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by dzdt 7y ago
His 1927 obituary is here: https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altU...
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by dzdt 7y ago
The brake will increase survivability for you; neutral will increase survivability for the other driver. What hurts you is the sudden acceleration from the impact, and the brake will decrease that. What hurts the other driver is the sudde
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by dzdt 7y ago
This public effort is still way behind private efforts like google earth, it seems.
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by dzdt 7y ago
I think he is referring to himself as "Marblehead", as someone whose head is made of marble or full of marbles, i.e. a dummy-head. In hindsight it seemed obvious that the radiation from the thorium would act as low level illumina
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by dzdt 7y ago
A major point the article is missing is that after population peak comes population decline. The pattern of "demographic transition" is that as lifespans extend, infant mortality declines, and lifestyles change the birthrate drop
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Why the Meteoric Rise of Google QUIC Is Worrying Mobile Operators(owmobility.com)
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by dzdt 7y ago
The engineering work for Sagrada Familia was insanely clever. Gaudi build a scale model including accurate weights for the building materials, upside-down, out of strings and weights. That way he could design non-vertical pillars that bra
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by dzdt 7y ago
I am curious if there are any counter-views published out there. Softbank is undeniably big and heavily invested in the VC basket. Is there public analysis on how well the larger entity is protected to down-valuation of their portfolio of
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by dzdt 7y ago
Eventually, though if things go well more than 100 years. You mention physics, which is one important limitation, but there are others. The global human population is limited and will likely peak and begin to decline within 100 years. [1]
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by dzdt 7y ago
Sorry, it seems that link only works if the referrer is google scholar. The publisher (paywall) link is https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4754.... . Gambling with etruscan dice: A tale of
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by dzdt 7y ago
My favorite science story about the Etruscan language is using statistics of dice to clarify the words for numbers. Dice were popular in ancient Mediterranean cultures. The older number arrangement put usually 1 opposite 2; 3 opposite 4;
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by dzdt 7y ago
Photons have zero rest mass but it so happens that they are always zipping around at the speed of light so their actual mass as observed is nonzero.
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by dzdt 7y ago
Lots of scientists have looked for evidence of multiple origins of life, but so far no evidence has turned up. Every organism found so far fits on a tree of life using a common set of genetic molecules. It would be an amazing discovery to
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by dzdt 7y ago
Am I the only one who reads "reflog" as "re-flog", that is, to be painfully whipped again?
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by dzdt 7y ago
Trial by jury is so badly equipped to answer complicated questions like does Roundup/glyphosate cause cancer, and did it specifically cause this cancer. Juries are equipped to answer whether a person not so different from the jurors is
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by dzdt 7y ago
So after reading this thread my understanding of the "draining is a fallacy" view is (1) yes genuine non-programmatic entropy bits accumulate at a slow rate and can be drained (2) in practise no one should care about (1) because o
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by dzdt 7y ago
Why do you say draining entropy is a fallacy? It is certainly true that entropy recorded from I/O sources accumulates at a very limited rate.
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by dzdt 7y ago
It might be related to the same reason that Nigerian scam emails keep following the same easy-to-spot pattern. It is to the scammers advantage that savvy marks immediately recognize the scam and don't participate. It saves the scamme
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by dzdt 7y ago
This graphcommons link is down (error 404). I had a peek at it yesterday when it was up and it seemed to contain interesting information I haven't seen elsewhere. Can you provide a reference for this data?
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by dzdt 7y ago
"We have been informed that" is lawyerspeak that has as an implication of "we don't actually believe the following and it almost certainly isn't true, but what we were told is..."
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by dzdt 7y ago
Given that processor technology has underperformed Moore's law since 1999, I'm surprised that Rivest underestimated the time needed to complete the challenge. I wonder how that happened.
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by dzdt 8y ago
So if google's app store is so bad (and I tend to agree it isn't great) what is preventing the rise of a better alternative app store? They exist, but as far as I can tell none have gained any traction.
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by dzdt 8y ago
The crack-finding and inpainting described is detailed in the academic paper at https://services.math.duke.edu/~ingrid/publications/Lam_Gods... This includes nice pictures of the painting in question, which doesn&
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by dzdt 8y ago
This is (2006): Credits: This guide was originally created by Adam Ferrari many years ago, and since updated by Alan Batson, Mike Lack, and Anita Jones. It was revised for 216 Spring 2006 by David Evans.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Contrariwise there is huge demand for a language with a trimmed-down set of concepts from C++ and a much improved syntax.
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by dzdt 8y ago
If you aren't thinking about reproducibility things like putting timestamps in the binary seem reasonable. Which is what lots of tools did. Hence the problem.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Go to a grocery store or meat shop which does their own grinding. The pink slime processing is only economical at the hugest industrial scales. Anything processed at a smaller, more local scale won't have that.
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by dzdt 8y ago
I am not paranoid about kidnappers and child molesters, but I am paranoid about other grownups who are paranoid about kidnappers and child molesters. I fully expect if I let my kids have the freedom previous generations had I would soon be
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by dzdt 8y ago
Is the point that the cost functions have incompatible gradients around local minima/different local minima? I think that is part of it: the different cost functions can have different local minima and also different saddle points; i
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by dzdt 8y ago
I love seeing two dimensional images of disk data. One thing it makes clear is how far ahead today's computers are, where we can easily display at many pixels per bit an image containing all of the data of a multiple-loading LARGE pro

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