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A Cosmic Glitch in Gravity(iopscience.iop.org)
1 points by herodotus 2y ago|2 comments
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Book Review: The Hidden Extinction Crisis of Natural Historians(undark.org)
4 points by herodotus 2y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 2y ago
A book? A website? If a book, how does one buy it? If a website, what is the link? A search just turns up essentially the article above which seems to be a copy and paste of the news release.
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by herodotus 2y ago
My landline provider offers a "call-control" feature. When someone calls, if the caller number has not been accepted before, a voice asks the caller to enter a randomly selected digit. Only after this has been correctly done is th
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by herodotus 2y ago
Of course I know that security by obscurity is a bad idea. Hence I applaud the lock picking lawyer for his wonderful YouTube channel. But this latest video really makes me wonder: is this is a step too far?
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Lockpicking lawyer: cast a key kit [video](youtube.com)
3 points by herodotus 2y ago|2 comments
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by herodotus 2y ago
Fun to look at the topic list. Not a hint of Neural Nets!
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Old Masters, New Technology(billwadge.com)
3 points by herodotus 2y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 3y ago
If they were familiar with Ptoloemy's almagest, they would be able to predict eclipses using geometric methods. Not perfect but surprisingly accurate according to Jayant Shah in the paper "Accuracy of Ptolemy’s Almagest in predict
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Masahiro Hara – Inventor of QR Codes(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by herodotus 3y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 3y ago
Amusing, but nostalgic for me: my first job after graduating was working as a COBOL programmer for Control Data. This was while I was waiting to be accepted into graduate school at the University of Waterloo. I enjoyed working there. But wa
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by herodotus 3y ago
Getting a new manager who lies to their reports and their manager.
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And Beyond, (but not too far beyond)(billwadge.com)
3 points by herodotus 3y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 3y ago
Certainly, here's a comment: It seems like you inadvertently left in a placeholder or instruction for ChatGPT within your article's introduction. While it's an understandable oversight, it's essential to thoroughly revie
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by herodotus 3y ago
The article itself never uses the term "AI" or "Artificial Intelligence". They do mention the use of a Neural Network as one part of their attempt to help find commonalities in their data set. It is too bad that the Oxfo
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The complete story of Gödel incompleteness(billwadge.com)
81 points by herodotus 3y ago|34 comments
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by herodotus 3y ago
I have to applaud the library for releasing this report. In Canada, the most likely response to cyberattacks is mealy mouthed platitudes like "Please be assured that we take your privacy very seriously and are doing everything possible
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To Infinity Streams in PyFL(billwadge.com)
1 points by herodotus 3y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 3y ago
Many years ago (2011?) when I was working on PDF at Apple, and when Jailbreaking iPhones was a thing, someone posted a PDF on a Website. Just by reading the PDF on your device, it was Jailbroken. Apparently the attack was done this way: som
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by herodotus 3y ago
The article I cited above is well argued, includes citations and evidence, and is written by one of the top scholars in the field ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Gingerich ).
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by herodotus 3y ago
When solid science is ignored by people in influential roles, it is of interest to this forum.
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by herodotus 3y ago
This article is wrong on many levels. A very good article to read about this is '"Crisis" versus Aesthetic in the Copernican Revolution' by Owen Gingerich https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle&#x
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What's an obelisk, anyway?(science.org)
190 points by herodotus 3y ago|45 comments
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World Radio History Archive(worldradiohistory.com)
38 points by herodotus 3y ago|4 comments
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The Rise and Fall of GOFAI(billwadge.com)
50 points by herodotus 3y ago|45 comments
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Pattern Matching in Pyfl(billwadge.com)
2 points by herodotus 3y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 3y ago
Fun to see. When I worked on the implementation of Rod Burstall’s HOPE language ( https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800087.802799 ) in 1979 I “invented” pattern compilation and implemented it (in POP-2) for th
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World Radio History Archive(worldradiohistory.com)
1 points by herodotus 3y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 3y ago
> That says your actual product is worth fuck all. Look I use ad blockers and a pi-hole. And I don't bother reading paywalled sites that I don't pay for. But your comment is a little harsh. It is a sad reality of the internet t
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by herodotus 3y ago
Replying for a friend: "No"

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