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by orbifold 5y ago
During Cold War France considered using tactical nuclear warheads to make Germany impassible to a Russian advance, that was one reason they refused to put their nukes under NATO control ( https://nationalinterest.org/blog&#x2
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by orbifold 5y ago
There is plenty of Uranium elsewhere, plus if you build the right reactors, you can use Uranium much more efficiently.
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by orbifold 5y ago
Good chance that Green Party received significant support from outside forces to derail a sensible energy policy. Relying on fossil fuels / gas makes Germany way more dependent on the US and Russia, then otherwise.
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by orbifold 5y ago
That is what happened with German assets during World War 1. One of the reasons why there are two Merck companies today for example.
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The BrainScaleS-2 Accelerated Neuromorphic System with Hybrid Plasticity(frontiersin.org)
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by orbifold 5y ago
Let's see, first of all this is a research project not an attempt to build a commercial product (yet). Indeed it is not currently optimised to do analog matrix multiplication particularly well, but what prevents it from performing bett
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by orbifold 5y ago
The chip under discussion is able to do both (analog matrix multiplication and SNN operation). Briefly there are a bunch of “nano”-devices which are more amendable to spike based operation. Moreover analog computation is hard to scale up so
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by orbifold 5y ago
One of the co-authors here. Demonstrating inference on a neuromorphic chip can already be challenging, especially if it contains analog components. This is a way to make this kind of hardware "useful" on a given task. Of course le
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Event-Based Backpropagation for Exact Gradients in Spiking Neural Networks(timowunderlich.github.io)
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by orbifold 5y ago
ML in general seems to have a really low standard for citing related and earlier work. In part I think that is because a lot of papers are based on relatively poorly developed foundations or empirical evidence. A prime example are the &quot
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by orbifold 5y ago
Well this involves the German Supreme Court, any kind of corruption there would be Europe wide, if not World news.
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by orbifold 5y ago
These conservation laws apply to open systems (which biological platforms are). All ready at the cell level the primary concern is how to "efficiently" do energy cascades which sometimes have unintended (irreversible) side-effects
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by orbifold 5y ago
It is kind of scary I’ve observed myself going to the “trending” hashtags section more and more.
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by orbifold 5y ago
Yeah, whenever I see others scrolling through content at Facebook, I can't help but wonder who would voluntarily subject themselves to so much garbage information. It is similar with Twitter, which I use for "science communication
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by orbifold 5y ago
Who would want to buy a Facebook phone and with what operating system? I think “Social OS” could have been a good idea, but the actual Facebook App sucks.
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by orbifold 5y ago
One of my favourite memories from school was translating parts of Cicero's words from latin. He is considered "easy" to read and translate precisely because he took great care of not using difficult or ambiguous language in h
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by orbifold 5y ago
It is kind of fun to just not follow national news and then get into conversations with relatives / friends that do. Most conversations are really pre-programmed including the views that they will have. "Telegram is bad because it
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by orbifold 5y ago
There is at least one example of dolphin in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_dolphin_drive_hunt .
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The BrainScaleS-2 accelerated neuromorphic system with hybrid plasticity(arxiv.org)
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by orbifold 5y ago
Pretty sure it is the NSA (Nakamoto SAtoshi), most likely they’ve broken the underlying cryptographic primitives and now use Bitcoins as their slush fund. It also fits perfectly with their mission statement, as they can now precisely track
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by orbifold 5y ago
Sure but that doesn't include shutting down Telegram. It is easy enough to infiltrate those groups and keep them under surveillance. You can do very basic police work to counter act them.
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by orbifold 5y ago
I judge them very harshly, they deserve no respect or sympathy. It should never be acceptable to walk with people that minimise the holocaust or talk openly about how they had talks with former army members of armed insurrection in their te
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by orbifold 5y ago
The answer to that is to counterorganise, civil disruption of their protests by other members of society, not repression by the government.
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by orbifold 5y ago
I wouldn’t have a problem with it if it was just that. Police here deserve to be stress tested and in principle you can spontaneously declare something to be an assembly by naming someone the assembly leader. The issue is their message and
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by orbifold 5y ago
Arguably in a well run society those groups would have so little power / influence that they wouldn’t be limited by how well they are able to communicate privately. The student protests in the 70s and coocurring terror campaign was not
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by orbifold 5y ago
The end point matters, we can’t be sure what the final death toll per Million will be in Finnland or Sweden.
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by orbifold 5y ago
Teenagers will be cruel no matter what. Finding non-shitty friends in Highschool is an important skill, that is pretty much independent of what phone you have.
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by orbifold 5y ago
we named our prototype chips after British nuclear test codenames and all machines used to be terminator characters :).
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by orbifold 5y ago
Wild conspiracy: What if the omicron variant was created by the same process as is used in GoF research more generally. Use humanised mice with human ACE2 receptors and pass it through them over many generations selecting for infectiousness
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by orbifold 5y ago
EcoHealth alliance is as transparent of an intelligence front as it gets.

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