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by knbknb 4y ago
Maybe he _re-reads_ a lot of these classic books. Then he can go through them faster. I speculate that he had read Brothers Karamazov in Russian (his mother tongue) before).
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by knbknb 4y ago
Your book is great. THanks for working on it for so many years (even bringing it to a second edition).
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A “Floatilla” of Airborne Seismometers for Venus(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by knbknb 4y ago|1 comments
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by knbknb 4y ago
Detecting large venusquakes from autonomous "air"ships
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by knbknb 4y ago
I liked "Ripley under Ground" by Patricia Highsmith. It is a sequel to the well-known novel "Ripley's Game". The main plot is about art forgery, a few murders and cover-ups. But aside from that, there are lots of th
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by knbknb 4y ago
The study participants tried psilocybin (mushrooms) for microdosing (low dosing actually); but it seems to me that the more common practice is to use LSD for microdosing, at least according to the references #1,2,3 in the paper.
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by knbknb 4y ago
Off the top of my head: (200 trillion cost) / (200 million structures predicted) = 1 million per structure. That reflects the personnel cost (5 Yr PHP scholarship, PostDoc/Prof mentorship; inverstment+depreciation for the lab equi
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by knbknb 4y ago
According to German Wikipedia, former Ex-Siemens-CEO Klaus Kleinfeld is in charge of the NEOM Project. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kleinfeld#Projekt_Neom/
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Google releases open source Quantum Programming framework Cirq 1.0(opensource.googleblog.com)
3 points by knbknb 4y ago|0 comments
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New class of hardware-Level fault-tolerant Quantum-Computing Devices(arxiv.org)
1 points by knbknb 4y ago|1 comments
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by knbknb 4y ago
Original Title of Paper: "InAs-Al Hybrid Devices Passing the Topological Gap Protocol", by Microsoft Quantum [Group], July 11, 2022
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by knbknb 4y ago
"The World for Sale" by Javier Blas and Farchy, 2021, is also an interesting read. The 200 pages of the book deal not directly with financial crimes, but rather are a deep dive into the 70-year history of the shady world of giant
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by knbknb 4y ago
The East German staff (team directors and doctors) probably didn't really know which dosis of Doping Medication was the right one for the performance enhancing treatments. The substances were newly discovered, and in the 1970s/80
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by knbknb 4y ago
Can confirm. I have just started to re-read a few chapters (about Regexes and Unicode) of "Programming Perl" (4th edition from 2012) and "Mastering Algorithms with Perl" from 1999, and these books are really a joy to rea
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by knbknb 5y ago
I'd estimate 15-20% of the German population to be pro-nuclear (mainly those leaning to the political right), 50% are indifferent, and 30-35% against nuclear energies. Of course you'll find some conservatives against it (e.g. weal
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by knbknb 5y ago
I'm not an expert in reactors, but I mean the European Pressurized Water Reactor EPR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor) built by French Company Areva and, previously, Siemens. It has a lot of prob
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by knbknb 5y ago
Off the top of my head : German multinationals (in the energy sector such as Siemens, Wintershall) have removed it from their strategies because Nuclear technologies inefficient and bear a lot of risks. New reactor types don't work as
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by knbknb 5y ago
An overlooked factor might also be the lack of (habitable) solid surfaces in the cosmos. There exists an interesting XKCD comic "Surface Area", about a giant patchwork quilt, comprised of all solid surfaces in the Solar System. T
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by knbknb 5y ago
They bought a rare Dune storybook, created by an all-star team of artists (Jodorowsky, Moebius, HR Giger, ...). I think that storybook was used to pitch the concept art to Movie Producers and Studios. To make this easier to understand, subs
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by knbknb 5y ago
Overcoming loneliness is hard for everyone, not just for nerds. It is difficult to overcome loneliness because the entire society is affected by several megatrends which enhance loneliness, perhaps even leading to positive feedback. In no p
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by knbknb 5y ago
Principia A work from the early 20th century, mathematics, logic. I think some expert called Bertrand Russell's and A.N. Whitehead's "Principia Mathematica" initiative a "bizarre" piece of work, when seen fro
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by knbknb 5y ago
TYPOScript, a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for customizing the TYPO3 Content Management System. Typoscript is not a turing-complete language. For starters, TYPOscript has very odd semantics for terms like "Object", "datatyp
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by knbknb 5y ago
Edgar Dijkstra's 1988 Paper "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science" It's just a paper, but still I'd recommend it, because it was highly influential. It was indeed so influential that it has its own Wik
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by knbknb 5y ago
The se-radio.net episodes with Rich Hickey (Language designer), and David Heckerman (AI researchers) and many others were also great.
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by knbknb 5y ago
DK inventing Math problems and witticisms until his very last minute
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by knbknb 5y ago
I think his last posts on Heise.de Forums were from around Sep 18 2021. On heise.de he commented almost daily, on all sorts of topics.
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by knbknb 5y ago
In 2009 there was a Finnish woman who lived inside the buildings of the Berlin Tegel airport, for several months. She was mentally disturbed. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/escape-to-berli...
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by knbknb 5y ago
(Regarding footnote "3" of the post): Nice! Next time when I encounter an "Enter license key:" dialog, I'll simply try some simple registration codes first. I'll start with clever variations of the value "
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by knbknb 5y ago
Musk said that Starlink is (or will be) in talks with lots of local telecom companies which are required to offer nationwide coverage. They are required by law, to keep their licenses, or to fullfill commitments.Starlink will have lots of B
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by knbknb 5y ago
The rich client platform is still used for standalone apps, e.g. database-management tool DBeaver.

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