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Comment #46015729
Funnily enough there's a different Martin (Martin Plenio) pushing the boundaries of MRI resolution using quantum effects (molecular hyperpolarization). https://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/…
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Comment #45423921
Not to worry. With the millions unemployed by AGI, you can get hundreds of thousands of unskilled "hands" for your IA. Even with reasonable failure rates you will get a few hundred…
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Comment #45275859
On the other hand, many companies outsource their AML/KYC as it's a cost center. And your passport, face, bills, address is stored in a server with dubious encryption, handled by p…
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Comment #44939989
> People with ADHD are clearly able focus when the subject is interesting enough to them "interesting enough" is not a sufficient condition. You may be super interested, very motiv…
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Comment #36609238
https://alvarofeito.com/ A few articles about physics, finance and software with some poetry sprinkled in.
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Comment #35711397
An alternative explanation is that your google-fu is not as good as openai's crawlers or the WebText corpus (which can go a lot deeper than any of your searches).
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Comment #35427715
A relative of mine and her friends run an NGO who could use some scripting/data science skills. They audit how the government spends their euros in healthcare, keeping them in chec…
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Comment #34230319
> Look the word up, it's essentially an umbrella term that pretty much describes anything that can be considered negative I suggest you look up the difference between the common se…
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Comment #34211235
The better question to ask yourself (you the white guy), is would you join a group [insert som hobby like hiking] composed 100% of Cholitas. If yes, are you sure? if not, why not? …
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Comment #33858550
I hear you. Developers these days. They wear the crutches and exoskeletons of interpreted languages. Real senior devs. only write in assembly. /s Why is one abstraction more "true"…
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Comment #32216305
When applying for PhDs in the UK from elsewhere in the EU it was hard to get any response to the applications. So I booked a cheap flight to London and contacted the head professor…
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Comment #30914578
Hi @Dig1t, PhD in quantum physics here. I think it's important to add some nuance here. 1. The crackpots are trying to "disrupt" or "overhaul" the very foundations of Physics. Find…
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Comment #28100240
for those interested, this Austin startup is hiring and building potential lunar bases: https://www.iconbuild.com/technology/space
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Comment #23595697
>> Teachers don't buy that, We do. See the success of teacherspayteachers.com or tes.com. As a teacher I have spent hundreds of dollars of my own money to buy resources. Simply bec…
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Comment #23183300
Could this be used to create a kbfs (keybase file system) competitor?
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Comment #22997350
> it would disallow science to make true claims Isn't that exactly how science work? It does not make true claims. It produces statements with disclaimers. If this and this then Y …
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Comment #22992160
try reading Brian Cox's "Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?)". To understand this you will need at least 10 or 20 pages to set the stage before you can start to grasp special…
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Comment #22802343
Start by measuring it over a few cm. Their setup is "the same" setup Cavendish used in the 18th century (a torsion balance). Read about it here: http://www.michaelbeeson.com/intere…
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Comment #22030972
in the age of deep learning, streetview and daily satellite images it should be possible to determine automatically. Of course such an operation opens the door to all sorts of surv…
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Comment #21738081
html only https://alvarofeito.com/
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Comment #21675971
it's not odd if you think about what that law is saying. The wind turbine extracts kinetic energy from the wind. If it could extract 100% of the kinetic energy, then the air would …