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Is the 6 years measured in the time-frame of a passenger on the spacecraft, or as observed from Earth?

I've been working on a P50 since 2016; It is holding up. Flaws: - There is cosmetic degradation - The laptop is gradually losing hassle-free hardware support from the latest popula…

How do you submit your papers to scihub?

If an Arduino can do it, how bad can it be (: https://crawlingrobotfortress.blogspot.com/2021/10/semigraph... (Blitting unicode glyphs to screen is not hard or slow; In this projec…

I don't listen at 3× speed to learn more, I listen at 3× speed because anything slower is uncomfortably boring. (ADHD.)

If I understood correctly, I think I agree with your loose analogy. I've tried combining some error correction with ongoing re-learning. It stabilizes things against drift, but not…

My understanding was that these experiments didn't completely rule out the possibility of a stable sub-population. Also, the olfactory bulb projects to other areas besides piriform…

I think part of the mystery is that computers can copy binary information losslessly, ad infinitum. So they can move information as often as needed with (almost) no error. We don't…

I think the point is that there are smells that we do remember for a lifetime, which must be explained. Either these stable memories aren't mediated by the cells in piriform that S…

I'm (weakly) leaning in this direction as well. But, there are other proposed functions of dreams that are hard to reconcile with this. Some people think that dreams prevent overfi…

I'm working on this at the moment; Reconsolidation should work, but requires that representations/memories be periodically re-activated so that the neurons can re-learn how to enco…

Not a lot of content in the comments yet, so I thought I'd just copy-paste the Wikipedia note regarding this controversy: > Palantir has come under criticism due to its partnership…

When I last looked into this, it seemed as if the delay was programmed into the firmware on the keyboard.

It is my understanding that gamma correction occurs in the display driver ( or possibly display itself, in some cases ). The colors that your application manipulates are the "raw" …

To me the generalizations in this article come across as ironic or satirical.

I believe that statement is made in irony.

idiomatic? ( I am unfamiliar with the meaning of "idiomatic" in this context, I suspect this is programming language jargon? )

the only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves

I could see how some people might interpret it as such, but my impression was that tripzilch was aiming for a more general metaphor. The term "stockholm syndrome" might also have b…

There is something to be said for opening discussion about coding practices in large companies. His essay was descriptive. Even if it did hurt his own personal career prospects, ha…