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by peter303 4y ago
There was talk of REMOVING a second soon because the Earth's rotation had sped up a bit. Physicists havent figured out the cause of the speed up. The previous slow downs were attributed to tidal friction and global warming (expanding s
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by peter303 4y ago
Like parts of the ISS will be privatized after 2030. Could form parts of new space stations.
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by peter303 4y ago
Tiangoon flybys can reaches magnitude -2 now. Bright than most planets. Next bright evening flybys overUS in early December. The ISS, which has five times more modules, reaches magnitude -4 sometimes. Third brightest thing in sky.
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by peter303 4y ago
Lucille Ball's best or second best decision in television history was to greenlight Star Trek. It was not a straightforward process, requiring an unusual 2nd pilot.
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by peter303 4y ago
Musk's purchase premium increased their stock value a considerable amount.
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by peter303 4y ago
In the early days computer programming was considered a clerical job one learned in trade schools. I think people looked down on it partly because many of the early programmers were female, beneath the dignity of a male profession. It rook
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by peter303 4y ago
In one of my early scientist-programmer jobs I was assigned an assistant to keypunch, submit jobs and pick up printouts. The other scientists thought I was odd for wanting to do all this myself. I had much more productivity than them.
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by peter303 4y ago
Submit GPT-3 written journal articles to vanity journals. They deserve each other.
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by peter303 4y ago
The good news was it was successful. The bad news is they way under predicted the amount of redirection. Back to the physics drawing board to understand this.
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by peter303 4y ago
Better than Google Glass which was 20 minutes in video mode.
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by peter303 4y ago
A "killer app" may be new employee training. I heard in a Stanford computer seminar that VR accelerates training with stronger learning.
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by peter303 4y ago
Though emeritus, Don gives an annual lecture around December. Often on an algorithm.
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by peter303 4y ago
I hope AlphaFold is a contender for the physiology prize. It converted a formerly slow tedious process of determining protein shape into something fast and routine. The millions of results should revolutionize biology and medicine.
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by peter303 4y ago
There was a significant television ad campaign against this bill (before the autumn election ads started). They claimed many of our beloved tech apps and services would disappear or become very costly. I dont think the audience paid much at
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by peter303 4y ago
People have been processing foods since the beginning. (1) Changing texture by removing rough parts, beating into mushes. (2) Heat processing, boiling, roasting, frying, soups. (3) Dehydrating, drying (4) Fermenting. Modern industrial food
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by peter303 4y ago
The second identifiable person to have his genome sequenced- James Watson- had around 30 known genome defects at the time. However most of them did not manifest as disease. That is a mystery.
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by peter303 4y ago
A similar argument could be made for China. They had expertise and capital, but not the incentives to jump to an industrial economy.
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by peter303 4y ago
Rose is considered a founder of American Libertarian movement. People debate whether some these ideas crept into her Moms books which Rose heavily edited.
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by peter303 4y ago
FLOW sounds like an an adult college dormitory. Tenants would rent/buy a private bedroom & bathroom. Living room, kitchen, offices, recreation would be common facilities. This probably wouldnt work for adults who wish to raise fami
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by peter303 4y ago
Perhaps art is the next profession relegated to unemployment because of computerization.
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by peter303 4y ago
I think this experiment shows that humans overestimate their innate creativity. Most of thoughts build upon earlier thoughts and experiences. A sophisticated language model can emulate most of our routine thoughts. The philosopher Gurdjieff
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by peter303 4y ago
Death usually is not that sudden. Only 20%-25% of deaths are surprising and occur 24 hours or less according the Nuland's "How We Die" and other studies. The other 75% are slower processes giving us plenty of time to contempl
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by peter303 4y ago
Yet there is effective vaccine. But only 200,000 doses available so far for 5,000,000 who regularly have this kind of sex. Plus you have tell people to abstain from sex for the six weeks for two vaccine does to take effect and not get sick.
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by peter303 4y ago
Two reasons why this hypothesis may not be true: 1) Universal failure of plaque-reduction drug trials. 2) Numerous post-mortem counter-examples: dementia w/o plaques and plaques without dementia.
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by peter303 4y ago
First Star Wars first space battle. Nothing like that before.
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by peter303 4y ago
Venters company was charging $25K. That included lots of other diagnostic tests too. (Venter was the first human sequenced. By his own company.)
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by peter303 4y ago
LUVOIR is a foldable mirror telescope, larger than JWST, UV to near IR, like Hubble. Congress has a bad test in mouth from JWST delays and overruns. Pehaps dozens of majornew discoveries will help. Roman is next in queue with many of its pa
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by peter303 4y ago
MIT's SPARC figured out how to manufacture high temperature superconductor magnets. That shrinks the size of the magnets and power consumption.
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by peter303 4y ago
Even our libraries do social services now. Libraries have become street people congregation places, especially in bad weather. Ours (Denver) has security force of 30 to escort out misbehaving patrons. They also have a couple social workers
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by peter303 4y ago
Denver 911 now sends out social services as first responder if judged non-life threatening. For example a common 911 call asksfora ride to health service.

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