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Monthly Archives: February 2016
The Path to Tetra Vaal
So around 1997, over my company’s broadband connection, I downloaded some video files–which is what we did in those days before YouTube–from the Honda robotics site about a bipedal robot called P1. I can’t seem to find the video I … Continue reading
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Universal Basic Income
The Coming Problem So Humans Need Not Apply came out a little after my 51st birthday and I learned about it several days after that via io9. And yes, I find it’s logic sound: robots are going to eliminate most … Continue reading
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And Lost in All the Kerfuffle on Gravitational Waves–
We have news that physics might have found a four neutron atomic nucleus. This is surprising because accepted wisdom in the Standard Model says that small nuclear groupings of neutrons shouldn’t form at all. Regardless, without protons to stablize them, … Continue reading
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Gravitational Waves
After nearly a century of searching, gravitational waves have been discovered. Finally an important prediction made by general relativity in 1916 has been confirmed. This matters in at least five possible ways. It confirms the accuracy of general relativity which, … Continue reading
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