gradi3nt

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by gradi3nt 9y ago
So if I ask my ISP if they are selling my data do they have to admit it? Or can they now do it in secret?
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by gradi3nt 10y ago
You have to love pop sci headlines with phrases like "...promises possible..." I promise you, BBC's Roland Pease, that it's possible the sun won't rise tomorrow and Linus Torvalds with announce that he will be Micro
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by gradi3nt 10y ago
So CKs brilliant talent for comedy had not so much to do with his ticket sales, eh? That sounds like a sales pitch. Oh wait, scroll to the bottom, this is a sales pitch. Classic tactic of making the incredible sound easy, just pay a small f
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by gradi3nt 10y ago
Changing the zoom on this page is trippy.
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by gradi3nt 10y ago
This is a very nice argument! Our senses are still only tuned in to detect portions of "reality" that are relevant to life on earth. For example, our eyes detect the band of EM radiation most useful during daytime on Earth. But ev
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by gradi3nt 10y ago
"You're a fucking moron if you use default browser styles." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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by gradi3nt 10y ago
So the Sell/Check/Recycle model only requires 33% of the labor compared to the Check only model. The author suggests that this means tripling production would be possible, but that depends on QA being the factories bottleneck. If
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
Here in the US we stand with you on the issue of BMW drivers.
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
Physics experiments have ruled theories like this out. They can put a very very small upper bound on how much the constants can change over a volume the size of the universe, and over the lifetime of the universe.
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
You don't, it's just that h-bar = h/2pi is the variety of planck's constant that is more useful in quantum mechanics.
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
The first name to show up when I search 'evil man' is 'Mr Rogers'...what the hell, reddit. (first name, not first word, had to scroll down a bit, past words like 'Nazi soldier' and 'evildoer')
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
So that's wayyyyyyy outside our galaxy? Any idea how many galaxies fit into a 1 billion ly sphere around the milky way? I'm guessing a shit ton, which makes the detection of a bh merger seem more realistic to me. That's some
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
What would us change about the letter? Commenter djcapelis above disagrees.
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
I'm turning 25 in two weeks. So this is it? 2015 was my last year of music? Damn...it went by so fast!
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
> It's turtles all the way up. That's just perfect
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
Scot Aaronson does understand this work very well, and he mentions several times (with citations) that there is no widely accepted proof or disproof that a quantum speedup will ever exist for quantum annealers. http://www.scottaa
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
So then why is it important? What is the argument for encrypting all web traffic? Does it act as a sort of camouflage for the actually important encrypted traffic?
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
Ignorant question: If they are making getting a certificate easy for everyone, what is to stop "bad guys" from getting certificates for their sketchy sites? I usually look to the green "https" in my uri bar for reassuran
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
Hah, Is this a joke or is there actually a doge service that does this?
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
brewer2mpl moved to: https://jiffyclub.github.io/palettable/ Great package, thanks for sharing!
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
There is at least one fundamental truth: obesity is on the rise. Why? I think it is safe to assume that a rapid change in the human genome is not responsible for skyrocketing obesity rates around the world. From what I have read it seems th
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
Is there a good alternative idea?
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
Anything that has an energy can be turned into a temperature by dividing by the Boltzman constant k_b (units: Joules/Kelvin). The meaning of that temperature can be hard to interpret, though. Temperatures make the most sense when you a
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by gradi3nt 11y ago
But if they call it a quantum computer enough times it's almost like it is one, right? Troyer's group has done some great work looking for any quantum speedup from one of these annealers, for example: http://www.science
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by gradi3nt 12y ago
Epic Systems (digital healthcare records) employs 5,000 people just outside Madison, WI. Soon to be 10,000 according to their roadmap. I wouldn't be surprised if other corporations looking to hire gobs of college grads start popping up
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by gradi3nt 12y ago
This is a misleading headline! This 'hard drive' needs to be in a superconducting magnet and held at 2K. I'm not aware of any desktop chassis that comes with a a cryostat...
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by gradi3nt 12y ago
Very interesting. Life was seriously tough before series expansions were invented!
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by gradi3nt 12y ago
Imagine being inside of a closed box like an elevator. Without leaving the box there is no way to tell the difference from being in free fall towards Earth versus floating in interstellar space. Therefor, general relativity take the perspec
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by gradi3nt 12y ago
This is basic science. It doesn't need to be directly useful. The possibility of creating lifeforms that use different base pairs in their DNA is fascinating. It has implications about how similar or dissimilar life that evolved separa
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by gradi3nt 12y ago
How It's Made: Pencils ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5uUV9z7hfg )

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