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U.S. Startup Plans to Beam Sunlight Using Space Mirrors(orbitaltoday.com)
3 points by herodotus 1y ago|2 comments
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UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus(bbc.com)
3 points by herodotus 1y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 1y ago
Better source: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260 The actual journal article
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by herodotus 1y ago
Below are their least profitable routes, according to AI. Be interesting to see if that is what they shutdown first. Alternatively, it may be a matter of placing the planes in the least expensive hangers while they wit out the strike. Key l
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Air Canada starts shutting down(aircanada.com)
3 points by herodotus 1y ago|1 comments
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by herodotus 1y ago
It might be informative to compare this with what happened when retailers introduced automated checkout machines. It seems that the net effect on staff sizes was not that dramatic. These stores need more anti-theft security people and some
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Grete Hermann(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by herodotus 1y ago|1 comments
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by herodotus 1y ago
Grete Hermann's 1926 this is the foundational paper for modern computer algebra.
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by herodotus 1y ago
I wish articles like this would cite their sources. Here are two possible sources: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.241596 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38940402/
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by herodotus 1y ago
Bill showed up at one of the WWDCs (2011?). I sat next to him during a lunch, not knowing who he was! He told me his name, and then showed me some photos he had taken. He seemed to me to be a gentle and kind soul. So sad to read this news.
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by herodotus 1y ago
Actually, you were not alone: https://www.patentlyapple.com/2010/12/apple-wins-patent-for-... Steve Jobs was one of the inventors listed on this patent. As it happens, I and another Apple colleague filed an almost
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by herodotus 1y ago
This is mostly what I worked on for many years at Apple with reasonable success. The main secret was to accept that everything was geometry, and use cluster analysis to try to distinguish between word gaps and letter gaps. On many PDF docum
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Functional OO in PyFL(billwadge.com)
3 points by herodotus 1y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 1y ago
Interesting that it includes patents. (Found at least one of mine).
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by herodotus 1y ago
My Master's supervisor, at Wits university in Johannesburg, worked on the architecture of the 360 after graduating from the PhD program at Harvard. I remember him telling us how they went about deciding whether or not 32 bits would be
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by herodotus 2y ago
Snow Leopard was released while Steve Jobs was on medical leave. It was driven (as far as I can recall) by Bertrand Serlet. Rumour has it that Steve was furious about the "no new features" marketing when he returned from his medic
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by herodotus 2y ago
Hmmm... is there any way to impeach Elon Musk?
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A doctor on what it's like to end a life rather than extend one(theguardian.com)
9 points by herodotus 2y ago|1 comments
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by herodotus 2y ago
Incredible conflict of interest here.
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PyFL and Its While Clauses(billwadge.com)
1 points by herodotus 2y ago|0 comments
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The Yin and Yang of Programming(billwadge.com)
29 points by herodotus 2y ago|15 comments
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by herodotus 2y ago
Genuine question because I know almost nothing about crypto: who actually lost money in this attack? Lots of individuals?
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by herodotus 2y ago
Gee, I wonder if this will maybe benefit Space X in some way?
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by herodotus 2y ago
In British Columbia there used to be the mining exploration companies that would list on the Vancouver Stock Exchange (which no longer exists). As far as I could tell, they would send one or two people into the boonies in BC somewhere. They
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by herodotus 2y ago
Many years ago, the university I worked at offered a very generous early retirement benefit. The objective was to "get rid of the dead-wood" to make way for "new blood". The trouble was the 55 year olds most likely to ac
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by herodotus 2y ago
Better. Thanks.
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by herodotus 2y ago
Nice idea, but watching the spinning coins made me a bit nauseous. I had to go away from the page.
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by herodotus 2y ago
Another win for China. While the US guts its research capacity, China already dominates scientific research (according to Perplexity, 29% of the most highly cited peer reviewed articles are authored by Chinese scientists). Of course all tho
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by herodotus 2y ago
Pseudoscience: see https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-telepathy-tapes-...
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Trudeau says Canada will retaliate for Trump Tariffs(theglobeandmail.com)
9 points by herodotus 2y ago|1 comments

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