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Sound and video of meteorite strike, scientists believe it's a first(cbc.ca)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
It makes sense to me. Meta knows who their real users are and what their real users want to consume. They know who their real advertisers are and what they are willing to pay to reach their real users. This means they know what their real
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A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov – Gerasimenko(apod.nasa.gov)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
Of note that even then, for the seemingly impossibly large prime numbers, they gave dual credit to the researcher and the computer used. So, credit for the largest prime in 1963 went to Gillies and ILIAC 2. When that record was broken in
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The Impact of Open Source on the Future of AI(blog.irvingwb.com)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
" At a company meeting, he famously said, “We’re always 30 days away from going out of business.” This time it was true. He told employees, “Intel is out to get us. They’re out to kill us, and we have to acknowledge that and fight back
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Nvidia's Unique History and Culture(asianometry.com)
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Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold(quantamagazine.org)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
Needs an actual photo of a salmon hat: https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/76971/aImg/80...
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Cosmic Latte(en.wikipedia.org)
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Wearing a Salmon on Your Head Is Back in Fashion for Orcas, After 37-Years(iflscience.com)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
"His father designed the data encryption algorithm. “My dad's a genius,” said Eap. “It had the highest level of encryption available.” Not only did Sky ECC provide end-to-end encryption, like Whatsapp or Signal, but unlike those f
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35,000 Year-Old Sabre Tooth Kitten Frozen in Siberia(washingtonpost.com)
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The Cosmos Teams with Complex Organic Molecules(quantamagazine.org)
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Down in the Mantle(science.org)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
No paywall on the original source for me.
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AI Adoption in the Public Sector [pdf](papers.olivergiesecke.com)
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Six Principles for Thinking About AI Risk(understandingai.org)
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Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan(quantamagazine.org)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
Crude oil saved the whales from extinction. Kerosene, refined from crude oil, was at least as good as whale oil for lamps. It was also cheaper, so that was the end of the whaling industry. There were pathetic advertisements from the whale
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How the Human Brain Contends with the Strangeness of Zero(quantamagazine.org)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
If you don't count the dogs.
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
" This year’s laureates in the economic sciences – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson – have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and instituti
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Nobel Prize in Economics to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson(nobelprize.org)
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The 'Beautiful Confusion' of the First Billion Years Comes into View(quantamagazine.org)
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Neuralink gets FDA's breakthrough device tag for 'Blindsight' implant(reuters.com)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
" In principle, a black hole can reach a point where it has as much charge or spin as it possibly can, given its mass. Such a black hole is called “extremal” — the extreme of the extremes. These black holes have some bizarre properties
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Mathematicians prove Hawking wrong about the most extreme black holes(quantamagazine.org)
148 points by worldvoyageur 2y ago|68 comments
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
These guys [ https://www.scientificballoonsolutions.com/news/ ], as of October 2018, claim the world record. [edit: the site linked says Alan Adamson but an upstream post mentions Lee Meadows. That thread also credits B
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
In reading the documents google's Loon made available before shutting down (and saying that hydrogen airships were the way to go) [ https://storage.googleapis.com/x-prod.appspot.com/files/The%... ], the bottlen

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