Amentep Posted June 9, 2022 Author Posted June 9, 2022 Discovery of second repeating fast radio burst raises new questions I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
InsaneCommander Posted June 9, 2022 Posted June 9, 2022 James Webb Space Telescope was hit by a tiny space rock – but it’s OK 2
InsaneCommander Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient 1
Gfted1 Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 SpaceX’s Starship launch plan gets an environmental OK from the feds | Ars Technica Finally! 2 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Gfted1 Posted June 21, 2022 Posted June 21, 2022 Scientists Have 'Healed' a Heart Attack in Mice by Regenerating Muscle Cells (sciencealert.com) "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
kanisatha Posted June 21, 2022 Posted June 21, 2022 28 minutes ago, Gfted1 said: Scientists Have 'Healed' a Heart Attack in Mice by Regenerating Muscle Cells (sciencealert.com) See, the problem with all these new breakthroughs is that they will be too late to do anything for me, a 54 years old guy in *not* the best shape.
xzar_monty Posted June 21, 2022 Posted June 21, 2022 On 6/13/2022 at 10:33 PM, InsaneCommander said: Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient This feels rather amusing in the sense that we have absolutely no theory on what consciousness is (or, interestingly enough, what time is), so I'm not sure how they're going to argue for it either way. But yeah, coming up with a claim like that is probably not a good idea. 1
Hurlshort Posted June 21, 2022 Posted June 21, 2022 4 hours ago, kanisatha said: See, the problem with all these new breakthroughs is that they will be too late to do anything for me, a 54 years old guy in *not* the best shape. Round is a shape! But seriously, 54 is still young. You still have decades ahead of you, and the way some of this medical science is progressing, hopefully those can be good decades. 1 1
InsaneCommander Posted June 22, 2022 Posted June 22, 2022 9 hours ago, xzar_monty said: This feels rather amusing in the sense that we have absolutely no theory on what consciousness is (or, interestingly enough, what time is), so I'm not sure how they're going to argue for it either way. But yeah, coming up with a claim like that is probably not a good idea. Yes, that is exactly the case here. But I think it is much easier to make a program that looks consciouss than one that actually is, even considering that we wouldn't know how to check which one we have.
Lexx Posted June 22, 2022 Posted June 22, 2022 You just have to read that chatlog with the ai to see that it's not conscious. They basically went "are you conscious?" - "yes" - "AMAZING!!!" 1 1 "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
Gfted1 Posted June 22, 2022 Posted June 22, 2022 A Huge Step Forward in Quantum Computing Was Just Announced: The First-Ever Quantum Circuit (sciencealert.com) 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
InsaneCommander Posted July 4, 2022 Posted July 4, 2022 Scientists Say New James Webb Images Are So Powerful That It Was Emotional Just Looking at Them 1
Gfted1 Posted July 7, 2022 Posted July 7, 2022 IBM’s 3D chip stacking process could revive a famous rule on computing power (interestingengineering.com) 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
ShadySands Posted July 8, 2022 Posted July 8, 2022 Surprise – Again! NASA Spacecraft Reveals Asteroid Bennu Is Not What It Seemed Quote Scientists have learned something astonishing after analyzing data gathered when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020. The spacecraft would have sunk into the asteroid had it not fired its thrusters to back away immediately after it grabbed its sample of dust and rock from Bennu’s surface. “Our expectations about the asteroid’s surface were completely wrong.” — Dante Lauretta, principal investigator of OSIRIS-REx Unexpectedly, it turns out that the particles making up Bennu’s exterior are so loosely packed and lightly bound to each other that if a person were to step onto the asteroid they would feel very little resistance. It would be like stepping into a pit of plastic balls that are popular play areas for kids. 1 2 Free games updated 3/4/21
Gfted1 Posted July 12, 2022 Posted July 12, 2022 Behold the James Webb Space Telescope's stunning 1st images | Space 6 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Bartimaeus Posted July 17, 2022 Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) Trash source: Our empty oceans: Scots team’s research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life The planet is almost certainly past its tipping point for humanity's survival on the scale to which we are accustomed to (i.e. 7 billion people); it will be curious to see how much longer it takes for entire food chains to collapse and start killing off human en masse as well. Will the planet be too far gone for that to matter by that point, or will killing off a substantial amount of humanity actually allow it to stabilize and eventually recover? The worst-off people in the poorest parts of the world are certain to be the ones affected the most by it at least initially, while the majority of us will likely be fine for the remainder of our lives (though less can be said for the our descendants). "Interesting" times ahead as always, it would seem... Edited July 17, 2022 by Bartimaeus Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
rjshae Posted July 18, 2022 Posted July 18, 2022 3 hours ago, Bartimaeus said: Trash source: Our empty oceans: Scots team’s research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life The planet is almost certainly past its tipping point for humanity's survival on the scale to which we are accustomed to (i.e. 7 billion people); it will be curious to see how much longer it takes for entire food chains to collapse and start killing off human en masse as well. Will the planet be too far gone for that to matter by that point, or will killing off a substantial amount of humanity actually allow it to stabilize and eventually recover? The worst-off people in the poorest parts of the world are certain to be the ones affected the most by it at least initially, while the majority of us will likely be fine for the remainder of our lives (though less can be said for the our descendants). "Interesting" times ahead as always, it would seem... Welp, there goes the Soylent Green... "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
rjshae Posted July 18, 2022 Posted July 18, 2022 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
Gfted1 Posted July 19, 2022 Posted July 19, 2022 No, we haven’t killed 90% of all plankton. 3 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Gfted1 Posted July 28, 2022 Posted July 28, 2022 DeepMind uncovers structure of 200m proteins in scientific leap forward | DeepMind | The Guardian 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Amentep Posted July 29, 2022 Author Posted July 29, 2022 Necrobiotics: Researchers are turning dead spiders' legs into robotic grippers 2 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Gorth Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 8 hours ago, Amentep said: Necrobiotics: Researchers are turning dead spiders' legs into robotic grippers 1 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Gfted1 Posted July 31, 2022 Posted July 31, 2022 US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design | Ars Technica 2 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Gorth Posted August 2, 2022 Posted August 2, 2022 Padme's crotch can survive more than 14000 newtons of force (force, not "The Force") Some geeky person looked up Natalie Portman's weight (53.5kg, yes this all scientific stuff, hence metric!), calculated the height of the pillar and according to lore, the planets gravity is 90% of Earths... so 8.82 meter per second. Normal human bones gets destroyed when exposed to 4000 Newtons 1 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Lexx Posted August 2, 2022 Posted August 2, 2022 This jump always looked very weird and fake. Now we know it absolutely is! "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
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