/u/frowawayduh's posts
[WP] "Traditional vaccines work by targeting what makes a virus different. The new global antiviral drug works by targeting common aspects all viruses share." What could possibly go wrong?
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It has been reported that the cancer death rate in the U.S. has declined 20 percent over the last 30 years. Why hasn't life expectancy increased? Have we reached a fundamental limit?
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2015 will most likely go in the books as the warmest year on record. Meanwhile the Antarctic sea ice extent continues to be higher than average. Why is there so much ice in the Antarctic Ocean?
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In nature, sleep is critical to learning and forming memories. Is there a corresponding concept of iterative cycles of wake / sleep activity in optimized machine learning?
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It is reported that Russian hackers have cracked certain slot machines to gain an advantage. Assuming possession of a machine, can deep machine learning be used to accomplish that?
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Passive cooling can be achieved if surface radiates skyward mostly in an IR wavelength for which the atmosphere is mostly transparent (8-13 u, for example). How can that possibly work???
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"Speed of gravity" questions: Are planetary orbits or galaxies' shapes distorted by movement of their system's center of mass? How does gravity escape the event horizon of a black hole or is the event horizon a remnant of where the singularity was located when it formed?
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Arctic sea ice extent plots now include interquartile and interdecile ranges, these are clearly skewed toward the middle. Why?
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Can the atmospheric greenhouse effect be demonstrated with a light, a chamber in which 300 - 500 ppm CO2 levels can be controlled, and a thermometer?
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