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David Curran

@iamreddave

I post silly things. Irish, Dublin 15, nerd @[email protected]

Ireland Katılım Mart 2009
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David Curran
David Curran@iamreddave·
@RavenKlaison People in India get cancer. They don't have $43,000-$100, 000/year. If this works tens of thousands of Indian doctors can rct test it. And become famous from a successful result. Same for Brazil, Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia etc.
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Raven White Wolf ~ Psychic Guidance
All oncologists make commission $240/year treatment 90% effective, no side effects vs. $43,000-$100, 000/year 30% effective, painful/fatal side effects There will probably be riots when the truth comes out You are blessed with the gene responsible for Empathy Many lack this trait
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GüNNER Nelson 🔴
GüNNER Nelson 🔴@Nelly1Kremlin·
CANCER HAS BEEN CURED Ivermectin & Fenbendazole cure cancer. Pass it on.
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David Curran@iamreddave·
@RavenKlaison So the paper you had a video on on observations they can publish. But not an RCT? All doctors all over the world take commission? And they could not make enough from such a huge finding to make up for losing a job millions have?
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David Curran@iamreddave·
@RavenKlaison But there are millions of doctors around the world who can run an RCT. And the cheapness of the cure makes that test easier?
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Chris Anderson@chr1sa·
If the jaw-dropping @Figure_robot livesteam of its humanoid robots sorting packages doesn't reset your priors on what humanoid dexterity and fluidity is capable of, you're either way ahead of the rest of us or ngmi youtube.com/watch?v=luU57h…
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David Curran@iamreddave·
@arhooptalk I made some graphs and Wilt was a whole man mountain by himself on them.
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Andy Roth
Andy Roth@arhooptalk·
No one at the NBA Combine now could come close to “measuring” up to this guy. His numbers would blow up social media. But then again he wasn’t generational. He was Once In A Lifetime. MF Wilt!
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AukeHoekstra
AukeHoekstra@AukeHoekstra·
Interesting new paper documents clearly how the IAEA has been overestimating the growth of nuclear time and time again. It's the inverse of what I've documented for solar and batteries. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…
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AukeHoekstra@AukeHoekstra·
Bottom line: humans (experts included) underestimate to what extend learning changes what will happen in the future. That leads to the overestimation of fossil fuel and nuclear and the underestimation of PV, batteries, grid-forming inverters, batteries, etc.
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Patent Vault
Patent Vault@PatentVault·
In 1972, Hewlett-Packard unveiled the HP-35, the first scientific pocket calculator to deliver trigonometric, logarithmic, and exponential functions through Reverse Polish Notation—all for $395, fitting neatly into an engineer’s shirt pocket and marking a quiet revolution in portable computation. By the early 1970s, the demands of science and industry had outgrown the slide rules and bulky desktop calculators that had defined the previous decade. Engineers working in aerospace, surveying, and research needed immediate, precise results in the field, not hours spent on manual tables or waiting for time on mainframe computers. The push toward metric standardization in the United States added urgency, as did the broader technological shifts of the space age, where rapid, on-the-spot calculations could mean the difference between success and costly error. Yet miniaturization posed formidable obstacles: battery life had to stretch for hours of use, light-emitting diode displays consumed power voraciously, and every circuit had to operate reliably in a device small enough to carry without fatigue. The solution emerged from the convergence of metal-oxide-semiconductor integrated circuits and innovative serial data processing. These low-power designs allowed complex arithmetic to circulate through dynamic shift registers rather than relying on power-hungry parallel architectures, while carefully engineered keyboard scanning and display multiplexing kept the entire system efficient and responsive. This was the moment when handheld electronics began to bridge the gap between laboratory precision and everyday fieldwork, transforming what had once required an entire desk into something personal and immediate. It was Peter D. Dickinson, Thomas E. Osborne, France Rode, and Allen J. Baum at Hewlett-Packard who translated these pressures into elegant hardware. Motivated by the limitations of earlier desktop models and the need for error-resistant workflows, they crafted a multi-register operational stack that supported seamless chained calculations. The patent itself captures the insight: the system uses “an operational stack and reverse ‘Polish’ (Lukasiewicz notation),” enabling results to flow naturally without parentheses or intermediate storage. Their design, with its inductive LED driving and automatic last-value recall, embodied the same ingenuity that made the HP-35 possible—the very device celebrated in the post. Full patent text & diagrams: patents.google.com/patent/US40015…
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The 1972 Hewlett Packard HP-35 scientific pocket calculator. $395 for Reverse Polish Notation in your pocket.

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David Curran@iamreddave·
@MadocPope Do you think 1998 will be warmer than 2026 in the same dataset?
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Lance Fortnow
Lance Fortnow@fortnow·
My suggestion for a prediction market: A publicly posted prime factorization of RSA-1024 by 2030. This would be meant as a test for quantum computing, but by not requiring any method for factoring, it makes it much easier to verify. @Polymarket @Kalshi
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David Curran@iamreddave·
@willkurt I love that Smullyan got his degree by getting class credits for taking a course he was giving
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Will Kurt
Will Kurt@willkurt·
Reading two wildly different books (Žižek’s “Too late to awaken” and Smullyan’s “To mock a mockingbird”) and each makes reference to the exact same joke (with different names/attributions)!
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Scott Lincicome
Scott Lincicome@scottlincicome·
Whoa.
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Paul Ó Duḃṫaiġ
Paul Ó Duḃṫaiġ@du_dot_ie·
@iamreddave Some of those are traditional colo data centers are a fraction of size of hyperscalar ones - good way to compare is to look at Equinix DB2 and the Microsoft DC’s behind it! - each Microsoft DC is about 10-20x the floor area!
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David Curran@iamreddave·
The sheer number of data centers within 3km of me is nuts. Back of the envelope they seem to have about a 1GW demand.
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David Curran@iamreddave·
Meta, IBM, Amazon, equinix, Pure Data Centres Group and a few more. But I put the system under pressure.
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