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by joak 5y ago
Excerpt: Modern chess is the culmination of centuries of experience, as well as an evolutionary sequence of rule adjustments from its inception in the 6th century to the modern rules we know today. While classical chess still captivates the
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Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero(cacm.acm.org)
155 points by joak 5y ago|113 comments
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by joak 5y ago
Not true. If you google some Wikipedia entry in some language let's say French, you get the result in English. Which is weird and annoying. I'm fluent in several languages, whenever I search some sentence in one language google ma
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by joak 5y ago
My mistake... I meant neurodegenerative.
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by joak 5y ago
Oops, yes, you are right. I failed to notice a wrong "autocorrection" from the virtual keyboard on my phone. It is neurodegenerative disease... But now the title is locked: I cannot edit it anymore. Thanks
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by joak 5y ago
Excerpts: "the molecule was licensed by Calico Labs, the Silicon Valley biotech established by the founders of Google to find drugs based on the biology of aging" " In February, Calico announced that human safety trials had b
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by joak 5y ago
Excerpt : "The molecule has restored memory formation in mice months after traumatic brain injuries and shown potential in treating neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lou Gehrig’s disease (also known as
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Alphabet's Calico has begun trials on a molecule for neurodegenerative diseases(aspenbraininstitute.org)
197 points by joak 5y ago|108 comments
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Superabsorption in an organic microcavity: Toward a quantum battery(science.org)
1 points by joak 5y ago|0 comments
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by joak 5y ago
Shit !
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by joak 5y ago
At least two well funded startups are aiming at connecting to the grid in less than 10 years. - MIT's Commonwealth Fusion Systems is taking the safe path of the tokamak but with a high temp superconductor. They plan to reach breakeven
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Will Nuclear Fusion Ever Power the World?(gizmodo.com)
1 points by joak 5y ago|2 comments
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by joak 5y ago
Excerpt: "The Gates of Hell crater was created in 1971 when a Soviet drilling rig accidentally punched into a massive underground natural gas cavern, causing the ground to collapse and the entire drilling rig to fall in. Having punctur
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The Gates of Hell(atlasobscura.com)
133 points by joak 5y ago|65 comments
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by joak 5y ago
Quote: "The company’s “Driver Out” pilot program has reached this pivotal moment after 1.5 years of effort to develop an L4 autonomous semi-truck with the level of redundancy, reliability, and consistency required to ensure its trucks
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A fully autonomous semi-truck on open public roads with no human in the vehicle(youtube.com)
6 points by joak 5y ago|1 comments
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by joak 5y ago
I'm just finishing Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life a 2016 book in which he proposes that half of the Earth's surface should be designated a human-free natural reserve to preserve biodiversity. https://en.m.
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Computer Simulation: The Coronavirus in a Tiny Aerosol Drop(nytimes.com)
2 points by joak 5y ago|0 comments
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by joak 5y ago
Exactly, we are talking about carbone capture. Not carbon burying.
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by joak 5y ago
The main point of this blog post is: 1. Energy costs are going down This is undeniable: photovoltaic costs are going down at fast pace and soon (in one or two decades?) fusion power is going to kick in 2. As soon as energy is cheap enough,
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by joak 5y ago
The scaling comes for the fact that if you can make fuel from atmospheric CO2 cheaper than fossil fuels there will be high economic incentives to capture CO2. The kind of money that goes into oil/gas exploration, transport, refineries,
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by joak 5y ago
"As solar power gets cheaper and oil becomes more scarce, at some point this decade it will be cheaper to extract carbon from the air than to drill mile-deep holes in the crust on the other side of the world." I don't know if
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Scaling Carbon Capture(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
79 points by joak 5y ago|34 comments
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Neal Stephenson Interview(cnbc.com)
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Russian Spacecraft's Thrusters Tilt the International Space Station – Again(space.com)
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Machine Learning in Fusion Reactors(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by joak 5y ago|0 comments
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by joak 5y ago
Solar+wind(+energy storage) needs a lot more materials and land to produce the same amount of energy. So the footprint of fusion would be a lot smaller. Also for the same reason deployment would be faster allowing a faster phase out of foss
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3D Mendeleyev's Periodic Table(artsexperiments.withgoogle.com)
1 points by joak 5y ago|0 comments
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by joak 5y ago
Yes, I agree. But I don't know how far they are from an actual industrial level device, it might be just vaporware. Also the lack of details may hide flaws in the idea. It might just a bs scheme with all the right keywords. Wait and se
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by joak 5y ago
Actually it is well known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power#Fuels Deuterium + Tritium is the most common fusion reaction to be implemented

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