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by ordu 4y ago
> We have so many problems where physics is needed (energy production to start with, and then exploring biology) How can physics help to explore biology? At a first half of 20th century biology experienced a flow of physicist convertin
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by ordu 4y ago
I think, that they presented on Internet as a soup of pointers, because it is the obvious and general way to do it. Other ways like connectivity matrix are less general: if you have a lot of nodes, and by several orders of magnitude less th
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by ordu 4y ago
> Ok got it. No you didn't.
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by ordu 4y ago
> How exactly do you infer that? 1. You show that you care about tradition. And you show not a slightest attempt to care about people. Words reflect mind. Not perfectly, but there is one more consideration: 2. I heard a lot from privil
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by ordu 4y ago
> I wear the thread the same reason It doesn't matter what reasons you have. What matters is the consequence of your behavior, namely, it is visible difference between castes, which makes discrimination easier and avoiding discri
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by ordu 4y ago
It does. Don't let the best to be an enemy of the good. World is not painted in black and white, it isn't even in shades of gray. Even colors of rainbow wouldn't be enough, because they can be mixed in the real world. Black a
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by ordu 4y ago
So in treacle mines[1] people mine for sugar from a prehistoric sea? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacle_mining
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by ordu 4y ago
> when I think of a couple moments in songs that always give me chills There are a couple of songs giving me chills when I'm singing them myself. Not every time, only when I'm in a appropriate mood. So expectation violation d
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> His points on Ukraine are nuanced. Probably they are. I suspect I need to witness them firsthand.
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by ordu 4y ago
I'm surprised. I didn't read or hear what Noam Chomsky says, but judging by his points brought up by the article, he is just repeating Putin's propaganda. He even uses their methods of changing topic from an uncomfortable one
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by ordu 4y ago
> An empty shelf of baby formulas Can I ask you why you've chosen this particular example? It is not about I agree with you, or I'm going to contradict in a some way, it is completely unrelated question. A complete off-topic.
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by ordu 4y ago
It was popular between Russian patriots to believe in a cunning plan of Putin. The phrase "хитрый план" (cunning plan) is a separate meme. But lately I believe they have no plans. They just do what they can, without thinking too m
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by ordu 4y ago
> Give an orca hands and human speech and there's nothing we know about neuroscience to imply that the animal wouldn't be smarter and more capable than humans. Humans have one more difference from others: human cubs are born
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by ordu 4y ago
We rather had protection. Anthropic principle tell us nothing about our future. Only about our past.
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> We will be ashes long before any physical material hits earth. Earth is a moving target, so will physical material hit Earth after we have been incinerated by the radiation of the jet? Or can we get hit by a physical material after w
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by ordu 4y ago
Can someone explain to a layman, is it good to have a high metabolic rate? It can burn more calories, so the risk of obesity becomes lower, isn't it?
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by ordu 4y ago
> Many of the remaining students were distracted, looking nervously at the box every minute. There are many possible reasons to look at the phone. Some were mentioned in comments, I can add two more. It may be a reflex action triggered
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by ordu 4y ago
> Frequentist probability is objective because it defined in terms of falsifiable real-world observations. An objective definition of probability can be used to resolve disagreements between scientists. A subjective definition cannot. T
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by ordu 4y ago
This behavior of police seems to me as a lazy way to do their job. Even a way to not do their job. To make place safe for children they need to keep an eye on kids, not to to round them up.
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by ordu 4y ago
This cuneiform is from 350 to 50 BCE. 350BCE is in the lifetime of Aristotle. 50BCE is long after Archimedes was dead. So it is easily can be that Babylonians learned something from Greeks.
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by ordu 4y ago
> Spreading seeds from the air you're basically spreading bird food. "These pods are manufactured using waste biomass, providing a carbon rich coating that protects the seeds from birds, insects and rodents."
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by ordu 4y ago
You can say what you like about razors, but I like shaving foam. It seems it has some additions to reduce sensitivity and to stop bleeding. So if you blades are dull, you will feel nothing. No more need to overcome pain or to run to a store
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by ordu 4y ago
The word "bullied" in that context was picked by me, not by Musk. So this particular choice tells you something about me, not about Musk.
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by ordu 4y ago
> it’s particularly difficult to reconcile this information with the man that Musk has now become. This difficulty I believe stems from the narrow perspective that had taken. If we try to generalize Musk's position, to think not o
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by ordu 5y ago
From the abstract of the article. Here, we design and engineer artificial, genetically tractable, photosynthetic endosymbiosis between photosynthetic cyanobacteria and budding yeasts. We engineer various mutants of model photosynthetic cya
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by ordu 5y ago
Sadly they didn't discussed the main selling point of GCs (in my opinion). GC can move objects in memory and often does it. It can affect cache locality, so less of cache misses. Moreover no more heap fragmentation. There are different
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by ordu 5y ago
Meaning is inherently subjective, so there is no point in the appeal to objectivity.
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24-hour race won by molecule that traveled 1 micron(arstechnica.com)
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by ordu 5y ago
Yeah, those guys kept kicking or pushing cats preventing them to orient themselves. Cats were surprised by the lack of gravity, but they were not given a chance to adapt to new circumstances.
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by ordu 5y ago
Wind blowing into a face is something special. Watch dogs, they are crazy about it. Like cats can't resist hiding in a box, so dogs can't resist heading against the wind. :) Though, seriously speaking, I don't know really. I

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