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by gmt2027 9y ago
Except, Hewish did not initially accept Bell's results. He called it interference, claimed it was man made and not worth further attention. There were meetings to which she was not invited and it was a struggle to get him to accept the
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by gmt2027 9y ago
Sunscreen protects against the ultraviolet radiation in sunlight which is just outside the range of visible light and distinct from Gamma radiation. Gamma rays are penetrating radiation that would only lose a fraction of the intensity after
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by gmt2027 9y ago
If this much of the brain is not completely necessary for its function then there are all kinds of questions raised. What is the minimum viable human brain? If our brains are indeed highly-redundant scale-free networks, would it be possible
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by gmt2027 9y ago
In pursuing radical new ideas, costly failures are inevitable. This is hardly reason to quit and never try again.
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by gmt2027 10y ago
Rose tinted glasses to shelter them from the legacy of a devastated planet. How about the Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire for a real dystopian vision of this future.
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by gmt2027 10y ago
Another argument against open plan offices.
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by gmt2027 10y ago
Great book but IIRC that should be "Systemantics."
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by gmt2027 11y ago
Tier 2 migrants are far more common in the UK and subject to similar restrictions as H1B.
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by gmt2027 11y ago
Wikipedia confirms that "embiggens" is a made up word from the Simpsons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast#Embiggen_a...
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by gmt2027 11y ago
This suggests a colorisation "Turing test" where website visitors have to tell which image they think is real.
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by gmt2027 11y ago
And then pretended not to be a self driving car when the cops arrived.
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Nvidia Announces Tesla Server Cards for Deep Learning(anandtech.com)
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Nexus 6: Google dramatically cuts price of flagship phone(independent.co.uk)
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by gmt2027 12y ago
I studied the Cisco networking materials 5-10 years ago but never actually got round to taking the tests. Dynamips was a router hardware emulator for the 1700, 2600, 3600, 3700, and 7200 hardware platforms that booted up actual Cisco IOS im
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by gmt2027 13y ago
The "Hello World" example is over 80Mb after compilation.
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by gmt2027 13y ago
Are you saying that antibiotics were a failure? While anti-retroviral therapy for HIV/AID does not cure the disease, it has transformed a diagnosis that would otherwise have been a death sentence into a manageable illness. If a "f
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by gmt2027 13y ago
That article on entropy minimization also claimed that a single equation could be the basis of a wide range of intelligent behaviours. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579047
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by gmt2027 13y ago
This is the kind of revelation that brings me back to hacker news!
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by gmt2027 13y ago
I'm a Nigerian studying for a PhD in the UK. Confidence scams have always been a problem even for other Nigerians. We tend to be very suspicious of people on average. A couple of years back my father, who teaches at a Nigerian universi
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by gmt2027 14y ago
According to wikipedia[1], the sequence goes 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, 13112221, 1113213211, ... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence
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by gmt2027 14y ago
It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be any export option.
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by gmt2027 14y ago
The Genetic Programming community offers annual awards for 'human competitive' solutions in different domains that match or exceed the designs of human experts. A number of these automatically generated solutions rival recently patented tec
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by gmt2027 14y ago
This article does not mention that the real J.J. in the TJX case could have been '7 foot tall' Stephen Watt, a former Morgan Stanley employee with the aliases 'Jim Jones' and 'Unix Terrorist' http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/watt/
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by gmt2027 14y ago
Frequency analysis of human language shows that word usage follows a Power law distribution (Zipf's Law) which, for example, means that: * the 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences * the 200 most common words make up 50% of
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by gmt2027 14y ago
Sensationalist media shares culpability by giving this kind of behaviour a strong presence in the public collective consciousness. Being talked about is a powerful reinforcement signal, we are programmed to seek positive reinforcement from
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by gmt2027 14y ago
GObject itself is not a dependency, Inheriting from GLib.GObject provides support for features like introspection and better integration with the collections framework and GLib libraries. However, lightweight 'non-object classes' are suppor
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by gmt2027 14y ago
Vala does not seem to get much attention. It borrows C# syntax (and maybe Java), compiles down to C and offers nearly symmetrical interoperability as a result. I believe Ubuntu's Unity is written in Vala. Knowing Java, it was easy to acquir
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by gmt2027 14y ago
Here you go http://blog.lenovo.com/perspectives/display-ratio-change-aga...
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by gmt2027 14y ago
I use CUDA extensively for porting legacy linear algebra routines in a scientific application for modelling neutron scattering spectra from nanostructures. Depending on the model size, the target platforms are typically medium-sized GPU clu
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by gmt2027 15y ago
I am also working on parallel processing for my Phd and implementing a Redis-based distributed shared memory queueing system that looks a lot like a tuple space. The Redis primitives fit this messaging model perfectly, allowing very loose c

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