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by dzdt 8y ago
My five-year-old is really into the "Rebel Girls" book. Its format -- one page biographies -- makes it easy to flip thru and pick stories. Unlike almost everything else we read it is both real and edgy . The one that she retur
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‘Lord of the Rings’ Author JRR Tolkien’s Artworks Are Being Shown for First Time(news.artnet.com)
2 points by dzdt 8y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 8y ago
The major demographic story of the century will be peak population. For the first time in the history of civilisation population will fall year after year instead of growing. All sorts of economic things that people take for granted will b
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by dzdt 8y ago
US horse population is down about 64% since its 1915 peak. Will it be different for people? I guess probably we won't be sent to the glue factory, but that is small consolation.
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by dzdt 8y ago
That seems like a distinction without a difference. How exactly does a human's agency help their ability to negotiate for a job against a better cheaper robotic worker?
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by dzdt 8y ago
Wow. Okay I retract my snide comment. Thanks for finding that.
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by dzdt 8y ago
I don't buy the historical argument at all: "in the past technology improvements haven't reduced employment, so there is nothing to fear." The analogy is humans now are to AI as 19th century horses were to the internal
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by dzdt 8y ago
Retracted! See below; compute is disclosed and is not that crazy. For this project their training hardware used 4 Nvidia K80's. Original comment: I think they leave it out because otherwise the standard response to their work would
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Professor who rang vix alarm says tether used to boost Bitcoin(bloomberg.com)
5 points by dzdt 8y ago|1 comments
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The memory-inefficiency of the 6502 in doing 16 bit arithmetic lead Steve Wozniak to write a tiny virtual machine he called "sweet 16". That is a compact 16 register 16 bit arithmetic bytecode language implemented in about 300 by
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by dzdt 8y ago
Nasa is receiving a signal intermittently from the satellite, and has attempted to send commands, but it is not responding to all of those commands. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-image-confir
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by dzdt 8y ago
I doubted the accuracy of the parent post, but it seems to pretty much check out. < https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27éta... < https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013&
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by dzdt 8y ago
But one's actions are also largely dictated by societal living conditions. Many people are extremely time-constrained due to working + commuting + child caring hours. Finding time to exercise or to prepare healthy food is a challenge
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by dzdt 8y ago
If a signed operation would naturally produce a value that is not within the range of the result type, the behavior is undefined. The author had hoped to make this well-defined as wrapping (the operations produce the same value bits as for
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by dzdt 8y ago
The mechanics are probably this: suppose someone goes to Bitfinex to redeem 10million USDT into USD. Since Bitfinex is behaving fraudulently, they don't actually have the 10million USD they promised they would hold to back the USDT.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Legality is not always the only question. Is it a net benefit to humankind? Is it a direct harm to anyone? Is it motivated by greed, or by malice, or by fear, or by altruism?
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by dzdt 8y ago
I think the VLSI is coming sooner than you expect! There are already teams trying to build a 4 bit microprocessor. And when they get the layering and packaging working, scaling is going to go a LOT faster than Moore's law did because
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by dzdt 8y ago
No! Thats a major point in the article. Coyotes don't meta-game. Trying to get your great-grand-cubs domesticated would be a meta-game strategy. Coyotes are masters of the scheming mini-game.
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by dzdt 8y ago
"Local boy makes good" is still an article that sells local papers.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Education law. The federal government is requiring states to comply with its mandates or lose funding.
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by dzdt 8y ago
I read the readme. I still don't know what is "rewriting" a binary or why one would want to do it. Can someone explain?
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by dzdt 8y ago
The research you're thinking of was by Roger Hart. There is a section about it midway thru this article about free-range parenting: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
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by dzdt 8y ago
We long had zero-rating in the form of toll free telephone numbers while most long distance calling required per-minute fees. That system worked okay because it just transferred costs from one party (the caller) to another (the callee) and
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by dzdt 8y ago
Upvoted. I disagree strongly but the comment seems like a sincere and valid contribution to the discussion.
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Planet Nine makes some KBOs go wild(findplanetnine.com)
1 points by dzdt 8y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 8y ago
Random aside: once in high school I took a math puzzle test. The only problem I skipped was because they asked for "integral solutions." I knew the word "integral" only as belonging to calculus, about which I knew near
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by dzdt 8y ago
The republican party platform combines the roughly orthogonal financial interests of the wealthy and moral interests of white evangelicals. Some of the key demands of poor whites are addressed within that latter category.
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by dzdt 8y ago
I missed any more serious discussion on this. Was there another more active thread?
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You're missing the point that the current tech push is largely to get computers that can run the standardised testing bloatware being pushed down from the top of the system. Education possibilities are only a side benefit; testing is
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by dzdt 8y ago
It seems to me there is a reasonably low cost solution to demonstrate safety: SpaceX should load and unload the fuel multiple times for its human-qualification spaceflights. If SpaceX is correctly confident fuel loading is safe, the extra

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