silicaroach

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by silicaroach 8d ago
OR this is FUD and China is showing the world that all the ballyhoo about exotic tech etc. required to produce good AI is just billionaire bros making it up to suck in investor dollars.
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by silicaroach 14d ago
Would like to see proof. Or maybe in late Oct there will be so many 'cyberattacks' that elections will be cancelled by a state of emergency. Not all states, just the Dem ones.
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by silicaroach 2mo ago
Paywalled ... pass.
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by silicaroach 11mo ago
If this were true, there would already be nuclear powered aircraft which would be a much more "achievable" goal given the size and weight of even the smallest nuclear power plants. But there are no nuclear powered aircraft and so
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by silicaroach 1y ago
Open source, no. Proprietary? MindBridge.
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by silicaroach 2y ago
I have long maintained that scientific consensus is always political and only rarely based on fact. The noisiest and most politically astute scientists rise in stature and influence and sometimes viciously defend their pet beliefs whether
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by silicaroach 3y ago
working already b/c 'buildt' is a new word
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by silicaroach 3y ago
personal: surfacebook I since 2014 work: m1 pro w/32GB
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by silicaroach 3y ago
Oracle stuff didn't help. It's initial appeal was that it ran everywhere. Now all languages do. So people who just want to code something quickly w/o worries for security, etc. use Js/Node for web stuff and Python for
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by silicaroach 3y ago
Years of fomenting fear of 'climate change' and painting it as a dire crisis has opened up the general public to the predations of snake oil peddlers. With the public demanding immediate action and an immediate fix, they are prim
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by silicaroach 4y ago
FORTRAN .... proof? it's still here :-D
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by silicaroach 4y ago
Products here: https://coral.ai/products/#prototyping-products
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by silicaroach 4y ago
Does it eat _just_ viruses? If so, _which_ viruses? Just wondering if it could be safely introduced in to a body and if some virii are more edible than others.
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by silicaroach 4y ago
Read Smil's book "How the World Really Works" The commitment to fossil fuels is a) far greater than you can imagine and b) will not change anywhere in the near future. Bottom line: 'fossil' fuels are second only to
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by silicaroach 4y ago
This is a very cute way of getting people's emails. Link to a link to a 'register for free access'. Kind of where I stopped (w/o registering) but clever ... and also last time I do that.
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by silicaroach 4y ago
mastodon: transfer control from a publicly answerable company to private citizens how does this make sense? it might work at a small scale but how does it scale up? how is is legally held responsible? will this prevent hate promoters fro
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by silicaroach 4y ago
In a nutshell, they induced the symptoms of hypothermia (shivering, etc.) in a monkey "model" (biologist code for a real living monkey). One of the 'stunning' findings from the data was that monkey body temperature cont
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by silicaroach 4y ago
When you know exactly how things will be affected, then feel free to make changes. When you don't know exactly how things will be affected, then you shouldn't make changes. This action was the second case and it was only done for
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by silicaroach 4y ago
The irony is that the math is straightforward and something a 3rd year engineering or physics student will have seen over and over again BUT biology students would find it challenging. It's also much simpler than statistics another ke
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by silicaroach 4y ago
Chilling. The best of reasons are likely present in the research proposal but it takes little imagination to see where this can (and likely will) go. It's only paranoia until it happens.
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by silicaroach 4y ago
Fascinating read esp. in light of another article here (somewhere) about the surreal legal manipulations to bring down Sabatini (cancer researcher). It is all about the exercise or misuse of power for personal gain at every level.
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by silicaroach 4y ago
Valid points in the article but they boil down to: 1) WFH unexpectedly made for awkward at-home office arrangements (eg kitchen table) and meeting formats (eg. zoom) BUT over time people sorted these things out 2) WFH people worked much lon
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by silicaroach 4y ago
I don't pay for SO but I do contribute both questions and answers. Asking a question is often as important as answering one. I actually think SO is how the internet should be: take little, give a little.
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by silicaroach 4y ago
Typical biology. Consider: a) why would any creature with a nervous system _not_ feel pain? b) does it not disturb that someone would conduct experiments to see if a creature feels pain? Biology is not science. There are no first principl
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by silicaroach 4y ago
More accurate: of all the animals tested for this, honeybees and humans seem to be ...
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by silicaroach 4y ago
javascript/nodejs. I had been using Matlab ~15 yrs until I left the institution that was paying for it. I looked around and js/node was the clear winner. NodeJS was being continually improved with faster engines, the browser as
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by silicaroach 4y ago
Why. Would. They. Not? Biology is not science. Ask yourself: what causes 'emotions' in humans? Chemical/molecular balances and imbalances. Same happens in any creature you care to name. Unless you suppose that all othe
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Possibly a decade ago I read an article that described worms as basically being akin to one long nerve. It was impactful enough that I stopped hooking worms for fishing ... before I eventually gave up that "sport". It never ceas
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by silicaroach 5y ago
Kind of unexpected that this hasn't been looked at before esp. given that methane is a greenhouse gas. Didn't you kind of think that we already knew all about all sources of methane before pronouncements started being made about
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by silicaroach 5y ago
This perfectly describes the current state of academia. The belief in treating academia like a business to promote 'efficiency' and 'accountability' leads to all the ills you see in business. The bottom line is that yo

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