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Ma Ru

Detecting gravitational waves by timing pulsars - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...ks-relativitys-final-test.html

phy pulsars gravitational waves science

shared by Ma Ru on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 18 Mar 10
     
    Undoubtedly something for Pacome...
Joris _

In Eyes, a Clock Calibrated by Wavelengths of Light - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...05light.html

bio science NASA

shared by Joris _ on 05 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 05 Jul 11
     
    Maybe you can use some blue light during the wednesday meeting to keep people awake and alert :p
  • LeopoldS on 06 Jul 11
     
    highly needed indeed ...
Lionel Jacques

The end of GMT ? - 3 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...atomic_time_could_replace_gmt

technology science

shared by Lionel Jacques on 04 Nov 11 - No Cached
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  • Lionel Jacques on 04 Nov 11
     
    Greenwich could lose its place at the centre of global time if a move to "atomic time" is voted in by the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva in January 2012.
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  • Ma Ru on 04 Nov 11
     
    The article says it can lead to abandoning the Daylight Wasting Time in winter, so if that's the case, I'm definitely for.
  • pacome delva on 07 Nov 11
     
    Haha this is really a British article... Already since 1972 we don't use GMT but UTC, which is based on atomic clocks. However British continue to call it GMT... The question is to drop the leap second in UTC, and France is definitely for this change (for scientific motives of course...;) I don't see how this is connected to winter time however... And they shouldn't worry Greenwich is still the beginning of the world with 0 degree longitude !
  • Ma Ru on 07 Nov 11
     
    "the end of GMT as an international standard could accelerate the move to keep British Summer Time into the winter, letting us have lighter evenings." As I understand it, if GMT looses its "prestigious" status, then it would be easier to push through all-year BST in UK.
Alexander Wittig

Telstra free data guy devours almost one terabyte in a day - 2 views

www.smh.com.au/...downloads-20160404-gnxu14.html

dedication

shared by Alexander Wittig on 05 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Alexander Wittig on 05 Apr 16
     
    When Australian mobile provider Telstra offered its mobile customers unlimited data for two separate days this year as compensation for network outages, some customers took it as a challenge to download as much as they possibly could in one day. On Sunday, 27-year-old Sydney resident John Szaszvari outdid himself and everyone else by ploughing through almost a whole terabyte of data.
mkisantal

Better Language Models and Their Implications - 1 views

blog.openai.com/better-language-models

AI

shared by mkisantal on 15 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • mkisantal on 15 Feb 19
     
    Just read some of the samples of text generated with their neural networks, insane.
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  • mkisantal on 15 Feb 19
     
    "Pérez and his friends were astonished to see the unicorn herd. These creatures could be seen from the air without having to move too much to see them - they were so close they could touch their horns. While examining these bizarre creatures the scientists discovered that the creatures also spoke some fairly regular English. Pérez stated, "We can see, for example, that they have a common 'language,' something like a dialect or dialectic."
  • Marcus Maertens on 15 Feb 19
     
    Shocking. I assume that this could indeed have severe implications if it gets in the "wrong hands".
  • marliesarnhof on 18 Feb 19
     
    "Feed it the first few paragraphs of a Guardian story about Brexit, and its output is plausible newspaper prose, replete with "quotes" from Jeremy Corbyn, mentions of the Irish border, and answers from the prime minister's spokesman." https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=XMJ8VxgUzTc "Feed it the opening line of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four - "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" - and the system recognises the vaguely futuristic tone and the novelistic style, and continues with: "I was in my car on my way to a new job in Seattle. I put the gas in, put the key in, and then I let it run. I just imagined what the day would be like. A hundred years from now. In 2045, I was a teacher in some school in a poor part of rural China. I started with Chinese history and history of science." (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction)
  • marliesarnhof on 18 Feb 19
     
    It's really lucky that it was OpenAI who made that development and Elon Musk is so worried about AI. This way at least they try to assess the whole spectrum of abilities and applications of this model before releasing the full research to the public.
  • mkisantal on 18 Feb 19
     
    They released a smaller model, I got it running on Sandy. It's fairly straight forward: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2
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