oldbuzzard

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Alien search detects radio signals from dwarf galaxy 3bn light years from Earth(theguardian.com)
2 points by oldbuzzard 9y ago|0 comments
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by oldbuzzard 9y ago
Just looks like a login page to me. No way to see either info on your event or your clever puzzles w/o giving up my personal info :(
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by oldbuzzard 9y ago
From the article, I think the "remaining money" may be entirely notional. It talks about Ron Graham chipping in $5k to help cover a $10K bounty. Besides, these days the money is mostly beside the point. It is like those Knuth rew
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
It would be nice to be able to move or get rid of the task completed box to review your solution and look for modifications. Then you could reset and replay. The inability to review after completing is annoying.
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
Meh. I have prime and keep getting $10 off coupons but here in Minneapolis I don't see anywhere I want to order from. Bitesquad has places that I order from every now and then. If Amazon had a decent network they might entice me in to
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
(2017)
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Why Texas is becoming a major antivaccine battlefield(sciencemag.org)
1 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
Gleick's "The Information" and Dyson's "Turing's Cathedral" would be 2 other good pop sci books on the origins of CS. https://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/1.
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
Craig Venter
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Power, secrecy and cypherpunks: how Jacob Appelbaum ripped Tor apart(theguardian.com)
1 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|1 comments
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Bot crawls thousands of studies; finds concerning number of simple stats errors(vox.com)
7 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|2 comments
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2016 MacArthur Genius Grants Announced(macfound.org)
1 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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An American tragedy: why are millions of trees dying across the country?(theguardian.com)
3 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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China launches second space lab(nature.com)
2 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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Uber riders in Pittsburgh can hail self-driving Ford Fusions in test program(theguardian.com)
1 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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Genetic Engineering to Clash with Evolution(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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Surgeons use robot to operate inside eye in world first(theguardian.com)
2 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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This might be the coolest visualization of evolution ever(vox.com)
3 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|3 comments
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Two Nobel Prize judges fired over [unrelated] stem-cell doctor scandal(theguardian.com)
1 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
The article addresses that a couple of paragraphs down. Thats her whole point.To quote: "The Nation at Risk report that started it all turned out to be bullshit, by the way -- grounded in another laughable statistical error. Sandia Lab
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Weapons of Math Destruction (The Dark Side of Data Science)(boingboing.net)
14 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|4 comments
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How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race(theguardian.com)
55 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|13 comments
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Print your own 3D Lucy to work out how the famous hominin died(nature.com)
1 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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Alien life or noise? Russian telescope detects 'strong signal' from sunlike star(theguardian.com)
1 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|0 comments
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Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy(theguardian.com)
12 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|5 comments
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
Wow! My life in the Minneapolis strongly resembles my former life in Seattle. I have walkable/bikeable neighborhods, good local restaraunts and food coops/farmers markets, etc etc The problem isn't the Midwest, it is suburbia
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Beyond CRISPR: A guide to the many other ways to edit a genome(nature.com)
106 points by oldbuzzard 10y ago|10 comments
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
The Center for Economic Policy Research has a great free pdf ebook on Secular Stagnation from 2014 which has essays from a variety of economic heavyweights discussing the possibility of lower growth going forward. http://voxeu.or
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
How so? Most of these are explicitly apolitical The monarchy didn't help with Brexit. I suppose it could help broker coalition governments in a parlimentary systems... though Thailand certainly shows how overly broad lese majeste laws
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by oldbuzzard 10y ago
Well Yes. That's the irony. If you had even minimal trademark enforcement, the risk ratio would encourage you to manufacture and sell white label and counterfeit jackets as separate firewalled vendors. So one could be shut down without

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