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Comment Re: Thank you Meta for patenting (Score 1) 50

Most people who donâ€(TM)t take their meds have good reasons. Healthcare is expensive and doctors may overmedicate you so you would die faster. (Old people for example get treated using psychiatric meds for â€behavioural†problems without psychiatric diagnosis)

Comment Re:Confused by claims (Score 3, Interesting) 49

Getting to the moon, or mars, in general only requires a single push. Without drag there is nothing to slow down the spacecraft afterwards and you don't need to keep pushing. So you can push once against the magnetic field of the earth if you are pointed in the right direction, and also get to your destination in a reasonable amount of time. The actual questions are: 1. can you push hard enough for accelerating to a reasonable velocity within a reasonable time? 2. What about correction burns/pushes? I suppose you will still need conventional thrusters for course corrections.

Comment Re:Human brain (Score 1) 111

Well, one thing you're missing is the fact that when humans learn something, they don't start from scratch. The driving instructor teaches you not only the basic rules, but also empirical cues so that you can learn quickly. Ditto for chess, learned and self-obtained experience informs the grandmaster that some opening moves are better than others. Those others and their algorithmic children don't need to be checked. A computer brute forcing a problem like chess or driving will be lousy, but if you give it more empirical information (weights and biases), like teaching a human, it will perform better.

Comment Re:Chinese Tech (Score 4, Informative) 62

"LineShine uses semi-custom 304-core LX2 processors based on the Armv9 instruction set architecture running at 1.55GHz. The LX2 appears to have been co-designed with China's National Supercomputing Center and Huawei, with 40,960 chips deployed across 92 cabinets. It has a total of 13,789,440 cores." From: https://www.datacenterdynamics...

Comment Re:Compatibility catch 22 (Score 1) 81

How about a bait and switch? Lure everyone in promising MS-Office compatibility, then switch the default saving setting to a standardized format. People even start getting oblivious to the fact that there are files out there somewhere in the cloud, nobody cares about the extension...

Comment Re:Duh? (Score 1) 132

Reading advertisements also involves reading.

Funny that you say that. I was looking at a magazine from the 50ies the other day, and those ads were super verbose! I mean, they really had *text*! Whole paragraphs of it!!! So, no, reading advertisements *today* certainly does not involve reading from a historical perspective.

Comment Re:Homework (Score 1) 192

That's all nice and well, kudos to your dad-in-law, but you didn't tell us *how* does he actually achieve such good results since it's not the homework? Maybe it's a combination of a lot of factors, including teaching talent, but maybe you have a couple of hints? Or point us to one of his "papers on education"? Honest question.

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