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6 years ago
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on: Pathways to Cellular Supremacy in Biocomputing
the closest computational equivalent to writing that sentence we have today involves executing a model with 1.5 billion parameters. (and I couldn't find an estimate of the energy cost of that)
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9 years ago
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on: A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories
Nor should we accept false equivalencies.
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10 years ago
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on: FlappyBird hack using Deep Q-Learning
Interesting implementation detail
while "pigs" != "fly":
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10 years ago
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on: What's Really Warming the World?
Citation needed.
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11 years ago
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on: The Data Science Handbook
Agreed. I was definitely expecting a reference, and I was confused that the table of contents listed the authors & their positions before mentioning the title of the chapter.
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11 years ago
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on: China tightens Web controls; commenters must register real names
I lived in China for 6 months and saw plenty of cops with guns and saw undercover cops roughly throw around a street vendor who had gotten too close to the forbidden city for their liking. Your view here seems to be willfully obscured.
Having your opinion formed by the media is a necessity of living in a world where you can't get first hand information for everything, i.e. a constraint imposed by reality. the difference is that in the west you can choose what media you want to pay attention to, and the media itself is free to report what it wants.
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11 years ago
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on: React License – Additional Grant of Patent Rights
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11 years ago
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on: Bad code isn’t technical debt, it’s an unhedged call option
Maybe this works for people in finance, but I can't see it being useful otherwise. The concept you're using as an analogy just isn't widely known.
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11 years ago
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on: C# Autocomplete Demo Using Bing Code Search Engine
It should be noted that public github repos are _not_ public domain and not even necessarily open source unless the author specifies a license.
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11 years ago
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on: How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes
Nice! Now I just need someone to make an emacs mode that does this.
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11 years ago
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on: My Isometric Voxel Engine: One Year Later
I like the look of your mountain ranges. Is that done using a published method or something of your own devising?
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11 years ago
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on: Is Capturing Carbon from the Air Practical?
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11 years ago
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on: Building an Ark for the Anthropocene
From Wikipedia[1], "In the past 540 million years there have been five major events when over 50% of animal species died." So if your measure for bio-diversity is the number of unique animal species, it dropped by half at each mass extinction event. The events only reflect a drop in the diversity of animal species as this is an "easily observed, biologically complex component of the biosphere", so the overall change in bio-diversity could be lesser or greater.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event
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11 years ago
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on: Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)
If anyone else was curious about Scott's usage of "God" in this lecture, he talks about it here[1]. TLDR: they are "tongue-in-cheek references to an Einsteinian God."
1: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=189
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11 years ago
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on: Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation
>Right now Liberia has about the population and land area of Virginia, which means it's already overpopulated.
First, that assumes Virginia is 'optimally populated'.
Second, according to Google, the population of Liberia is 4.294 million (2013) and the population of Virginia is 8.186 million (2012), so using your Virginia-baseline, Liberia can about double its population before being considered over-populated. The Indian state of Kerala, meanwhile, has 34.8 million (2012) people in a smaller area (~38k mi^2 vs ~43k mi^2).
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11 years ago
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on: Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role as Google VP and Fellow
Do you mean PARC circa 1970s?
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11 years ago
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on: Against Sharing
The drivers have to pay for their own insurance, so it's not that. Hard to see how a background check requires 20% of all revenue.
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13 years ago
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on: Clearest indication yet that polar ice sheets are melting fast
There certainly does seem to be a lot of political posturing going on, but I don't think it is coming from the scientists.
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13 years ago
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on: Chinese Architecture, Old and New
It can be very difficult here to get by without knowing chinese unless you live in a foreigner-friendly area (i.e. a tourist area or near a university).
I'd suggest using a tour company if you want to travel more widely. Having a translator at least would be very valuable.
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13 years ago
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on: China Mafia-Style Hack Attack Drives California Firm to Brink
"He had no idea who was behind it until last August, when he provided malware samples to a security firm at the request of a Bloomberg reporter.
A forensic analysis of the malware by Joe Stewart, a threat expert at Atlanta-based Dell SecureWorks, identified the intruders who rifled Solid Oak’s networks as a team of Shanghai- based hackers involved in a string of sensitive national security-related breaches going back years."
