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Code-division multiple access(en.wikipedia.org)
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by shpx 9y ago
"We found 18 [Youtube] channels likely associated with this campaign that made videos publicly available, in English and with content that appeared to be political (These channels also posted non-political videos, e.g., personal travel
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by shpx 9y ago
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm > This first example of the Berryman Logical Image Technique (hence the usual acronym BLIT) evolved from AI work at the Cambridge IV supercomputer facility, now discont
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by shpx 9y ago
Neural nets take large GPUs (or TPUs) to train. Realtime inference on CPUs has been possible since forever. Also, I just turned on airplane mode and google assistant recognized my voice.
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by shpx 9y ago
https://youtu.be/fCd6B5HRaZ8 is the best visualization of how the most popular type of DNA sequencer works (that I've found). Imagine you have a string of length 3 billion made by randomly choosing from 4 characters. L
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No human genome has ever been completely sequenced(statnews.com)
241 points by shpx 9y ago|86 comments
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by shpx 9y ago
If you go to chrome settings -> Manage search engines and define a new search engine with Keyword: "m" and "URL with %s in place of query": https://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Adeveloper.mozil
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by shpx 9y ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... https://safari-extensions.apple.com&#
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by shpx 9y ago
Right click on the video → Stats for nerds "Volume / Normalized: 100% / 53% (content loudness 5.5dB)"
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by shpx 9y ago
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/crypt... "The flaw resides in the Infineon-developed RSA Library version v1.02.013, specifically within an algorithm it implements for RSA primes ge
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by shpx 9y ago
or the guy who wing-suited into cardboard boxes https://youtu.be/DEP8juRSBRo?t=1m33s (headphone warning: loud)
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by shpx 9y ago
Sadly this is only for California. I was looking at worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov during the BC wildfires[0] last summer. Here's a particularly bad day in September https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&
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Protecting the Large Hadron Collider from Itself(symmetrymagazine.org)
2 points by shpx 9y ago|0 comments
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by shpx 9y ago
Special relativity is a fact. It is literally how the universe works. I don't know what else to say. There's no debate, it's a certainty that you cannot transmit information faster than light. Space and Time in Special Relati
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by shpx 9y ago
(minor spoiler) in my opinion, any book that violates the theory of relativity is not science fiction, it's a fantasy novel set in "space". You can't transmit information faster than light using quantum entanglement. ht
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by shpx 9y ago
It's even worse. 3,878,417 computers have a fake uBlock Origin clone called uBlock Plus (playing on the fact that there's Adblock and Adblock Plus) installed. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ubl
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by shpx 9y ago
The video this article was about is 10 minutes long https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10104094186863501/ Here are timestamps of the quotes from the article: https://youtu.be/cIA1AVpKt5c?t=4
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Open Technology Fund Annual Report for 2016 [pdf](opentech.fund)
2 points by shpx 9y ago|0 comments
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by shpx 9y ago
"IBM Watson" is a group of consultants and a brand. It's not an algorithm or a service or an "artificial intelligence". Don't fall for the marketing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476679
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Emergent Complexity via Multi-Agent Competition(sites.google.com)
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by shpx 9y ago
You can see the balloons on flight trackers. There's one by the Virgin Islands right now https://www.flightradar24.com/HBAL194
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by shpx 9y ago
Which book? Would you recommend it?
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by shpx 9y ago
https://z.cash/technology/ http://zerocash-project.org/paper
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by shpx 9y ago
A group of 54 oenology (study of wine) students could somehow taste a difference between a white wine and the same white wine dyed red. http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infamo...
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by shpx 9y ago
Related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146677
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by shpx 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/1232/
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by shpx 9y ago
The rule of thumb I've heard is that neural nets only start to work when you have 10s of thousands of examples.
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by shpx 9y ago
The belief that eating carrots improves night vision is a myth stemming from propaganda used by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War to explain why their pilots had improved success during night air battles, but was actually use
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by shpx 9y ago
"One of the prominent Chinese VCs, Neil Shen from Sequoia China, was on the Economist's podcast recently talking about AI in China. When the host asked Shen about the Chinese state's use of AI in monitoring the citizens of Ch
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by shpx 9y ago
"We acquired SourceForge and Slashdot in January [2016] from DHI Group (also known as DICE). The first thing we did after we took over was remove bundled adware from projects: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourcefor

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