomer in the Milky Way. Then we are dealing with 1 billion Earth-sized planets, only a f
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by drichel 6y ago
There is indeed as far as I know some evidence that we are early bloomers https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015... Half of the stars might be 9 billion years old, but for heavy emelent
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by drichel 6y ago
Imagine aliens of the future for whom the Fermi paradox does not arise, because the galaxy is teeming with what used to be human.
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by drichel 6y ago
I can't quite follow how the "early bloomers" theory would imply either of those two conclusions. What I meant is the concept that our galaxy is young and the conditions just became right for ingelligent life to form, and her
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by drichel 6y ago
We might as well be among the first ones. I find the idea quite fascinating, it kind of puts the Earth back into the center and makes us special in a way.
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by drichel 6y ago
"Cave of Forgotten Dreams"? Thats about the Chauvet Cave, but indeed very interesting as well.
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by drichel 6y ago
Result of a roundtable discussion wuth concerned citizens? Not convinced, I'm with Hans Rosling on this topic https://youtu.be/FACK2knC08E
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by drichel 6y ago
Menachem Begin bombed the King David Hotel
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by drichel 6y ago
> "In the last decade, the field of algebraic geometry was set on fire by “perfectoid spaces” rather than “Scholze spaces” because Peter Scholze kept on calling them that in his talks and papers." Skip to 5:10 to see Peter Scho