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by dzdt 10y ago
I am not surprised by the downvotes. I know I stated my position brashly. It was a conscious decision to call it like I see it even knowing it would be unpopular in this forum. But let me quibble: my attitude, as that of dismissive mainst
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by dzdt 10y ago
A tiny satellite in low earth orbit is a stunt, not a platform for high precision physics measurements. For the satellite, there is atmosphere drag, magnetic fields, outgassing, etc, all probably bigger effects than the claimed drive effect
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by dzdt 10y ago
This is pseudo-scientific crap. There is a small echo chamber of LENR researchers, egged on by outright swindlers and dreamers whose desire to believe outweighs whatever scientific ability they had. Mainstream physics mostly ignores this
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by dzdt 10y ago
Also not mentioned in this article: as netflix moved to being primarily a streaming business, the catalog decreased significantly. That means the algorithms to find desirable movies in the long tail of the catalog aren't so useful, as
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by dzdt 10y ago
This sets off my BS detector. The approach is to make a "thought experiment" about how neural computation might work mathematically, then look for evidence that the guess is correct. Their thought experiment makes them guess powe
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by dzdt 10y ago
Are there any real world examples (with actual measurement) of languages where map uses hardware parallelisation to be faster than a c loop? Serious question! My impression is, no, outside of something like hadoop.
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by dzdt 10y ago
Any retail chain has that scale of data in surveillance tapes. Order of few mb/s * 10's of cameras per location * 100's of locations * 1000's of seconds per day * 100's of days per year => order of 10^15 bytes p
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by dzdt 10y ago
Will they let you snowmobile your data back out if you want to switch to another cloud provider later? Or is it a one way street, and you pay thru the nose if you want to load your exabytes back out?
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by dzdt 10y ago
I am actually surprised the dumper paradigm doesn't get more love. Startup time is an issue for most large programs. The dumper route is a generally applicable way to drastically improve startup time. Think of it as splitting your
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by dzdt 10y ago
Yes. Really: most of a self-selected group of scientists who chose to bring up Dawkins as an example brought him up as a negative example.
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by dzdt 10y ago
I recently got the following text message from Verizon: FREE VZW MSG: The security of your Verizon account is extremely important to us. Your personal identification number (PIN) or password does not meet our new security
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by dzdt 10y ago
How do we ever get beyond mutually assured destruction? It is so obviously an unstable solution, but for 50+ years this has remained the basis underlying the survival of humanity.
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by dzdt 10y ago
Is this satire? Supposedly a true story?
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by dzdt 10y ago
Just like keeping the curtains drawn on your house is a red flag...
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by dzdt 10y ago
Most of the "fossil assets" are in the form of coal. The good news is that most coal is burned in fixed power plants which can readily be substituted by other electricity sources, and that is economical today. Oil is a problem t
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by dzdt 10y ago
I once accidently did this on a university computer system. Something was misconfigured with sendmail routing; when I telneted to an unexpected computer in the lab and sent an email from there it started bouncing in an infinite loop betwee
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by dzdt 10y ago
Evidence that few read the article: no-one yet pointed out it is (2014).
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by dzdt 10y ago
I agree. It sounds like epicycles to me. [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle ]
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by dzdt 10y ago
Iphone-to-iphone texts are sent over IP, using some apple database mapping. Regular texts use phone company SMS. There is a widely known bug that if you switch from iphone to non-apple-phone you can fail to receive texts, as apple still tr
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by dzdt 10y ago
I think the anthropomorphizing in this case is fine. Someone familiar with programming easily takes "computer thought it was on the ground" as shorthand for "computer began executing subroutines designed to activate when the
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by dzdt 10y ago
Is software easier or harder than hardware? Somehow people seem to assume software is easier, but then there are at least as many critical failures blamed on software as on hardware. Maybe there are different curves: software is easy to get
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by dzdt 10y ago
Specific examples that are in your opinion most worthy of authentication?
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by dzdt 10y ago
Yes, the interesting thing would be if any emails with controversial content can be verified. I don't think there were any real bombshells in the wikileaks emails, but still...
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by dzdt 10y ago
If you are just coming to the Planet Nine story, the best background information is the scientists' blog at www.findplanetnine.com.
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by dzdt 10y ago
Increased, not decreased! Though I suspect a big part of the change was decrease in severity of injuries meriting a hospital visit.
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by dzdt 10y ago
I have only used old table saws. How does the saw stop tell a finger from a board?
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by dzdt 10y ago
I am surprised this guy's homeowners insurance hasn't dropped him. A few years ago I had to switch companies or be dropped for having a trampoline -- with a full net -- in my fenced backyard. Insurance companies hate anything wi
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by dzdt 10y ago
It is really annoying that the linked article gives statistics only in completely meaningless forms: "a processor that contains 300 percent more memory than found on most servers and 100 percent more bandwidth" ... "able to p
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by dzdt 10y ago
My favorite I've seen personally was a science toy which supposedly lit a light by generating a current with a magnet sliding thru a coil of wire. Taking it apart there was a hidden watch battery lighting the light! Not sure if it wa
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by dzdt 10y ago
The times, they are a-changin'! Never expected to see a songwriter honored with this prize.

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