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  1. Re:Packaging... on Amazon Tries To Figure Out the Packaging Box Problem It Created (t.co) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that they send out things in completely unsuitable packaging. This is about a fraction that gets broken during shipment. A small number of items always break. With a simpler packaging a few more items might break. The question is how many, and this is what this algorithm will learn. It is just doing basic statistics.

  2. Re:Why do writers do this? on Two Stars Collided And Solved Half of Astronomy's Problems. Now What? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I was just wondering, if the grandparent is right and gravity explains the redshift, then this would mean that it is not due to the Doppler effect. So the universe would not have to be expanding at all.

  3. p.s.:Why do writers do this? on Two Stars Collided And Solved Half of Astronomy's Problems. Now What? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Or at the surface of a four-dimensional blackhole, as to some theory posted on Slashdot earlier:
    https://science.slashdot.org/s...

  4. Re:Why do writers do this? on Two Stars Collided And Solved Half of Astronomy's Problems. Now What? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    So the universe is definitely inside a black hole?

  5. Re: Why do writers do this? on Two Stars Collided And Solved Half of Astronomy's Problems. Now What? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 2

    Is there a "singularity inside a blackhole"? I would think it is a different kind of physics that happens. But I don't know if there are any definite answers.
    I think there is some relation between what happens inside blackholes and the big bang. The Schwartzschild radius of the known universe is to close to the size of it

  6. Re:I don't think so, tim on AI Goes Bilingual -- Without a Dictionary (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    That's what I was also thinking. Sure, where are areas where these word maps look the same. I would only expect this though if this area developed similarly, e.g. technical areas in the recent past, where we had world-wide communication. Also it should work for the base of the language as far as the languages have common roots.
    I would not expect it to work for idioms or anything where languages developed different concepts to describe things. It won't understand an Eskimo that talks about snow (they have 50 words for it).

  7. Advantages over copper? How? on Is the Optical Cable Dying? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just look at the data rates we have over copper network cables. Even the oldest coax network was 10mbit/s. The highest quality audio signal is still just a few hundred kbit/s. Why wood you need an optical for this? It has always been a useless waste of money.

  8. It is rounding to a fixed number of significant digits, which is the only right thing to do with floating point numbers.

  9. Did they miss the StreetScooter? on First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 1

    It is mass-produced in Germany since two months already. They are not the first.

  10. Is this the one that contaminated everything? Would be smart to just plan your research on that line, althoughyour colleagues might not like to have it around

  11. He can't secretly meet people anymore though, and he would have more influence if he was talking on stages.

  12. Re:What happens in 15-20 years? on Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I heard some years ago that the inverters only last 5-10 years though. Renewing them is quite a substantial part of PV system cost, or was at least some years ago.

  13. Re: Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory process on Skipping Breakfast May Be Linked To Poor Heart Health, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone who listens to their body will walk enough to avoid atherosclerosis, will sleep enough and will eat what is healthy. Someone with a difficult life won't have time to listen to their body, won't sleep enough, won't have time for breakfast or walking and so on. I would say that is how everything is related, and why all this links seems to be linked in studies.

  14. Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory process on Skipping Breakfast May Be Linked To Poor Heart Health, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It can be stopped by a relaxed walk of 20-30 minutes per day. A lack of physical activity is the main cause of heart attacks. I think this is an accepted fact today.
    Nutrition does not seem to be too important, these studies rather seem to find symptoms of an unhealthy lifestyle. Kinda funny is: I lived in Germany for a long time, where people eat lots of salt and not so much fat. Regarding nutrition they are mostly worried about the fat they eat, thinking that it will block their arteries and lead to high blood pressure and heart attacks. Now I live in Scotland for a while. They have a diet rich in fat and meat and eat very low amounts of salt. Yet they are most worried about eating salt, thinking that it will increase their blood pressure and lead to heart problems.
    I think they are both wrong. E.g. I would bet the Germans have a higher blood pressure due to their general attitude to work, but they also eat more salt than others. A study looking for the relation between salt consumption and blood pressure would see a link if it includes the Germans and other Europeans, while it might just be a random correlation. I don't know the study that stated the link of salt consumption to high blood pressure, but knowing the different cultures I would bet it is not a real link.

  15. Re: Puzzled on A Fourth Gravitational Wave Has Been Detected (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Gravity moves at the speed of light. This is one of the reasons why Einstein developed the theory of general relativity. Newton's formulas only work when the speed of gravity doesn't matter. I don't know too much details though.
    What I also wonder is, why do we detect gravitational waves? Are they only moving the matter, but not so much the photons if the laser beam? If they would move everything in the same way it should be quite difficult to detect something. Though I think some theorists said the same until the first detection

  16. Re:You're kidding right? on ARM TrustZone Hacked By Abusing Power Management (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    You can run any number of tries though, until you manage to change a bit.
    I don't know, but you can probably also use any number of tries of getting a corrupted trustzone key?

  17. Re:Had everything? on The Inside Story of the Lily Drone's Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Had everything? on The Inside Story of the Lily Drone's Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Sorry, the first one exists already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... If it makes sense is still a question though.

  19. Re:No, this does not solve the problem. on A New Sampling Algorithm Could Eliminate Sensor Saturation (scitechdaily.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    So you pretty much want to read out the sensor at a higher framerate, and combine multiple images to one. This means that the sensor must be capable of a much higher framerate. And the image quality might get worse due to the readout noise, but I don't know if this is relevant in normal, uncooled cameras.

  20. Re:It will also require a change in law on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess this is about the installation cost of getting connected in the first place. You could save lots of money on that if you go solar right away.

  21. Re:So This Is How Liberty Dies... on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    They don't state anywhere for what exact postings they are raiding. So you can imagine what effect these raids have.

  22. Re: Editor's note on Where Have All the Insects Gone? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah we all really care about bugs

  23. And people who die to diesel emissions mostly lose just a view years of their life, while people who drown in bathtubs can be much younger.

  24. Why ban it? on Microsoft Finally Bans SHA-1 Certificates In Its Browsers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is no secure encryption, so it is just as insecure as an unencrypted site. But since it is banned we can't even view these sites anymore. That makes no sense. There should just be a warning, similar to what you get for an untrusted certificate.

  25. Re:I wouldn't mind having a land line on Majority of US Households Now Cellphone-Only, Government Says (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it would be best to have access to both networks anyway.
    Still, I wonder why cellphone networks would be built less reliable than landline networks. Landline networks also need electricity for the nodes to function. And they fail when cables get damaged, while cellphone networks only need the towers to work. Though at least in my country the electricity for the landline network is supplied through the network itself, so it does not rely on the electricity network. I guess there is the actual problem of cellphone networks, in the lack of redundancy of the American electricity network.