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by nkoren 8y ago
This is a good reply, and I apologise for the judgemental reaction. We probably actually share much of the same ethos. Personally I think it would be absolutely if everybody dropped mushrooms and spent a week in the wilderness coming to ter
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Serious advice: you're using your brain wrong. Find something better to do with it. Questions which start with "what if everyone <insert verb here>" are bad questions. People will always behave in diverse, contradictory
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Yes: https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-...
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by nkoren 8y ago
Did you read TFA? It seems that you are describing prior techniques for ultrafast image capture, whereas this technique is for capturing single, non-repeatable events. > Using current imaging techniques, measurements taken with ultrash
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The podcast actually really underplayed how gorgeous it was. This photo does a pretty good job of capturing how it looked to the naked eye: https://twitter.com/somersalt67/status/1049130741303394305 There are amat
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Man, that must've been something! I was fully forewarned that it would be crossing into sunlight and probably would be quite spectacular, and it still took my breath away. Can't imagine what it must've been like to be caugh
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I was about 4.5 miles from the launch/landing site for this one. Incredible experience. The "nebula" overhead was one of the more beautiful things I've seen in my life.
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Sure, the physics of Grand Theft Auto are an incredibly limited approximation of real-world physics. If the denizens of GTA somehow gained consciousness and decided to build a computer out of their available physics, they would probably be
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Any advice on how to buy that in the US?
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Yeah, the way that voice commands were recognized via pattern-matching the syllabic rhythms rather than via the actual meaning of the commands was, in hindsight, kind of cheating. But consider the degree to which today's neural nets ar
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The pre-history of Hewlett Packard(imatest.com)
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This thing remains just unfathomably weird. An extra-solar object -- that's not actually the weird part; sure, we haven't seen any before, but their existence is to be expected and is totally reasonable. BUT...! That shape? Astero
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by nkoren 8y ago
Meta-comment: if you're producing a video of a presentation with lots of equations on the slides, PLEASE make the slides larger than a postage-stamp. I wanted to be able to follow this in detail, but was unable to do so because the sli
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by nkoren 8y ago
Hey, you might be interested in what my company does. https://www.podaris.com/ is a platform for designing transit systems -- not just creating maps, but calculating velocity profiles and travel times, fleet sizes, and (soo
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I've read the Mythical Man Month, and it has no bearing on what I'm talking about here. The problem is that "building Shenzhen" isn't a "project", and never can be a "project". The key feature
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Sure, there's nothing mystical about Shenzhen, and I'm sure it can be replicated elsewhere -- but on a decadal timeframe at best. There are many different factors which go into producing such an ecosystem. Raw number of STEM gradu
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The manufacturing ecosystem in Shenzhen (for example) is unique. Any individual element of it is probably replaceable (at a considerable cost), but the presence of all those elements in the same place is not. The agglomeration benefits of t
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by nkoren 8y ago
Meanwhile, this BBC story about it got taken from #1 to #75 in 10 minutes: http://hnrankings.info/18013406/ This isn't happening with other stories. The system is clearly being gamed.
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Where do you think that money is being spent? They don't just haul it into space and shovel it out an airlock.
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Why did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18011723 get pushed off the front page so quickly?
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You know that BANANA stands for "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody", right?
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Things aren't "going to collapse", anymore than things are " not going to collapse". From any given point point in time, there are multiple possible futures. Some of them may be tremendously dire, others tremendous
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by nkoren 8y ago
"Finally, do not ever imagine that your world cannot collapse, as ours did." This. People like to imagine that there is some kind of corrective force to history, some invisible hand that will, inevitably, push things into balance
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Interesting. Yeah, there's something to unpack in that.
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Heheh -- I'm almost as much as a pedant as you! :-) I actually did realise that "op" went with "anthro", and agonised for a bit over whether to include it or do something that was more technically correct. Eventua
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by nkoren 8y ago
That's not how skepticism works. A cursory search reveals that his case is quite well-attested to since the early 1970s, and the verifiable facts are not in dispute. What happened when he was alone in the wilderness is not verifiable
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Yeah, I think that Rodríguez absolutely has the right of it here. Animal communication is "simple" in human terms, but is quite rich on its own terms. To anybody who spends quality time with animals in their own comfort zones, it
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You're not wrong inasmuch as that's what happens today. However: tools do help people think. I've worked as both an architect and an urban planner, and seen how people engage with complex systems in those situations. Absent
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If that's what you're interested in, you might want to check out https://www.podaris.com/ , which started as a tool for planning autonomous Personal Rapid Transit networks. It now supports conventional modes as wel
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by nkoren 8y ago
This whole interaction is really reaffirming my faith in humanity. You guys are awesome! Liam -- this response is just as impressive as the code that you wrote. You're obviously very smart, but that isn't good enough on its own. I

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