I think the genome might be mostly just the "config file". So the cell already contains most of the information and mechanisms needed for the organism. The genome is config flags and some more detailed settings that turn things on and off in the cell, at specific times in the life of the organism. From this point of view, the discussion about how many pairs/bytes of information are in the genome is misleading. Similar analogy: I can write a hello world program, which displays hello world on the screen. But the screen is 4k, the windows background is also visible, so the hardware and OS are 6-8 orders of magnitude more complex than the puny program, and the output is then much more complex than the puny program.
By the time stellarator designs become economical (tens of years in the most optimistic case), you can cover the entire Germany in PV panels. Or even grow an entire new generation of forrest. So far stellarators look just like interesting vaporware. I mean they are irrelevant to any current energy discussion.
It's even more annoying when you consider that most proposals that gain any type of traction can't even ever approach the "I have everything now so I'm not going to work because I'm so lazy"-type abundance that the fear-mongers try to sell you. If we just were able to use some of all this wealth to create an absolute baseline of "enough money to not starve, have any kind of roof over your head and not be trapped in your current situation", I wonder what society could've looked like.
well, cochlea is working withing the realm of biological and physical possibilities. basically it is a triangle through which waves are propagating, and sensors along the edge. smth smth this is similar to a filter bank of gabor filters that respond to rising freq along the triangle edge. ergo you can say fourier, but it only means sensors responding to different freq becasue of their location.
Yeah, but not only the frequency is important - the wave-form is very relevant. For example if your wave-form is a triangle, listerners will tell you that it is very noisy compared to a simple sinus. If you use sinus as a base of your vector space triangles really look like a noisy mix.
My question is, if the basic elements are really sinus, or if the basic Eigen-Waves of the cochlea are other Wave-Forms (e.g. slightly wider or narrower than sinus, ...). If physics in the ear isn't linear, maybe sinus isn't the purest wave-form for a listener.
Most people in Physics only know sinus and maybe sometimes rectangles as a base for transformations, but mathematically you could use a lot of other things - maybe very similar to sinus, but different.
Well, the actual interesting part is that when the vector dimension grows then random vectors will become almost orthogonal. smth smth exponential number of almost orthogonal vectors. this is probably the most important reason why text embedding is working. you take some structure from a 10^6 dimension, and project it to 10^3 dimension, and you can still keep the distances between all vectors.
Hm, these are just called AC in Europe. To my knowledge, AC has always worked both ways here.
In Europe we call heap pumps when they heat the water. So they are are Air-Water (the outdoor unit looks like a bigger AC outdoor unit) or Water-Water (the outdoor unit is a long underground water pipe loop).
The warm water is used for underfloor heating or for shower, kitchen, etc.
well, if you look at the animation, it surely seems to work, there is no place where it fakes the untwist. I can also replicate that with a belt, but not so smoothly. manually with the belt, the twist from 2 full rotations of the cube are undone by one rotation of the belt around the cube.
I wonder how much is related to the aging of the population. You see the world differently when surrounded by young and children. Which is now gone in many parts of the world.
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