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Why Male Lions Sleep 20 Hours a Day(quora.com)
12 points by kouh 7y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How much code re-write to run on new processor architecture?
1 points by kouh 7y ago|1 comments
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Hear Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old instrument play for the first time(engadget.com)
8 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Why Are More People Right Handed?(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Why are more people right-handed?(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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by kouh 7y ago
The fundamental premise of the title seems misleading to me. Life existence doesn't depend on dimensions, it's perception that does. As the author later says, the paper is predicated upon an anthropic consideration of reality: if
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Some Trees Can Make Droughts Worse(popsci.com)
1 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight(techcrunch.com)
87 points by kouh 7y ago|22 comments
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Kilobyte Constants, a Simple and Beautiful Idea That Hasn't Caught On(prog21.dadgum.com)
3 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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by kouh 7y ago
A definite classic. What's unique about human intelligence? There doesn't seem to be anything in our carbon based systems that can't be theoretically replicated on silicon. Turing may not have been religious, but the amazemen
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by kouh 7y ago
Who have you spoken to at SI? Don't let a pen pusher convince you that his view represents the organization
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A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change(quantamagazine.org)
108 points by kouh 7y ago|5 comments
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Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are real life applications of Fenwick trees?
1 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Man with Severed Corpus Callosum(youtube.com)
2 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Don't Kill Math(evanmiller.org)
4 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Can Every Recursion be Converted into Iteration?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Jeff Dean on Flexible AI Systems and the Future of ML [video](youtube.com)
4 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Urgent – (how) can I access US PhD theses online for free?
3 points by kouh 7y ago|2 comments
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Saab's new spy plane has a 26-foot-long 'handle' on top for surveillance(popsci.com)
2 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Programmers at Work: Bill Gates(programmersatwork.wordpress.com)
4 points by kouh 7y ago|1 comments
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by kouh 7y ago
Are you sure? Doesn't work have value under any scenario, if only a residual educational value: a lesson for you and/or others? That would reduce "hard" and/or "smart" to multipliers of that value.
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by kouh 7y ago
This could explain why some people pick and eat nasal mucus (a dirt colloid) when anxious
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Barbarians Led by Bill Gates (1998)(amazon.com)
1 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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by kouh 7y ago
There is something inextricably human about this sort of anecdote though, like modern reenactments of the drowning of Hippasus by the Pythagoreans after bringing up irrational numbers.
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by kouh 7y ago
Reminds me of Microsoft. They only had two engineers working on MS-DOS 1.0, their most important and profitable product at the time. Despite recurrent industry criticism of the product and the launch of competing DR DOS (faster, better an
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Ask HN: Alternative Ways to Visualize Conversations
2 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Alternative Visualization of Comments
1 points by kouh 7y ago|0 comments
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by kouh 7y ago
That's exactly the crucial question I don't see being asked anywhere. It's answer has huge implications, it's non answer leads to a schizophrenic nation.
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by kouh 7y ago
I think the "to compete with China" legal/moral waiver is an interesting recurring argument across industries and government

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