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by joak 5y ago
"We have shrunk the reactor to the size of a suitcase" (from their faq https://electricfusionsystems.com/#FAQ-home ) I am wondering, is this crackpot or real ?
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Aneutronic Fusion Reactor Demo(eetimes.com)
4 points by joak 5y ago|5 comments
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The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket for Spacecraft Propulsion(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by joak 5y ago|0 comments
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FDA Approves first Alzheimer’s Drug in 18 years – Does it work?(nytimes.com)
1 points by joak 5y ago|0 comments
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Venus Aerospace – A New Approach to Hypersonic Transportation(venusaero.com)
1 points by joak 5y ago|0 comments
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Gender bias in popular movies – A computational approach(gendermov.antonomase.fr)
11 points by joak 5y ago|8 comments
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by joak 5y ago
Yes, I think that the point is that planting trees is fine but preserving actual forests is way better and that in any case we do have to stop all emissions. That the most efficient carbon capture is epsilon regarding the magnitude of the p
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by joak 5y ago
Oh yes, and this without taking in account the cement manufacturing, maybe 10-20% of CO2 emissions
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by joak 5y ago
As reading in Carbon Democracy from Timothy Mitchell: “The organic matter equivalent to all of the plant and animal life produced over the entire earth for four hundred years was required to produce the fossil fuels we burn today in a singl
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There aren’t enough trees to offset CO2 emissions – and there never will be(theconversation.com)
4 points by joak 5y ago|5 comments
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by joak 5y ago
Sometimes long life is key to reproduction, for example old turtles are bigger and safer from predators (before humans came) and have more offsprings than younger ones (yearly and in total). Turtles can grow very old because there is reprod
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Whitest-ever paint could help cool heating Earth, study shows(theguardian.com)
2 points by joak 6y ago|1 comments
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by joak 6y ago
Since netscape I've been waiting for the return of vertical tabs. I might start using microsoft edge after all. There is some irony in this, but it seems microsoft is doing some software right. vscode anyone ?
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Vertical tabs, startup boost, and more: Here's what's new in Microsoft Edge(windowscentral.com)
2 points by joak 6y ago|1 comments
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Zapata raises $38M for quantum machine learning(venturebeat.com)
2 points by joak 6y ago|0 comments
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Light trapping in solar cells with quasi-random nanostructures(osapublishing.org)
1 points by joak 6y ago|0 comments
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by joak 6y ago
I've used to youtube-dl to watch videos hosted on legacy sites using defunct flash video player. Hopefully, youtube-dl project will remain alive.
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by joak 6y ago
I'm wondering how this compares with the competitors. IBMq, Google, ionQ, honeywell, etc... I'm terms of speed, capabilities, error rates, etc...
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Xanadu launches quantum cloud platform, plans to double qubits every 6 months(venturebeat.com)
1 points by joak 6y ago|1 comments
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News in Quantum Machine Learning – Beyond the Hype(medium.com)
2 points by joak 6y ago|0 comments
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by joak 6y ago
We are releasing the code as well...
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Show HN: Quantum Machine Learning – Training with the Iris Dataset on IBMQ(iris.entropicalabs.io)
10 points by joak 6y ago|5 comments
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by joak 6y ago
Good to know: sympy does not use numpy so you can use pypy instead of python. In my case I got a 7x speedup.
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What happens if a coronavirus vaccine is never developed? It has happened before(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by joak 6y ago|0 comments
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What the West Can Learn from Vietnam’s Response to Covid-19(hackernoon.com)
1 points by joak 7y ago|0 comments
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Help stop the spread of Covid-19 with contact tracing – Singapore gov app(tracetogether.gov.sg)
2 points by joak 7y ago|1 comments
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by joak 7y ago
"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."
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Conway's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by joak 7y ago|1 comments
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by joak 7y ago
In the preparation list, scaling ICU is most needed. A lot of people survived thank to intensive care units. There might not be enough to cope with the peak
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by joak 7y ago
TV ?! What's that ? I use to watch tv at my grand ma's when my parents leave me there for the weekend. Then I never watched TV. Why would you watch tv ?! This is crazy. Why not read a book or spend time with your family and friend

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