Showing posts with label Kerr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kerr. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Quotes

Quote from Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Chinese search giant, Baidu:
"Worrying about AI evil superintelligence today is like worrying about overpopulation on the planet Mars."
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An anonymous comment at Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex:
Slate Star Codex is 140 IQ discussion about 105 IQ issues.
(Ouch! That post has more amusing and cringe-inducing stuff).

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Watch out for the LIGO announcement tomorrow that the coalescence of two orbiting black holes has been observed through their gravitational wave signature:

"The masses of the black holes will be 36 and 29 solar masses at the beginning; and 62 for the resulting black hole. The reconstructed orbital speed will be almost exactly the speed of light. As a bonus, they will also observe the "ringdown to Kerr"
More here.