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by inasio 5y ago
Relatively recently there has been a ton of funding pouring into PsiQuantum ($650M, a bunch of it from Microsoft, perhaps reallocating their Majorana investment), which is building a photonic QC. There may be something there, or it could be
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by inasio 5y ago
There must have been consequences from the Microsoft side of things. This issue essentially killed the main candidate in their quantum computing program.
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by inasio 5y ago
I remember many years ago spending a good amount of time making playlists and starring my favourite songs on the KDE media player. Then KDE4 happened and everything was lost. Same thing happened at least a couple of times, and it's a r
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by inasio 5y ago
It's a nice little mountain, but depending on the year it might not have enough snow to open. People at Los Alamos sometimes do laps over the lunch break...
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by inasio 5y ago
The buried lede for me was that the slopes in the Pajarito ski mountain were created by one of the scientists just grabbing a bunch of explosives and blowing up trees: - Oppenheimer invited George Kistiakowsky from Harvard who was a world-c
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by inasio 5y ago
There's a fair bit that is well understood, specifically the chemical processes that drive the signals (and that are present in many other types of cells), and there are mathematical models that have been tested in-vivo and reasonably
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by inasio 5y ago
I'm not sure exactly of what they mean by neuromorphic (paywall...), possibly something related to the Hodgkin and Huxley dynamical model. NTT recently released a paper on something similar (at least in name), here's a bit more de
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by inasio 5y ago
One thing that has never made much sense to me is that you can most of the time (at least pre-pandemic) rent a car for cheaper than you can rent a bike (as a tourist in a city), with cars costing an order of magnitude more. I'm not sur
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by inasio 5y ago
The M1 (ok, in the 7 and 8 GPU core configurations) is in the Macbook air, Macbook pro, Ipad, Imac, and Mac mini...
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by inasio 5y ago
Reminds me Planetes [0], one of my favourite animes. Hard sci-fi (near future) about a crew working on a satellite debris cleaning business. Great show! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes edit: quxbar beat me t
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by inasio 5y ago
I'm pretty sure both Apple and Google are very happy with the current state of affairs, this system works great to keep people locked into IOS or Android, as exporting your data is super hard (there were a number of expensive sketchy-l
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by inasio 5y ago
My favourite part is that the NSA acknowledged to Wyden that they had written a lessons learned memo, and when asked to produce it they could never find it... "In a July 2020 response to Wyden and other members of Congress, Juniper pro
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by inasio 5y ago
My favourite advance from the last ten years has been around precision cooking. Sous vide is perhaps the most well known, but you can now get sensors to automatically control a bbq, steam and temperature controlled ovens are becoming more c
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by inasio 5y ago
I ran into this problem working on differential equations that model pattern formation (reaction-diffusion equations, originally postulated by Turing in the 1950s). The equations are highly nonlinear, but some solutions can be found when so
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by inasio 5y ago
They're all over the BBC article this post is about. In fact it reads like an informercial
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by inasio 5y ago
Many kids grow up reading pirate books and you quickly learn that Toledo or Damascus steel is what you want. I'm pretty sure that once travel normalizes and tourists come back people will start making swords again in Toledo, if only to
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by inasio 5y ago
A bunch of people here are talking about having 2010-2015 Macs running, in contrast you don't see too many PC laptops of that vintage.
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by inasio 5y ago
Their stock had been pretty steady around 145ish for the past month and it seems like it rose 10% today on these news.
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by inasio 5y ago
I've been using an Ooni pizza oven (gas) weekly for almost a year, it's amazing! You do need to rotate the pizza a couple of times, but the oven reaches 800F in no time, and it's very portable too. Previously I tried a metal
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by inasio 5y ago
Sous vide for all the hype has had similar benefits for me. Some recipes can take a long time, but same as on an electric pressure cooker things are completely automated and hands off. There's no need to monitor or stir, and the result
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by inasio 5y ago
To me the "coolest" feature is that it saves dormant copies in cells, so that even if there is no detectable virus in the blood, a few months after stopping taking anti-HIV drugs the virus will reappear. If you sample the virus ri
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by inasio 5y ago
The bigger issue was anal cancer among men that have sex with men, if I remember correctly the risk was around 100x than in the general population, and also completely preventable by the HPV vaccine.
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by inasio 5y ago
$100m and an order to stop selling crypto derivatives...
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by inasio 5y ago
There are also (lower) weight limits on bikes, bikes could be significantly lighter (also recumbent)
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by inasio 5y ago
They state in the article that the main problem is not in positioning the bricks/blocks, but on handling the cement mixture (non-Newtonian fluid...)
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by inasio 5y ago
I love how the error bars on the plots go only on one direction, and conveniently the opposing ones between the two curves, definitely not scammy...
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by inasio 5y ago
What does the number even mean, is it a lot, what is the denominator? Doing a rough back of the envelope calculation, looking at tidal areas, barnacles and other creatures there go from one milliliter to one centimeter square, meaning that
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by inasio 5y ago
This is definitely not a foregone conclusion, with AlphaFold 1 they did release a lot of information about it [0]. The article only says that google/deepmind is waiting until they publish the paper, and in fact Demis Hassabis recently
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by inasio 5y ago
Tortillas are like bread in the sense that eating them fresh out of the oven/comal is amazing regardless of whether you're using freshly nixtamilized masa or maseca (or a fancy sourdough vs regular flour/yeast). This is espec
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by inasio 5y ago
Agree, this was known in that you could read about it if you cared to, but was not taught in schools or acknowledged officially. A different approach would be to go the Germany route and confront the past head on and not shy away from it.

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