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Scientists finger cause of mass eagle deaths(sciencemag.org)
7 points by wwarner 6y ago|3 comments
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by wwarner 6y ago
I'll agree, and add that it's not clear that people really want privacy. Not that we've been given a choice, but the very first thing that the major players are going to say is that people want the all knowing experience that
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by wwarner 6y ago
I personally think that the effort to create open source phones is the single most important technology project going on out there. We have open source browsers, we have open source social apps, but we definitely do not have open source pho
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by wwarner 6y ago
They're proposing a theory of how the brain's cortex must work. Check out some interviews with Jeff Hawkins of Numenta, such as the forementioned interview with Lex Fridman. One essential insight of theirs is that the cortex is ph
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Photos of the Surface of Venus (1975)(mentallandscape.com)
3 points by wwarner 6y ago|2 comments
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by wwarner 6y ago
I guess recently released Soviet documents don't support the idea that Soviet generals were afraid of the scale of SDI. [0] http://russianforces.org/podvig/2013/03/did_star_wars_help_e...
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by wwarner 6y ago
Scientific and technological achievement are critical for evaluating the effectiveness of policy. As I understand it, the issue really was that the Soviets believed that socialism should lead to a more scientific society, as they believed t
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by wwarner 6y ago
know what? this is a pretty damn fun read.
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by wwarner 6y ago
The main difference between the accepted proposal and the original proposal is that the original proposal introduced contracts and the accepted proposal folds all that functionality into interfaces.
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by wwarner 6y ago
The amount of sunlight reaching the earth is 1.365 kilo watts per square meter [0]. Fossil fuels are stored solar energy; wind, hydroelectric and of course solar is derived from sunlight. Nuclear doesn't have this limit. [0] https:&#x
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by wwarner 6y ago
The OSI Model. Ha ha ha ha ha...
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by wwarner 6y ago
Quite. There are unconscious social dynamics that take place in the office that I rely on to stay on track and productive. Because we're not fully aware of these interactions when they happen, it's next to impossible to deliberate
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by wwarner 6y ago
Jim Simons also developed Chern-Simons theory before leaving academia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%E2%80%93Simons_theory
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by wwarner 6y ago
Isn't Vitess all about sharding and autoscaling mysql instances with containers and kubernetes?
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by wwarner 6y ago
Similar to Wordseye https://www.wordseye.com/
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by wwarner 6y ago
This is a great interview that contains a bit more about the science of the LIGO instrument than is normally presented, woven together with some of the dramatic details of the project. Such as the fact that at the beginning of the project f
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Interview with Gravitational Wave Pioneer Barry Barish(imagination.ucsd.edu)
3 points by wwarner 6y ago|0 comments
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Rainer Weiss: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Nobel Prizes [audio](imagination.ucsd.edu)
29 points by wwarner 6y ago|1 comments
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Today's Answers to Newton's Queries about Light – Richard Feynman (1979)(youtube.com)
2 points by wwarner 6y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 6y ago
I feel woefully out of step here. If you can create a CA that browsers respect, have you really improved on cleartext transmission? And isn't the CA is now a new attack vector?
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by wwarner 6y ago
IANAL, but the GPL2 allows bundling and "tivoization" [0] with proprietary code, whereas the GPLv3 tries to prevent it. So, with v2, you can ship your proprietary application with an unmodified GPL'd tool along with it, but w
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by wwarner 6y ago
I thought the last song, the goodbye, was great.
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by wwarner 6y ago
No. She was accused of doing shoddy research and was fired for that reason, not her point of view, therefore evaluating the research is the only relevant issue. I welcome this second opinion on the paper and in fact this article changed m
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by wwarner 6y ago
In this particular post, she referenced causality in one sentence > Neither does this faster-than light travel necessarily lead to causality paradoxes. I take this to mean that if you could travel FTL to a very distant place that you cou
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by wwarner 6y ago
+1 to this exposition!
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The Trillion-Transistor Chip That Just Left a Supercomputer in the Dust(singularityhub.com)
6 points by wwarner 6y ago|0 comments
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David Thouless Obituary(theguardian.com)
1 points by wwarner 6y ago|0 comments
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Chien-Shiung Wu(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by wwarner 6y ago|0 comments
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by wwarner 6y ago
Her frustration with the priorities of theoretical physics probably is justified, but in this case I disagree with @skdh. Her claim is that any solution for the BHIP cannot be falsified, and that strikes me as too pessimistic for two reason
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by wwarner 6y ago
I love this idea. It's like saying that entropy is a measure of ignorance. I wonder if you could apply a similar argument to develop a quantitative description of tech debt.

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