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55km is not insignificant though. Some very rough estimates - 55km is 0.5% of the distance from the equator to the pole. If the temperature range between those two extremes is 50C then the shift corresponds to a net cooling of 0.25C, whic
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by martinpw 8y ago
Intel are in more markets than just CPUs. And any time they enter a new market, all those trademarks from that market come into play. That's what I heard from the Intel folks that described the reasoning.
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A few months ago I was in a pub in Cupertino (Duke of Edinburgh) and was astounded by how quiet it was. All you could hear was a murmur of conversation from nearby people. No loud music playing, no yelling or shouting. It was an incredibly
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by martinpw 8y ago
Reason being that using names of such public landmarks avoids potential trademark infringement that might be triggered by almost any other names, given the number of trademarks in existence today.
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Knights Mill has only half the double precision performance of KNL. So not really a successor, more heading off in a different direction.
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A few years ago I did the rounds of a bunch of schools in the Bay Area giving talks to CS departments. By far the most passionate students and the smartest questions came from a community college I spoke at in the East Bay. They had so many
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by martinpw 8y ago
I canceled my LA Times subscription online last week. The website says you have to call to cancel. I thought I'd just give it a try online, fully expecting to fail, but to my surprise it all went through easily. They asked for the reas
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There is a chart here from the same site (which would have been useful for them to have included in the main article) which shows how this device theoretically compares with others and with the end goal: https://www.ipp.mpg.de&#x
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If you look at the statistics over time here for accelerators: https://www.top500.org/statistics/overtime/ it appears the number of top500 systems with accelerators is not really increasing much - it has been sitt
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by martinpw 8y ago
Yeah, they are spectacular. And then you look at the green parts on the side and realize that thing is 4 stories high. As an aside, I like the understated way the description is written: The extraction of these events from the LHC data is
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These lectures are fantastic, please don't stop! You mentioned David Marr's book. Given its age, I assume some parts have stood the test of time better than others - would you recommend reading it all or would you focus just on th
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One interesting aspect is the difference between displaying yourself and others in VR. For yourself you do not want to show body parts that cannot be tracked correctly because of the jarring effect of the mismatch, as you say. But for showi
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That article is not particularly reassuring. Although the rate is declining in sub-saharan africa, it is very slow and seems to be stalling out. The example of Niger is particularly concerning: [...] the shrinking arable land beset by freq
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China is perhaps not the best example. Given their one child policy that was in place for a long time, and the fact the fertility rate there is still well below that of the US, the relative size of the pool for soldiers will shrink faster t
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So far I have found it helpful for the latter. It has not got in the way when I'm trying to communicate something that requires nuance or careful expression, but it has kicked in with suggestions when it sees I am heading towards some
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by martinpw 8y ago
Interesting that the comments on that link for this technology are much more positive than the comments here.
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by martinpw 9y ago
I use FF on Android just because I can block ads with extensions since the ad-laden experience is so unbearable on mobile, even though overall Chrome seems a better browser. So I'm puzzled that its market share on that platform is so l
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by martinpw 9y ago
That 2013 date is a bit misleading. Although the most recent generation was announced that year, it did not ship until 2016, and the Knights Mill derivative launched just a few months ago. Knights Hill was canceled. I hadn't heard anyt
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Fascinating snippet: "There is only one population of king’s holly in the world, and scientists think it’s entirely clonal: Although it does occasionally flower, its fruit has never been seen. Recent radiocarbon dating suggests that it
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by martinpw 9y ago
Actually not true. Perhaps surprisingly, CPUs and GPUs are progressing at about the same rate if you look at the high end. GPUs are all about massive parallelism, and if you compare against high end Xeons, the CPU core count increases plus
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by martinpw 9y ago
Which still really isn't that much further considering how far we have come so far.
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That is based on severe cherry picking of data - just one month (February 2018) and small absolute numbers (11 vs 15). On longer sampling intervals the rate is still quite a bit higher in NY: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-
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by martinpw 9y ago
Sounds like 'harder' is an understatement - according to that article no planets have been discovered with this technique, and it is unlikely to yield any discoveries any time soon. (Technique is to directly observe the star wobbl
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by martinpw 9y ago
This may be a case where the headline writer did not read the article. The article itself does make the distinction you are making: "[...] the widening split between dynamic urban areas on the one hand and struggling cities and small t
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> While some point to galaxy cluster work by Fritz Zwicky in the 1930s, dark matter was truly “discovered” in the 1970s by Vera Rubin, who was studying the rotation of spiral galaxies. Rubin found that galaxies were spinning too fast for
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I believe public libraries are usually happy to accept book donations.
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From that obituary, this line resonates: Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most.
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Yes, in the app there is a an option "Become a Charger" which says: [...] charge Birds at your home or office. Earn up to $100/night. $5 per battery, up to 20 birds
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> For the first time, it said, the energy required for coin mining had exceeded that used by Iceland's 340,000 inhabitants to power their homes. That is a depressing statistic.
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> What always stands out to me about Sir Roger Bannister is that once he broke 4, then others could too. > It reminds me how many of our limits are mental and if you think you can't you definitely can't. But if you think you

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