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by wnkrshm 9y ago
Also the Tyranids and Zerg are so close in concept it's not even funny. Still, you're right, there is no original art/thought etc. Ultimately our brains have a finite amount of possible states, so everything is a remix.
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by wnkrshm 9y ago
My bank in Germany offers a similar system - of course, there are limits to the security as well but there is no public infrastructure, radio transmission or an OS involved. Edit: I also don't need to make transactions often enough for
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
Oh, thanks. I don't know why but I didn't find it.
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
Why can't I favorite this comment. Of course, giving mental health advice on the internet can be dangerous. This is of course not a magic recipe (advertising it as such may lead to people thinking "if this doesn't work for m
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
> but evidently some market analysis must have proven that "wrong" for studio executives I think that might have been the Transformers movie series and similar successful reboots that appeal to a very broad audience. Those are
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
Maybe it's not so much that a human isn't to blame in the case of an algorithm classifying something incorrectly, but that an algorithm might make mistakes that a human wouldn't. I've read a very interesting article [0]
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
I don't understand how rejecting that the state of the universe is fundamentally computable is the same as rejecting the Church-Turing Thesis. Rejecting the computability of the universe's state is more fundamental: It rejects one
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
I don't have enough experience to give you advice about jobs but a few years ago, I went through a major depressive 'episode' that lasted for about 2-3 years, suicidal thoughts and all. One thing that saved me was exercise. I
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
You could try to get into studying aerospace engineering in a nation with ties to ESA. I've seen students go straight into industry-related jobs from being good assistant researchers here (Germany) - of course there'd be the age g
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
Lower a strong cotton (edit: or some textile, something strong and thick enough) bag into the hole, with the rim of it held open by a strong wire. Large enough for the puppy to climb in, put food in there and something that smells human may
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
I don't know exactly how the torches look, but I can imagine they have an indoor GPS setup in the stadium. Couple that with a position-dependent program that each torch has. The actual program can be started, paused or stopped using an
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
That is a very interesting idea - a kind of meta-ideological legislature for the management of markets. I wonder how such a system could be balanced properly, I can imagine it's difficult to do with little quantitative data on the alte
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
In my opinion, not having a way to get to the videos and channels of the video creators might even be the more sensible choice, since with a site such as this, people can inadvertedly have a video become viral for possibly embarassing reaso
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
While relative immortality (i.e. no death of natural causes) holds many opportunities for positive change (such as eliminating a short-sightedness and 'repetition'[0] of history due to our individually limited perception of histor
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
I think it's interesting to ask why people separate themselves from other people, I.e. people who are sick and possibly dieing, who need help. Something I read on hn a while ago involved trying to place others who have had bad things h
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
Study art & animation
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
The Heinz NixDorf museum in Paderborn, Germany. It's mostly computer science and engineering but it has a numerical background The collection is amazing, from prehistoric cuneiform tablets over Renaissance mechanical computers, Enigma,
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
It is not entirely a free-for all (as in, anyone can submit papers), there is an endorsement system [1]. Of course, it's only networking and who-knows-who - but there is controversy, as in established contributors think that the endors
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
The proposals for the big EU calls like Horizon 2020 contain detailed work packages and plans for how the research effort is going to be orchestrated to be successful. To my knowledge, the quality of this planning is a decisive factor in th
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
Since you linked these pages, you and others also might find this interesting: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/misconceptions.... In my opinion Atomic Rocket contains the most accurate discussion of h
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by wnkrshm 10y ago
I'm pleased. They look extremely similar to the gnuplot and gnuplot2 color maps already present in matplotlib, my favorites.
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by wnkrshm 11y ago
Concerning German law: It is up to the judges (throughout the instances but hopefully it will be finished witht he first trial) whether or not they see this as satire. There are no binding precedents in Germany, every case is only dealt wit
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by wnkrshm 11y ago
ditto (except the wife part)
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by wnkrshm 11y ago
While he may not be number one in the Go rankings afaik, Lee Sedol will be the name in the history books: Deep Blue against Garry Kasparov, AlphaGo against Lee Sedol. Lots of respect to Sedol for toughing it out.
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by wnkrshm 11y ago
if they make the argument that the 3D level geometry is a slice of 4D geometry, then a 3D animation frame of the character is also a slice of 4D geometry (the 4D geometry interpolated from 3D keyframes and timing curves)
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by wnkrshm 11y ago
the microwave signal you are trying to block is basically wireless power
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by wnkrshm 11y ago
If you go by the price of the FLOPS the system has, you can get a price for a similarly powerful system from the 80s in inflation-adjusted USD today. According to Wikipedia, the hardware with the lowest cost per 1.0 GFLOPS was the Cray X-MP
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by wnkrshm 11y ago
Not personally - I've read about holographic films but they were rather for screen backlighting - you won't need that precision, I think. There are some advanced materials that are basically very advanced diffusers with a defined
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by wnkrshm 11y ago
If you already have a light-recycling setup for the phosphor - maybe you could additionally use brightness-enhancement films to use for light recycling in angular space. Just like in liquid crystal screens, BEFs could refract light rays wit
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by wnkrshm 11y ago
Don't you lose a lot of usable energy by not having any optics to shape the radiation? The phosphor surfaces will just diffusely glow. Of course, with an emitting area that big, you also need huge optics to control it properly

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