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by peter303 8y ago
The human forebrain may inhibit some emotion. Injury tonthe fore brain- trauma, stroke, dementia plaques- sometimes results in highly emotional people.
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by peter303 8y ago
This was only the second cure of several dozen similar marrow transplant procedures ech costing on the order of six figures. And with 50 million around the world infected and 40 years of searching for a reliable cure. Its far more likely th
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by peter303 8y ago
The scary thing is that humanity is highly susceptible to another plague whether it is STD like AIDS or some other transmission. We live in contact with strangers. Air travel can carry a diseaes around the world in a couple of days. This wa
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by peter303 8y ago
Such compression tricks were also used save money on costly telegraph messages. The telegraph was arguably the first internet device, tying the world together at lightspeed. But wires were expensive and messages consequently so. A standard
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by peter303 8y ago
I have been coding for 49 years. And people seem to be imventing new languages at a steady rate the entire period. The cutrent emphasis is mobile full stack and cloud OS.
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by peter303 8y ago
I call out BS one dollar a charge. At 12 cents a kwh in OK its almost $2 to charge 16 kwh of batteries. And I live in a state adjacent to OK withe the same nominal kwh charge. However when you include all the #$&*: fees (like cellphones
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by peter303 8y ago
Various sources say that lime production for concrete creates around 1/12th of the anthroprogenic atmospheric carbon. On the other hand, wood is a temporary carbon sink until ot burns or decays.
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by peter303 8y ago
My university has a 6 year limit on postdocs.
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by peter303 8y ago
I get 3rd party solar sales calls nearly every day. I cut to the point and tell them my all-LED house plus new refrigerator averages 85 kwh month. That stops them cold because they require 1000 kwh to make a profit. Maybe if I got an EV I c
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by peter303 8y ago
Almost caught up to the capabilities of Ted Nelsons Xanadu Hypertext System from the mid 20th century.
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by peter303 8y ago
Fewer do-it-yourself options with the demise of Radio Shack. In my town MictoCenter fills the gap with Raspberry Pi kits, Arduino and components.
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by peter303 8y ago
Each level in the system INCLUDING PHYSICIANS gets a cut.Thein entice is to keep raising prices.
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by peter303 8y ago
Insulin has been around 90 years. Its gone through several different methods of extraction and manufacturing. They know how to make it high quality and inexpensive.
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by peter303 8y ago
But count we are really mitochondrians- a hundred times as many of them inside us as human cells. So human cells are really just vessels for mitochondria to make nore mitochondria with a bit of embelishment on the side.
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by peter303 8y ago
Thats what I call the Devils bargain: sex and death invented together a billion years ago. But it seems to worked in evolving complex life.
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by peter303 8y ago
ML was covered in my 1972 AI course at MIT.
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by peter303 8y ago
Considering all 302 nerouns and 7000 synapses in c. elegans has been known for a decade. But how this maps into c. elegans behavior is not understood. Multiply this by a hundred million to get mammalian complexity
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by peter303 8y ago
Article said identical twins. So I'd expect around a couple thousand SNP differences. Each cell devision has about 30 mutations. Embroyo bifurcated within a dozen or so cell divisions. Dr. Hayflict found human soma cells live aboutb50
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by peter303 8y ago
People speculate there may have been a wider variety of DNA coding in the past. But natural selection plus perhaps some reaction energetics versus complexity settled on the current system. There was probably a simpler two nuclide encoding v
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by peter303 8y ago
I heard Jaron said something like this back in the 1980s. Glad I didnt hold my breath. We probably need the Avatar of VR- a storytelling where stereo was good and added to the story.
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by peter303 8y ago
These played a role during the Enlightment, American and European revolutions. A person of strong political views and middle class means could write, publish and distribute an anonymous political pamphlet. Establishment governments often di
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by peter303 8y ago
Also for better solar batteries. Direct solar to dissociated hydrogen & oxygen. Might eventually be more efficient than solar generated electricity if you read some of the university press releases.
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by peter303 8y ago
Plus there are several similar books about early female computers in astronomy, Manhattan project, and electronic computers. Many interesting stories. I dont know if more movies are planned. A small bit about this in the Turion bioptic The
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by peter303 8y ago
I remember people doing this for seismc data analysis piggy-backed UNIX pipes 40 years ago. They would send and transform JSON-like metadata down the pipe while the massive seismic data would remain in disk files or shared core memory. I th
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by peter303 8y ago
I was under the impression that Forth was originally a tiny language on eight bit computers. Its stack-implented reverse polish syntax required few computer resources.
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by peter303 8y ago
Israel and India may be sending landers to the Moon too. India has sent orbiters to the Moon and Mars. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Orbiter_Mission_2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra
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by peter303 8y ago
There was a television story about Chinas DSN station in Argentina. I think it was 60 Minutes, but could not find the link. The story alleged China could be spyingof world satellites with these radio dishes. The locals are of mixed opinion.
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by peter303 8y ago
14 missions to comets, 20 to asteroids, and around 50 planetary small moons imaged well enough to see their shapes. Under a hundred miles in diameter many have irregular shapes. I would guess this shape only occurs a few percent of the time
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by peter303 8y ago
In my town we have something called The Science Cafe. The presenter has describe an interesting topic in 20 minutes without [computer] slides, followed by Q&A. This is not easy now that conference talks and course lectures heavily use p
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by peter303 8y ago
A variant is to 'explain it to your spouse'. (Ignoring these days your partner might be better educated than you.)

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