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Adaptive games promise high scores for everyone (newscientist.com)
4 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
"stories" are the tragedy with science. I don't care who was called what and who changed stance. All I need to know is both sides of the argument and the strengths of their respective evidences.
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by prat 17y ago
Solar variation and ocean effects are known cyclicals while man made CO2 is monotonically increasing. So the worst case scenario will arise when cyclicals get in phase with the CO2 effect, i.e. all cyclicals get in heat phase. It is premat
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by prat 17y ago
Maybe Ajay didn't want the spotlight - so what they did was the next best honor by atleast using his real name.
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by prat 17y ago
here is the non-paginated link http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/concept-phones-ceatec...
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Some amazing future phone designs(wired.com)
2 points by prat 17y ago|1 comments
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How 'superswarms' of krill gather(news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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Key-Plus-Ring (Why Didn't We Think of That?) (wired.com)
12 points by prat 17y ago|8 comments
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by prat 17y ago
If TV industry ever wants to make that vision true, they would not only have to make TV viewing interactive but also have to provide a button that gives viewers a choice to skip ads.
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by prat 17y ago
"If the bank returns your check marked “Insufficient Funds,” you call them and ask if they meant you or them." Ha..
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Humans less diverse than chimps(sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
2 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
"iterative and incremental projects" that's it.
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by prat 17y ago
If this the only one you have read, then try slaughterhouse 5 too.
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by prat 17y ago
"there was no point in the book where I actively felt a desire to know what would happen next" I agree - at the same time, after reading a couple of his other books, I feel this is the only kind of fiction that I can simply go to a book sto
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by prat 17y ago
"Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroach
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Living where the sun don't shine(economist.com)
3 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
There have been a number of targeted sequencing experiments of breast cancer cells before: using next gen sequencing platforms and microarrays. Comlpete sequencing is by no means a breakthrough. A complete sequencing (3bn letters) has not b
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by prat 17y ago
There is another link that provides slightly more info than just the rank http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/Rankings2009-Top200.ht... Like peer review score, employer score etc. But even then, I think this is more like a voting scheme
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The butterfly effect gets entangled(scientificamerican.com)
8 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
Indian Institute of Technology is not listed? That's a shame. There are 7 institutes and atleast one of them should easily be in top 10. But again that's just my opinion.
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Personal genomics firms must come clean (newscientist.com)
3 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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Cheap naked chips snap a perfect picture (newscientist.com)
2 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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Inferior males get lucky too - a study on finches (newscientist.com)
2 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
This video is old - but I though it was worth watching again after reading the paper. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
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BigDog, the Rough-Terrain Quaduped Robot(bostondynamics.com)
2 points by prat 17y ago|1 comments
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Compassionate commercialism(randomhouse.com)
2 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments
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by prat 17y ago
I agree - the question always IS when and not whether:) slowdown has a non-zero probability and will happen - the nontrivial part is predicting whether in a decade or five?
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by prat 17y ago
All I could gather from the post is - "great incentives attract great talent produces great software".
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by prat 17y ago
"China's inevitable slowdown" - what is the basis of that prediction?
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Bacterium that extracts gold from its environment(newscientist.com)
3 points by prat 17y ago|1 comments

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