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by throwaway316943 6y ago
Corbu got a few things right but he was off the mark when he said a house was a machine for living. A house cannot provides all the necessities for living, it must be integrated into a community. Monolithic buildings like this are an extens
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
You should look up how the idea of “towers in a park” actually played out when implemented. It’s not a new concept.
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
An avatar. You really don’t need much else to get a superior experience to a video call. Being able to turn towards the person who is speaking, see the posture they are holding and have 3D audio is far better than 2d faces in little boxes.
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
What we really need is a decent AR or VR headset for remote conferencing.
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
The tutorial is already suggesting harvesting a web cam from a laptop, why not just extract the screen instead? Lots of info and equipment out there for repurposing laptop screens.
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
It’s far more complex than that. I live in a country that has successfully implemented a regional response to COVID 19 with the national government playing the role of coordinator but not dictating policy. The failure in the US is a failure
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
I’m not sure that reasoning holds up. There’s no reason to believe that “mushy human emotional ideas” are not the norm. There’s no data to support that claim since humanity is the only example we have of intelligence. So for the sake of the
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
If the mission of the probe is exploration then it doesn’t need to consume all of the resources of a solar system. It just needs enough to make a few copies to reach the nearest handful of stars. If they are using light sails as propulsion
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
I wonder what the ratio is of dark bodies to the star systems we can see? Are there vast numbers of invisible worlds hiding between the stars?
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
Perhaps a floating colony like those proposed for Venus? There might be a Goldilocks zone in the atmosphere. If not then there may still be a comfortable location in near orbit where the heat would be tolerable. It’s interesting to think of
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
Don’t worry, there could still be somewhat smaller less detectable objects nearby.
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
This is a garbage article. I’m sure the research has some merit but it is not explained here. What do they even mean by saying when you look at a manhole cover from a few feet away you see it as circular instead of an ellipse? I see an elli
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
What does it mean to “render the bone structure of statues” ? A statue is already a three dimensional rendering. Besides Caucasian bone structure is supposed to include all of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa which is pretty much th
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by throwaway316943 6y ago
I’m sure you could find a way to do GAs on a GPU. If you could have generations measured in billions of individuals and compute all of their fitness, mutation, crossover in parallel it should drastically speed up the algorithm.