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by pygy_ 9y ago
https://github.com/radi-js/radi/blob/eace84e9b74c944b233f631... It parses the source code of the view function at run time, matching parentheses, but ignoring whether those are present in strings or regexes.
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by pygy_ 9y ago
The Great Oxygenation Event. Sounds like a fun party of massive death and extermination.
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The sun output and the earth surface are constant, that's the zero sum resources I was talking about. > Putting solar cells in barren deserts isn't going to disrupt local lifeforms simply because there aren't any. No, but
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by pygy_ 9y ago
Renewable energy has an environmental cost as well. The solar and wind energy that isn't currently used by humans is dissipated by atmospheric, marine, geological and biological processes. It is a zero-sum game, and increasing our cons
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The limitation for weather forecast is floating point precision, which lead predictions to diverge with reality because the small losses of precision add up to large discrepancies as time passes, in chaotic systems. If we could compute with
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by pygy_ 9y ago
Isn't chaos (in the mathematical sense) purely deterministic? Those processes are very sensitive to the initial condition, but given the same seed, they'll evolve identically.
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by pygy_ 9y ago
Slightly off topic, but here's a sweet tune named "Perpetuum Mobile" by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra (what I heard immediatley in my head while reading your comment). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3znZoFnN8
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by pygy_ 9y ago
Looks like we're in agreement on the fundamentals :-) My point here is that renewable energy has an ecologic footprint that goes beyond the ostensible animal deaths caused by the blades of wind turbines. It is a zero sum game, and it i
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Transcription factors are proteins that activate or inhibit genes, including the genes of other transcription factors. They form complex regulation network isomorphic to neuronal networks. It looks like consciousness arises from what the br
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by pygy_ 9y ago
Please stop with the "serious convesation" FUD. Structural differences are no barrier to functional equivalence. Transcription factors are proteins that activate or inhibit the transcription rate of other genes, including those of
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by pygy_ 9y ago
There's no reason to believe that single cells can't be conscious too. You'd have to eat organic molecule synthesized through a non-biological, industrial process that feeds on energy harvested in space, so that all solar ene
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by pygy_ 9y ago
Provided there are single cell organisms with eyes[1], and transcription factors form DNA-based activation/inhibition networks conceptually indistinguishable from neuronal networks, debating whether plants have subjective experience (&
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It is, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218616
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The feature landed in the nightly trunk, it has to go through the alpha/beta release channels.
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Seeing the score jump up and down, this seems controversial, I'll expand a bit: Our economy is a dissipative structure, not unlike fire, nuclear chain reactions and living organisms. It consumes energy (dissipates it, actually, increas
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by pygy_ 9y ago
Work is power. The obsolescence of humans in the workforce means that we are gradually being stripped of the power to put a roof over our heads and bread in our plates while capital becomes independent. At this point, feeding non-productive
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by pygy_ 9y ago
I'm suspicious of growth curves that are still supra-linear when plotted in log scale...
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Intermediate Rust user. Obviously she excels at coding.
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by pygy_ 9y ago
LuaJIT does the same, down to an absurd level. From the luafun library readme (which uses iterators under the hood): https://github.com/luafun/luafun ———— > Let's see an example: > -- Functional style
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by pygy_ 9y ago
The enthusiasm is part of the appeal for me.
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by pygy_ 9y ago
mRNA can be re-used by the target cells. It could be an amplification mechanism (assuming fan-out distribution).
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by pygy_ 9y ago
I agree that looking for loops would be interesting but they actually discard subgraphs without a source and a sink, i.e. loops. https://youtu.be/akgU8nRNIp0?t=2m23s
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by pygy_ 9y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I would frame things differently. We are animals, and everything we do is part of nature. Nature isn't either inherently good or evil, and natural processes can be self-destructive. And while we probably do
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by pygy_ 9y ago
It may not be semantically required, but redundancy adds emphasis and makes things easier to process.
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by pygy_ 9y ago
The addition of the NX bit to CPUs blurs the line between Von Neuman and Harvard architectures. Giving an attacker a JIT makes it easier for them to lay out memory with the NX bit set to zero (executable memory) that they can later jump int
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by pygy_ 9y ago
> I have had a very hard time explaining to people that I just think thoughts, like flashes of... thinking, without words or actions or images. It's like when speaking or typing, you already know what you're going to say or ty
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by pygy_ 9y ago
That reasoning completely falls on its face though. AFAIK, Stroke patients whose language areas have been destroyed are still able to perform complex tasks. You can think visually and procedurally (imagining actions) without putting things
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The signs painted in caves have been preserved to this day but at the time I guess that they were also used outside, on rocks and on trees, and that they were lost to time... With perhaps the exception of dance, the classic arts really are
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by pygy_ 9y ago
>> Do you fault country’s coast guards > The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a private organization [1]. Private entities are allowed to enforce the law in international waters, actually.
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by pygy_ 9y ago
That's a very good point and I don't know either. Possibly: the process to manufacture the molecules is also patented, and you must make the racemic mix to extract the active enantiomer. Not sure though.

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