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biggus_dictus | 14 years ago | on: ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12

I understand that you read about a "a neutrino network that would transmit directly through the Earth, for true point-to-point communication," but you obviously didn't read the paper. Here it is. http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847 It's a proof-of-principle. A stunning achievement, no doubt. But it's hardly a practical option for communication, "The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth."

Ant colonies? WTF?

biggus_dictus | 15 years ago | on: Pi is wrong... really.

Did you read the article? So many fundamental equations become more elegant when pi is redefined in this way. Isn't pi/2 = half, pi=whole more direct?
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