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by openrisk 3y ago
Its more a reinterpretation than a different theory because all computations are still the same. There are no alternative predictions for any measurable quantities.
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With the knowledge and technology of today there is arguably very little direct economic value to be had from this part of particle physics. One cannot preclude potential future implications though (it has happened many times in the past th
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A question mark before open source productivity tools find mass adoption is their ability to integrate ML/AI tools. The current hype notwithstanding, it is likely that the next generation productivity suite (from spreadsheets to docume
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Countless metrics have been proposed over time to track wellbeing of some type. The recent WISE initiative [1] tries to put some structure around this (using current welfare, future welfare and inclusiveness as key dimensions). Despite th
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I first read this piece some time ago, hidden in the back of one of his collected works volumes (VI: Games, Astrophysics, Hydrodynamics and... Meteorology) where I didn't quite expect to find an essay summarizing the predicament of hum
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An excellent read to celebrate π day :-) The story of how the mathematics of general relativity were put together is one of the well documented insights into how the human intellect incrementally tackles understanding reality around us. Phy
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The introduction of non-native tree species is not without its own controversies as these may support very different biodiversity landscapes. In central Europe there is, e.g., a debate about the role and future of the Douglas fir, which was
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Experienced somethink like this once and it definitely added to the feeling of profound awe that comes with a total solar eclipse. Not sure it was exactly and solely this phenomenon though. It was a mostly rainy, overcast day, pressumably f
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The climate change pattern (for now) seems to be a steady anthropogenic long term rise of average temperatures, overlaid by a pattern of natural fluctuations (El Nino etc.). This leads to new highs with some periodicity. It is not clear f
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The "wishcycling" challenge and response of the city of Amsterdam might be relevant. A couple of years ago the dedicated plastic recycling bins were removed and the separation is done centrally. https://www.uvagreenoffi
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There is another potential source of funding for open source that is quite congruent to its ethos and that is the public sector. For many types of software used by public sector entities it would be quite efficient to support open source de