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  1. Re: GPUs not used for bitcoin, bitcoin compromised on Bitcoin Mining Now Accounts For Almost One Percent of the World's Energy Consumption (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    This has to be false because ASICs are by definition custom-designed; there is no fixed design rule for all of them.

  2. No, no, you misunderstood. Look, there's a sophisticated, futuristic system here that is doing unbelievable tricks at the elementary-particle scale. That's what you should read from "sends electrons flowing through the nickel foil". The fact that there's nickel foil involved should just signal to you an exceeding amount of intriguing beauty amd elegance in the design. You can't just say "the heating element lights up", oh no! /s

  3. 3/2 of LHC on NASA Again Delays Launch of Troubled Webb Telescope (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Just for reference, the LHC only cost $6.4b.

  4. Turns out in order to subscribe to a podcast I have to allow Google to store all my App and Web Activity. BS.

  5. So no mass shooting? on Shots Fired Again Between CPU Vendors AMD and Intel (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    No mass shooting? Thank god! Horrible title though.

  6. Re: 82 is less than 84 on Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks · · Score: 1

    Sorry for being another pain in the ass.

  7. 82 is less than 84 on Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I did the math.. 82 is less than 84, which equals 7 times 12, that is, the number of days in 12 weeks. So maybe "almost 12 weeks" would've worked better here.

  8. 82 84 on Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I did the math.. 82 84 = 7 Ã-- 12 So maybe "almost 12 weeks" would've worked better here.

  9. "set" has way too many meanings. Thus it's meaningless and should be retired.

  10. And slavery was a choice, right?

  11. Compete Turing on Programmer Creates Bee Counter Using a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Omg, it sounds like the RPi is an actual complete Turing computing machine! Unbelievable! /s

  12. See http://www.connellybarnes.com/... and the references therein.

  13. Likely blunder on Apple Signs Deal With Volkswagen For Driverless Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds a lot of that one time when Nokia signed an contact with Microsoft to build Windows phones and ended up almost dead. Will Volkswagen be the next Nokia?

  14. Probably no high energy marticles on Incredible New Gif Shows Cosmic 'Snow' On the Surface of a Comet (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Only stars and dust, no high energy particles in these photographs, is what the experts are writing.

  15. Update: Not gone on German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The site has been updated with a message about the danger of ICO scams, the need for reform, and apologies for the scam simulation.

  16. Maybe some people grow neurons and others don't?

  17. Re: Great news! on Researchers Discover Colistin-Heteroresistant Germs In the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    +1

  18. Re: Sure it can, on AI Can Diagnose Prostate Cancer As Well As a Pathologist (sciencebusiness.net) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ok, again, here's how it works: 1. You have symptoms that could be cancer or something else, like for example a growth of tissue. 2. You go to the doctor and he suggests to test for cancer. 3. A biopsy is taken. That is to say, a human being cuts out a small bit of tissue. 4. The biopsy is imaged. This means that they prepare it in a special way that will make it easier to make out the difference between cancer and no cancer. Then they put it under the microscope and take some photos. 5. The diagnosis is made. For this until now you need a specialized pathologist with many years of experience and very expensive training to look at the photos and give you his opinion of whether this is cancer he's looking at in the photos or not. Or apparently now you can use a computer program to check out the photos and give you an almost equally accurate opinion. 6. A report is written and sent to your doctor. 7. At your next appointment you get the news.

  19. Deleted AI article on Elon Musk: SpaceX's Mars Rocket Could Fly Short Flights By Next Year · · Score: 1

    Why did Slashdot remove the article on Musk's warnings on AI published almost along this one? Where did it go?

  20. Re: Great news! on Researchers Discover Colistin-Heteroresistant Germs In the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think there's so much we can do to fight antibiotic resistance. Remember this video? https://youtu.be/plVk4NVIUh8

  21. They confirm your bias. It gives you a dopamine hit. Of course people like them more. Who'd eat spinach when they can have macadamia brittle ice cream?

  22. Re: How to fix Slashdot on Slashdot Outage Update · · Score: 1

    Plot twist: Slashdot reveals it hasn't had editors for four years and had instead been using an older version of Facebook's algorithm stolen by a Gollum-like character that runs the entire operation.

  23. I'm not in the field but not very far, and I don't recognize the names of the authors. That's a little fishy.

  24. Re: This story could lead to rainforest destructio on Coffee Beans Are Good For Birds, Fancy Brew Or Not (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Fixed the heading.

  25. This story justifies rainforest destruction on Coffee Beans Are Good For Birds, Fancy Brew Or Not (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    This wreaks of industry-sponsored science that will be used to justify taking land from nature in the name of improving the economy.