folli

41 ms·

511.
by folli 6y ago
Absolute layman here. Care to elaborate?
512.
by folli 6y ago
I think the point is that the market rate was "unfair" (depending on your definition of fairness), as it was based on massively assymetric information.
513.
by folli 6y ago
Not everything is a dichotomy. Technology has certainly massively improved our lives, but that doesn't mean one cannot point out that there are also drawbacks.
514.
by folli 7y ago
Kerckhoff's principle applies. Nowadays, all the good encryption software is open source anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle
515.
by folli 7y ago
That's actually a very cool fact: https://www.nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-...
516.
by folli 7y ago
You need to have some selection beforehand. There's not enough manufacturing capacity to go around.
517.
by folli 7y ago
I'm not sure if scrolling was the reason for it not working. Maybe it's just an idea that only works once.
518.
by folli 7y ago
Fertile grounds are also helpful for foraging.
519.
by folli 7y ago
I'm just worried that a T4 bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacteria) is talking about infecting humans...
520.
by folli 7y ago
As respectable as your involvement in the situation is, this is exactly how it's not supposed to work. It seems that the only way for a small business to get in contact with someone at Google is to raise hell on social media (or HN) an
521.
by folli 7y ago
One legitimate use case is perhaps that in the olden days before in-app purchases, you could install an empty paid app that would than act as a token that would enable some functionality in another app. The second app would need some way of
522.
by folli 7y ago
My sci-fi fantasy consists of building such an ancestral organism by modern genetic technologies and phylogenetic simulations to come up with a likely ancestral genome that would actually work. Some kind of Jurassic Park for the evolutionar
523.
by folli 7y ago
Some of these units operated in a cell-based system (similar to Al Qeada), so there wouldn't be any offical records.
524.
by folli 7y ago
I don't know, some of us might have a more luxurious cabin on a top floor, where it takes longer for the water to leak in, but the boat is sinking nonetheless.
525.
by folli 7y ago
Aren't we somehow in this boat together?
526.
by folli 7y ago
Damn, you must have made billions on the stock market since you already knew in January what was gonna happen.
527.
by folli 7y ago
I really enjoyed the read, thanks!
528.
by folli 7y ago
"Federer, who started playing tennis at age eight, became Switzerland's junior champion when he was 14." Is that what's considered late?
529.
Turning any 2D photo into 3D using convolutional neural nets(ai.facebook.com)
2 points by folli 7y ago|0 comments
530.
by folli 7y ago
Why not directly link https://ai.facebook.com/blog/-powered-by-ai-turning-any-2d-p...
531.
by folli 7y ago
I think he meant flying large crews, including actors, caterers etc., to Iceland to film a movie vs a small photogrammetry team.
532.
by folli 7y ago
"The second is the idea that as we go backward in time, life-forms get simpler and simpler(...)" I'm not sure this is a very accepted idea anymore in modern evolutionary biology. Sure, over massive timescales it holds true (a
533.
by folli 7y ago
As a non-US citizen: What's the deal with entering ZIP codes in some gas stations in the US? Tax reasons?
534.
by folli 7y ago
Do any of these tools factor in average cloud cover etc.?
535.
by folli 7y ago
Heidi is however very well known in Switzerland, too. In contrast to the Dog of Flanders, who is much less widely known in Flanders.
536.
by folli 7y ago
You revealed my secret
537.
by folli 7y ago
Occam's razor says no. The coronavirus spike protein is responsible for receptor binding and entry into the cell. Different strains with different hosts bind to different receptors, so they have differences in their spike protein seque
538.
by folli 7y ago
Again, take any random six letter amino acid sequence and chances are high that it matches to some HIV protein. I just did the experiment with my first name that is coincidentally 6 letters long, and lo and behold: a match to HIV env prote
539.
by folli 7y ago
I have not heard from this guy before (I work in microbial genomics, he seems to be in the field of health economics from a quick search), so I can't comment on that.
540.
by folli 7y ago
For posteriority, here's the link to the Blast results for the second insert: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Get&RID=39ACRKV...

More ›