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- utopian2
- cool but not footage. you can tell by the milky wave conveniently in the background for maximum effect.hotroddy
- (that's why it states "Animation" on it)monospaced
- you know an animation can consist of photographs or are you just being argumentative?hotroddy
- you do realize we can't get photos like this of an exploding star right? or are you just being argumentative?monospaced
- "caught best glimpse" means to me that we canhotroddy
- What you're seeing < there is an illustrated interpretation, not photos or anything otherwise directly-imaged.detritus
- GeorgesII1
- History repeats itself. I heard they want to send a man on the moon. Crazy, right?Maaku
- Tintin on the moon - 1954.detritus
- Oh, that 1959 thing is on a barge too isn't it? d'oh. I need to take a breath and wait for a couple of seconds before posting...detritus
- hmm, was just thinking that this could have potentially huge military implications. reusable icbm rockets_niko
- Morning_star3
I found this very interesting and opinion changing, the truth IS out there.
Eight Lies About GMOs
1. The health consequences of eating genetically modified organisms are largely unknown.
2. Food items that contain GMOs are unlabeled in America.
3. Genetic engineering reduces genetic diversity.
4. Once the mutant genes are out of the bag, there is no going back.
5. GMOs are not the answer for global food security.
6. Genetically engineered foods have not been proven to be safe, but the few studies conducted don’t look so hot.
7. Big biotech firms have very sketchy track records.
8. GMOs require massive amounts of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.Conclusion:
If there were a real controversy about GMOs, there would be credible sources citing credible studies and making valid points. Anti-GMO sites would not have to resort to discredited studies from dubious sources, or making tired-old claims that have been debunked as often as creationist arguments.- +1monospaced
- GMOs are bad mmkay?
9/11 was an inside job
Fuck You Candy
Vote Bernie Sandersimbecile - my house burned down this morning_niko
- my flat burned down this morning,
and it burns down at least once a year.
I have pics to prove it.Drumpf - Right or wrong, this is how I feel about GMO.MrT
- have you ever eaten a real banana? (not that engineered yellow one) or a real original tomato? your fear is a better business than my drug consumption :)sted
- that engineered yellow one, I hate to break it to you, IS a real banana in every waymonospaced
- utopian2
'Not a scientist': Palin slams Bill Nye over global warming stance
The former Alaska governor, at a panel Thursday on Capitol Hill, ripped the TV star's credentials and accused him of intentionally using his stature to spread what she described as an alarmist agenda on global warming.
- She is the definition of dumbmoldero
- One thing about British politics in comparison is that, while they're all utter cunts, at least they are intelligent utter cunts.set
- the USA is race of the bumbling half witsset
- Can't believe anyone, especially politicians, ever considered her or listen to anything she says.monospaced
- so so dumbmoldero
- some comments on that article are goldmicrokorg
- GeorgesII0
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- 0_0deathboy
- thigh cancer huhmoldero
- holy fuck. i wonder what crazy doctor thought this up. out of the box thinking for sure.sarahfailin
- I've met two people who have had this procedure. Cool shit.monospaced
- utopian2
Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
Scientists have had a literal breakthrough off the coast of Mexico.
After weeks of drilling from an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico, they have reached rocks left over from the day the Earth was hit by a killer asteroid.
The cataclysm is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs. "This was probably the most important event in the last 100 million years," says Joanna Morgan, a geophysicist at Imperial College in London and a leader of the expedition.
- uan1
- scarabin5
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories
- amazing article, thanks for sharing!monospaced
- so my memory what i'm trying so hard to destroy in the past 33 years isn't in my brain. goodsted
- and what can Mr. Robert Epstein say about that I can still draw my grandfather who died in '95 without any reference photo?sted
- Or remember art pieces what i have only seen once?sted
- very cool! I was skeptical at first but it won me over.sarahfailin
- i think the point is that it does but not in the way we think it does ie like a computer_niko
- they reckon it's in them there cellsset
- @sted, it means that you are able to "recreate" that memory, which apparently is different from retrieving itmonospaced
- he seems to be positing that current metaphors fall far short of what actually happens, and that we still have a lot of understanding to doscarabin
- yeah, like 100 years more of understanding to domonospaced
- nice article. what was it about again?Fax_Benson
- @mono you are right and I misunderstood some part of the allegations... after the second reading it's much clearersted
- A lot of "what"s instead of "that"s in this note thread. It's making me punchy.set
- monospaced0
Meanwhile ... the U.S government is throwing $100 million at figuring out how to reverse engineer the brain.
- we don't need to copy it to make something that works. human brain has its biological limitations, its all fluids etc, which we do not need to cover over to AIdrgs
- more importantly, there might not be any algorithm at all in the brain to be found (see previous post) in the first placemonospaced
- for simple propagation networks we already have something that outperforms human vision, and its based on copying abstraction by layers in the braindrgs
- https://upload.wikim…
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http://www.cs.uwyo.e…drgs - yeah, recognition systems require tons of input to store and process and they're getting better, totally understood.monospaced
- the argument is that the brain doesn't necessarily do any of that (see previous post from scarabin). all quite interestingmonospaced
- I think this is all so fascinating, and I appreciate the discussion.monospaced
- the difference currently is that AI learning is supervised (or "labeled", ie you have one sample input and a corresponding target),and you learn the assosiationdrgs
- technically it means that in a NN you try to predict a target from input, than compute error versus real target, and propagate the error backward, top to bottomdrgs
- human brain learns the other way around, in unsupervised fashion, from bottom to top, ie. you start with recognizing some basic patterns on lower layersdrgs
- first couple of years of a baby's life is basically unsupervised learning, they can recognize and separate things from each other, but dont know what they aredrgs
- in fact if you look around you, 90% of crap around you -- you sort of have seen before, and can sort of describe with language, but you dont know what it isdrgs
- AI skip this "dark" knowledge, and are only trained to recognize a limited number of very specific thingsdrgs
- later in life babies only need to label (learn language) the things they are already familiar with, and then you can build up abstraction etcdrgs
- lack of abstraction = autismdrgs
- yurimon-7
- wrong threadmonospaced
- stop messing up your vibration.yurimon
- there is no vibration to mess up, so stop trying to troll the science thread with nonsensemonospaced
- What on earth do you mean there is no vibration? Listen to yourself man.set
- harmonics, everything is vibrating, do you even study bro?yurimon
- sounds like yuri is basing his science on a Beach Boys songmonospaced
- sarahfailin-1
http://fivethirtyeight.com/featu…
538's new series -- science questions from a toddler asks "what if the moon were bigger?"
- sted0
Previously unknown fifth fundamental force of nature discovered
- is it a 5th force or they say its a 5th force because they cant make numbers fit?yurimon
- what are the first 4drgs
- gravity,weak strong forces or something with electromagnetism, been a while. need to revisit.yurimon
- but electric universe theory more or less everything is a by product of electromagnetism, including gravity.yurimon
- I know this is close to your heart, but there's a HUGE question mark hovering over this, so it's categorically NOT yet a fifth fundamental force!detritus
- this article is based on the discovery what was made in February, and today they released some papers to help US scientists to recreate the dark force :)sted
- don't try this at home:
http://journals.aps.… :)sted
- uan0
Simulation (Sim) Theory
- remember they used to think everything was mechanical because of their limit in consciousness https://farm5.static…yurimon
- That wasn't a limit on consciousness. Phrases like that have no meaning in the real world.monospaced
- yeah they have no meaning for materialist reductionists which is outdated science.yurimon
- then you really are a moronmonospaced
- GeorgesII4
Has science gone too FAR???
I say FUCK yeah!!!After living more than a year with a wearable total artificial heart device, Stan Larkin, 25, returned to the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center for a heart transplant.
- nb1
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/0…
Stephen Hawking says information can escape from black holes.
- uan1
- so they were right!
https://www.youtube.…_niko - ^ pretty muchmoldero
- so they were right!