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by sam-2727 5y ago
This is interesting -- I can almost recognize the various Pixar characters these are influenced by. For instance, one has the distinct jaw of the old man from "up".
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by sam-2727 5y ago
Hah! For a second, I thought from the HN title that this was written in 1927.
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by sam-2727 5y ago
best of luck in your studies! Are you learning GR for a certain task or just for your own enjoyment?
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by sam-2727 5y ago
I'm skeptical of how egalitarian the top 6% (for UT Austin) policy actually is. All this does is guarantee you admission to the university, not a specific major. So, while you can gain admission easily to a liberal arts major, you aren
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Using Benford's Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation(mindmatters.ai)
5 points by sam-2727 5y ago|2 comments
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Combating Spoofed Robocalls with Caller ID Authentication(fcc.gov)
1 points by sam-2727 5y ago|0 comments
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by sam-2727 5y ago
It can definitely feel not as cool from a popular science perspective but there are many unanswered questions about the Oort Cloud so study of this object would be scientifically invaluable, even if it doesn't yield any "pop-sci&q
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by sam-2727 5y ago
Certainly interesting, but not necessarily surprising. The Oort Cloud is roughly spherical so inclination would be expected to be isotropic overall. On average there will be less high inclination bodies (isotropic inclination has a pdf of s
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Possible Existence of a Neutron (1932)(nature.com)
2 points by sam-2727 5y ago|0 comments
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by sam-2727 5y ago
By far not an expert in this area, but if (when?) we successfully generate true intelligence, I suspect it will be through some sort of "ensemble" model, where multiple agents are trained in parallel and interact with each other.
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Boom in ships that fly ‘fake’ flags and trash the environment(nature.com)
3 points by sam-2727 5y ago|0 comments
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by sam-2727 5y ago
Totally agree. It's easy, as an unexperienced individual, to get tied up into mysterious patterns present in martian imagery and immediately jump to the conclusion of life if you don't know of the underlying physical processes. Ev
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by sam-2727 5y ago
The first author has had questionable publications in the past: "Quantum Physics of God: How Consciousness Became the Universe and Created Itself" ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344906681_Quantum_P.
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by sam-2727 6y ago
I think the article title is not representing the actual finding well. Stated better in this article: https://earthsky.org/space/2i-borisov-pristine-comet-interst... , "2I/Borisov could represent the first tru