#Computing

Hot Jupiter have been puzzling us for a while ! Their nightside looks cooler than we expect and the thermal structure seems much more symmetrical than expected. Today with @jjfplanet
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I'm reading Nick Szabo's famous essay "Money, blockchains, and social scalability" and will be live tweeting some excerpts. "Bitcoin offends the sensibilities of resource-conscious and performance-measure-maximizing engineers a
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.@elotroalex Computation is universal in the sense that it's a machine that should be able to predict or encompass all other machines. Input/output, say this thing = that thing, evaluate
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Socialism in Defence PSUs: Waste of resources and time... Problem: seemingly unrectifiable is the bureaucratic attitude to indigenous production. MoD officials explain their own (and by extension the military’s) partiality
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0) Last week the Beijing municipal government released a 145 page document outlining its vision for utilizing blockchain to create a "programmable government". We read the doc so you don't
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If you want to create great products, you *must* have focused use cases, not make some general purpose thing. This is one of many lessons and concepts in my essay
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It's Friday and I'd like to introduce a new thread to celebrate amazing technologists who have less than 10K followers. Here’s my #Tech10Under10K list! Yours truly, @radiomorillo I’m
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The producers of The Social Dilemma brought some serious and valid concerns about the impact of social media platforms to a broad Netflix audience. BUT… There were glaring omissions,
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Last week, @hssonline & @SocHistTech announced that this year's joint meeting in New Orleans had been postponed due to #COVID19.Many people, including myself, were saddened by this decision, even though
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A lot of students ask me about the resources @UCBerkeley for those who want to study & research at the intersection of tech, communication, society, arts, and design?In this thread,
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Robert Gordon's *The Rise and Fall of American Growth* is one of the key texts that established the “stagnation” hypothesis. It's also a tome, weighing in at over 800 pages.I
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1) Tesla's Autopilot driver assist product is now largely feature complete, but how much further does it have to progress to achieve reliability 3-5x greater than the average human &
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[THREAD]Unity (prop ticker: $U) filed their S-1 this AM. I read the filing so you don't have to (but you should). Here's a thread on what I found interesting, fascinating
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I have never been more bullish on #bitcoin than I am right now.The ways in which bitcoin mining allows any individual or nation to bring energy to market, w/o
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just a reminder that AHS having ~10 computer servers when you know tens of thousands of people are going to rush your website is reckless and stupid.especially if you use
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