Much of their compression comes from they dont use full 32 bit floats or integers to store the discrete cosine transform coefficients, but variable bit length numbers which can be squished more tightly. I didnt read the paper deep enough to study how efficient this bit hacking is machine operations. There might be few clever tricks there. Bit hacking was more common in the early days of computers when core memory was very expensive. I recall Woz had some clever way of compressing color and shape graphics in the Apple II.

Much of the time when I "watch" tv I am doing something on the side like cooking or surfing the net. Fast forward would probably require my whole attention.

An incubator fellowship, like from ycombinator, hides the expenses until you get version 1.0 out. If its any decent, then a vc will throw money at you.

Web 3.0 is about the merger of browsers and apps with advantages of both and no longer see the distintion between the two. Apps were a temporary aberration to wall of pieces of the internet often for financial gain. No longer will there be the tyranny of of app store censors.

Plenty of people watch various net videos like youtube or porn, but dont consider it television.

Scaling up the K computer to an exaflop at one gigaflop per watt would require a gigawatt of power. The Green500 lists says the most efficient super runs at 7 gigaflops per watt in 2015. There are plans to do a lot betterbthan this.

By Maryland physicist Joesph Weber. He used pizeolectric strain sensors on large metal cylinders. No one could repeat his results nor prove his experiment was sensitive enough. The LIGO project is a direct reaction to this failure with a supposedly better approach. But it took over 30 years of fund raising and technology development to make LIGO work. During those 30 years Congress threatened termination several times. And skeptics like myself though there might be something incorrect with LIGO physics until they finally got a result.

The Colorado legislature incorporated a state credit union for handling the growing volume of all cash pot transaction (nearly a billion according state strict monitoring laws). The regional Federal Reserve Bank refused membership of this bank and participation in final clearing services. Without Fed clearing services you cannot transfer money, cash checks or credit. The credit union lost a lawsuit earlier this year to reverse the Feds decision.

There is even a tech startup incubator called Boulder Canopy managing at least eight startups. I attended part of cannabis track at Boulder Startup Week in May. Numerous mom and pop startups buy from a mushrooming service industry (pun intended). The big divide is whether you directly handle leaf or not (farm, process, retail). The industry is shunned by the established financial and computer industry out of fear of seizure laws. Pages are quickly shutdown on conventional social media. So a shadow computer services industry is supplying social, cloud storage etc. yes, people saidtheir cloud apps were banned by all the conventional cloud companies as soon as their nature was discovered.

Trumps near racist appeals reflect what a significant fraction of US voters think. Trump has avoided being as politically correct as candidates in recent decades. Racist candidates were pretty blatant 40 and more years ago. Any accurate social software is going to capture this bias in society. Perhaps this increased self awareness will help some to improve themselves. And rest dont care.

This kind of chemically reactive rock is necessary to capture CO2. The Iceland proejct used basalt which is mainly just available in Hawaii and southernmost California. Other fresh volcanic rock available in the Cascades and western US may wotk too. But most power plants are not currently colocated there. This would be an issue in Cina and India, the other two largest CO2 producers.

But it doesnt matter due to the story telling and quantum leap in space battle scenes. You see elements of Kurosawa movies, Flash Gordon, Dune, etc. This was covered by an online book about the writing of StarWars in slashdot around six years ago.

I read it first time at age 12, but forgot the ending. Then was pleasant thrilled when Inhad reread it as a MIT student. I dont know why this was never made into a movie. The Mother Thing whom I picture as a Star Trek Horta may have been hard to do before computer F/X. They could have done it as a pixie pupput like E.T. Or Yoda. The closest movie plot to this novel was the 1980s Last Starfighter. It was also about a bored small teen catapulted into a galatic war.

Double the glacial low. It may have been as high as percent several hundred million years ago. Life can adapt if over hundreds of thousands, but not centuries like now.

They feel more effective than "you've won lottery" or African heir spams. I dont click on any.