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by syllablehq 3y ago
And this is an especially exciting time, because NANOGrav and their international colleagues are going to make an announcement on June 29th. Seems that twitter is abuzz on what it might be :). Announcement will be made here. https:/&#
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Tracking pulsar arrays for decades is modeling a gravitational wave background(nautil.us)
2 points by syllablehq 3y ago|1 comments
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by syllablehq 3y ago
Sure, we can try to change people's behavior, which of course will only work with smart incentives. And/or we need a lot more grid-scale energy storage. Changing people's behavior is really hard. And before it's even pos
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by syllablehq 4y ago
Yes, this is naïve, but it's a typical assumption. Cash _should_ be liquid, and almost everyone operates with the assumption that it always _will_ be liquid. but fiat cash is not what people think it is. A dollar in your bank account i
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Twitter website is down, showing API error message
13 points by syllablehq 4y ago|10 comments
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by syllablehq 4y ago
To an outside observer it would look like you were torn apart by tidal forces, but would it feel that way to you? Or would you feel normal? If it's just space being curved, would you feel nothing just like you feel nothing in freefall?
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by syllablehq 4y ago
I've always wondered if the "horizon" metaphor in event horizon was more apt than we expected - just like when you approach the earth's horizon, you don't get flattened or fall off, you just reveal more geography -
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by syllablehq 4y ago
I have been wanting something like this to exist and I'm grateful for it! Also, I love the retro style.
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How Physicists Created a Holographic Wormhole in a Quantum Computer(youtube.com)
2 points by syllablehq 4y ago|0 comments
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by syllablehq 4y ago
I think the key to a massively successful new social network will be a fallback API of just email/text. Why not let your shiny new social network UI parse any dumb input into a fancy thread format? Zero adoption friction. Federation ba
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by syllablehq 4y ago
Totally agree about tech not always helpful. Maybe this wouldn’t be helpful for folks who are already skilled at echolocation. Maybe it would be a gateway to learn it, or would be helpful for folks who were not skilled at it for whatever re
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by syllablehq 4y ago
I wrote a blog post years ago discussing the possibility of combining echolocation with augmented reality and binaural audio to help the visually impaired navigate their environment with the aid of just a cell phone. Now that some cell phon
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by syllablehq 4y ago
Crow Recursion is the name of my new nerdcore death metal band "Crows will claw your face if you mess with crows will claw your face if you mess with crows will claw your face if you mess with crows will claw your face if you mess with
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by syllablehq 4y ago
Exactly: Ignore the crap, and look for the Amazons and Googles. There is so much garbage, but then there are projects like Avalanche. People love to hate on crypto and the stupid puppy coins, but meanwhile, projects like Avalanche are actua
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by syllablehq 4y ago
I've played with ideas like this. And in fact, we can do one better than a Vampire Attack. We can use what I nickname a Mitochondrial fork attack. With smart design about how we read and write to/from both the old chain and a new