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by femto 4y ago
The Bekenstein bound? A maximum number of bits can be placed on the surface of sphere. Beyond that it turns into a black hole. Mind you, one or two other practical limits might come into play before a memory chip hits that one. :-) [1]
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by femto 4y ago
Because at the lowest level quantum mechanics is at work. My feeling is that a full simulation will be a hybrid system. The lowest "microscopic" levels will be done on a quantum computer, but the higher "macroscopic" l
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by femto 4y ago
Which leads onto computational medicine. The advent of SPICE [1] meant that with the right models electrical engineers could simulate complex electrical systems, do sensitivity analysis and make integrated circuits that had a high probabili
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by femto 4y ago
technocrat.net is where I remember him posting.
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by femto 4y ago
Then you have to worry about any "management" modes on the FPGA. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Silicon_scan_draft.pdf
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by femto 4y ago
In a similar vein "real tennis, dating from the 1500s, is still played. The court is a model of a monastery's cloisters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_tennis
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by femto 4y ago
The whole CD doesn't shatter, but the edges of the break do. To see this effect on steroids, put a CD through a shredder: a common security procedure. You're playing Russian Roulette with your eyeballs if you don't wear eye
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by femto 4y ago
It's true of gambling in general. A case study is the state of New South Wales in Australia: the state with the most poker (slot) machines per capita [1], in the country with he most poker machines per capita [2] (excluding gambling s
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by femto 4y ago
A proxy for: the Pacific Ocean is really big.
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by femto 4y ago
Under the Westminster system (UK, Australia, ...), the public service is supposed to be apolitical, 'frank and fearless’ and non-partisan. "Government run" isn't supposed to be equated with biased and partisan. The pub
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by femto 4y ago
No. That's all done in a factory off-site, so I didn't consider it as part of the deployment. I'd argue that scaling a (centralised) factory is easier that scaling deployment. According to Google 178 GW of solar modules was
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by femto 4y ago
Solar PV can be deployed more rapidly than coal, 5B having just achieved 1.1 MW in a day (with 10 people) https://5b.co/news/2022/1mw-in-1-day-5b-smashes-its-speed-re... They have a system whereby a solar array is
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by femto 4y ago
There's no incongruity, as it is happening in the real-world. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/15/bunnings-...
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by femto 4y ago
The power point says "Public Use or On Sale" counts. That could be interesting, given that the lock was given to a member of the public, the Lock Picking Lawyer, for a public picking. A convenient case of having a lawyer when yo
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by femto 4y ago
Anyone here can submit prior art during the patenting process. No suing or courts involved. You only have to care enough to make the submission. Interestingly, videos don't seem to count? It must be a written description? https:&#x
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by femto 4y ago
The relevant quotes from the article (my emphasis): "The NSW government will introduce laws to confiscate unexplained wealth from criminal gangs and ban the use of encrypted devices as part of long-waited reforms to combat money laun
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New South Wales Government to ban use and posession of encrypted devices(smh.com.au)
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by femto 4y ago
Triangulation of mobile phones was developed by Cambridge Positioning Systems, back in 1993. It's been part of mobile networks for a long time so telcos have had a lot of time to figure out ways to extract money from location data. h
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by femto 4y ago
From the CFO the listener could tell what temperature changes the phone is undergoing, but the units would not be calibrated. It you knew the temperature of the phone at a couple of different points then you could derive calibration coeffi
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by femto 4y ago
Section IV of the paper, "Challenges", is interesting reading. As expected CFO displays a strong temperature dependence, causing wrong identifications. Further, I/Q characteristics tend to be close for a given chipset, so I
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by femto 4y ago
Massive MIMO. Arguably a modulation scheme if the array of antennas is treated as a whole.
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by femto 4y ago
> As governments move more and more towards digitization, and embrace machine learning, I expect similar stories might unfold - only it won't be with an opt in social media website. It's already arrived, in the form of the Aust
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by femto 4y ago
Not necessarily. The implementation changes. For example, riveting has largely been replaced by welding. It's unlikely a riveter today would be able to match the skill of a riveter from yesteryear. Given an arc welder a person from
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by femto 4y ago
An analogy might be many of the lost trades, to do with things like horses, steam and agriculture. There are skills from a couple of hundred years ago that have more or less been lost. At the same time we have widespread skills that were
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by femto 4y ago
No. The winner takes all nature of each seat does tend to lock out candidates who might get in with proportional representation with multiple candidates per seat, so it encourages dominance in that regard. One could say that this is a wea
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by femto 4y ago
Incorrect! It's not a crime to vote informally. It is a crime to try and induce others to vote informally. The reasoning is that such advocacy is a form of disenfranchisement, as it opens the door to deception, causing others to lose
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by femto 4y ago
If they are private organisations, wouldn't it be fun if they could be hauled before the Federal Trade Commission? :-)
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by femto 4y ago
Right now I'd say the dominance is a thin veneer, as the winner takes all nature of each individual seat tends to hide the reducing margins by which each seat is held. The result based on seats is non-linear so when change becomes app
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by femto 4y ago
"Tactical voting" means you vote for a less preferred candidate over your preferred candidate to achieve a desired outcome. This is not the same a giving a second preference to an independent. In your example, the voter has voted
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by femto 4y ago
As of Saturday: HAD two very dominant major parties. Australia just had Federal elections, and the count is still in progress, but there is a chance we will end up with a "hung parliament" with neither (ex) major party having a ma

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