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by inasio 5y ago
What time period are you talking about? The mortality rate you mention happened in 1830, but was an order of magnitude lower in the 1960s [0]. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041751/canada-all-time-...
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by inasio 5y ago
Exactly! Stacked logic is the key to the fabled smart matter. Heat dissipation is going to be an issue, although I think IBM had some ideas on microfluidics. Also, there's been a ton of work on dilution fridges for quantum chips, and s
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by inasio 5y ago
Smart matter! So far we've only really been able to make smart paper (all chips are basically 2D). I remember reading in Stephenson's Diamond Age about a brick of compute, when I understood what it was it blew my mind...
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by inasio 5y ago
No. See for example the Grover search algorithm. You can use to find whether an item is inside a list in O(sqrt(n)).
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by inasio 5y ago
I believe it was a gasoline pipeline, so the price per barrel is a lot more than that.
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by inasio 5y ago
Highly recommend. One of my favourite books from last year, probably the most surprising one. It reads like one coherent book, not just a collection of short stories.
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by inasio 5y ago
A VR (virtual reality) version would be nice, and in that case VR-induced nausea would be a feature, not a bug.
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by inasio 5y ago
Surprising to me to read a story of someone growing in the midst of the second world war, lost his father to Auschwitz; further down the story he's super annoyed that some of his students had a website collecting his writings. To me it
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by inasio 6y ago
Gravity and electromagnetic forces are somewhat similar, they both have infinite range, decay as 1/r, one key difference is that the electromagnetic force is 10^36 stronger than gravity [0]. Just for that reason I'm always immedia
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by inasio 6y ago
Assuming the M1 performance extrapolates to desktop power/cooling it's going to be a monster chip. If that is the case I think apple will not stop at having the fastest watch/phone/tablet/laptop/PC. Why not go
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by inasio 6y ago
I saw a very strange thing in Whatsapp last week. One of my contacts texted me their name in Cyrillic characters (Whatsapp on IOS), five seconds later I got an email to my Gmail inbox in russian. I check my spam folder occasionally (mostly
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by inasio 6y ago
Luckily we live in a city with ski slopes near us, this particular one is in the same health authority we live in, so even in lockdown it's been ok to come ski. It's honestly the thing that has kept us sane, in retrospect I would
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by inasio 6y ago
A week ago my wife dropped her Iphone from a ski lift, and couldn't find it afterwards. I went to try and find it, from home she used Find my phone to get a picture of the location, and had it play sounds when I was nearby. I found it
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by inasio 6y ago
It's much easier to have a phone that will easily tell you if there is AirTag around you than having an RF detector.
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by inasio 6y ago
Surprised I haven't seen any comments about Microsoft. This was the qubit type that Microsoft was betting on, I think the lead researcher behind the reproducibility issue worked for them too. Very curious if they are going to pivot to
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by inasio 6y ago
That was exactly it, thanks for posting the link!
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by inasio 6y ago
I heard or read a story from Freeman Dyson about a somewhat legendary conference where von Neumann was to present his version of Hilbert's problems, presumably about the new computing age, I think at the IAS. It was highly anticipated,
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by inasio 6y ago
Agreed! The books with the thin man(by Dashiell Hammett) are also very good.
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by inasio 6y ago
Black Black [0] has been 10x for me. Automatic code formatting frees up a whole bunch of cycles that would otherwise be spent trying to comply with someone else's style guide, or trying to convince someone to write their code in the ap
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by inasio 6y ago
pretty sure Yahoo was 5MB and Hotmail 2MB when gmail came out.
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by inasio 6y ago
Coincidentally I recently started watching the Pacific Rim anime series (on Netflix). I found it surprisingly great; much darker than any of the movies, real character archs, great Kaiju, highly recommend.
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by inasio 6y ago
I love thermomix [0] recipes because of their simplicity. Most recipes are 5 or 6 lines, each with symbol, ingredient, time, temperature. Super tight shorthand. [0] thermomix is basically the non American alternative to the Vitamix blender.
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by inasio 6y ago
To me the key difference post-Trump is that the family separation policy is no longer in effect.
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by inasio 6y ago
A guy in jalopnik.com imported one of these mini electric cars from China and detailed the whole process, he was very happy with how it turned out [0]. [0 - one of many articles on the car] https://jalopnik.com/unboxing-the-
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by inasio 6y ago
There's a book now from the stories in the Antimemetics division. Likely my favorite book of last year. Super tight book, amazing idea and execution.
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by inasio 6y ago
In contrast, the napkin estimate for the cost of a year's worth of HIV drugs (latest generation integrase inhibitors) was 20K as of around 2 years ago, for western countries. Dolutegravir became generic, but prices likely won't ch
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by inasio 6y ago
This is the first comment here on computational photography, which I think is really the reason for traditional camera manufacturers going away. Most high end cellphones this generation can do stellar photography. My dream is a camera with
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by inasio 6y ago
The main store in downtown Vancouver, a full block on Georgia st. across from Microsoft and a couple of blocks away from where Amazon is building a massive office was sold a couple of years ago for close to 700 million. I suspect this is wh
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by inasio 6y ago
Of note here I believe TSMC is fabbing the bigger version of this chip for intel on their 7/6 nm node.
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by inasio 6y ago
This recent Anandtech article is relevant [0]. Intel added 128 MB of fast on-die memory to the first 14nm cpu (5 years ago?), and then never did it again. For some (gaming) workloads, those chips work very well, even today. [0] https:&#x2F

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