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The first-ever naval battle between unmanned boats(twitter.com)
3 points by newsuser 4d ago|0 comments
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by newsuser 15d ago
> 2. Deal with the things that are much harder to electrify. What about wars? Unlikely anyone would completely electrify their armies anytime soon, and that blocks even starting the transition in the rest of economy. Some drones are elec
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ARC-AGI Without Pretraining (2025)(iliao2345.github.io)
1 points by newsuser 15d ago|0 comments
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by newsuser 3mo ago
Comet colours would be extremely bland and boring to a human eye (and to the regular cameras we use on Earth) - the Sun is far, no atmosphere to have meaningful shades of grey, and the material they are made of is not really vibrant at all.
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Brockman's 'deeply personal' diary becomes focus in Musk vs. Altman case(theguardian.com)
4 points by newsuser 4mo ago|2 comments
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Google DeepMind partners with UK gov to support security in AI era(deepmind.google)
3 points by newsuser 9mo ago|0 comments
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by newsuser 10mo ago
This one is 11700 yo and 900 meters in diameter, but TIL that people are also fond of looking for fresh (<10k yo) craters [1] as small as 24 metres [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_structures_on_
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Google to invest $6.4B in cloud infra in Germany(reuters.com)
6 points by newsuser 10mo ago|0 comments
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by newsuser 11mo ago
> ...there are two kinds of people, those who do things only if it helps them achieve a goal, and those who do things just because. The ideal, of course, is to be a mix of both. This is related to what Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art o
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by newsuser 1y ago
I'm curious, could you plz share the source for the last claim? In my field - distant from the book - it's quite respected.
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What megalodon ate to meet its 100k-calorie daily requirement(cnn.com)
4 points by newsuser 1y ago|0 comments
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by newsuser 1y ago
> "Original data collection for both studies was funded by the Norwegian Department of Defense; however, data extractions were archival and, hence, not funded."
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by newsuser 1y ago
Also, if we are talking X-rays, in Ukraine it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Puluj , not Röntgen. Although, to his credit, the latter apparently did cite Puluj when using the X-ray emitting Puluj Lamp (Röntgen at
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by newsuser 2y ago
Haven't tried it, but it seems you could get, within 6 km, to Saint-Saveur-de-Puisaye - on bus 861 (need to call them) from Auxerre Saint-Gervais which is reachable by train from Paris.
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by newsuser 2y ago
Most likely, yes, like the loudness of baby crying. Humans are pack animals so any predator attracted by snoring or baby cry, and deciding to check it out would be in a very very big trouble.
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by newsuser 2y ago
Carl Sagan proposed something along the lines in 1961 (but using bacteria to convert CO2 to graphite), however later it became clear that wouldn't work, in part, because the depth of the created sediment layer would be >100 meters.
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by newsuser 2y ago
Ironically, borsch is actually a famous Ukrainian soup and has about 20 ingredients (sometimes more, it depends on a region, village and family). Why one would reduce to only 4 ingredients and continue calling it borsch is beyond me. Regard
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by newsuser 2y ago
Thread about the same research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512191
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by newsuser 2y ago
Yes, in Germany all months when you are expected to in the oncall rotation are basically an addendum to your usual contract that you sign and receive more money even if nothing ever happened during your shifts.
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by newsuser 2y ago
I'm suprised the post and comments here do not cite the famous Nature paper by S. Carlson - "A Double-blind Test of Astrology" - which performed a very similar experiment 40 years ago. (and yes, astrology didn't work bac
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Covert CIA Operation to Back Ukrainian Independence (1949)(politico.com)
4 points by newsuser 2y ago|0 comments
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by newsuser 3y ago
It can't be iron though, as it's not soluble in milk. In fact, that's the reason why, in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy, babies stock iron for the first 4-6 months of (postpartum) life, basically, for all the way up until eat
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by newsuser 3y ago
What prevents people from biking these 5 miles? Can't be capitalism, because bikes are cheaper than cars or just fuel with amortization costs for such trips. For 2+ years I had to bike 12 km each time I needed groceries. In fact, this
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by newsuser 4y ago
Birth of the first (and only first) child triggers what might be the largest brain rewiring in males since pubety. Women don't seem to undergo a rewiring of the same scale [1]. To me, this makes sense, given how unusual the new skillse
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by newsuser 4y ago
Yes. The Reichenbach Common Cause Principle [1] tells us that behind every correlation there is a confounding variable that causally influences both of the corrrelated variables, so the project may very well be onto something. The article a
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by newsuser 4y ago
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