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Occam's Boxcutter(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndn 12y ago
Isn't the problem that trees do not permanently bind the CO2? You would have to burry the trees when they die so that the carbon does not get released into the atmosphere again. (I might be wrong though.)
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by rndn 12y ago
Is it correct that this is a quantum mechanical effect, i.e. that the wave function of each photon interferes with itself?
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by rndn 12y ago
I had similar thoughts recently. This kind of hierarchical and persistent 'view' into a graph (the web) could possibly be useful in other contexts (perhaps even as a general computer interface), and not just for graphs but general
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by rndn 12y ago
There is a very simple extension called Tab Counter which works very well together with TSTs and it helps to remind me when it's time to clean up the tab bar. It also appears to bring peace of mind that all tabs are still there, it&#x2
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by rndn 12y ago
Exactly, it's a disgusting attitude. IMHO, our future robots shouldn't be built by people without some sense for aesthetics.
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Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification(arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu)
3 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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List of mathematical jargon(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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Jets from Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko(apod.nasa.gov)
1 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndn 12y ago
Which technology do you think is the most worthwhile one? Nuclear power?
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by rndn 12y ago
I have three questions regarding self-hosted social networks: (1) Isn't it a huge advantage of social networks like Facebook that it's a central instance which can remove accidentally leaked data from the network and which prevent
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Breach of Trust: Mathematicians are questioning their ties with the NSA [pdf](sciencemag.org)
6 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndn 12y ago
I like this concept in particular, because it has no mechanical parts in contact with the water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcStpg3i5V8 Edit: It seems however that tidal power is a more interesting research area [1]. I
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by rndn 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105485 Even more: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20Privacy%20Matters%20even...
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CuriousInventor (video)(youtube.com)
1 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndn 12y ago
> It simulates being very productive (which in a meta sense you are), and for me that represents "goodness" in my self image. I think these sort of games are also excellent examples for the sunk cost fallacy [1]. They make yo
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by rndn 12y ago
I've experienced a couple of really bad downvotes as well lately, and they had definitely no intention of editorial feedback, but it was quite obviously mindless prejudice, almost on the level of /r/politics or /r/w
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P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndn 12y ago
No?
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by rndn 12y ago
It would be actually interesting to hear about this difference from someone who is working on autonomous cars for both highways and Autobahns. I still wouldn't call the difference 'massive' (at least not in terms of how much
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by rndn 12y ago
I find it interesting and also sobering that the connectome of the C. elegans is known since 1986 but it's still far from obvious what to do with it.
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by rndn 12y ago
In my experience there is no significant difference between an Autobahn and a North American highway regarding the difficulty of navigation. The tricky parts are the ramps, exits, construction zones and merging, and they occur roughly with
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by rndn 12y ago
Here is the paper: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys... http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/nphys3196?utm_campa... PS: Didn't Nature d
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Particles accelerate without a push(newsoffice.mit.edu)
73 points by rndn 12y ago|11 comments
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Open MIND(open-mind.net)
5 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndn 12y ago
The web server appears to be overwhelmed at the moment. Here are cashed versions of the list [1] and the about page [2]. [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... [2] http://we
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Open Questions in Physics(math.ucr.edu)
1 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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Top Ten Unsolved Problems In Physics(oglethorpe.edu)
2 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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Physics: What We Do and Don’t Know by Steven Weinberg (2013)(nybooks.com)
2 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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Seven tools for thinking [pdf](web2.cuyamaca.edu)
3 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments

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