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   Living United States Presidents(ravi.io)

   2 points by soccerniru 13y ago|0 comments
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   by soccerniru 13y ago

   Interesting .. although a similar project already exists ( http://www.openworm.org/ ), and is, from a cursory glance, much more developed.
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   The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing(michaeleisen.org)

   2 points by soccerniru 13y ago|0 comments
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   by soccerniru 14y ago

   I wouldn't say that they are necessarily orthogonal, in fact, I would say that most of the time they align pretty well.
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   by soccerniru 14y ago

   I want to point out that people should be wary of this recent wave of press surrounding "neural" computing. A lot of this involves trying to emulate biophysical properties of neurons we observe in the brain, but it is not clear how these p
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   by soccerniru 14y ago

   If you move every guest from n to 2n, all of the odd rooms will open up, and you have room for a countably infinite number of new guests. I believe David Hilbert was the first to describe this paradox. Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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   by soccerniru 14y ago

   I think it is fair to say that we just don't know yet. Neuroscience has learned a great deal about the underlying machinery (neurons, synapses, and so forth), but we have no idea how you put that machinery together to generate something lik
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   by soccerniru 14y ago

   I disagree with a lot of points made here. First, this is focused exclusively on the biological sciences, and is largely not applicable to other fields (hence the title is misleading). Second, there are a lot of personal anecdotes which don