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by sampo 4y ago
And later the Western elites did it again: Quite successfully persuaded the 3rd world countries to not make use of the improved crop varieties that were bred with the assistance of gene technology.
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by sampo 4y ago
This is a very cynical and opportunistic way to do science. It may be the winning strategy to play the academic game and advance your career, though.
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by sampo 4y ago
> What saved us was the invention of Haber-Bosch process, chemical synthesis of nitrogen fertilizer from air nitrogen. Of equal importance is Norman Borlaug, who bred new wheat and corn varieties that were able to make use of the fertili
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Primitive Technology: Iron knife made from bacteria(youtube.com)
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It's the continuation of the same line of work that long ago gave us nuclear power, nuclear bombs, nuclear medicine (MRI and PET scans, cancer treatments). We don't know if this line of work has / will have practical value a
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by sampo 4y ago
It's been a tradition for 90 years now. Since first "high energy" particle accelerator in 1932, we have used particle accelerator to smash and study subatomic particles. First we found a whole zoo of them, but then 1961 Gell-
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by sampo 4y ago
> farm's emission of nitrogen Air is 78% nitrogen (N2). This is about nitrous oxide (N2O) and ammonia (HN3).
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by sampo 4y ago
But people in those countries, where Netherlands has traditionally exported food, might suffer food shortages?
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by sampo 4y ago
They want you to make good quality audio recordings of you speaking about 20 000 phrases. It could take 40 to 80 hours of speaking and recording, maximum 4 hours per day. https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic-recording-stu
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by sampo 4y ago
Title is: What is Box<str> and how is it different from String in Rust?
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by sampo 4y ago
> How on earth can citizens of state 1 go after citizens of state 2 for something that's legal in state 2? Just like how the US federal government can go after non-US citizens for something that is legal in their non-US country? Per
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by sampo 4y ago
> The European Court of Human Rights came to the exact opposite conclusion as Obergefell a year after that case, finding that the EU Convention on Human Right's marriage article did not apply to same-sex couples. The European Court
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by sampo 4y ago
Ikea Starkvind flow rates: From https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/starkvind-air-purifier-white-00... "Product details" and then "Other documents" gives you https://www.ikea.com/
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by sampo 4y ago
The computer as a whole has an entry (3.) in the top500 list. And then the cpu-only part of the computer has another entry (84.). The whole computer does about 150 PFlop/s, and the cpu-only part about 6 PFlop/s. So 96% of the comp
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by sampo 4y ago
And principle is spelled principal in one place. I wonder if principle/principal border/boarder could have/could of their/they're its/it's will just become accepted alternative Eng
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by sampo 4y ago
> I believe one end of the Houston metro area to the other is almost as far as London to Birmingham. One end of the London metro area to the other (say, from Reading to Southend-on-Sea) is almost (half of the distance) as far as London t
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by sampo 4y ago
Why would you make line plots, with a category variable on the x-axis? Bar charts would be appropriate here. Also, the lines seem to have way more line segments than there are labels on visible on the x-axis, so what do the graphs even mean
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by sampo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen#Special_Economic_Zone...
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by sampo 4y ago
I read on the internet, that HEPA filters actually just filter better when they start getting clogged. But clogging increases air resistance, so you need higher power level in the fan to get the same throughput. So the economics calculation
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by sampo 4y ago
> The Empire State Building has airship docking capability. This photo shows a much less tall airship mooring mast. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/mooring-mast-1930s/ It doesn't look like that kind of mooring
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by sampo 4y ago
> As far as I understand, helium is a non-renewable fossil resource. Helium deposits don't originate form organic matter, so they're not fossil.
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> no individual accomplishment was close to technically innovative enough to warrant a novel white paper There are so many academic journals, from scammy, to bad (yet honest), to average, to good, to the top. You can publish almost anyth
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by sampo 4y ago
> Gas still produces pretty large amounts of greenhouse gases, even if it's a bit under half compared to coal: > https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11#:~:text=In... That link only talks
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Romanian ISP to introduce 1Gbps subscription for ~18USD (2013)(old.reddit.com)
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by sampo 4y ago
> Unroll the dependency until you are longer than the SIMD width. > Ex: as long as i, i+1, i+2, i+3, ... i+7 are not dependent on each other, you can vectorize to SIMD-width 8. Do you mean like this? I get this to about as fast as the
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by sampo 4y ago
Yes. I mean nan != nan. I don’t know why I wrote inf. Thank you for correcting.
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That is correct. But we were talking about how the == operator compares zeros. According to IEEE 754, -0 == +0 even though their bit patterns are not identical. And, by the way, inf != inf even if their bit patterns are identical.
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> For example, x + 0 == x (where the == is bitwise) does not hold for x = -0. But when operating on floating point numbers, == is not bitwise, and -0 == +0.
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In the post, multiplications and 2 additions are not faster than 2 additions. The post compares (1) loop code that can be vectorized, as loop rounds are independent and do not depend on the result from the previous round, and (2) an "o
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by sampo 4y ago
I understand the LIFX bulbs can be picky about the wifi connection. I think this explains most of the problems people have with them.

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