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by frevd 8y ago
Yeah I guess in order to make this into a simulation, one would effectively add all the exponential time back, since it requires all that to "run" an amoeba on a classical computer. In that article they mention the organism commun
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by frevd 8y ago
Right, it is not guaranteed to find _the_ best solution possible, but at least it does find _some_ solution to NP-complete problems in linear time, which no classical algorithm is expected to be able to do. Now they claim in that article to
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by frevd 8y ago
No, if I understood right, this thing is a quantum computer solving NP-complete problems in linear time. And the article claims to have a simulation doing the same, but they are not sure whether this is actually only a special case scenario
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by frevd 9y ago
It's not Intel's issue, it's a design flaw per se, affecting _all_ CPUs that use predictive branch execution that has effects on the processor cache, which are pretty much all processors produced in this millenium. That said,
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by frevd 9y ago
Ah, sorry, duplicate question (see below). Well, even if it does not do much, it's a start, and it shouldn't require putting in extra energy from power plants.
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by frevd 9y ago
Does that mean we can cover the deserts with these plates that run purely on solar energy and release energy as infrared radiation to combat Global Heating?
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by frevd 9y ago
Yes, but there is the major problem that charging electrical car batteries today still requires burning of fossils to create the energy in the first place. Beside, that's controversial, Musk has got both electrical cars and space rocke
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by frevd 9y ago
Nobody seems to mention cars, they run on burning fossils and they are a large factor due to the amount of cars in use (ever increasing worldwide). Forcing the industry to replace the exhaust by whatever thing which does not consume fossil
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by frevd 10y ago
Why only 4, 8 or 12 rotors? Can a group of much smaller rotors replace the thrust a single bigger one produces? Would add a lot more redundancy and limit the costs.
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by frevd 10y ago
I wonder if this was actually a sophisticated trade to profit from shaking up the market - claiming a substantial hack to make the market panic, then buy back the "lost" coins for way lower prices. If you control this kind of asse
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by frevd 10y ago
Given that you can run the same program on a billion bacteria should quite improve the odds of getting the job done. Surely, also one has to account for possible other "jobs" that get done due to interference. However, if your goa
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by frevd 11y ago
Two remarks: - There are a lot of exchanges that don't involve direct transactions on the blockchain (buying and selling BTC is nonlimited in terms of quantity or time). - There are many altcoins, claiming to do certain things better s
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by frevd 11y ago
Great idea. Google should pick it up to colorize black/white movies and historical footage. Can easily be extended to feeding desaturated movies for proper training data, can maybe even remaster the quality.
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by frevd 11y ago
Instead of putting them into nature we should put them into our food, to digest all that plastic that will be in our food chain soon.
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by frevd 11y ago
If you are redistributing, hosting or using it commercially you have to have the agreement of the author of the content. RSS just gives you access in another way than HTML, but it does not circumvent copyright.
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by frevd 11y ago
Terminator, the humble beginnings - looks and feels like rats!
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by frevd 11y ago
Hm true, although everybody knows the identity, nobody can peek into the chats. Good point. That would then allow for generating addresses from speaking aliases, so we don't have to remember GUIDs. Wondering what the current base for
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by frevd 11y ago
Now that you associated this address publicly with your profile on HN you compromised anonymity already.
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by frevd 11y ago
Lol, fail - I don't understand the question: #2 "REMOVING WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD MAKE YOU A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON?" I'm not a native speaker -- what am I supposed to do here?
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by frevd 11y ago
WindOwS X Snowelephant then Mountainelephant. There will most certainly be some kind of internal sub versioning for the kernel part. Let's see which animals they will take for that, cats are already taken by OS X.
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by frevd 11y ago
pressing F12 in the editor brings up editor debug gui, apparently it is a webpage. So that thing potentially runs as a website in the browser as well, cloud editing.
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by frevd 11y ago
Right, marking areas (in this case terms between commas), like Google's Webmaster Tools structured information designer does it, would help. This would require some kind of regular expressions in the example, at least. Of course this
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by frevd 11y ago
They did not perceive the nose at all :D Funny what all gets filtered out. When I'm wearing my extremely old plastic glasses (real ones, not VR), I do not perceive the myriad of scratches on it either, though it certainly contributes t
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by frevd 11y ago
It might appear like that, but it is about distance! Moving the two images over each other will make your brain think the nose that is farest away from the common center is closest. BUT: the nose should ideally be mirrored, so that the sh
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by frevd 11y ago
No, what he really meant by complexity is information content - will always remain - you can compress it (akin to writing complex code) or uncompress it (akin to writing more code), but whatever you wanted to express you'll still have
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by frevd 11y ago
How do you convert big amounts of bitcoins into cash, even over time, without leaving a trace? Isn't there bank account information involved leading to individuals, which a criminal investigation could request?
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by frevd 11y ago
In summary, there must be mechanisms to de-authorize personal, by means of majority vote. To prevent an attack vector, biometric systems need to be used to verify other authorized personal safely (it might be far fetched, but measuring cert
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by frevd 11y ago
No. It is certainly not my intention to make fun of the case that a copilot is able to control a machine and crash it at his will. Lufthansa is saying "there is no system that can prevent this kind of incident". They will have t
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by frevd 11y ago
Fine. You authorize the whole crew, not by fingerprint and not by code, but by voice recognition and secret code words per person. Then you allow the override to be overridden by a majority (recursively). Sounds way better than making the
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by frevd 11y ago
Overriding the override ;]. But yeah, it's kind of a race-condition. Not sure, how about some majority vote, enough members on the crew there to vote?

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