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@boomzilla said in đź”— Quick links thread:
New Research Shows "68% of the Universe May Not Exist at All"
The theory of general relativity may need an update.
Epicycles, bitches!
Maybe.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/dark-energy-illusion
No, Dark Energy Isn't An Illusion
The new ideas ignore decades-old research. I know, because I was the scientist who did it.
I'm curious about your enthusiastic response, though. You seem to want dark energy to not exist. Why?
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@mzh said in đź”— Quick links thread:
I'm curious about your enthusiastic response, though. You seem to want dark energy to not exist. Why?
It seems like a lazy kludge to me. Very much like epicycles.
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@boomzilla said in đź”— Quick links thread:
New Research Shows "68% of the Universe May Not Exist at All"
The theory of general relativity may need an update.
Epicycles, bitches!
There are a number of things in generally accepted physics, like dark matter and dark energy, which seemed suspiciously like hacks or fudges.
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Then again, neutrinos, Neptune, and the Higgs boson started out the same way--kludges to explain why theories didn't fit experimental data.
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@mzh said in đź”— Quick links thread:
You seem to want dark energy to not exist. Why?
Because it is a truly ugly hack that behaves in a non-physical manner. If it turns out to be unnecessary (or largely unnecessary) by simply regarding the universe as a fractal structure instead of a uniform one (which would still be absolutely fine from the perspective of the Cosmological Principle; that states that we're nowhere particularly special, not that everything is uniform, and a fractal structure is one of the most elegant ways of doing this) then that's great because it gets rid of something of which we had absolutely no idea what it was.
In a contest between two models to describe the same phenomenon to the same degree of accuracy, we should prefer the model that is most parsimonious in its fundamental assumptions. Occam's Razor, bitches!
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@mzh said in đź”— Quick links thread:
Then again, neutrinos, Neptune, and the Higgs boson started out the same way--kludges to explain why theories didn't fit experimental data.
True. You never know which way it will end up.
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Color me surprised.
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@cabrito said in đź”— Quick links thread:
Color me surprised.
Eh? These are the same ones announced last month; the "Last Reviewed" date has just been updated.
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This guy lived the dream...
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@boomzilla Brilliant. I'd watch this movie.
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The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does
Over the years, hundreds of people online have shared memories of a cheesy Nineties movie called “Shazaam”. There is no evidence that such a film was ever made. What does this tell us about the quirks of collective memory?
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@boner I saw that and immediately thought, "wait, wasn't that Shaq?" Then I read the article and they talked about the Shaq movie. (Which I never saw, but do remember trailers for.)
For the record, I have no memories at all of a similar movie with Sinbad.
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@masonwheeler said in đź”— Quick links thread:
@boner I saw that and immediately thought, "wait, wasn't that Shaq?" Then I read the article and they talked about the Shaq movie. (Which I never saw, but do remember trailers for.)
Yeah, I was like, "What? That's not what happened in the movie at all! He was in a boombox, and one of the wishes was for junk food, from here to the sky or some dumbshit like a kid would wish for..."
For the record, I have no memories at all of a similar movie with Sinbad.
Ditto.
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@boner I saw a lot of 90s movies as a kid, and I distinctly remember seeing that one. Meanwhile, I have never seen Shaquille 0'Neal in anything ever besides this gif.
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Human Error in Volatile Situations - This American Life
People bungle simple operations on some of the most dangerous weapons in the world.
Transcript of a some kind of podcast or radio show episode about human error and unpredictability. I've only read the first part so far, but it's a really interesting story about how a socket wrench almost caused a massive nuclear explosion in the middle of the United States in 1980. The second story seems to be about US Navy ships crashing into things.
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Not actually a link but whatever, enjoy this Venn diagram of Shakespeare:
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Interesting idea: https://year-in-pixels.glitch.me/
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@boomzilla said in đź”— Quick links thread:
Not actually a link but whatever, enjoy this Venn diagram of Shakespeare:
Hamlet may get more attention, but this objectively proves that Macbeth is the greatest of Shakespeare's works.
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@masonwheeler But you have to make sure to never mention the name of that play in front of theatre actors.
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Comparing house price trends worldwide
Leonard Kiefer  has a new post where he presents some interesting analysis of global house price trends . Lonards has used data from the i...
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@boomzilla I guess I'm moving to south Korea...
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Subtitle of the blog @boomzilla linked to:
Structured Procrastination on Cities, Demography, Transport Policy and Spatial Analysis
I see why you were browsing over there.
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thoughts?
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https://i.imgur.com/FbDBLkw.png
https://i.imgur.com/wP9soDD.png
Not quite.To their credit, though, they haven't actually included jQuery.
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@bb36e said in đź”— Quick links thread:
thoughts?
Speed is often gained by removing generality. That's sometimes a worthwhile trade-off. Sometimes.
Also, choosing the right algorithm helps, sometimes by orders of magnitude. There's a lot of programmers who need to remember that.
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Google Maps still works today on Android 1.0...Google Maps for iOS, version 1.0, released late 2012...Google Maps on Java phones...my Palm Treo 755p, released in 2007 (it doesn’t even understand Unicode.)
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@tsaukpaetra ? Those are supposed to be the confirmed kills.
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What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You
This blog post is a personal account of sexism, harassment, and racism that I and some anonymous members of the computer architecture community have experienced. We are sharing these experiences in…
This blog post is a personal account of sexism, harassment, and racism that I and some anonymous members of the computer architecture community have experienced.
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@tsaukpaetra Badgers?
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https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report
On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 GitHub.com was unavailable from 17:21 to 17:26 UTC and intermittently unavailable from 17:26 to 17:30 UTC due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
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amplification attack using the memcached-based approach described above that peaked at 1.35Tbps via 126.9 million packets per second.
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@bb36e said in đź”— Quick links thread:
https://githubengineering.com/ddos-incident-report
On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 GitHub.com was unavailable from 17:21 to 17:26 UTC and intermittently unavailable from 17:26 to 17:30 UTC due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
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amplification attack using the memcached-based approach described above that peaked at 1.35Tbps via 126.9 million packets per second.And here I am worrying about a radio distribution plugin to the voice server that will add an extra 120kbps to the upstream output for each listener....
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Nice onebox, bro. Let me quote Wikipedia:
The Museum of Failure is a collection of failed products and services. The museum showcases failures to provide visitors a learning experience about the important role of failure for innovation and to encourage organizations to become better at learning from failure. The exhibition opened on June 7, 2017 in Helsingborg, Sweden. The exhibit opened in Los Angeles in December 2017.
It was on tv news today, for whatever reason.
Some examples of the items on display: Apple Newton, Bic for Her, Google Glass, N-Gage, lobotomy instruments, Harley-Davidson Cologne, Kodak DC-40, Sony Betamax, Lego Fiber Optics, and Paolo Macchiarini's infamous plastic trachea.
Also this:
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So You Want To Abolish Time Zones
Laudable! Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative. Before abolishing time zones I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently...
Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative.
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Google's replacement for geographical coordinates. It'll be useful for people that live in unamed roads, because latitudes and longitudes are a lot of numbers to remember, and this thing is just a few characters together with the city name.
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@sockpuppet7 Interesting.
Quoting https://github.com/google/open-location-code#description :
Codes are made up of a sequence of digits chosen from a set of 20. The digits in the code alternate between latitude and longitude. The first four digits describe a one degree latitude by one degree longitude area, aligned on degrees. Adding two further digits to the code, reduces the area to 1/20th of a degree by 1/20th of a degree within the previous area. And so on - each pair of digits reduces the area to 1/400th of the previous area.
A "+" character is used after eight digits, to break the code up into two parts and to distinguish codes from postal codes.
There will be locations where a 10 digit code is not sufficiently precise, but refining it by a factor of 20 is i) unnecessarily precise and ii) requires extending the code by two digits. Instead, after 10 digits, the area is divided into a 4x5 grid and a single digit used to identify the grid square. A single grid refinement step reduces the area to approximately 3.5x2.8 meters.
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@zecc and both Waze And Google Maps already recognize those codes. I can locate my father's house, that is on unamed road and is impossible to locate in any online map without resorting to latitude and longitude, with something in the format XXXX+LL (because I'm near enough for it to deduce the first 4 characters).
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@sockpuppet7 said in đź”— Quick links thread:
this thing is just a few characters together with the city name.
So, a postcode?
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@jaloopa A postcode that has a 3m precision, is easily discoverable and available anywhere in the world
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@zecc IMO, the whole 'close locations have similar codes' is bollocks, because it breaks down at every degree boundary in lat/long (and to a lesser extend every 1/20th degree). It would however be accurate to say 'similar codes are close together', and equivalently 'locations which are far apart have dissimilar codes'.
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@tsaukpaetra said in đź”— Quick links thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in đź”— Quick links thread:
Google's replacement for geographical coordinates
???
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/24025/osti-bloody-sadist-pecker-bitch
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@tsaukpaetra said in đź”— Quick links thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in đź”— Quick links thread:
Google's replacement for geographical coordinates
???
Idea Coder Buffoon? I feel insulted!
Specially because that's not where I am. =P
Handmade Manifesto
9 Reasons PC Owners Are Jealous Of Macs
Museum of Failure
Plus Codes
The simplest way to talk about location
