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by isthatart 8y ago
I mean by that a model of computation in the TCS sense. (Some) molecules, be them DNA, RNA or other, are akin to lambda terms (or graphs), beta reduction (or other graph rewrites) are akin to chemical reactions. The algorithm of reduction h
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by isthatart 8y ago
By using lambda calculus, interaction nets, something equivalent, is my guess.
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by isthatart 8y ago
Computation: “What excited us most is that we could see the green spots – the i-motifs – appearing and disappearing over time, so we know that they are forming, dissolving and forming again,” says Dr Mahdi Zeraati, whose research underpins
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by isthatart 8y ago
That's why I left FB, Twitter (Google not yet... although it does the same). And I was not even writing about big politics issues, only about mathematics and open access, open science. Sure, we are paranoid, especially because nobody c
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by isthatart 8y ago
To be a brilliant jerk (BJ) is a social phenomenon. I think everybody (brilliant) is a BJ sometimes. In academy one does that to protect own field of research, or virtue signalling. A BJ can recognize a good idea and use it later without at
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by isthatart 8y ago
The real problem is that people want to watch movies for free, so Netflix tries to take a little bit of $ from a huge population, while Hollywood tries to take lots of $ from the few patrons left. On the average Netflix movies are better th
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by isthatart 8y ago
Excellent comment, although some are older problems, see the novel series Wilt by Tom Sharpe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_(novel) Anyway, for me Bologna is on the par with the more recent so called adoption of Op
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by isthatart 8y ago
Yeah I want to have a similar experience as with Linux. If they can't deliver that, and they can't, then they are only one more company holding us back.
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by isthatart 8y ago
I believe (but I might be wrong) that are compared the results of two different methods: (a) "algorithmic" where solution(t+1) = algo(solution(t)) and errors accumulate with time steps, vs. (b) based on sufficiently many available
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by isthatart 8y ago
Incidentally, I tried to use Neuromancer in a TED talk about artificial chemistry. Also used a pseudo William Gibson quote from the excellent [0]. Too nerdy! Slides [1] (js neded), script and story [2]. [0] https://aphyr.com&#x2
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by isthatart 9y ago
An older period: Carboniferous [0] Lots of plastic non biodegradable (at the moment): lignin. That's why we have coal, which fueled our Industrial Revolution :) Ended with the Carboniferous rainforest collapse, caused by climate chang
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by isthatart 9y ago
From the Author page: "a New York-based thesis-driven venture capital firm investing in in networks" attention is is scarce.
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by isthatart 9y ago
Market cap is misleading. Example, this week. The market cap of one first 100 coins, as seen at coinmarketcap, grew with $3M because of a trade of $2000. The reason is simple. Say 1 coin is valued yesterday at $1, there are 300M coins, so t
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by isthatart 9y ago
Anybody about Aaron Swartz and MIT? EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16769270
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by isthatart 9y ago
I could paraphrase this as: I've grown up with the map, I've never really learned how to explore the territory. As any bureaucracy knows, who makes the map controls the territory :)
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by isthatart 9y ago
Yes, I hope that evolution will produce something new from the available academic and tinkerer genes. The academic lives longer in a stable medium, the tinkerer dies young but multiplies faster in chaotic conditions.
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by isthatart 9y ago
I'm an academic researcher. I disagree with most of the article. The main distinction I see between "research" and "tinkering" is not what the author calls "scholarship". From personal experience the only
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by isthatart 9y ago
One of the answers from your first link gives a link to this excellent article https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-92273-... on "autocatalitic quines". The Introduction section explains very
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by isthatart 9y ago
I noticed some weird behavior of DDG search results lately. Maybe is just in my head, I thought. So I looked for an easy subject, a celebrity. Then I archived the result.
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DuckDuckGo shows misleading Twitter account of Assange, first(archive.is)
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by isthatart 9y ago
For my past use Google Plus was far better than FB or Twitter, but I have no illusions about it. Anecdata: https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/i-deleted-f...
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by isthatart 9y ago
Very good comment! Social media companies present themselves as better (technical solutions for) commons. Their identities show this: face book, (bird) tweets... I don't want to be mean, but the actual situation makes me think that the
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by isthatart 9y ago
From the whitepaper "Nebula Genomics, blockchain-enabled genomic data sharing and analysis platform". Interesting because homomorphic encryption for genomic data is a thing [1](2015) [2](2017) [1] https://eprint.iacr.o
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Genomic shared data securely analyzed using homomorphic encryption [pdf](nebulagenomics.io)
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by isthatart 9y ago
thanks, done.
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by isthatart 9y ago
Hey I always asked myself if this is art. In a research project I made animations from simulations, the idea was to explore the limits of communication in open science via social media. The effect was in the order of 10^7 views/year. I