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Viruses May Be Responsible for Life as We Know It(gizmodo.com)
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by grondilu 10y ago
I've told that to my mum. She basically freaked out when I mentioned that the new star will be red. She has very little if any scientific background and she struggled to find words to describe what she felt but I could feel she saw
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by grondilu 10y ago
That's insane.
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by grondilu 10y ago
IMHO if you're not learning computer science from the bottom up, then you're not really learning computer science.
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by grondilu 10y ago
> But even as a concept, this particular one doesn’t resonate with our current anxieties, because overpopulation is more worrying than population decline. Yet there are demographers who very much worry about it[1]. They sometimes call
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by grondilu 10y ago
Perl 6 users should also check out my library inspired from versor. https://github.com/grondilu/clifford It's not as well optimized but it's much easier to use.
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by grondilu 10y ago
What proves that the published code is the one that is actually running?
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by grondilu 10y ago
There is not only one alternative.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Couldn't this be said about medicine in general?
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by grondilu 10y ago
All the listed PC games environments are tagged as "coming-soon" https://universe.openai.com/envs#pc_games
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by grondilu 10y ago
The largest diamond in the world still is natural, isn't it? Will it ever be synthetic and if so when?
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by grondilu 10y ago
This is frankly worrying, as I suspect authorties are underestimating the complexity of an issue, or just chose to ignore it, mostly for populist motives. It seems to me that food nowadays is ridiculously cheap, and I'm pretty sure eve
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by grondilu 10y ago
Neat. There actually is a wikipedia entry about sensor fusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion TIL, thanks.
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by grondilu 10y ago
It's indeed a difficult problem and I'm not really surprised it's not solved by ESA even if they are probably extremely competent. I doubt anyone care about my opinion, but since you ask, I do notice that simulation seems to
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by grondilu 10y ago
From the article: > This in turn successively triggered a premature release of the parachute and the backshell, a brief firing of the braking thrusters and finally activation of the on-ground systems as if Schiaparelli had already landed
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by grondilu 10y ago
> the erroneous information generated an estimated altitude that was negative – that is, below ground level. Kind of sad to see that computers nowadays still lack what we call common sense. I mean the machine received negative altimete
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by grondilu 10y ago
I have a pet theory that the level of concern towards social issues for an individual, as a function of wealth and well being, is convex[1]. That is, it is highest at the extremes : for the poorest and the wealthiest. The former are conce
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Then, later, I define an incredibly complex abstract computer, such that the sand falling out of the bucket and shifting along the ground exactly represents a self-aware AI within my defined computer going through its states. Is it pos
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by grondilu 10y ago
This seems to be introducing synchronisation issues or something. I've just made an edit on an article, when I go back to it I see the edited version only if I manually refresh the page.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Fun fact about the first game : after 1.d4 Nf6, the World Champion played 2.Bg5, which is fairly rare at top level in classical time control, and pretty much unprecedented in world championships. Why is it fun? Because this opening is kno
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by grondilu 10y ago
I kind of agree. I'm no expert whatsoever but I am under the impression that the energy issues we face are more a problem of storage than production. If we could store energy cheaply and efficiently, we would not need fusion plants.
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by grondilu 10y ago
I've not often eaten algae, but I do remember it to have the weirdest taste I have ever experienced.
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by grondilu 10y ago
What is the acceptable rate of mistakes for the judiciary system? Death is an irreversible punishment, so I can understand that it seems incompatible with a wrong judge decision, but the alternative, that is for instance perpetual incarcer
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by grondilu 10y ago
How reasonable is it to hope that WebAssembly becomes a compilation target for GCC?
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by grondilu 10y ago
Playing Basketball for several years despite having no talent whatsoever. With hindsight it was a complete waste of time. That's probably not the most important regret in my life but it's a clear one, and one that I can confess
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Although privacy was a motivating factor for Bitcoin’s flock of early adopters Not quite. I mean surely there were people interested in that, but frankly this is exaggerated. We knew very early that anonymity was far from obvious, ev
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Earth turns into Venus Unfortunately I don't remember where I did read it, but I do recall reading a paper rejecting the idea that Earth could follow a runaway green-house effect as on Venus. I don't know if people seriously
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by grondilu 10y ago
"[...] all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. [...] There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global. I am not saying that the warming does not cause problems. Obviously it
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by grondilu 10y ago
It might be just true. Destroying value is not such a big deal since after all value can always be created. But when bonds default people start losing trust in fiduciary instruments. And trust is much more difficult to build than pure val
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Another is that picking stocks is a time-consuming process Just buy them all. Or pick them randomly. Let me remind you that this thread started with an article about the guy who wrote about the blindfolded monkeys.

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