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by nkoren 9y ago
Means you've gotta go to Japan, mate!
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by nkoren 9y ago
Those questions are no different than what people used to ask of Bitcoin. No different at all.
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by nkoren 9y ago
I've co-founded three companies (www.futurescaper.com, www.podaris.com, and www.imatest.com, to a much lesser extent), all of which have employed mathematicians on at least a part-time basis. If you're doing fancy parametric const
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by nkoren 9y ago
Absent observation, then sure, one could make that argument. But -- and again, I'm not claiming robust evidence or anything, just anecdotal observation -- I haven't observed this to be the case. I've personally never seen hyp
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by nkoren 9y ago
I wonder if/when they're going to make the connection between this and ADHD. My suspicion is nothing scientific, just based on anecdotal observation, but I've noticed that infants and toddlers who are surrounded by highly sti
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by nkoren 9y ago
Podaris | Full or Part-time | REMOTE | London, UK Podaris ( https://www.podaris.com/ ) is re-inventing how the world plans its cities. We're developing a platform for urban infrastructure planning, with a focus on agile,
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by nkoren 9y ago
Huh, I'd forgotten about that -- thanks. Yeah, I doubt it was seriously considered. Probably just didn't want to tell the Air Force what they were really planning to use the Raptor for. Can't say I blame them!
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by nkoren 9y ago
Oh, it's much, much, much worse than mining. Construction is famously the least-improved, in productivity terms, of all industries: https://www.economist.com/news/business/21726714-american-bu...
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by nkoren 9y ago
A higher-impulse second stage on the Heavy would make sense in payload terms, but have you seen anything from SpaceX indicating that they actually are thinking about doing this? My understanding of their design philosophy is that they prior
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by nkoren 9y ago
Raptor won't fly on the Falcon, so it depends on the arrival of the BFR. Elon wants that to be doing Mars missions in the 2022 window, so test flights would have to precede that by some time. Construction of the first BFR is due to sta
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by nkoren 9y ago
Yes, this. I'm American but have cumulatively spent several years in India -- mostly Delhi, with about 6 months in Ahmedabad -- over the past couple of decades. It's given me the the ability to comprehend (but not really speak) ba
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by nkoren 9y ago
> Apple fans aren't like Amiga fans, thank goodness. They know when to admit defeat. NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!
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The ads Russia bought on Facebook in 2016(nytimes.com)
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by nkoren 9y ago
Random trivia: significant parts of that Shanghai scene weren't in Shanghai. I did quite a double-take when bond walked off the street in Shanghai and into the lobby of my accountant's tower, here in London.
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by nkoren 9y ago
Is goalpost-moving some kind of sport these days?
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by nkoren 9y ago
I gave a talk about this recently[1], mentioning the 2nd Avenue subway. Another point of comparison is that here in the UK, the entire National Rail network was effectively planned and built in 22 years. Almost 2 centuries ago. When London&
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by nkoren 9y ago
I call bullshit on [0]. The government is buying goods and services from SpaceX. That's not subsidizing -- that's being a customer. It's particularly not subsidizing when the alternative suppliers of said goods and services
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by nkoren 9y ago
The spectroscopy seems pretty normal, but the shape is kinda freaking me out. If there were a single other object we'd ever seen which looks like this, that'd be different. But this seems really unique. Is there a point where yo
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by nkoren 9y ago
Concrete is really useful. We lost it for 1,300 years. Calculus is really really useful. We figured out the basics, and then lost them for 2 millennia.[1] Flexible glass would be really useful. We apparently had it, then lost it, and never
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by nkoren 9y ago
Sorry, you're conflating the collapse of empires (loss of a high level of political organisation) with the collapse of civilisations (loss of most levels of social and economic organisation, from top to bottom). Although sometimes coin
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by nkoren 9y ago
Very unconvincing article. Would have been better if it had stuck to the core assertion that "The fall, like the rise of a civilisation is a highly complex operation which can only be distorted by oversimplification. It may be taken as
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by nkoren 9y ago
No, the "payback period" isn't the time to pay off the total cost of the vehicle. It's the time to pay off the difference between the Tesla and the competition. Here's how you do the calculation: - Diesel semi: $1
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Psychedelic Medicine: Overcoming Social and Legal Obstacles(papers.ssrn.com)
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by nkoren 9y ago
The micrograph details in the second link are staggering. Honestly none of the photographs in the original article do it the slightest bit of justice. You can see the fallen warrior's locks of hair, and the patterns on his dress. That&
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by nkoren 9y ago
> But would self driving increase volume that much? Absolutely. Not even accounting for induced demand, you'll see ~30% more vehicle-miles due to empty-vehicle repositioning. As you say, accelerations and decelerations can be synchr
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by nkoren 9y ago
This is happening to me with insane regularity, although I usually notice it in Google searches rather than on Facebook. Recently I met a gentleman for the first time, who told me that he ran an planning / design industry webinar serie
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by nkoren 9y ago
A lot of them were right. We live on the bones of numerous dead civilisations. You really don't want to have a collapse happen in your lifetime.
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by nkoren 9y ago
> But don't fool yourself. Humans and well..life..are just input output machines with incredible pattern matching capabilities. See, that seems to me like a statement of faith which I just don't share. I think that building rel
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by nkoren 9y ago
Is that a belief or a fact? I believe, but cannot prove, that symbolic representation is not isomorphic to pattern matching. If you reverse the output of a CNN "hand" classification, it'll give you images that resemble the
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by nkoren 9y ago
For me personally, endless fights with Javascript. I'm the founder of www.podaris.com. If we're successful, it'll change the way that cities are designed, and getting cities right is a really critical part of not fucking up t

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