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by gilleain 4y ago
Well is certainly NOT me, that's for sure. On an unrelated topic, I'm starting a service to write comments in the style of others to provide plausible deniability for other alt accounts. Rates negotiable.
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by gilleain 4y ago
my second highest hit (ie, third in the list) is gwern at 0.45 who i'm fairly sure is not me.
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by gilleain 4y ago
I like this guy: > Q: I Added you as a friend but you didn't accept. WHY DO YOU HATE ME? > A: I dont accept any friend invites. But maybe I still hate you, who knows?
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by gilleain 4y ago
Having read it I'll summarise : * There are multiple news threads at the moment * As a result it's hard to pick just one to blog about * Therefore, this post if an attempt to tackle all of them That might explain why it's har
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by gilleain 4y ago
It's less than 1000 words ... How can I say this? Would it not make sense to just /read/ things this short?
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by gilleain 4y ago
Ha, I'm genuinely unsure which one you think is better/worse than the other. It's like working out which return value from a comparison operator is the right one - +1 or -1?
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by gilleain 4y ago
That's convenient. So when EA has a positive impact, it's EA. When it has a negative impact it's definitely NOT EA. Do I have that right?
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by gilleain 4y ago
Ho ho. As far as I know, you can make a wash with a broad brush. Watercolour is a nice way to paint blurry things like oceans and clouds, which involves broad strokes.
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by gilleain 4y ago
That was in 2011/2012, according to wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_milestones
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by gilleain 4y ago
I did not mention art :) Ok, sure so 'quality' here is literally just the technical implementation of this pointer to a thing. Good to know, thanks.
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by gilleain 4y ago
perhaps, but isn't the desirability of something due to its (high) quality? how can its quality be measured from its desirability? seems the wrong way around
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by gilleain 4y ago
What makes a 'high quality' NFT, in your opinion or experience?
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by gilleain 4y ago
> protein folding overall - is knot theory not used there? To my knowledge, no. There has been some analysis done on knots in folded proteins: https://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/knots/index.htm (particul
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by gilleain 4y ago
Off topic, but Cheméo is very nice: search by InChIKey, similarity search, the page of results as images. Great work!
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by gilleain 4y ago
Yes, while the ångström is often used for bond lengths, I've only heard of picometers used for smaller lengths.
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by gilleain 4y ago
There's a book called 'Quantum Evolution' by Johnjoe McFadden that tries to answer the question of what processes in biology exploit quantum effects. An obvious one is photon capture in photosynthesis that seems to rely on q
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by gilleain 4y ago
At least one person simply asks on Math Stack Exchange ... https://math.stackexchange.com/users/11955/ed-pegg but yes, I suspect that when you get very familiar with the mechanics of the game, solutions become obv
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by gilleain 4y ago
Interesting to me is how complex some of the 'traditional' or, perhaps, formal construction methods can be. I've been trying to draw Islamic designs, and the strict methods are very involved. For example this shows a very sim
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by gilleain 4y ago
Very nice. A small suggestion would be to have a list of the steps shown on screen - like 1) draw circle centered on A, 2) extend line A-B (or whatever).
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by gilleain 4y ago
The fonts do not look so strange as the odd capitalisation like "The bodies BURIED at the site lukely DIED.." - really odd.
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by gilleain 4y ago
Also, when it comes to envelopes: "This means that C4 is slightly larger than A4, and slightly smaller than B4. The practical usage of this is that a letter written on A4 paper fits inside a C4 envelope, and both A4 paper and C4 envelo
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by gilleain 4y ago
Do not stare into laser with remaining eye
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by gilleain 4y ago
However, doesn't this "IsFamous" label break down when multiple famous people share a name. No obvious example spring to mind, but it surely must happen... Seems like it would be more useful to have some kind of more general
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by gilleain 4y ago
Oddly enough, it also appears to be Turkish for "Good".
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by gilleain 4y ago
For reference, NAD is an electron carrier in cells ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinamide_adenine_dinucleot... ). The (+) stands for a charge on the molecule. Roughly, it is involved in oxidative metabolism, among
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by gilleain 4y ago
I did genuinely think it might have been about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_descriptor (which, briefly, are like a 'kernel' in machine learning, or can be something like a Bloom Filter).
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by gilleain 4y ago
Who said it had to be scientifically proven? Behe's claim is that it is theoretically impossible, and clearly that is not the case. "Since biochemistry darwinists have to work and to prove now!" - This sentence doesn't e
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by gilleain 4y ago
As a former biochemist graduate ... I strongly disagree with Michael Behe's ideas on Irreducible Complexity. It is not 'pure logic' because your analogy is flawed - biological systems are not arches or mousetraps. Imagine a s
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by gilleain 4y ago
Brings back memories, but also reminds me of the more recent 'Ring' by Mint Royale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziRaY2FJR_0
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by gilleain 4y ago
Previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32290497

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