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by jmpe 13y ago
Would be cool if they got there and found layer upon layer of carcasses resembling whales, fish, trilobites ... seasoned with smaller organisms. A record of evolution, deposited over thousands of years of geyser activity, perfectly preserve
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by jmpe 13y ago
This is an awesome phenomenon. Yesterday we had a post re panspermia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6888412 Now think of an Europa with simple bacteria living in the water under the ice. These events are like cosmic
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by jmpe 13y ago
... without requiring a recreation of an improbable event in all of them Just to add to your post: the probability of such a spontaneous event (life emerging from a cocktail) increases as you're no longer looking at a restricte
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by jmpe 13y ago
This is pretty much one of the Ultima Thules of Mathematics. Reading about it won't make you understand it, the metaphors used in popular science are just that: simple analogies that fool the reader. If you want to understand it I&#x27
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by jmpe 13y ago
Memory growth is not a consideration in the academic proof, Turing machine tape is infinite in both directions.
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by jmpe 13y ago
Google groups comes to mind. It's not uncommon to have to wait several seconds before you can read the text, and then it all collapses and you need to fish for the right post.
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by jmpe 13y ago
Carambola-2 with dev-board. No hassle, low price and compact. http://8devices.com/carambola-2
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by jmpe 13y ago
That's because it is a novelty. You're pretty much restricted to planar circuits with this approach and the resistance is pretty bad.
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by jmpe 13y ago
That's for a large part due to the charging speed itself. If you charge at the maximum allowed current your battery will have the shortest longevity. Most chargers advertise on the capability to charge fast, but for a lot of battery ch
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by jmpe 13y ago
force from acceleration scales linearly with mass. mass, however, scales cubic with size: something at 1/10 scale is 1/1000 the mass. surface scales square with scale (something at 1/10 scale has 1/100 surface or cross s
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by jmpe 13y ago
The hps operates at higher power and comes in models that scatter the light in all directions (so you need a reflector). The spectrum is constrained (as is for led) but you'll find it difficult to change it. All those lumens are in an
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by jmpe 13y ago
Had such a case a few months back. Strings of single-byte characters are Endian-agnostic but multi-byte character encoding is affected by Endianness. To cope with it I read the sequence as single byte, then reversed, then changed the encodi
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by jmpe 13y ago
Remember the 90s? More specifically Windows & Linux? One was completely network oriented but sucked for graphics/sound on the desktop, the other was the complete opposite. Both moved towards each other, but with massive growing pai
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by jmpe 13y ago
I think Google uses a technique that could be put in this setup: heat the water in the toilet cistern, flushing disposes the collected energy.
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by jmpe 13y ago
w3schools is relatively small but their stats are good: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp And there's also Google trends.
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by jmpe 13y ago
I'd like to suggest adopting something akin to the Dewey decimal system for your bookmarks. You don't have to create folders and subfolders but just prepend the number to the bookmark title. That way they get ordered in an alphabe
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by jmpe 13y ago
I'll allocate some time for it. Where should I submit?
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by jmpe 13y ago
ouch, sorry, misread your last sentence.
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by jmpe 13y ago
I have it somewhere, also still have that laptop. It wasn't a benchmark but a poc for an algorithm. I did some serious optimization when I wrote it. There was a "best practices" for V8 that shedded some light on the backgroun
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by jmpe 13y ago
yeah, but think of the pro: "you can help pay for this website by pressing this button and leaving this window open for an hour". You could help SETI by just visiting a URL. By fertile pasture I mean that both malevolent and benev
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by jmpe 13y ago
The "significantly faster" is your answer. A 10 second visit on JS vs PNaCl is a whole new game. Edit: to elaborate: do a simple simulated annealing on a 200x200 array in JS - it's measured in seconds on my laptop. I wrote a
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by jmpe 13y ago
This could also be a fertile pasture for distributed computing on the fly. Suppose you have a website that attracts 1k visitors per day on chrome, how many MIPS could you harvest? Could you let them mine bitcoins or fold proteins in the bac
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by jmpe 13y ago
Click his handle, check the profile.
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by jmpe 13y ago
Sorry, you're wrong. Samsung Galaxy S1: http://www.techinsights.com/uploadedImages/Public_Website/Co... The internal battery is located at the top-right - a circular coin cell soldered to the board. Samsung G
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Adversarial Bandits and the Exp3 Algorithm(jeremykun.com)
3 points by jmpe 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmpe 13y ago
The feature length in integrated circuits.
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by jmpe 13y ago
I know a few good firmware engineers. A reason why they, too, produce "crap" is: - Many of them come across hardware errors or suboptimal designs during a later stage in the FW development. In most cases they hack a workaround tha
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by jmpe 13y ago
I learned about Fourier this way from an old "American Scientist" book. The writer had a very powerful remark at the end. He explained how Ptolemeus first used epicycles as a base model to explain planetary motion [edit: their pat
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by jmpe 13y ago
You might want to check out Adam Curtis, if you don't know him yet. Start with "all watched over by machines of loving grace". It's a series available for download on archive.org.
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by jmpe 13y ago
This was featured on HackaDay a while back. Some cool documentaries in the comments: http://hackaday.com/2013/10/29/retrotechtacular-automata/

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