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811.
by mcbits 10y ago
Yes, "starting" may be too charitable, but the first few thousand were military, so it was at least plausible that they were tagged for actual involvement with the coup.
812.
by mcbits 10y ago
It's starting to seem like they had these lists made up ahead of time and have been waiting for the right time to start cleansing the ranks.
813.
Magnetic core memory reborn (2011)(corememoryshield.com)
104 points by mcbits 10y ago|17 comments
814.
by mcbits 10y ago
> Negotiate on how many free books you can get to give away What's a realistic order-of-magnitude number there? 50? And do you have to agree not to sell them?
815.
by mcbits 10y ago
I think a good analogy to make this seem less mysterious would be the various methods of determining an average. E.g. we have no problem saying the "average family" has 2.4 children despite the impossibility of any family having 2
816.
by mcbits 10y ago
How about "clam" or "mussel" (as a variant of "shell" that has some meat to it)?
817.
by mcbits 10y ago
When an entity has a formal governance structure, elected leaders, armed security forces, issues its own bonds, negotiates directly with foreign governments, and has a "GDP" greater than most nations, it has a lot more in common w
818.
by mcbits 10y ago
Corporations such as Google are much more like quasi-governmental municipal corporations than like Mom & Pop's Private Bakery.
819.
Brain activity on a hypersphere(arxiv.org)
1 points by mcbits 10y ago|0 comments
820.
by mcbits 10y ago
There are probably several entire nation-states that you could buy with $100 billion, if you thought it would be a worthy investment.
821.
by mcbits 10y ago
I started something like this long ago but didn't get very far with it. This was before "deep learning" and I was groping in the dark, but I think the concept is sound up to a point. The idea was to train a neural net and bui
822.
by mcbits 10y ago
The "geno" literally means a race or lineage of people. If the definition can be expanded to include national and religious affiliation, then it might as well be expanded to include other social groups. It's the act that&#x27
823.
The Ternary Manifesto(homepage.cs.uiowa.edu)
2 points by mcbits 10y ago|0 comments
824.
by mcbits 10y ago
Collectively far more people are flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Portland, and Seattle each month. If they could all show up at the airport 5 minutes early, hop in a tiny drone-jet wi
825.
by mcbits 10y ago
I think at this point we have all the technology to replace most air travel with a network of autonomous family-sized aircraft hopping between cities within a few hundred miles, probably not costing much more than a Greyhound ticket. Then t
826.
by mcbits 10y ago
Transdichotomous convex sets?
827.
Ask HN: What emulator would you choose for evolutionary computing experiments?
1 points by mcbits 10y ago|0 comments
828.
Should Model Architecture Reflect Linguistic Structure? [video](videolectures.net)
1 points by mcbits 10y ago|0 comments
829.
by mcbits 10y ago
They already convicted him, so they could just leave him in prison instead of risking double jeopardy. What I'm curious about is whether they can release him without a new trial and without anything like an acquittal, basically resetti
830.
by mcbits 10y ago
Speeding is a chicken-and-egg problem due to the culture of driving 10-15 over whatever the speed limit is. It's generally safe (weather permitting) because the speed limits are low enough to offset it, but it creates an atmosphere whe
831.
by mcbits 10y ago
What if they let him walk now, and then in 5 years stumble into evidence that could get him convicted. Could they retry him later? If so, that seems like a better strategy than jumping into a retrial now with what is apparently not enough o
832.
by mcbits 10y ago
Another problem that needs solving. Edit: To clarify, I was also assuming some typical amount of other research credentials, as well. From Al-Khwarizmi's reply it sounds like the second candidate is likely to be the only one interviewe
833.
by mcbits 10y ago
As far as career advancement goes, I don't work in academia, but I would be more confident walking into an interview with a list of difficult and impactful experiments finding no effects than having even one highly cited paper in a pre
834.
by mcbits 10y ago
But that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If more people were publishing their null results in such a journal, one of those journals would emerge as the most prestigious null-result journals. It seems like an acceptable solution, especial
835.
by mcbits 10y ago
True, the article gives no basis to conclude that people searching "what is the EU" already know what it is, but it seems like a fair default position. I might search "history of the EU" or "Mitt Romney bio"
836.
by mcbits 10y ago
That sounds like the opposite problem from releasing open source code. I would imagine one of NASA's concerns is ensuring none of the code reveals classified information. Another risk (this one for anyone thinking about publishing th
837.
by mcbits 10y ago
"US P At Riot? Please come with us to this little room and explain for several hours what exactly you mean by US P At Riot."
838.
by mcbits 10y ago
If compression would be a requirement for 32 bits, then it was definitely a requirement for 8-bit text 25 years ago when memory and bandwidth were typically 1/1000th of today. Of course it often wasn't, and isn't. And where i
839.
by mcbits 10y ago
Exactly, and the bag of chips is at least 1,000 calories. Up to 2,500 calories if we're talking about those generic ripple chips. The lettuce is 50-100 calories. If you're getting most of your daily calories from the likes of lett
840.
by mcbits 10y ago
I don't understand low-carb/keto diets, outside of treating an actual disease. A person can eat 5-10 lbs. of "wet" (i.e. not grains and starches) fruits and vegetables a day and stay well below 2,000 calories, rounding i

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