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by saulrh 15y ago
There's precedent for well-communicating groups with a well-defined goal producing impressive results in the short term. Examples include the Manhattan project, the space race, and the more recent Polymath projects [1]. These redditors prob
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by saulrh 15y ago
The university group can do it because it can pay $500k to our biotech industry for pre-researched and in-production batches of chemicals, equipment, and other supplies. North Korea doesn't have that biotechnology industry to start with and
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by saulrh 15y ago
There was an article that went over exactly this in Discover magazine a month or two ago. Summary is that it's harder than you might think. To quote: "You would need more than a garage; you would need a great garage and a lot of money
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by saulrh 15y ago
I suspect that C is "charge rate", but I'm not sure how that interacts with battery lifetime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_charger#Charge_rate
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by saulrh 15y ago
This interests me, but I can't find a paper - stuff like "mesh network bandwidth" simply don't work on scholar. Any chance of a citation?
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by saulrh 15y ago
Again, one can't help but feel that a hypothetical 16-core Magny-Cours would have been a better option. I think that this quote demonstrates exactly the reason that AMD went forward with their catastrophe - current architectures c
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by saulrh 15y ago
That's a pretty common problem all throughout education. http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/06/living/teachers-want-to-tell-p...
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by saulrh 15y ago
Amusingly, the comp.compression FAQ that this page cites includes a discussion of this very patent from way back when it was submitted. Go to http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-8.htm... and grep for "5,533,051".
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Why Science Requires Theories(psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com)
29 points by saulrh 15y ago|8 comments
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by saulrh 15y ago
So do I. My parents are awesome.
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by saulrh 15y ago
My parents bought me this book when I was in elementary school. I was fascinated with it; I read it and reread it until I understood everything in it. It took me something like eight months, but when I was done I had an instinctive grasp of
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by saulrh 15y ago
Some articles I've read suggest that it's intentional on the part of the applicant. The idea is to extend the useful life of the patent by delaying the application's completion as much as possible.
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by saulrh 15y ago
That's the idea - make lightweight, easy development the soul of your operating system. Build the entire OS around immediately useful GUI customization and task automation, for example, to the point that everybody that uses it can do it and
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Controlling a virtual helicopter in 3D with an EEG(plosone.org)
1 points by saulrh 15y ago|0 comments
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by saulrh 15y ago
People that need training simply to do their job are operators, not creators. They don't need a CLI, nor should they use one. As the article states: There is a time for operation, and a time for expression. Most interface debates are
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by saulrh 15y ago
They give an incentive for innovation by granting the original inventor time to bring his invention to market before an established entity uses its existing resources to block him out. This model isn't very useful to software, but it works
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by saulrh 15y ago
This doesn't quite work; some of the most creative, innovative ideas in history bubbled up from the collective unconscious in several minds at the same time. Just look at the number of nobel prizes that get split between people that discove
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by saulrh 15y ago
Ah, true. Unfortunately, can't fix it now.
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by saulrh 15y ago
This is actually a decent paper; the authors had an idea, wasted a ton of effort on it, and didn't want anybody else to spend time exploring a dead end. Remember, even negative results are important.
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by saulrh 15y ago
Roboticist here. Thankfully, if the robots learn how to do my job, I have much, much bigger things to worry about.
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BoingBoing's tribute to Steve Jobs - Classic Mac theme(boingboing.net)
6 points by saulrh 15y ago|1 comments
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by saulrh 15y ago
He introduced millions of hackers to their first computer. I'd call that a contribution, indirect as it is.
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Kickstarter hit with patent claim over crowd-funding(techcrunch.com)
3 points by saulrh 15y ago|0 comments
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by saulrh 15y ago
Sensationalist title. A better one would be "Unreviewed proof claims that Peano arithmetic is inconsistent". This is self-published, hasn't been looked at by anybody else, and contradicts a very well-accepted and thoroughly examined argumen
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by saulrh 15y ago
Object retrieval. Little helicopter UAVs that can buy you a pencil or a granola bar, or pick up a flash drive or some paperwork from your house, and fly it out to you.
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by saulrh 15y ago
That's the thing - they resisted the urge to sell it. All of the other headlines are screaming about "time travel possible?" and "modern physics all wrong!", while this is just the plain language.
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by saulrh 15y ago
This press release is a perfect example of how to write a press release for a high-profile, possibly groundbreaking discovery. Understated, but still properly summarizes the importance of the result, and above all doesn't make any hysteri
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by saulrh 15y ago
Given how much data this contradicts, measurement error is by far the most likely explanation; that's why they're releasing their data for review rather than publishing a paper. On the other hand, they're measuring a particle that nobody
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by saulrh 15y ago
This could have happened at any industrial site. In fact, it does happen at many industrial sites, with surprising regularity and occasionally catastrophic environmental consequences. Check out wikipedia's list of industrial disasters to
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by saulrh 15y ago
One possibility: spread things out to the point where there are too many groups to influence and personal relations between engineers overpower what remains. Instead of calling in the ACM for an audio compression patent case, ask the Audio

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