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Reducing the carbon footprint of artificial intelligence(news.mit.edu)
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by gigama 7y ago
tl;dr... "The first lesson is that our deepest well of practical hope is in science and the people who practice it," Reif writes, citing health care workers, public health experts, and the engineers and scientists working on solut
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On Earth Day, lessons from Covid-19 pandemic offer hope(news.mit.edu)
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Twitter Removes Privacy Option, and Shows Why We Need Strong Privacy Laws(eff.org)
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by gigama 7y ago
"The third-year curriculum had just been changed, and would now introduce students to arithmetic and geometry alongside their continued study of the classics. Galois was about to meet mathematics. Few blind dates have gone so well.&quo
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by gigama 7y ago
TL;DR... "Any device that sends out a Wi-Fi signal also emits terahertz waves — electromagnetic waves with a frequency somewhere between microwaves and infrared light. These high-frequency radiation waves, known as 'T-rays,'
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Energy-harvesting design aims to turn Wi-Fi signals into usable power(news.mit.edu)
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by gigama 7y ago
"According to the Imec team, the most significant achievement is that the module does not require a crystal-based oscillator. Such oscillators are commonly used to precisely stabilize the frequency of radio signals and network protocol
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Millimetre-scale transceiver boosts ingestible sensors(physicsworld.com)
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by gigama 7y ago
> For a discussion forum like HN I'd say that emojis are generally harmful to making sure that the conversations last longer than the moment they were written in case it becomes useful tomorrow. I just had a horrible nightmare visio
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by gigama 7y ago
I just try to post things I find interesting and that maybe others would too. And not worry about votes... mainly because as "dang" indicates (in comments above) most hn readers aren't logged in and therefore aren't v
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How to not practice emotional distancing during social distancing(health.harvard.edu)
1 points by gigama 7y ago|0 comments
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by gigama 7y ago
"The result is, in effect, a map of the magnetization dynamics for seven different time steps evenly spaced over 2 ns, with a temporal resolution of 70 picoseconds and a spatial resolution of 50 nanometres."
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3D Nano-Vortices Come into View(physicsworld.com)
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Climate change is a 'Pascal’s wager': so how will you act?(physicsworld.com)
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by gigama 7y ago
Bruce Schneier posted a summary today that referenced a great write-up by Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins. [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/03/the_earn-it_a... [2] https://blog.c
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by gigama 7y ago
"Yeah, we’re very conscious of the consequences of censorship during the short term, within our lifetimes. But censorship sort of poisons the historical record for centuries after it by making this tool by which people can invalidate t
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Speaking Freely: Ada Palmer(eff.org)
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Podcast: Long-Term Stock Exchange – Eric Ries(blog.longnow.org)
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by gigama 7y ago
Hi [customer rep's name] Thanks for taking time to cut and paste your response into your company's email support system. Unfortunately, I will not give you any future business because instead of quickly resolving the issue you ar
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by gigama 7y ago
"Infinite In All Directions" is right here in my current reading stack next to Loren Eiseley's "All The Strange Hours"... they live on through their written words and all the lives they touched.
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How to Navigate Contentious Conversations(skeptic.com)
1 points by gigama 7y ago|0 comments
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TL;DR: "The use of mathematics creates a rift between those unable to understand this special language and those who do, making it easy for the former to distrust the latter. Galileo’s Gap, as I call it, has widened in size and consequ
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Why do people still believe in conspiracy theories?(physicsworld.com)
3 points by gigama 7y ago|1 comments
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"Like the robots, we're also trying to figure out our preferences, both what they are and what we want them to be, and how to handle the ambiguities and contradictions. Like the best possible AI, we're also striving — at leas
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Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem(quantamagazine.org)
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How to solve climate change and make life more(vox.com)
1 points by gigama 7y ago|0 comments
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"We're clever enough as individuals, but not enough as a collective, especially a collective of seven billion people. We can't get everybody to act in the interests of everybody, and we can't get our present selves to ac
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Malthus Says I Told You So(secularhumanism.org)
2 points by gigama 7y ago|1 comments
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by gigama 7y ago
"Instead of looking within to understand, assess and craft my thoughts and feelings in an ongoing effort to cultivate myself, I am forced to organise myself and my life around the aim of pleasing the state and its AI overseer. Under su

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