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by maxander 8y ago
When corporate grants are bringing research groups into existence more or less from scratch, it's fair to call it more than "ties." At the very least, this is far beyond the norm in fields I keep track of- for instance, phar
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by maxander 8y ago
No. The anti-fossil-fuel movement, in general, doesn’t have tens of billions of dollars at their disposal. Deeply held beliefs may certainly influence scientific research, and that should be guarded against, but by itself it doesn’t let yo
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by maxander 8y ago
Remember that, a priori , you should be far more skeptical of studies with this sort of result than, say, studies showing that neocortinoids don't harm bees or that the latest blockbuster pharmaceutical has no side effects. The sheer
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by maxander 8y ago
Contrary to the other answers to this question, I suspect the real reason is that the prototype is expensive, and way easier to recover from a lab animal’s poo than the researcher’s.
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by maxander 8y ago
If particles are “just” particles, how would you solve the problem of two objects without spatial extent (point masses) being infinitely unlikely to ever collide? Among other things. In treatments I’ve seen, this is always explained in te
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by maxander 8y ago
This sort of RF signature could allow an "ecowarrior" to go around finding and sabotaging mining outfits. (Or, y'know, for a boring old burglar to go around stealing GPUs.)
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by maxander 8y ago
They're attempting something fantastically difficult to do effectively (arguably beyond human capability) and arguing that their slightly-better-than-chance results indicate that their approach is promising. More likely, the system is
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by maxander 8y ago
Have you ever tried to fly a quadcopter drone manually? It's really hard ; I could barely get one to hover, after hours of practice. Yet AI quadcopters that can fly in ornate formations and execute complex maneuvers are well known [
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by maxander 8y ago
The cost and market cap estimates are probably both not good measures of how things would work out in practice on that scale, but even so- it looks like someone with a couple million dollars to invest could plausibly extract several billion
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by maxander 8y ago
The article is making a simpler point than that. If I show you the table: A B C 1 4 3 20 45 15 8 15 7 And so on for some arbitrary number of rows, you can look at the table all you want but you will not perceive "A+C=B&
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by maxander 8y ago
Because trillion . If that’s true, that’s not just some extra secret projects to break all encryption and build a secret moonbase- it would mean that the US government was secretly printing a quantity of cash roughly equal to its own GDP
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by maxander 8y ago
> Turner said cell carriers can't completely secure our phones because they have to allow for law enforcement access. The key sentence in the article. The reason there isn’t a fix is that our (U.S.) government prefers spying on its
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by maxander 8y ago
What tiny sounds have we all been making every day of our lives, but have never been in a quiet enough space to hear?
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by maxander 8y ago
No. Read the text- it’s companies that are refusing to provide samples of their own drugs to generic manufacturers, thus blocking the development of said generic versions.
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by maxander 8y ago
Doesn’t need to be legal enforcement. The FDA could simply start taking its time when issuing new drug approvals, study registration, etc, for bad actors. A substantial quantity of a pharmacy company’s budget and product development cyc
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by maxander 8y ago
I suspect the reason that it’s done indoors is that, most places with a high enough density of humans for this practice to be available, the outside is a dangerous place for a tripping patient. Someone driving by blasting a rap album out t
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by maxander 8y ago
The candidate is probably now happily working under a manager who doesn’t complain “why are you using your skills? Just [do the simplest thing that occurs to me], you idiot.”
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by maxander 8y ago
HNers interested in this topic are liable to be interested in SlateStarCodex's treatment of it: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-tha... . tl;dr; according to the author's &qu
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by maxander 8y ago
Googling “Instinctive Driening Response” turns up a paper “Observations on the Drowning of Nonswimmers” by Frank Pia, as pribably the original source... or rather, it turns up the citation of such, but not the paper itself.
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by maxander 8y ago
Hate to be that guy, but I’d imagine this is closer to the original meaning if the term. Mechanical parts required to perform under pressure are much older than servers. :)
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by maxander 8y ago
That would be awfully nice if it were true. In reality, the opposition to this kind of tech just makes lots and lots of cheap missiles, while your interceptors cost millions each, and drive you bankrupt.
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by maxander 8y ago
A good way of looking at the “hidden cost” of buying your home- when you get a mortgage to buy a house, you’ve simply shifted from renting your home to renting the money used to buy your home . Since your house and that cash are (sorta def
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by maxander 8y ago
I have to say, I find it remarkably ironic that a researcher developing surveillance technologies has this much concern over being surveiled. I'm also inclined to note that the argument "these technologies with obvious, profound
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by maxander 8y ago
Well, no, of course not- when a neuron dies, the information encoded in it's connections is lost. [1] But replicating the original connections isn't necessary, and certainly not necessary for the neuron to "compete." Fo
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by maxander 8y ago
Aside from the other answers; because "being on-call 24/7 and having the ability to safely drive through town at high speed" is a capability just as important as paramedical training, for that role, and who else has it?
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by maxander 8y ago
Given how often things like this have been happening, it’s no longer “initial,” it’s iterative.
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by maxander 9y ago
If he’s going to make a run for politics he’s got to cultivate some sort of nickname. Else he’ll wind up being The Zucker in every newspaper appearance.
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by maxander 9y ago
Whether adult human neurogenesis happens doesn't indicate whether exercise (or growth mindset, or diet, or whatever else) isn't effective; there are plenty of other modes of neuroplasticity that could be modulated by such things.
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by maxander 9y ago
My goodness- built in the sixties, stores several GWh, and has 70% efficiency. Enough of those would solve the curtailment problem altogether. Not sure how a technology that relies on the availability of titanic quantities of fresh water i
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by maxander 9y ago
Look at the x-axis of that chart- the peak nighttime load is happening at something like 8:30pm. Even at times of the year the sun is still up by then, it's not going to get you much no matter how you swivel.

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