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by yk 9y ago
I strongly doubt that, even if we get a paper claiming the detection of god tomorrow, for some reasonable definition of god. Then it would take time to plan follow up experiments, include that into theory, work out the theological implicati
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by yk 9y ago
In my experience that claim gets one an earful from biologists. (However it is of course always interesting what people in the different fields tell themselves all the time, because that are the easy mistakes.)
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by yk 9y ago
And is the WHO primarily an aid agency, where very high travel costs would be a problem, or is it primarily a coordination body, where high travel costs would be the point? The article is just missing this piece of information how is the WH
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by yk 9y ago
It also has "disruptive performance." I am not sure if I should take it as a good sign, that AMD talks more with reddit than with their marketing department.
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by yk 9y ago
I think the most interesting question is, how do they handle the different interfaces between phone and desktop. A touchscreen needs a very different UI than a desktop with mouse and keyboard. If I read that correctly, they are just ignorin
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by yk 9y ago
It has an ethernet port, someone will plug an ethernet cable into it. The problem is not so much that the users are idiots, the problem is that people get distracted some of the time and make mistakes some of the time. And yes, surely they
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by yk 9y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with net neutrality and much more with the absence of geographic barriers. > 1. Massive monopolies which essentially control 95% of all tech (google, facebook, amazon, microsoft, apple, etc) Fac
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Trapping a Self-Driving Car Is Surprisingly Easy(nerdist.com)
1 points by yk 9y ago|0 comments
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by yk 10y ago
I think that's a fair argument, but from the quote above > "Last March, AlphaGo, a program created by Google DeepMind, was able to beat a world-champion human player of Go, but only after it had trained on a database of thirty
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by yk 10y ago
On a scale of $.99 mail order "X-Ray" glasses to cyborg, how significant is this?
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by yk 10y ago
Google is building a google cloud, that is they try to use the hardware of other people, instead of other people using Googles hardware.
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by yk 10y ago
The cost of solar is dropping fast, and for the time being the largest emitters per capita are developed economies. So we should start in developed economies, were we can spare the effort and then work on developing economies. On the poores
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Cory Doctorow: Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll (2010)(locusmag.com)
2 points by yk 10y ago|0 comments
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by yk 10y ago
Of course not, but I am only using Hetzner as some measure of current network costs, because I know Hetzner pricing quite well. So of course I would additionally need server costs, staff, and so on. But if we assume that everything included
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by yk 10y ago
Well, the sane way to distribute content when the only thing that has non-negligible costs is production, not distribution, [1] is to have some kind of infrastructure provider that provides distribution and billing and finances production.
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by yk 10y ago
I think that a car accident is the wrong example to reason about autonomous cars and their accidents. A better example would be a toaster that starts a fire, in that case the important questions are, was the manufacturer negligent and was t
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by yk 10y ago
Well I am no expert, but there is google scholar. The first result searching for "siberian methane bubbles" is Walter &al. 2006 [1], furthermore a simple search for :siberian methane bubbles nasa" yields a rather interest
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by yk 10y ago
Putnam has a very nice argument in his Brains in a vat paper. [1] Basically he argues that a brain in a box lacks any causal connection to the box, the brain does never learn any information about the box. The idea "I am a brain in a
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by yk 10y ago
It is offsite storage. If you store your backups all in the same place, then something may happen to the place like fire, flood or burglars.
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by yk 10y ago
I found that already very strange of the Snowden leaks, they don't develop their distinctive visual culture but instead use the same memes as everybody else. In a rather similar note, the "Linux home" page [0] of the vault is
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A look at the CIA’s internal dank meme division(arstechnica.com)
3 points by yk 10y ago|1 comments
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by yk 10y ago
Your numbers are absurdly optimistic. For starters, analog signals are a lot harder to simulate than digital circuits in silicon. The simplest fourth order Runge-Kutta needs 4 evaluations of the gradient plus 8 floating point operation per
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by yk 10y ago
That is the fun part, attacking with a virus is basically the same as releasing the code (modulo IDA pro). So a US government official can not use a classified virus, while everybody else can.
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by yk 10y ago
There is the theory, that a "bad" actor has quite a bit to gain from being the "worst" actor, since the worst actor is in a natural leadership role for all bad actors. (Were "bad" and "worst" can be r
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by yk 10y ago
To some extend the difference between a science of X and philosophy of X is, that scientists try to answer the question and philosophers try to understand the question. For example, "How does a particle move under constant force."
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by yk 10y ago
The dark matter hypothesis may not actually be falsifiable, however that is not what physicists are working on. Physicists work on dark matter models, precisely defined theories which incorporate dark matter and these are falsifiable. For e
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by yk 10y ago
Newtonian physics can predict fixed curves, you just have to assume that there is additional matter you don't see through a telescope, aka 'dark' matter. And as it turns out, if you then look at the cosmic microwave backgroun
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by yk 10y ago
Author here. This is my new blog, the idea is to write a rather technical and math heavy blog, on the programming side I am aiming for a similar level of detail as Eli Bendersky's blog[1] and similar for mathematics. The blog uses Peli
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A note on Bayes' theorem(tangentbundle.de)
1 points by yk 10y ago|1 comments
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by yk 10y ago
With all the qualifiers I am tempted to interpret the study as, you can be as healthy as a moderate drinker even without alcohol. (I am only half joking, there are just so many variables and number-of-variables-squared trade offs involved i

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