anbu32 | 10 years ago | on: Machine learning is still missing a key ingredient
the link doesn't work for me.
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anbu32 | 10 years ago | on: Turing CEO Defends $750 Pill in Reddit AMA
I think it's /his/ company..
anbu32 | 10 years ago | on: We’ve predicted and broken human population limits for centuries
"because the population growth rates or even the populations are already declining."
The population of both the us and w.europe is growing. (Immigration)
anbu32 | 10 years ago | on: How Tasteless Suburbs Become Beloved Urban Neighborhoods
It wasn't the housing that was regarded as ghetto, but the people who used to live there.
anbu32 | 12 years ago | on: A New “Theory of Everything”: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law
Lubos Motl has written a pretty harsh takedown:
http://motls.blogspot.no/2014/05/constructor-theory-deutsch-...
anbu32 | 12 years ago | on: Sexually Transmitted Allergic Reaction to Brazil Nuts [pdf]
This was covered on qi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Ktn7YXoJQ
anbu32 | 12 years ago | on: All around the world, labour is losing out to capital
The claim was that the crime rate was 50 times lower than today. 156/50 ~= 3.
anbu32 | 12 years ago | on: Rather than savage cuts, Switzerland considers “Star Trek” economics
No, we don't :(
anbu32 | 12 years ago | on: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
GHK published their paper later in the year (although they apparently arrived at the result independently..), which might be why they were left out.
In 1962 P.W. Anderson worked out that Nambu–Goldstone massless mode can combine with the massless gauge field modes to produce a massive vector field (e.g. the so-called "higgs-mechanism", but in a non-relativistic context). In 1964 E&B,H,GHK showed that this is also possible in a relativistically invariant theory.
Here's a twitter comment from John Preskill (caltech): "The emphasis on finding a relativistic model may be misplaced, though. Anderson understood the mechanism well." https://twitter.com/preskill/status/387580651664191488
So maybe Anderson is more deserving of the last spot than GHK.
anbu32 | 12 years ago | on: The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people
Norway doesn't really have a permanent criminal class, and the main aim of the criminal justice system is to keep it that way. Whereas the US (and many others) have an enormous criminal social class, firmly-rooted criminal organizations seemingly in a prepetual state of war with law enforcement, and so on. That stuff isn't going away even if you did liberal prison reform. The circumstances are very different, maybe it's appropriate that the aims and methods of law enforcement are too?
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