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by cbennett 4y ago
Check out Greg Bear’s Forge Of God and Anvil of Stars 2 book series . Not exactly the same plot you mentioned but covers an interesting variant plot including fall out of a situation where Earth is killed by killer probes and remnants of hu
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by cbennett 8y ago
Edit: I see you linked to the wrong sub-section there. However, overall the contrast between super-predator theory and (self-)annihilation is a bit more complex than one would think. They're not entirely binary. On one hand, the self
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by cbennett 8y ago
"Well, magnetic core memory is the only data storage format that is robust enough to withstand high-radiation environments. Jeri is clearly interested in magnetic logic and memory because it is the only computing platform that will be
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The Fields medalist at the helm of France's AI task force (2018)(theverge.com)
2 points by cbennett 8y ago|0 comments
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The Future of Electronics Based on Memristive Systems [Review](nature.com)
1 points by cbennett 9y ago|0 comments
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by cbennett 9y ago
> If it scales faster than linear, then your recursive bootstrapping operation takes longer and longer each time, Wait, does that really follow? What if you have a better than linear bootstrapping compiler. To unpack that a bit, imagine
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by cbennett 9y ago
http://rollingjubilee.org
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by cbennett 9y ago
Thanks for that. the hackernoon piece in particular is really worth the read. Two salient points/questions/comments that jumped out to me after reading (these are really about the theory and not practice): -The fact that you have
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by cbennett 9y ago
To save you clicks, the two pre-prints are at : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09829.pdf && https://openreview.net/pdf?id=HJWLfGWRb
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Hinton's 'Capsule Networks' Unveiled(wired.com)
19 points by cbennett 9y ago|5 comments
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Carbohydrate-restriction and high-intensity training may treat metabolic diseases(frontiersin.org)
3 points by cbennett 9y ago|0 comments
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by cbennett 9y ago
That sounds really interesting. What tasks did you attempt? If you have open-sourced this in any sense, would enjoy to check it out and/or contribute.
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Connectome-Specific Harmonic Waves on LSD (2017)(qualiacomputing.com)
1 points by cbennett 9y ago|0 comments
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by cbennett 9y ago
In terms of cosmology, the physically observable universe does have (some) fractal structure or features--, primarily to the existence of multi-scale primordial (quantum) fluctuations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pri
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A geoengineering option to reduce risk of catastrophic super-volcano eruptions?(bbc.com)
1 points by cbennett 9y ago|0 comments
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by cbennett 9y ago
Thanks for this extremely educational comment. I'm excited to read a bit more about DE and CMAES in particular! >>I could go on all day; this was a chapter in my dissertation I'd love a link (assuming it is publically availa
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Magnetically tunable quantum oscillations in graphene superlattices(phys.org)
1 points by cbennett 9y ago|0 comments
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by cbennett 9y ago
Alright, fair enough. To be honest I also at times thought the author's alarmism went a bit far and could have scared off serious readers, but as a general principle I still don't think its valid to critique someone on a basis tha
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by cbennett 9y ago
>>to hear these breathless alarmists talk, they are anti-technology, anti-progress, and apparently want us all to live stacked up in massive cities with no real quality of life at all. I tend to see this as either an exhibition of con
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by cbennett 9y ago
Preliminary but important point: what you call prevention is typically called 'mitigation' by the UNFCCC, NASA, and other environmental orgs, while what you have called mitigation is typically 'adaptation' [1]. I know th
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by cbennett 9y ago
While you are right that methane wont naturally stick around for ever, and that it breaks down sooner than CO2. After googling around a little, I finally managed to find the source of the author's two numbers, and in the end I am more
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by cbennett 9y ago
I managed to find the original PDF : http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/37/36505.pdf Re-optimizing said supply chains in an oil constrained, and eventually oil free world seems extremely non-trivial. I wonder if we wi
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by cbennett 9y ago
>> This person is literally saying we need to be alarmed. And why shouldn't we (he) be doing that? Actually the author's goal is transparent, to shake up perception, to provide fodder in the imagination of folks to ultimatel
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by cbennett 9y ago
First off, the author is prodding people into action by scaring/alarming them. Thus, the entire point of this article is to highlight many of the bad long-tails (note I did not say WORST long tails, eg Clathrate Gun, or phytoplankton
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Cascaded spintronic logic with low-dimensional carbon(phys.org)
2 points by cbennett 9y ago|0 comments
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by cbennett 9y ago
That's good to know. I read his post on his 'debate' with Roger and really enjoyed it. Also of interest may be the discussion between him and Hameroff in the comments section. Meta-comment: It a sad sort of situation when int
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by cbennett 9y ago
@Chronos (can't reply for some reason, so I'm just replying to my own post and tagging you) Its true that LQG is not known a natural schema to implement hyper-computation. However, since we don't well understand the time-dyn
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by cbennett 9y ago
> Penrose appeals to quantum woo to claim that the human mind isn't strictly algorithmic. Penrose doesn't appeal to quantum woo, he has a quite well articulated set of assumptions and arguments , related to loop quantum gravit
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by cbennett 9y ago
Thats insanely beautiful. Thank you for sharing!! I have a mild case of synesthesia and this is one of the closest things I have seen/heard (:) ) that comes close-ish to capturing how I see/feel when I experience great music. Of
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by cbennett 9y ago
It's far from clear that STDP is sufficient to the brain's learning mechanisms, though it is certainly necessary at some scales and stages. The possibility space between relatively simple and insufficiently general unsupervise&#x2

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