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by grondilu 9y ago
This is ten years old. I was thinking of a much more recent article.
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by grondilu 9y ago
They'd just have to use at least six times more lights. Or leave them on more often. That does not seem impossible to me. That being said, I may just be misremembering it. Maybe it was just about light pollution, but I do think it w
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by grondilu 9y ago
I suppose a nice example would be city lights. There was an article lately about how electrical consumption for city lights increased despite the switch to LEDs. Can't quite find the article though, but here is one about light polluti
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by grondilu 9y ago
Currency exchanges existed long before cryptocurrencies. As far as I know they are heavily regulated, more or less reliable and trustworthy. Hasn't the Forex added cryptocurrencies to its listing by now? Is the cryptomarket still th
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by grondilu 9y ago
> live life now in a way that will be significant in 10,000 years That does not make much sense to me. You can't both admit we have no idea what the world will be like in ten thousands years, and at the same time claim you can do s
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by grondilu 9y ago
Expressing impatience regarding a project that is supposed to inspire long-term thinking is pretty much ironic in my book.
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> I hadn’t heard update for so long I had stopped checking their website. I hope I'm not the only one who appreciates the irony of this sentence.
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> inspiring a more long-term view of the world and our place in it I fail to see how that is pertinent. We know the world will still exist in 10,000 years, but we have no idea what it will look like. The mere existence of a clock that
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by grondilu 9y ago
> humanity’s only permanent outpost in space is an institution that needs to be protected. Sounds almost like the definition of the White Elephant[1]. Costly, but prestigious. Keeping it is unreasonable, getting rid of it is embarrassi
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by grondilu 9y ago
> But suddenly my body refused to heal from a simple infection, leading to inflammation that left me bedridden and unable to perform most of my duties for five long weeks. I whish she had tell us more about this, more precisely about wha
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by grondilu 9y ago
> If all of a hydra's cells are replaced every four weeks, I would say that the hydra has a life span of about four weeks. Ship of Theseus and all that. Most of our cells in our bodies are renewed in a few months or something. Yet
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by grondilu 9y ago
I think the issue with very high speed centrifuges is much more about the high centrifugal force than it is about friction.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Only tangentially related, but has anyone ever tried to apply style-transfer on human faces for artificial aging or rejuvenation? Like for the movie industry or something?
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by grondilu 9y ago
It was pretty clear from the beginning that this was all hype and talk with very little substance, but I thought it would slide more towards the cult direction (scientology-style, that is). What I read in this article suggests it's no
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by grondilu 9y ago
From the documentation on arxiv: > Variables not defined anywhere, implicitly become index variables. That seems like a bold choice. Wasn't there a trend in programming languages, even very high level ones, to encourage variable de
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by grondilu 9y ago
Even if there are, you should not publicly talk about them. Otherwise, what's to stop me from thinking you're a meth dealer who's advertising its product?
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by grondilu 9y ago
> people don't know how to use it right IMHO you should not even suggest there is a "right" way to use meth. If you do you're basically advocating for drug use. There is no right way to do drugs. Don't do drugs
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by grondilu 9y ago
> What's more interesting to me is using BitTorrent not for pirated movies but as a content distribution system enabling more free services like Wikipedia. That should be much higher in Wikimedia's TODO list, IMHO. There is a
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Their facial muscles work fine, but the neural networks that let them recognize the feeling of happiness take a while to develop I like it when an article has a TL,DR; as a subtitle.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I vaguely recall that experts consider artificial neural networks to be a very gross approximation of biological ones. They often state that one reason we don't have AI today is that we don't really know how the brain and the neu
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by grondilu 9y ago
On reddit there is some kind of consensus that the series is great up until around episode 7, when it gets from bad to worse. I personally did read about half the book until I lost interest. So I guess the series and the book have that i
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by grondilu 9y ago
I must have misread you, because I thought you were writing "All it takes is one of those groups to keep having children". Well yeah, obviously as long as the population keeps growing [1] (and for that it is sufficient that a subg
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by grondilu 9y ago
> But logically, in order to hit peak child, every subgroup will also have to hit peak child. All it takes is one of those groups to keep expanding, and the world will not hit peak child No, it just has to make less children than it did
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by grondilu 9y ago
This method of allowing the delivery man to open the door to deposit the package inside is puzzling me. Why not having larger mailboxes? Possibly removable ones? Like a box that you would hang on your door whenever you expect a delivery?
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by grondilu 9y ago
That's interesting. This scaling law is a weird thing (I vaguely recall a myth about Galileo considering it as the most mystifying law of nature or something like that). However, when you scale an engine down, the surface areas decrea
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by grondilu 9y ago
Would it then make sense to plan for even more smaller engines? Like while BFR is meant to have 31 Raptor engines, could it have 60 Merlin engines instead or something?
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by grondilu 9y ago
Since this thread is about an article mentioning Black Mirror, I am reminded of the episode "crocodile". It depicts a tech that allows insurance companies and law enforcement to tap into people's memory and extract images of
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by grondilu 9y ago
Notice that the smart glasses tech is improving fast. Intel recently showcased a very convincing (according to a reporter) prototype called "Vaunt". One advantage is that it looks basically like a normal pair of glasses. https:
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by grondilu 9y ago
The main argument for Falcon Heavy over Ariane 5 is cost, not reliability. Ariane 5 remains the most reliable heavy launcher, so that's the launcher you want for JWST.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Couldn't this be used to automatize fire weapon aiming? Or worse : a laser beam aiming automatically to the eyes. It'd be quite bad since it'd be cheap and unlike fire weapons, lasers are easy to build or acquire. How long u

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