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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
New type of neat mathematical fractals. Use ASDW keys and arrow keys to navigate, change the census selection to "cool examples" and check out different manifolds (I like the looks of s776). Further info here: https://g
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
I mean, I've never seen an English speaker pronounce 'j' as 'dz', but the Armenian letter ձ is pronounced exactly like 'dz' and never like 'j'. So, dare I say, ISO 9985 is wrong?
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
A few clarifications for those who care: the name is pronounced Parandzem (not P'aranjem) -- both in old and modern Armenian. This queen is very well known in modern Armenia and lots of women still carry her name. It is falling out of
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
> Peano arithmetic remains consistent. This isn't quite the conclusion here. Peano arithmetic's consistency cannot be proven within its own limits, so it remains a hope/intuitive belief, but not a fact. Closest we've
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
Seems like a strange sentiment, evaluating a modeling approach based on historical analogies vs its own merits. If we're playing the historical analogies game, people were saying "not again" about Neural Networks up until mid
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
> there are some traits that distinctly separates humans from other animals There clearly are distinct characteristics of what it means to be human, as opposed to not just other animals, but other hominin species as well. For instance, t
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
> Does Clubhouse display a trail of who invited who publicly Yes
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by 0xBABAD00C 6y ago
> realizing they aren't biological machines simply responding to stimuli I know what you mean, but on some level you and I are also "biological machines simply responding to stimuli". The difference is more in the complexi
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Ask HN: Best source of info on pre-seed funding and early-stage startups
1 points by 0xBABAD00C 6y ago|1 comments
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by 0xBABAD00C 6y ago
I am working on an idea in this space. Anyone interested can ping me (contacts in profile), it's in early stealth mode but it is targeting exactly this problem.
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by 0xBABAD00C 6y ago
This is such a simplistic view of a vast and evolving field of scientific research, it's too cartoonish of an argument to even warrant a real response. Which is why the conversation around ML gets negatively selected against actual res
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by 0xBABAD00C 6y ago
Then you're not looking hard enough
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
> As I explained, I am biased towards physics, if anything. It's one thing what you say you're biased towards, it's another thing what you're actually biased towards :) > I'm not sure what your point is. You&#
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
> Advances in chemistry were by far the primary driver Seems like a pretty biased view of recent progress, to be honest. One could come up with similar lists from any number of other areas (Physics - Nuclear Energy, Biology - DNA & b
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
Wine-colored sea is a different story, I think. I've seen other languages also describe the sea as red, orange, etc. This is more of a situation with color naming: cultures separate colors on the spectrum into named categories in a mor
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
TIL. Ok, so it's "honey eater" then. The point is it's clearly a taboo avoidance term, not a derivation of "arctos" which was the real word for bear.
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
ved = 'know' in Slavic, comes from this PIE root: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
In Russian it's 'medved', i.e. the one who knows about the honey ('mead-wit' would be the exact English cognate).
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis (see the "Origin of biological metabolism" section - lots of good new research coming out recently, including simulations of the very early processes predating life a
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
> wouldn't we just be biomechanical robots operating on stimuli? > are we just a more complex rock? of course we are. moreover, it's pretty straightforward to trace our evolution back to rocks or rock-like formations.
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
> Okay but I'd dispute even that. Well, and you'd be wrong. Here's my anecdote against yours: I'm a hiring manager at a large tech firm, and I see lots of candidates with CS degrees and even some years of experience,
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
I don't know, if we're talking comparable salaries to top lawyers (his analogy, the ones that get to top firms and become partners), then we're talking at least Staff+ levels at top tech firms for comparison. That's defi
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
> less than "doctors and lawyers" I didn't say it's the same quantity of work, if you read my comment carefully. Nor is that the main argument at all. I said it requires special traits, which it does. People who skip
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
It's a response to his statement that it's not too much work, if you read right above the line you quoted.
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
> Given how poorly we understand this > Summary: we don't understand why programmers are paid so well Who's "we"? > Programmers are paid surprisingly well given how much work it is to become one It's a lot
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
All across the industry. Engineers seem to be the most self-defeating self-doubting bunch when it comes to money. If you create X% of the value, do you want your compensation to be commensurate with your contribution, or do you want to expe
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
What kind of defeatist mentality is this? There should be a correction in the other direction, if anything.
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
> The only realm in which humans are an unimpeachable source of truth is that of their own feelings and experiences Side note, but this strikes me as extremely wrong, based on 35 years of living among humans. Humans have unsurpassed abil
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Game of life simulated in the game of life(youtu.be)
2 points by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago|0 comments
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by 0xBABAD00C 7y ago
> what is special about life that makes it unrepresentable with physics absolutely nothing > The physics consciousness relies upon is fundamentally uncomputable This would be "huge if true", but I don't think it is. At

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