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Artistic Microsoft AI bot draws whatever you tell it to(geekwire.com)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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Fine-Grained Text to Image Generation with Attentional GAN(arxiv.org)
45 points by mkempe 9y ago|4 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
Even at terminal velocity it is unlikely that one would "see" it fall. One moment it's not there, the next blink of an eye and it's already on/into the ground.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Have you looked at Maria Montessori's pedagogy? my daughters both learned to write cursive, starting at age 2 with tracing activities (geometrical inset/outset, sandpaper letters, etc.). Having watched them interact with apps on t
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by mkempe 9y ago
Read the science/tech magazines from the 50s and 60s -- travel to the planets was imminent and ineluctable. [1] While in principle and reason enormous achievements and progress are within reach of private enterprise, the 20th century w
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by mkempe 9y ago
Yes, the Burbank airport is very nice and convenient. So is the Johnny Wayne one in Santa Ana. A bit further out, I also love the Palm Springs airport.
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by mkempe 9y ago
There has to be some additional power expense, otherwise mining rigs would be sold in the "space heater" aisle.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Indeed. I inserted "[marginal]" to qualify the production cost, and "Added:" a question to crystallize the profit options.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Absolutely not; you may have misread? If I had considered selling off the capital there would have been some USD amount attached to that sale!
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by mkempe 9y ago
Mining at a loss is not a good idea. Say your [marginal] production cost is USD 100, but BTC market price is USD 50. You could spend USD 100 to make 1 BTC, or you could turn off your mining equipment and spend USD 100 to buy 2 BTC... Added:
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by mkempe 9y ago
The cost of production is simply the cost of the (produced) factors of production (see Böhm-Bawerk's "Value and Price", part of his "Capital and Interest" works). So the answer to your question is that miners ought
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It’s time to go nuclear in the fight against climate change(grist.org)
4 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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Last CA nuclear plant closure OK'd, customer bills will increase(mercurynews.com)
3 points by mkempe 9y ago|1 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
They did until 2015 [1]. The UK government estimated that cost over GBP 12 million. [1] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34508500
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by mkempe 9y ago
Stories about Google's search results that recently started to include false denunciations of conservative websites are also being flagged -- aka shadow-banned. Another way stories are shadow-banned is that they are simply not shown to
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by mkempe 9y ago
If Twitter, Google, and Facebook were to use their dominant market+tech positions to systematically eliminate some speech, without highly-public visibility of the manipulation -- should one also eliminate stories about such illiberal paths
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by mkempe 9y ago
If one were in his position, how would one scheme a safe escape from the UK? I can imagine scenarios to leave the embassy building (mob action, disguises...), but then what?
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by mkempe 9y ago
How much longer can the UK threaten him with arrest for breach of bail triggered by a closed procedure in a foreign country for a now-deemed-non-existent crime? is there a limitation period -- 10, 15, 20 years, or will he be hounded in perp
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Bayesian analysis of ego-depletion studies favours null hypothesis(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
116 points by mkempe 9y ago|84 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
Hanno the Navigator [1] led and recorded the Carthaginian exploration of the Western coast of Africa in the 5th or 6th century BC. By the way deliberate Carthaginian accounts of sea monsters is a source of the myths discouraging sailing in
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100 Outstanding Pieces of Audio for 2017(bellocollective.com)
1 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
You forgot: (x) assigning infants to the female vs male groups (y) distinguishing brain matter by color More seriously, I've always subscribed to the idea that nurture had a somewhat greater hand than nature in gender differences, e.g.
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by mkempe 9y ago
"Similar to volumetric comparisons during infancy and adolescence, after correcting for total brain volume, males had approximately 8.4% more white matter volume compared to females. Subcortical brain region volumes also differed betwe
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Sexual dimorphism of brain structure in the 1-month infant(link.springer.com)
19 points by mkempe 9y ago|18 comments
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Is Your Child Interested in Entrepreneurship? Help Them Do These Five Things(discoverpraxis.com)
1 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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Steel Core System Revolutionizes High-Rise Construction(aisc.org)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
I can't reply directly to my two comments above, which have been both downvoted and flagged because I've pointed out that the NYT has disqualifying conflicts of interest when reporting about the Iranian theocracy, and thus should
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Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (2016)(spacetelescope.org)
178 points by mkempe 9y ago|153 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
What kind of computer or TV setup would one have today in order to enjoy the full quality of such videos? my recently-bought TV is 4K. I'd love to enjoy the 2020 Olympics in glorious 8K... [1] https://arstechnica.com/
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US Power Grid Showing Signs of Strain During Brutal Cold(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments

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