rnabel

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by rnabel 3y ago
It looks like the current road tax frameworks of many countries use either CO2 emissions or car price as a main factor for road tax, which presumably correlates with weight - except for EVs. Seems like at least the CO2 bit will have to chan
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by rnabel 3y ago
Yes, the noise level is measured on the ground directly below the flight path of the plane. Interestingly, it’s not just the volume but also the pattern of the boom that can be altered by changing the design of the plane. There’s a great di
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by rnabel 5y ago
There is a great part in “Now it can be told”[0] which discusses the counter intelligence efforts of the Manhattan Project - specifically when trying to figure out how far along Nazi development was. The upshot is: approximately nowhere, II
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by rnabel 6y ago
I also looked into this and ended up being successful when searching for photography lights and corn cob LEDs. Corn cob bulbs at 40-60 Watts each are cheap (~20USD in the UK), provide ~4K lumens each, and 2-3 are bright enough to get to day
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by rnabel 6y ago
That was some of the best accessible scientific writing I recently came across - thanks for sharing! What an exciting time to work in that field. Their article on the Ötzi discovery [0] is also well worth a read. [0] https://secr
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by rnabel 7y ago
I would recommend reading this article by The Guardian on palm oil: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/19/palm-oil-ingred... (It is also available in podcast form) From the article: > Most impo
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by rnabel 9y ago
> "the father of sociobology" I will never understand why people write articles without a spell-checker.
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by rnabel 9y ago
Same here! Sadly they don't seem to be made any more...
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by rnabel 9y ago
A good book on this topic, which discusses this particular study is "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" by Ericsson and Pool.
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by rnabel 9y ago
Interesting point re the zone-programming and being a cowboy programmer. I don't think that 'in the zone'-programming has to produce bad code, though (if that's what you are saying). I'd argue that it depends on wha
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by rnabel 9y ago
I generally disagree that the university network is unimportant. "85% of All Jobs are Filled Via Networking"[1]; the network in most cases (certainly mine) will consist of people they met at or through university. In this case, I
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by rnabel 9y ago
This is a good point - what strikes me about these arguments, however, is that the biggest problem (IMHO) stems from the fact that the economy often relies on local optimization, not global optimization. If we optimized human life quality g
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by rnabel 9y ago
This is a very good point. The only problem would be if people with an ASD are highly self-selecting into the technical field, thus being a significant influence. Below is what I could find in academic journals. TL;DR it is not significant
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by rnabel 9y ago
The way that I understand it, the SQL databases are not empty and the mining process, if similar to standard blockchains, will mean that the block's hash has to be of a specific format. Thus data can be distributed, e.g. academic art
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by rnabel 9y ago
Very broad question but related: this blog [0] discusses how a modelling product was used to simulate the internet backbone. If your aim is real-time reaction modelling of actors, this could theoretically be implemented using such a system.
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by rnabel 9y ago
(Related) How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman Discussion which contains a number of good comments about weakening DH: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973365 Paper: http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/644
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by rnabel 9y ago
I agree, it is a similar situation in most European countries atm. However, the fact that the service is not great now should not be taken as an indication that the service cannot be great in the future. If you look at the US market, both p
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by rnabel 9y ago
Improbable's SpatialOS is not a VR platform in the Oculus-way. Real-time simulations can be (and are) used as the backbone for super-expansive game universes which are visualised using VR graphics engines (or any other technology, real
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by rnabel 9y ago
Besides games, there is potential to run real-world simulations. If you can describe the behaviour of a single agent, you can accurately predict how a large number of such agents, e.g. humans, would act given an environment, say a city. The
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by rnabel 9y ago
Interesting, I am not aware of what happened re the US$13B bill (quoteed this figure in GBP in my prev response). As I indicated, this is not tax aversion but simply "clever" structuring of their EU operation. Paying employees inc
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by rnabel 9y ago
The article may be referring to 'sweetheart deals' Apple struck with Ireland: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/apple-ordere... According to the article, Apple paid an effective corpor
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by rnabel 9y ago
Wikipedia lists this fund as the developer: http://www.goldenbrickcapital.com/en/Aboutus.html
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by rnabel 9y ago
I would encourage you to read up on what the gene-centered view actually states. > that doesn't make any sense If you look at the criticism leveled against this theory you will find that many of them have been addressed by the propo
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by rnabel 9y ago
In many ways, the tooling around web development is far superior to other languages (e.g. golang with delve). Most browsers ship with excellent debug tools. The caveat obviously being that debugging code written using some JS frameworks, li
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by rnabel 10y ago
> old people ... eventually seem to stop catching up to the rest of society If (happy to be proven wrong here) we can assume that this trend has to do with an age-related decrease in brain functionality, maybe this could be mitigated any
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by rnabel 10y ago
philipkglass probaby refers to pain inflicted as a side-effect of aging (joint pains etc.) not the immediate precursors to death.
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by rnabel 10y ago
I couldn't find one, but from what I gather from the docs[1] you can give it basically any tsv file of high dimensional data. You can have a dig around in the repo here[2]. [1] https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/m