Why “chemical” is being discussed
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Yes I’ve come across reservoir computing. As a neuroscientist, it made me sit up and take notice. I’d say that I feel there’s homology in language. What reservoir computing says…
by randomImmigrant · Sep 3, 2026
From your first source: “One was a black hole, where mass/energy collapsed rapidly to a point…” That is a false description of black holes in GR. It’s colloquially correct.…
by JumpCrisscross · Sep 3, 2026
Eat? You must be living under a rock. We've been evaporating our sustenance and storing it in the cloud for years. Perhaps nanobots will be able to carry the chemical makeup of…
by NichoPaolucci · Sep 3, 2026
Progressive corporate taxation could make it happen for reasons other than dodging the ghosts of chemical sins past!
by schmidtleonard · Sep 3, 2026
In highschool, students learn to use many tools which are physically dangerous, including automobiles, stovetops, carpentry and metal fabrication tools, chemical laboratory equi…
by elevation · Sep 2, 2026
Our brain consists of approximately 86 billions quantum computers [2] controlling tens-of-thousands chemical neural networks with at least 10 coefficients By that logic, a Black…
by p1esk · Sep 2, 2026
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In chemistry, a substance is a unique form of matter with constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Chemical substances may take the form of a single element or chemical compounds. If two or more chemical substances can be combined without reacting, they may form a chemical mixture. If a mixture is separated to isolate one chemical substance to a desired degree, the resulting substance is said to be chemically pure. Read more on Wikipedia