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It seems that it is more specifically violet light [1] that reduces the development of myopia among children. One of the rational is that light triggers the production of dopamine in the eye, and dopamine prevents the eye from growing exces
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You might be interested in this book [0]. One idea from the author is that in astronomy, you model the behavior of a set of objects, where each individual object or "atom" of your simulation (planets, rocks) has a behavior simple
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by guyomes 5y ago
Versu story [0] was an engine for creating interactive stories that was specifically designed for including easily lively NPCs. I never tried it though, and unfortunately, the project was abandoned [1] although it sounded very promising. [0
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An interesting related concept is Mogees [0] that converts any surface to a musical instrument using a contact microphone. The initial underlying theory is described in the thesis of Bruno Zamberlin [1], where he describes in chapter 4 a wo
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GladTex [0] converts latex math in html files to SVG images with links. If you prefer to write your source webpage in markdown, you can also use it with pandoc [1] like this (from the manual): ~~~ pandoc -s --gladtex input.md -o myfile.htex
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This reminds me of a visualisation tool [0] for the distance between the meaning of words in french, based on databases of texts. I wonder if that would help to grasp the nuances in older times. [0]: https://www.cnrtl.fr/pro
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Another recommended Korean movie with a story like that is "3-iron". It has a more poetic approach.
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> QKD does not prevent it, but has a provable method to know that someone is listening Unless some breakthrough in physics of particles, where all is not fully understood yet. A bit like standard cryptographic protocol are safe unless so
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> Could we even recognize them as alive, much less intelligent? If we focus on recognizable features, we may look for organisms with self-replication skills (a feature of living organisms) and prediction skills (a feature of intelligent
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> From the first Visicalc to Excel 2300 I don't think we'll see the end of spreadsheets for a long time coming. We might even argue that spreadsheets were already used in 1295 BCE, as shown in Fig. 1.1 of [0]. [0]: http:/
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I find that this article [0] from Conway and Kochen is helpful. The authors do not really explain the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. Instead they reduce them to minimal fundamental axioms that have been tested and observed experimentally,
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I agree that the new drug candidates had promising results. Yet as a new technology, there was still a risk. For example, the first Pfizer drug candidate BNT162b1 gave fever to 75% of the participants in some cases [0]. Some countries deci
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The Ship of Theseus is a quite old thought exercise. At that time, science and philosophy were not as separated as today. Actually, after reading the nice comic book Logicomix [0], I learned that the philosophical thought exercise of Wittge
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Another short introduction to floating point number with pictures giving a better intuition of their distribution among real numbers: https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2014/07/07/floating-point-...
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Here are some properties that make the cosine base popular. It has the property that among a large set of bases, it roughly provides the best approximation of a given function [0]. Moreover, this approximation can be efficiently obtained b
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> we should be pushing for electronic voting systems (not shitty ones, but truly great ones) Experts in electronic voting systems are discouraging the use of this technology for high stake elections, even with state-of-the-art schemes:
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Double-double and quad-double arithmetic have even been implemented for the GPU as research prototype libraries (gpuprec [0,1] and campary [2,3] among other). [0] https://github.com/lumianph/gpuprec [1] https:/&#
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> Does anyone know of customer service panels at big companies or government departments where this is the case? E-government services in Estonia have nice features, aimed at giving more control to the owner of the data [1]. Among other: