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Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse (2021) [pdf](ics.uci.edu)
71 points by joak 3y ago|63 comments
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Electric VTOL gets clearance for flight tests in the US(newscientist.com)
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Arthur Kantrowitz(en.wikipedia.org)
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Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in(warp.dev)
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Common energy drink ingredient taurine ‘may slow ageing process’(theguardian.com)
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by joak 3y ago
It could be that in 3-5 years a mass market emerges from this. Or it could be like apple's newton handheld computer, released in the early 1990s and discontinued without successor. The smartphone eventually arrived but a good decade la
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by joak 3y ago
Yes, more agriculture means more damage to the Amazon forest. Brazil would also start exporting wheat.
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by joak 3y ago
More agriculture in Brazil means more destruction of Amazon forest.
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Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material(washingtonpost.com)
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An entire RISC-V operating system in 2000 lines(hackaday.com)
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by joak 3y ago
Excerpt: [...] the flu kills as many a 650,000 people each year. “A universal influenza vaccine would be a major public health achievement and could eliminate the need for both annual development of seasonal influenza vaccines, as well as t
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Human trial of mRNA universal flu vaccine begins(newatlas.com)
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by joak 3y ago
If it accepts a subset of python it's technically python: any codon-python program is a python program. Not full python but python nonetheless... My understanding: The goal is not to compile existing python code but to write new pytho
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by joak 3y ago
In Mandarin there are actually different pronunciation depending on context. Example 觉得 juede, to think 睡觉 shuijiao, to sleep Here the same character is pronounced jue or jiao depending on context
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Codon: Python Compiler(usenix.org)
83 points by joak 3y ago|50 comments
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by joak 4y ago
In some animals old age has a reproductive advantage. As for turtles and some fishes: Old age => Bigger => less predators + more eggs For these species most of the new born are babies of very old females.
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Khan Academy founder explains why GPT-4 is ready to be a tutor(axios.com)
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by joak 4y ago
Barack Obama has around 50% of his ancestors from Africa, most 'black' americans have a lot less than that. Example: if one of grand parents is black, one of your parents is, so you're black. This is know as the one drop rule
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by joak 4y ago
The common answer is Obama is African American (or black or negro). The reason is the implicit "one drop rule", if a white is contaminated with a little amount of black blood from their ancestors, they are not white anymore but bl
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It’s Time to Fall in Love with Nuclear Fusion–Again(wired.com)
2 points by joak 4y ago|1 comments
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by joak 4y ago
Henry Kissinger will be 100 years old in few weeks. And he is still around giving advice. Amazing. But I don't see why his opinion could be relevant on the topic...
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Scientists lugged logs on their heads to resolve Chaco Canyon mystery(arstechnica.com)
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by joak 4y ago
When a resource is scarce we can either dig for more or replace by something equivalent. It was a time when there wasn't enough whales to light everyone. We killed (almost) all the whales before coming up with something else (oil)
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by joak 4y ago
1. Access to space is becoming cheaper. 2. News coming from fusion recently, it could be more than hype. 3. High temp (ie cooled with liquid nitrogen) superconductors at industrial scale 4. mRNA for cancer and vaccines 5. ...
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by joak 4y ago
I was expecting something about EVs. It really seems that they are replacing the ICEs at fast pace. Not only in the stats but in the streets as well.
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3. Entrepreneur first https://www.joinef.com/
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In his book, the climate wars, Michael Mann argues that oil companies want to deceive the public, they want us to give up thinking that action is useless. In that sense climate deniers and climate pessimists are on the same side: do nothing
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OpenAI, Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit against copilot(reuters.com)
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by joak 4y ago
ChatGPT is merely a statistical aggregate of what people says. So when you ask a question you get the common misconceptions and platitudes about the topic. Systems like wikipedia and stackoverflow have (imperfect) social mechanisms to filte
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by joak 4y ago
This is the main topic of James C. Scott's Against the Grain. James C. Scott and David Graeber are both anthropologists and anarchists. David Graeber might have a lot good mind opening ideas but overall I was less convinced by his narr

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