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by murbard2 11y ago
Doubling time: 10 years * log(2)/log(247) ~ 15 months x20 ought to take about five years and a half.
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by murbard2 11y ago
If you enforce the regulation with automated anti-drone guns, then yes it will make a difference. I don't think it'll happen though, as such countermeasures haven't been developed for existing security threats.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Piling C4 on a mall rooftop is already illegal. There is no need to make it "even more illegal" by regulating drones, and there is no hope that such a regulation can successfully deter such use, short of completely banning drones.
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by murbard2 11y ago
I see no mention of it, but I'd be surprised if they didn't use some form of knowledge distilling [1] (which Hinton came up with, so really no excuse), to condense a large neural network into a much smaller one. [1] http:/&#
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by murbard2 11y ago
You won't believe who stabbed Julius Caesar!
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by murbard2 11y ago
Not the most striking though, look at wild bananas: https://dokmaidogma.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/musa-forest-...
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by murbard2 11y ago
http://www.wildblueberries.com/health-research/nutrition/ or https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/wymans/fresh-fr... 10g/140g ~ 7g/100g http://www.caloriekin
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by murbard2 11y ago
You're looking at cultivated blueberries. Wild blueberries have between 5g and 7g sugar per 100g. They're typically smaller than their cultivated cousin. Their flavor is more intense, but their texture is slightly grittier.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Of course, not all of fruit sweetness is the product of selection, but cultivated fruits tend to be much sweeter than their wild counterparts. Relatively wild species like blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and their relatively low su
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by murbard2 11y ago
... and it's no accident that berries* are favored by low carb dieters for their low sugar content: blackberries have about 5g of sugar per 100g, rapsberries 4.4g, bananas 12g. *meaning small, tasty, slightly tart, colorful fruits that
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by murbard2 11y ago
This probably stems from the incorrect belief that fruits are somehow "natural" when they are in fact the result of millennia of artificial selection, selecting in particular for sugar content.
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by murbard2 11y ago
That's a good use for formal software proving. While proving the safety of the entire codebase might be currently out of bridge, it would be quite feasible to prove the safety of a message bridge.
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by murbard2 11y ago
As a supertaster, I never liked the taste of alcohol, but I can tolerate it in heavily sweetened cocktails. I do drink under very rare circumstances, either when I'm looking for the intoxicating effect, or when the situation strongly
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by murbard2 11y ago
(for those who do not get it, a side effect of many Malaria medications are extremely vivid and realistic dreams)
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by murbard2 11y ago
I did a lot of research when I got it last year. PRK is a better procedure, but only marginally so, and I decided it wasn't worth the pain and longer healing time. If you do a lot of extreme sports, martial arts, race car driving or th
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by murbard2 11y ago
Twist: you are actually visiting the region and you're currently dreaming vividly.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Cromulent, adj. legitimate, valid.
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by murbard2 11y ago
It's easy to come up with a perfectly cromulent definition for a made up word.
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by murbard2 11y ago
There may be clouds lighting the scene behind the viewer
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by murbard2 11y ago
No, they really don't. I've seen it happen many times in finance, baseless accusations extracting large fines because settling is almost always cheaper than fighting in court. In something like hiring policies which can be discret
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by murbard2 11y ago
Of course they have nothing to fear, because these prosecutions never serve a political agenda, the judicial system has displayed a commitment to integrity, people don't assume the accused are automatically guilty, and trials are so co
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by murbard2 11y ago
What happens is that your spreadsheet won't be properly adjusted for all factors, people will look for bias, claim discrimination, and get a big bully to fine your company (and look caring and compassionate while doing it)
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by murbard2 11y ago
I've used it often to solve IBM's Ponder This puzzles. A dirty way to solve a puzzle is often to get a few values manually. These often are fractions, so there is a bit of an art in adjusting numerator and denominator so that the
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by murbard2 11y ago
I agree, but that's a very different argument from "who are we, measly little ants to think we can understand..."
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by murbard2 11y ago
If they are a space faring civilization, they need long distance communication. No the possibilities aren't endless, there's a lot of physics that we know that strongly constrains the search space. AFAIC, I think compression is th
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by murbard2 11y ago
The only thing this argument has going for it is sounding wise by virtue of being self-deprecating. If there are structured radio signals being emitted, it matters not whether or not we understand what the aliens are up to, if it hits a swe
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by murbard2 11y ago
Yes, but the combinations in English are somewhat arbitrary. It's obvious in context what flyingmetaltube might refer to. It's not obvious that "pony up" means to settle an account, rather than something about hovering h
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by murbard2 11y ago
Supply and demand... For every 1000 Tesla owner willing to pay $5, more than one of them is willing to pay $5k.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Now try producing lego cars and lego houses using the washing machine procedure, and you know the pain of organic synthesis.
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by murbard2 11y ago
That's a common misconception. Solutions to the Byzantine generals problem have been known for a while. Researchers are still looking for more efficient solutions, but PBFT introduced in 1999 is already, well, practical. The main probl

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