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by grondilu 9y ago
> But Christopher Columbus miscalculated the size of the Earth, and everyone else correctly calculated it. There's a difference between being wrong and being irrational.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Earth has managed to kill a whole bunch of it's inhabitants in the past. Yet all our ancestors have survived. I don't see why we, who are considerably more intelligent, who can predict celestial events, who can store food a
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Launching a ship toward America was irrational. The scientists of the time could tell you with absolute certainty you'd die if your goal was to get to Asia by sailing west. At least they had a goal, even the trip was risky. I was
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Some of us hear "It's Mars," and that's all the justification needed. Nothing else matters. Not the cost, not the danger, not the practicalities. You sound like you know this is irrational, but you don't care.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Agreed. I would add that "living on mars" would be kind of a matter of speech. I mean, it would be more accurate to say you would live in a box that happens to be located on the surface of mars. Mars is such an hostile environme
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by grondilu 9y ago
I think pressure is much more of a problem than temperature. Thermal insolation does not fail catastrophically. Pressure regulation kind of does.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I think both directions are basically going to the same destination. I believe we should worry more about the "artificial human" than about "artificial intelligence". To get to the artificial human there are several pa
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by grondilu 9y ago
"[...] machines have algorithms, and they're getting better and better, but machines have no curiosity, no passion, and most importantly, machines don't have purpose." IMHO the greatest uncertainty regarding AI, and in t
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by grondilu 9y ago
Seems true. A "stone paper" search on Amazon shows there are items already available: https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Paper-Notebook-13x21cm-Cobalt/d...
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by grondilu 9y ago
> I'm starting my own business and the cost of health insurance is absolutely insane. Why do you think that is? Why is medicine so expensive? Don't we live in a highly-technological society? Shouldn't the price of medic
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by grondilu 9y ago
Not sure it's so simple. Is LaTeX plain text? Officially it is, but by the same standard so is PostScript or PDF. Truly the limits are blurry. Even assembly code has an ASCII representation.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I was suspecting so. I presume whoever did it followed the link, noticed the engine was using asm.js and not wasm, and thought I was mistaken. But truly what the engine uses depends on the browser and its configuration.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Weirdly enough, I was thinking webassembly but I wrote asm.js. I'm very surprised this happened, but apparently it did.
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Lichess Analysis Board with Stockfish 8 in Asm.js(lichess.org)
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by grondilu 9y ago
Yes, it's mentioned on page 2 of the article (you may have missed it was two-paged)
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by grondilu 9y ago
I've owned one share of Tesla for a few years. I'm not a US citizen. I've never received any notice about voting in shareholders assembly. It's not a huge concern for me (if it was I would complain to my broker) as it
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by grondilu 9y ago
> The fact that they expect the occupants to just leave when asked as if they have somewhere to go is bizarre. They have everywhere else to go.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Thanks for reminding us of openworm. The fact that scientists are still working on simulating an animal with barely a thousand cells surely relativizes claims about simulating a mammalian brain, let alone a human one. Frankly, it's ev
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by grondilu 9y ago
> or drug abuse. I'm no expert but isn't China known for having suffered from opium for a long time? If so it's quite relevant here since we're precisely talking about opioids.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'm surprised not to see more mentions of GTA on this thread. Take 2 owns Rockstar games and I've always hoped that one day GTA would expand to space.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Can mechanical computers be a serious alternative to electronic ones? I mean, how efficient can a mechanical computer be if we were to miniaturize them as much as we can? I suppose the essence of a mechanical computer is that it transmits
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by grondilu 9y ago
I once wondered the same thing, and I stopped very soon as I considered something as simple as a 60W light bulb. 60W is 60J per second. 60J is about the energy it takes to weigh 6kg up one meter. So basically to keep a 60W light bulb lit,
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by grondilu 9y ago
Well, if English-speaking countries can't keep up with Chinese-speaking ones as far as AI is concerned, hopefully they will at least make enough progress to do accurate Chinese-to-English machine translation.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I once suggested protein folding on bitcointalk.org. The thing is : it's easier said than done. Folding protein can not trivially be used to mark data as a cryptographic hash does, and you need this for the whole protocol to make sen
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by grondilu 9y ago
For the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Orders_of_magnitude
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by grondilu 9y ago
Notice that there is a RosettaCode entry about it: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_arithmetic
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by grondilu 9y ago
> That has nothing to do with the way banks are doing their maths or maintaining their infrastructure. Again, I'm also very grateful of bitcoin demonstrating we can exchange value without a 3rd party, but it looks like nowadays we c
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by grondilu 9y ago
To put things in perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(power)
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by grondilu 9y ago
The computer supremacy certainly took something out of chess, but it also added a lot : it makes checking tactics trivial even for amateurs, it enormously enriched opening theory, and it made learning much easier for players of all levels (
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by grondilu 9y ago
Kind of related, an adorable instructional video about density altitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihee35QrWtk

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