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Comment · 12 days ago
In China one can enter civil service without party membership. Because membership in the party is strictly quota-ed to prevent overgrowth. The quota for college students is very limited. But I assume any leadership position will require joining the party after becoming civil servant / government job.
Comment · 14 days ago
The first here means both beak get the prostheses. There were cases already where toucan, stork and crane got new beak, but they were one side only. A parrot was treated but the prosthetics were molded I think.
Comment · 2 months ago
We simulate biological neurons digitally. Give them enough resources to grow, give basic instructions to do feedback loop and to improve. Maybe even suggest the AI to design mechanical vessel for AI.

That consciousness definition will get blurry fast if we don't know what's going on under the hood.

Comment · 3 months ago
OpenType specification is Turing complete, its hinting engine does math during rasterization and its GSUB (Glyph Substitution, a layout and shaping engine) does glyph stacking, QR code correction, etc to finalize the QR. The nice thing about it is if you copy and paste it, it goes to the original text.
Comment · 4 months ago
No wonder Magnus lost 4 times in a row.
Comment · 4 months ago
In Japan there's a karaoke chain that rents sewing machine.
Comment · 4 months ago
China already produced their first graphic card that got Microsoft WHQL certification.

Is it competitive enough? Probably no. Is there a software ecosystem for Chinese hardware yet? Probably no. But you know it will come soon.

Comment · 4 months ago
With Chinese robotics capabilities and silicone doll capabilities they can be the forefront in the humanoid robotics if everything converge.
Comment · 4 months ago
ugghh, benchmarks?
Comment · 4 months ago
Another case of brain efficiency : jumping spiders. They have less than half of ant's neurons, but instead of bruteforcing computing power they have a different specialized wirings.
Comment · 5 months ago
Chat, give me information about using copyrighted material in taxonomy.
Comment · 5 months ago
And the implication is they can modify tomato's DNA to produce nicotine, just like Tomacco from The Simpsons. The Simpsons always predict everything.
Comment · 5 months ago
So, Google Zanzibar propagation is up to 23 minutes?
Comment · 6 months ago
Even nitrocellulose for ammunition is produced in Xinjiang. So still depends on China.
Comment · 6 months ago
I took Lotus 1-2-3 course along with Wordstar and dBase when I was in elementary school. Good times.

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