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The tractor beam effect could be from the black phosphorus impurities in the sample. That's ferromagnetic so you have two kinds of forces on the flake. Earlier I joked to my friend…

The problem is that we dont have a net outflow of heat. Fossil fuels would not be a problem if we could dump that previously scurried away heat of ancient suns into space. The solu…

Ditto for Indonesia

It's not just everywhere, it's said to be a dominant form of government, acracy (as opposed to mere anarchy)

Comedians and (great) sci-fi authors: apex disruptors, intermittently disrupting the self-styled disruptor-disruptors (i.e., philosophers, or maybe more accurately, epistemologists…

They didn't misquote, that was copy-pasted directly from Wikipedia. Maybe raise the issue with Wikipedia?

Love the parallels people these days draw between OpenAI and Oppenheimer (ok, the Manhattan Project, but maybe thats part why OpenAI call themselves that, to alliterate) Especially…

Relevant recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737862 (Beautiful branchless binary search)

You can check out the french wikipedia they leave out the de too unless disambiguating from his relatives, when they go de Tocqueville comte

Do you know of any good source of CAD files or even just schematics for DIY PXI modules out there in the wild wild internet?

I don't know about AI but Apple is definitely ahead in the quantum race (with their upcoming glucose tracking system)

even for macro trends, the E likes to cherry pick its data. The US PPP trend has been sad for a while now, (thats not even per capita) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-GDP-at…

even for macro trends, the E likes to cherry pick its graphs. The US PPP trend has been sad for a while now, (thats not even per capita) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-GDP-…

To each his antidepressant. He probably (rightly) thinks that these are more effective than an equivalent helping of SSRIs. When you cannot degrade him, pity him!

The oddest thing about all these anti-academic takes is that OpenAI insiders and even some informed outsiders like John Carmack think of OpenAI (and google before that) as an exten…

Isn't this the age of the long tail. By some accounts, no cultural worker has to languish in poverty or obscurity anymore.. More precisely, I think the division is starker.. nobody…

Apparently, the Cambodians too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Dutch_conflicts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Dutch_War

Not the only one. The Chinese did it twice a century earlier. The naval one in the Taiwan straits. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Liaoluo_Bay