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It’s no secret that Google has developed its own custom chips to accelerate its machine learning algorithms. Breaking News: special-purpose chips faster than general-purpose chips
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Discovered almost 10 years ago at CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration intense pulses of radio light that appear to be coming from vast distances. OK, it's not the microwave this time
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Quote: a lower limit on their distances of ≈ 10 ^ 4 km (limit of the telescope near-field) supporting the case for an astronomical origin.
Yes - 10 to the power 4 kilometres suggest astronomical origin to me too ...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: OK, it's not the microwave this time
But the microwave is still watching you.
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Golly!
It's "dark-but-not-really-dark-but-still-dark-because-I-said-so" energy!
TBH, I really am getting sick of hearing the astronomy world's fantasy cr@p.
E.g. they can tell us p1ss-all about Europa, Titan, and Callisto, but they're c**k-sure about microdots a million orders of magnitude further away.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration intense pulses of radio light that appear to be coming from vast distances
"it doesn't look like an SOS...it looks like a warning" 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Either that or they're flash-transmitting the recipe for human-rump soup.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Either that or they're flash-transmitting the recipe for human-rump soup.
I was going to post a link to images of the fattest people on Earth (thought it might be fun to start putting a menu together) but it even made me feel sick 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Ironic if it turned out to be Lrrrrr's microwave, back in Omicron Persei 8.
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$50 says that if you slow it down and analyze the pulse, it will decode to something like "you've just won a free cruise...."
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Naah, it's an intergalactic chain letter:
"Send 10^24 kilograms of Hydrogen to the first 10 star systems on the list, add your name to the bottom of the list, and forward to 6 other star systems. You will eventually receive enough Hydrogen to power your civilization until the heat death of the Universe.
Do not break the chain!
* The Klingons threw this message into their junk mail folder. Their home planet's moon exploded, devastating the planet!
* The Vulcans considered chain letters to be illogical, and their planet exploded!!!
* The Earthlings ignored the message, and their planet was demolished to make a hyperspace bypass!!!!!"
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That's what she says...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Almost a year ago, we piloted the .NET Core reference documentation on docs.microsoft.com. Today we are happy to announce our unified .NET API reference experience. So you won't have MSDN to kick around much longer
You're going to miss it when it's gone
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Thank god, the .NET Core documentation was horrible before. It seems like now that they've unified everything it has all the goodies of the MSDN docs that it was missing previously.
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A broad array of Android phones is vulnerable to attacks that use booby-trapped Wi-Fi signals to achieve full device takeover, a researcher has demonstrated. Android is the new Windows, part way too many
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Another link (IMHO better): Project Zero: Over The Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 1)[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Software has shaped our lives and culture for decades, and now the United Nations will make a push to get world governments to work toward preserving it. The UN has spoken! All will follow.
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So that's what the NSA has been doing all this time! 
Don't worry guys, it's just preservation 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Don't worry guys, it's just preservation
Preservation Act 1 or 2?
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Quote: Davide Storti said:
True.
The bubble sort helped me understand how to arrange the pop bottles in my fridge (mind you, I did it descending, the first time, which made it awkward to get at the little ones).
But it never fails to amaze me how some people can just let words come out of their mouths without ever realising that they're making no sense whatsoever.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Physicists are attempting to map the distribution of the prime numbers to the energy levels of a particular quantum system. Uhm.... math is hard.
Or 'maths are hard' if you'd rather.
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Counting stuff hurts my brainicle...
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No, "is" still works for "maths". It used to be seen as plural, but that usage is now obsolete *.
But "gets me" is definitely not an acceptable alternative. 
* Edit for clarity:
The idea that the "s" on the end of "maths" makes it plural is obsolete.
The "s" on the end of "maths" is not obsolete. We haven't conceded that one to the septics yet!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
modified 6-Apr-17 7:25am.
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Richard Deeming wrote: but that usage is now obsolete
:raises eyebrows:
Quote: Math and maths are equally acceptable abbreviations of mathematics. The only difference is that math is preferred in the U.S. and Canada, and maths is preferred in the U.K., Australia, and most other English-speaking areas of the world.
Math vs. maths - Grammarist[^]
Now I can't comment on Britain (you may have a slightly more accurate perspective than I) but it's definitely what the cool kids still say back home in Oz.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think you've misunderstood my point. I'm not saying that maths is obsolete; I'm saying that the idea that "maths" or "mathematics" is plural is obsolete.
So "maths is hard" is correct, and "maths are hard" is obsolete.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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