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LeopoldS

Supercharged thunderstorm reaches a record 1.3 billion volts : Research Highlights - 2 views

www.nature.com/...d41586-019-00934-z

energy NRG

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  • LeopoldS on 27 Mar 19
     
    Can we use this discharge energy to .... half the cost of access to space? ;-)
thomasvas

Moving the Earth: a planetary survival guide | New Scientist - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...rth-a-planetary-survival-guide

orbit planetary modification

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  • thomasvas on 25 Mar 19
     
    It is an old one, but it was mentioned in some discussion ... Mainly based on this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102126
darioizzo2

Scientists Have Trained an AI to Spot Obesity From Space - 5 views

www.sciencealert.com/e-deep-learning-neural-network

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  • darioizzo2 on 19 Mar 19
     
    If it can be done for obesity, I guess noise is also an option right? :)
  • LeopoldS on 21 Mar 19
     
    love it
benjaminroussel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 999 (1996) - Biological Effects of Stellar Collapse Neutrinos - 2 views

journals.aps.org/...PhysRevLett.76.999

PHY neutrino

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  • benjaminroussel on 20 Mar 19
     
    Not new but still crazy: neutrinos explored as a source of some mass extinctions.
koskons

Interactive and reproducible science papers with jupyter (and mathematica)? - 6 views

www.theatlantic.com/...556676

science

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  • darioizzo2 on 12 Mar 19
     
    I agree soooo very much. An increasing number of journal and scientists are finally coming on board with this open science philosophy and I bet we will soon see a radical change of the whole peer review process and publication business
Marcus Maertens

Cracking the mystery of egg shape - 2 views

vis.sciencemag.org/eggs

BIO fun

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  • Marcus Maertens on 07 Mar 19
     
    In preparation of Easter...
mkisantal

Better Language Models and Their Implications - 1 views

blog.openai.com/better-language-models

AI

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  • 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
Marcus Maertens

Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt | CBC News - 5 views

www.cbc.ca/...mars-one-bankrupt-1.5014522

space fun

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  • Marcus Maertens on 12 Feb 19
     
    RIP Mars One, you were stupid to begin with.
  • darioizzo2 on 12 Feb 19
     
    Who would have thought?
  • marliesarnhof on 14 Feb 19
     
    while the whole project was obviously a scam and i'm surprised how long it took courts to figure that out, it managed to get an enormous amount of people interested in space and ignited a conversation (even if that one was just about bashing the project :D)
icheibas

How Big Would a Generation Ship Need to be to Keep a Crew of 500 Alive for the Journey ... - 4 views

www.universetoday.com/...-the-journey-to-another-star-1

space

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  • icheibas on 11 Feb 19
     
    Interstellar space travel
benjaminroussel

There is no good reason to trust blockchain technology - 1 views

www.wired.com/...to-trust-blockchain-technology

Blockchain INF

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  • benjaminroussel on 07 Feb 19
     
    Bruce Schneier, *the* crypto expert, on blockchain.
benjaminroussel

The problems with forcing regular password expiry - NCSC Site - 2 views

www.ncsc.gov.uk/...orcing-regular-password-expiry

security

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  • benjaminroussel on 29 Jan 19
     
    Not new, but always good to read: British intelligence recommend not having password expiry dates. Something we should apply at ESA!
  • Marcus Maertens on 30 Jan 19
     
    I second that. It has been an open secret for long though that frequent password changes are creating more problems than they solve. See Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/frequent_passwo.html
benjaminroussel

Magnet Finge.rs - 2 views

magnetfinge.rs

biohacking cyborg

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  • benjaminroussel on 29 Jan 19
     
    Bio-hacking/cyborg: implanting rare-earth magnets into your fingers to sense magnetic fields. At the same time quite awesome and quite extreme.
darioizzo2

Embodied Logic: Researchers Build Artificial Venus Flytrap - Tech Briefs - 1 views

www.techbriefs.com/...33742

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  • darioizzo2 on 29 Jan 19
     
    Nice story telling. (watch the video) The materials are actually cool, but the venus flytrap pitch (hinting at a biomimetic success) or the embodied intelligence speech are "a bit" of a stretch,
domineo

Rocking puts adults to sleep faster and makes slumber deeper | Science News - 2 views

www.sciencenews.org/...aster-and-makes-slumber-deeper

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  • domineo on 25 Jan 19
     
    First really strong evidence that the vestibular system affects sleep architecture, sleep stability and sleep spindles. If there is an effect due to a changing acceleration there might also be an effect of no gravity vector. We'll find out when I get the space shuttle data.
darioizzo2

Elon Musk Interview: Why the Starship Is Built of Stainless Steel - 4 views

www.popularmechanics.com/...usk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel

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  • darioizzo2 on 24 Jan 19
     
    Starship and the Super Heavy:P made of steel. Well, maybe makes sense.... read the article
Marcus Maertens

DeepMind - StarCraft II Demonstration - 3 views

news.blizzard.com/...ind-starcraft-ii-demonstration

AI

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  • Marcus Maertens on 23 Jan 19
     
    Google Deepmind about to reveal recent progress on AI for a complex competitive eSport title.
Marcus Maertens

A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse | New Scientist - 3 views

www.newscientist.com/...yesterdays-total-lunar-eclipse

space fun

shared by Marcus Maertens on 23 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 23 Jan 19
     
    There goes your moon base...
darioizzo2

Optimised spatial planning to meet long term urban sustainability objectives - ScienceD... - 3 views

www.sciencedirect.com/...S0198971515300090

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  • darioizzo2 on 18 Jan 19
     
    for the ACT architects .... Can we do the same for the Moon Village? We brainstorm on some mathematical simplified objectives for growing the settlement (taking inputs from the modular growth, resources, terrain suitability etc ....), we define some simple rules for growth and we optimize. ..... easy peasy (i am serious)
  • marliesarnhof on 21 Jan 19
     
    i agree, with most of the parameters that would actually be really cool. but doesn't it get very messy once economy plays a large factor?
  • darioizzo2 on 21 Jan 19
     
    We can start studying the ideal case, or add also some economical constraints on the settlement layout ...
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