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Satya Nadella teases “the next generation of Windows” in Build keynote(xda-developers.com)
1 points by sdht0 5y ago|0 comments
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Novelty Means Severity: The Key to the Pandemic(theinsight.org)
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Righting a Wrong Question(lesswrong.com)
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Studies on Slack (In Society)(slatestarcodex.com)
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How to Solve Aging(nintil.com)
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by sdht0 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...
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Competition within mammals kept them from evolving, not just the dinosaurs(twitter.com)
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SpaceX about the Rust Programming Language(reddit.com)
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BCI Helps Paralyzed Patient Use Brain Activity to Write(technologynetworks.com)
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by sdht0 5y ago
> the goal is to fight misinformation The misinformation is that people's belief of the world are based on statistics that were only true decades ago and haven't been updated. For example, the distinction between the developing
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by sdht0 5y ago
Perhaps it was not clear enough, but I'm not associated with the project. The "agenda of optimism" is completely my interpretation as well. As to the other concerns, this is not a traditional survey whose results are to be us
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by sdht0 5y ago
I see your point. Given their goal is to show that we have reasons to be more optimistic about the world, I think the quiz setup makes sense. It highlights that we can't even distinguish between optimistic 10% and pessimistic 50% for i
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by sdht0 5y ago
Note that the criticism in that article, which is talking about wealth inequality, does not apply to most of the questions in the Gapminder quiz. But thanks for sharing this. Always good to learn the nuances.
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by sdht0 5y ago
People's estimates are informed by what they pick up (even subconsciously) from (social) media, books, movies, etc. And then they support initiatives/NGOs/government actions based on those beliefs. Gapminder is an attempt to
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by sdht0 5y ago
The choices are deliberately wide. The idea is that people are unable to make even broad estimates of the state of the world correctly. This classic TED talk [0] by Hans Rosling presents the same idea. I recommend watching all his other tal
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Gapminder: A non-proﬁt ﬁghting global misconceptions(gapminder.org)
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Hans Rosling showing the facts about population (2014)(youtube.com)
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by sdht0 5y ago
Thanks!
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New Spectre Variants Discovered by Exploiting Micro-Op Caches(phoronix.com)
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Our Three-Body Problem – China, India, and the Rest(razib.substack.com)
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A strange microbe may offers clues to the origins of the complex cells(nytimes.com)
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The worst year in human history was 536 AD(bigthink.com)
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NASA Selects Innovative, Early-Stage Tech Concepts for Continued Study(jpl.nasa.gov)
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A Visual Timeline of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy(bensimonds.com)
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Network Analysis of Exoplanets for NenuFAR SETI(calebjones.info)
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Personalized melanoma vaccines show lasting effects(news.harvard.edu)
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Concepts for future missions to search for technosignatures (SETI)(bigthink.com)
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by sdht0 6y ago
> We ARE reaching the point (long past it, actually) where the mathematics demonstrate it is highly improbable that life as we know it today could have emerged from nothing in the limited timeframe imposed by the geologists. Well, do you
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Zoom video call is powered by Google’s quantum computer(physicsworld.com)
2 points by sdht0 6y ago|1 comments
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by sdht0 6y ago
Right. To be specific, the whole of the Local Group is available to humanity for exploration. That still has a trillion stars, with at least as many planets. That's a lot of real estate!

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