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by svedlin 4y ago
"Assuming there are 500 reactors in use in the world, the above CDF estimates mean that, statistically, one core damage incident would be expected to occur somewhere in the world every 40 years for the 2003 European Commission estimate
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by svedlin 7y ago
"The sample of premodern populations shows an average modal adult life span of about 72 years, with a range of 68-78 years (Table 4). While modal age at death is not the same as the effective end of the life span, because modal age ref
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Fed Ups Its Wall Street Bailout to $690B a Week as Media Snoozes(wallstreetonparade.com)
9 points by svedlin 7y ago|4 comments
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Where Are the Hundreds of Billions in Loans from the Fed Going on Wall Street?(wallstreetonparade.com)
2 points by svedlin 7y ago|0 comments
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Why Everything Is Getting Louder(theatlantic.com)
2 points by svedlin 7y ago|0 comments
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by svedlin 9y ago
Paper: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30538-X "Facial images can be linearly reconstructed using responses of ∼200 face cells."
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Researchers Crack the Brain's Facial Recognition Code(scientificamerican.com)
5 points by svedlin 9y ago|3 comments
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by svedlin 11y ago
Only 15 plants in operation have gen-3 passive cooling features and these systems are hardly fail safe. http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/docu...
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by svedlin 11y ago
Downvotes are often attached to inconvenient truths. The safety of nuclear power is based mainly on wishful thinking. It's the classic folly of chasing short-term cost savings and ignoring long-tail risks.
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Mathematician says Kansas voting machines need audit(kansas.com)
2 points by svedlin 11y ago|0 comments
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Artificial Photosynthesis Takes a Step Forward(technologyreview.com)
2 points by svedlin 12y ago|0 comments
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Google Tests First Error Correction in Quantum Computing(spectrum.ieee.org)
8 points by svedlin 12y ago|1 comments
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by svedlin 12y ago
Professor Grimm's death is a horrible tragedy and a major blow to the community. He will be greatly missed by those who were fortunate enough to know him. Perhaps institutions that issue grants should require that the receiving organiz
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by svedlin 12y ago
David Mermin wrote a classic paper that illustrates the strange statistical properties of entanglement in a way that doesn't require any physics knowledge. http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/lectures/Mermin%20shorter.
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Can We Hack Space to Reduce Spacecraft Damage?(news.discovery.com)
1 points by svedlin 12y ago|0 comments
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Hacking the Van Allen Belts(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by svedlin 12y ago|0 comments
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by svedlin 12y ago
As an analogy, I would say a law against counterfeiting money shouldn't apply to things which aren't currencies (like counterfeiting a designer handbag or forging Linden dollars in Second Life...). If the law's purpose is to
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by svedlin 12y ago
I think for most people, bitcoin isn't particularly user-friendly yet. By comparison, selling a used phone on eBay or craigslist is pretty easy...
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by svedlin 12y ago
Interestingly, the law specifically includes "foreign currency" in the definition of monetary instrument.
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by svedlin 12y ago
The claim is that the term "funds" included in the definition of "financial transaction" [1] covers bitcoins. "Funds" typically denotes cash or an asset that is highly liquid, not just anything which can be pur
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by svedlin 12y ago
An interesting response to the fluid experiments discussed in the article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0466 Comment on Y. Couder and E. Fort: "Single-Particle Diffraction and Interference at a Macroscopic Scale&quot
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by svedlin 12y ago
"Those sent to work in town often had some input in their choice of master and some, like Frederick Douglass, were allowed to live on their own upon surrender of satisfactory wages." [1] That was probably far from the norm in the
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by svedlin 12y ago
A nice related puzzle involving a choice between only 2 numbers: http://plus.maths.org/content/mathematical-mysteries-getting...
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by svedlin 12y ago
There's been a lot of discussion about the "completion rates" in online courses. A study in January reported that "only 4 percent of people who register for MOOCs actually finish them" but that "MOOCs still hav
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Error-Free Quantum Computing Made Possible in New Experiment(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by svedlin 12y ago|0 comments
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by svedlin 12y ago
Paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7497/full/nature1... http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4848
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Quantum Processor Hits 99.9 Percent Reliability Target(hpcwire.com)
2 points by svedlin 12y ago|1 comments
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by svedlin 12y ago
The Google APIs Client Generator is an awesome tool that automates this process. It takes a service description and generates a complete client library: https://code.google.com/p/google-apis-client-generator/ The
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by svedlin 12y ago
Folks interested in HFT might like this - HFT firm Virtu has a nearly flawless daily trading record over the past 3.4 years: http://www.businessinsider.com/virtu-hft-only-one-losing-day... Prospectus: https://www
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by svedlin 12y ago
University of Michigan researchers proposed a "centralized call market" to mitigate fragmentation (inconsistent pricing and order handling across different exchanges) and latency disadvantages: http://www.ns.umich.edu&#

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