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by lebuffon 7y ago
Stack Machines, Koopman is the only treatise that I have seen that really digs into the question. http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/index.html My memory of the conclusion is that register machines
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Sometimes I get the sense that people think CPU is short for "C" Processing Unit. :)
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Loss of taste is caused by loss of smell, is my understanding. That is consistent with the colds that cause significant nasal congestion causing a loss of the ability to smell and therefore taste as well. I have read that a few of the &quot
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Great material. Thanks
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Is it pre-requisite that it use uranium? Are these Thorium ideas you find on the web real?
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by lebuffon 7y ago
An interesting question is perhaps to ask when did our species become "conscious"? Neanderthal? Erectus? Habilis? Our last common ancestor with chimpanzee? It would seem to me that these were all "conscious" in some wa
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Is this more common in English or does it happen in other languages also? Example: Q: What you call your country? A: Deutschland Q: Ok, then we'll call it Germany ???
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by lebuffon 7y ago
In the paper it says they average 165cm in the past and mentions they were 5..8cm shorter than the average USA citizen.
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by lebuffon 7y ago
From your wikipedia link, this technique sounds like a great way to find more cancer causing viruses. "...developed a new method to identify cancer viruses based on computer subtraction of human sequences from a tumor transcriptome, ca
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Excellent, so that would mean there is more research coming for other vaccines beyond HPV... ? I have not heard of any but it's not my focus.
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by lebuffon 7y ago
And I can't see concatenative programming languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_lang...
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Full disclosure: I have not read the article yet but gathered a sense of it from the comments here. I like your citations. They make me think about a recent radio interview in Canada where an MD was discussing cervical Cancer. He would not
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by lebuffon 7y ago
They were invented (I believe) to "relay" telegraph messages over long lines so it was indeed a digital amplifier. (Former Western Union employee)
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by lebuffon 7y ago
I think the concept (rather than an invention) of negative feedback is very important. By that I mean envisioning that a machine can change it's own behaviour. This seems to have not been understood with early steam engines. People had
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Nice move by uLisp. It's powerful to re-code time critical snippets of code in Assembler, while still having access to a high level language like Lisp for the complex stuff. It might interest people to know that Forth always offered th
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Forth can be a little troublesome in that area. There is a standard language but it is primitive. Extensions for real world problems tend to diverge in syntax. This has lead to a saying: "If you've seen one Forth, you've see
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Point taken. Dr Barouch's work indicates that HIV is particularly challenging. I had not kept up. I like the idea of using DNA that will generate HIV antigens versus the classic approach. I may have to recant in light of this evidence.
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by lebuffon 7y ago
That's a good number for a globally marketable product. I read that Genoya for AIDS generated $4.8B USD in 2018 and Truvada, by the same company, Gilead, generated another $3B USD. So that's almost $8B per year and Truvada has a 3
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by lebuffon 7y ago
No conspiracy required. Run the numbers on all HIV patients requiring perpetual treatment versus a vaccine slowly eliminating the virus from the population over 5,10 and 20 years. Vaccines are not a great business model compared to the latt
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by lebuffon 7y ago
I am not an expert but I notice that we seem to manage variability with Influenza by creating a new vaccine every year.
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by lebuffon 7y ago
In the short term they will make money yes, but someone used to make money selling smallpox vaccine. :-) Having spent some time at a Fortune 500 company I cannot imagine a day where someone voluntarily creates a plan to eliminate billions o
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by lebuffon 7y ago
It's not like pure CIL or JVM bytecode when the language can be extended. The process is to make what you need and only then write the program. It's remarkable how fast you can move up language levels once you grok it.
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by lebuffon 7y ago
That's why OForth was invented. http://www.oforth.com/
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by lebuffon 7y ago
It's an assembly language for a 2-stack VM. It's never going to be easy but it is hella-fun to play with.
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China has a broadband radio telescope on the far side of the moon(sciencealert.com)
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Yes. The dead parts can remain. The living parts change. Weird stuff are we.
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The efficiency of cooperative tasking was seen in the 1970s when machines were notoriously slow. In the example below roughly 8x better. https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-programming-language/ "a PDP-11 o
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by lebuffon 7y ago
Has someone in the Intelligence community approached the author? Oops that's classified. :) This has implications for extracting sounds from noisy recordings or am I off base? Does it only track pitch patterns?
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by lebuffon 7y ago
In my musical training I was taught that musicians figured it out in the west by trial error. Bach then wrote the Well Tempered Klavier to demonstrate pieces in all 12 major and 12 minor keys, in 1722. There is a reference here however to a
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by lebuffon 7y ago
It doesn't have a floating point processor so it would not do FLOPS very efficiently compared to modern machines. In that era the power to performance ratio was not as critical since the clock speed of this device was typically sub 12M

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