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GLOBA: accelerating technologies will create a global state by 2050(kurzweilai.net)
7 points by joshrule 16y ago|3 comments
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by joshrule 16y ago
Link to the referenced paper: http://homepage.mac.com/peptoids/RZ_paper_pdfs/Murnen_JACS_2... The original press release from Berkeley: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/01/18/nanosca...
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Nanorope: a step toward complex, self-assembling nanomaterials(kurzweilai.net)
11 points by joshrule 16y ago|3 comments
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Let the road train drive your car for you(kurzweilai.net)
5 points by joshrule 16y ago|8 comments
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What is Science?(joshrule.com)
1 points by joshrule 16y ago|0 comments
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How To Disrupt AND Save Academia. Hint: Use Startup Investors(mendeley.com)
3 points by joshrule 16y ago|0 comments
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A Simple System to Achieve Your Goals(yourfreebook.com)
1 points by joshrule 16y ago|0 comments
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From cosmism to deism: AI makes deities plausible(kurzweilai.net)
22 points by joshrule 16y ago|30 comments
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Report: iPhone 5 Will Be 'Completely Redesigned'(nytimes.com)
76 points by joshrule 16y ago|48 comments
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by joshrule 16y ago
I imagine the research about non-verbal communication in humans would be instructive here. A relatively small minority of our in-person communication actually comes from the spoken words. The rest comes from body language, tone, inflection,
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See Neurons of the Deep Brain for Months at a Time(eurekalert.org)
1 points by joshrule 16y ago|0 comments
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Why Do Science?(joshrule.com)
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by joshrule 16y ago
I'm always a bit awed when recognizable functions like 'if' and 'let' start emerging from a mess of lambdas and Xs. It amazing how simple items and simple rules can combine to create fantastically intricate systems (i.e. the entire space of
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by joshrule 16y ago
The same article, posted on the author's homepage, hit HN about a month ago. There are some pretty good comments there as well. Check it out. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999010 I will say that, as I'm preparing for grad school, t
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by joshrule 16y ago
I agree that a clearer definition of wrong here. My guess is that it has to do with the solution being empirical and not-guaranteed, rather than analytic and airtight. Just because the solution isn't perfectly analytic doesn't mean it's wro
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by joshrule 16y ago
Here's the paper's abstract: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/183.abstract Here's the supplemental materials: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/183/suppl/DC1 Does anyone have a link to the actual paper?
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by joshrule 16y ago
Here's another video of it doing close to 0-radius turning: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gk-yQ1H3M8 This prototype reminds me more of big dog: - http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.html A quick google search didn't turn up
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by joshrule 16y ago
So, are you saying, for example, we should get subjects with good copies in these experiments to spend the same amount of time reading as those with bad copies? Or, do you think it's some other factor?
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by joshrule 16y ago
The main point of this piece is not that you take time at the end of the day, or in the middle, or a few times throughout. The point is that, whenever you do it, you need to take time to think, time to reflect on what you've been doing. If
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by joshrule 16y ago
It seems that it might be more helpful to whitelist sites. The web grows too quickly, and the mass of spam sites overwhelmingly so. If I had some way to blacklist sites, I'd end up spending a lot of time doing so. In fact, it could quickly
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by joshrule 16y ago
Probably the two most important things as I close my first year of marriage (2 January is my anniversary): - Do as much as possible together. Try to play games on the same team. Eat meals together. Talk together. Get ready in the mornings t
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by joshrule 16y ago
Minimalism isn't the problem here. Minimalism can be used a number of different ways, and the author discusses only one of those ways - luddite asceticism. I rarely encounter that attitude, though. Instead, many of the better minimalists I'
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by joshrule 16y ago
Many of the same dangers are present in democracy, especially as it degenerates into mob rule. Unless individuals bear responsibility for their own actions, we can be pretty barbaric. Witness the war brutalities committed in Vietnam or WWII
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by joshrule 16y ago
Corporations have rights to free speech only if they are people under the law. Currently, they are, but I think there are major problems with that. It takes responsibility from those making decisions and puts it on some general body. Corpor
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by joshrule 16y ago
When I write anything longer than about a paragraph, I always start with an outline. I used to hate outlines; I'd just bust out a 10-15 page paper and write up the outline afterward (who didn't do that?). Now though, for a 1000-1500 word pi
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by joshrule 16y ago
I've had a similar surge in clarity. I spend at least an hour each day writing. But, I recently started an experiment to spend another 15 minutes each day just thinking. I have pen and paper, but the goal isn't to write. It's to think. The
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by joshrule 16y ago
It's interesting that most of her other emotions function normally. It was my understanding that the amygdala facilitated a number of emotions, not just fear. Am I wrong?
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by joshrule 16y ago
Those two are not necessarily related, though. For example, poor understanding of a situation can lead to wild misjudgments of danger, whether or not someone experiences fear.
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by joshrule 16y ago
The point is well-illustrated, but not at all new. Jim Collins's book Good to Great dedicates an entire chapter to what he calls the flywheel effect . Consistent effort applied over a long period of time with a consistent vision can gene
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by joshrule 16y ago
You make a great point. If morality is a high-level behavior, which is seems to be, then it should be fairly easy to disrupt. Just monkey with any of the several moving parts that combine to create the emergent property of 'morality', and t

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