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I liked how they introduced her, like "her mother died in an insane asylum thinking she was Queen Victoria" and my thought was, I like where I think this is going. I was not disappointed.

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Brother Mythos

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Brother Mythos on January 31, 2017, 04:30:38 AM
'Scientists divided over whether 'Furku.Al' rock inscription is genuinely the work of Vikings'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/22/scientists-divided-whether-furkual-rock-inscription-genuinely/

Well, here's something that won't affect anyone's life in any meaningful way.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Brother Mythos

Discordianism is fundamentally mischievous irreverence.

MMIX

Dammit, I've been reading too much politics and missed this sad and statistically significant item

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/notable-deaths-in-2017/2/

QuoteSwedish academic, doctor and statistician Hans Rosling (July 27, 1948-February 7, 2017) captured the world's attention though his original and entertaining presentations of data on such topics as population growth, child mortality, poverty, and misunderstandings about the developing world.

Co-founder of the Gapminder foundation, Rosling called his role that of an "edutainer." His 2006 TED Talk, titled "The Best Stats You've Ever Seen," has racked up more than 11 million views.
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: MMIX on February 12, 2017, 07:35:25 PM
Dammit, I've been reading too much politics and missed this sad and statistically significant item

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/notable-deaths-in-2017/2/

QuoteSwedish academic, doctor and statistician Hans Rosling (July 27, 1948-February 7, 2017) captured the world's attention though his original and entertaining presentations of data on such topics as population growth, child mortality, poverty, and misunderstandings about the developing world.

Co-founder of the Gapminder foundation, Rosling called his role that of an "edutainer." His 2006 TED Talk, titled "The Best Stats You've Ever Seen," has racked up more than 11 million views.

Aw. :(
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Brother Mythos

"From rocks in Colorado, evidence of a 'chaotic solar system'"

The short YouTube clip is particularly interesting.

http://news.wisc.edu/from-rocks-in-colorado-evidence-of-a-chaotic-solar-system/
Discordianism is fundamentally mischievous irreverence.

MMIX

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 12, 2017, 11:47:15 PM
Quote from: MMIX on February 12, 2017, 07:35:25 PM
Dammit, I've been reading too much politics and missed this sad and statistically significant item

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/notable-deaths-in-2017/2/

QuoteSwedish academic, doctor and statistician Hans Rosling (July 27, 1948-February 7, 2017) captured the world's attention though his original and entertaining presentations of data on such topics as population growth, child mortality, poverty, and misunderstandings about the developing world.

Co-founder of the Gapminder foundation, Rosling called his role that of an "edutainer." His 2006 TED Talk, titled "The Best Stats You've Ever Seen," has racked up more than 11 million views.

Aw. :(

Reaching out from the beyond Prof Rosling offers some challenging last insights:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39211144
QuoteGovernments can't run bedrooms. Bedrooms run the world.
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

P3nT4gR4m

Deepmind knocks it out the park again. Pretty much the only thing worth talking about in the ML community since AlphaGo, in terms of where it goes next,  has been episodic memory. Lot of labs trying to develop solutions. This is pretty f'kin awesome.


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"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Brother Mythos

"Humans as Agents in the Termination of the African Humid Period"

A number of popular science websites made passing references to this paper about the formation of the Sahara Desert in the past couple of weeks, but did not include much from the paper itself.

I'm not well read in the field of anthropology, and have no knowledge of Dr. David K. Wright's reputation, but I found the following paper to be particularly interesting:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2017.00004/full

In his Conclusion, Dr. Wright states, "Human-induced landscape pressures are as old as humanity itself. Although there is little doubt that post-Industrial anthropogenic activities have placed more global stress on the environment than for the millions of preceding years, human impacts are not concisely restricted to the post-Industrial world."
Discordianism is fundamentally mischievous irreverence.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Brother Mythos on March 23, 2017, 02:44:37 AM
"Humans as Agents in the Termination of the African Humid Period"

A number of popular science websites made passing references to this paper about the formation of the Sahara Desert in the past couple of weeks, but did not include much from the paper itself.

I'm not well read in the field of anthropology, and have no knowledge of Dr. David K. Wright's reputation, but I found the following paper to be particularly interesting:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2017.00004/full

In his Conclusion, Dr. Wright states, "Human-induced landscape pressures are as old as humanity itself. Although there is little doubt that post-Industrial anthropogenic activities have placed more global stress on the environment than for the millions of preceding years, human impacts are not concisely restricted to the post-Industrial world."

IE, "Goat-herding will tear shit up".
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Brother Mythos

"Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy"

"In the new work, the researchers, led by Phd student Gábor Rácz of Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, question the existence of dark energy and suggest an alternative explanation. They argue that conventional models of cosmology (the study of the origin and evolution of the universe), rely on approximations that ignore its structure, and where matter is assumed to have a uniform density."

They further write:

"In practice, normal and dark matter appear to fill the universe with a foam-like structure, where galaxies are located on the thin walls between bubbles, and are grouped into superclusters. The insides of the bubbles are in contrast almost empty of both kinds of matter."

Here's the link to the article: http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2968-explaining-the-accelerating-expansion-of-the-universe-without-dark-energy

Hardcore students of cosmology can download the complete paper at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08797
Discordianism is fundamentally mischievous irreverence.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

This was pretty neat:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170404160034.htm

QuoteResearchers are analyzing DNA from ancient individuals found in southeast Alaska, coastal British Columbia, Washington state and Montana. A new genetic analysis of some of these human remains finds that many of today's indigenous peoples living in the same regions are descendants of ancient individuals dating to at least 10,300 years ago.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Also, using bacteria to purify water. Ingenious!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170404084433.htm
QuoteA new system that uses bacteria to turn non-potable water into drinking water will be tested next week in West Vancouver prior to being installed in remote communities in Canada and beyond.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Brother Mythos

'Research challenges understanding of quantum theory'

"Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have shown that when photons – the fundamental particles of light – are created in pairs, they can emerge from different, rather than the same, location."

"The ground-breaking research could have significant implications for quantum physics, the theoretical basis of modern physics. Until now, the general assumption was that such photon pairs necessarily originate from single points in space."

Here's the link to the press release: https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/light-particles-challenges-understanding-of-quantum-theory

Unfortunately, the press release provides no quantitative data about the distance between the photon pair emergence points. And, the research paper itself appears to be only available for purchase from the journal Physical Review Letters.

Discordianism is fundamentally mischievous irreverence.

Brother Mythos

"Found: Fresh Clues to Mystery of King Solomon's Mines"

Whether or not one believes in the authenticity of the biblical story, it is significant that people went to such effort to mine and smelt copper, 3,000 years ago, in such an inhospitable place. (And, it's amazing what archeologist can learn from old animal waste.)

Here's the link to the article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/king-solomon-mines-bible-timna-dung/
Discordianism is fundamentally mischievous irreverence.