Certhas

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by Certhas 1y ago
I don't understand what point you're hinting at. Either way, I can get arbitrarily good approximations of arbitrary nonlinear differential/difference equations using only linear probabilistic evolution at the cost of a (much)
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by Certhas 1y ago
Power grids also can only exist reasonably as monopolies. This is true for many utilities. Consequently, after the initial decades of development had occurred and the tech had settled down, we now no longer let them operate as ordinary comp
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by Certhas 1y ago
So source code needs to be UTF8 because it contains comments and string literals. And filenames need to be bytes. It seems that both of these are orthogonal to the question of whether non-ASCII code is desirable... Restricting the program p
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by Certhas 1y ago
But in Julia it also makes code a pain to write outside of a Julia aware IDE. Even in such an IDE I now need to remember what the shorthand for Euclidean division is to type it. (It would be great if I had a toggle that could switch all uni
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by Certhas 1y ago
I am fairly sure I am not confused. Instead I believe the post I am replying to didn't actually advance a coherent argument, but just appealed to emotions. I am not sure that I have ever encountered anyone confused in the way you descr
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by Certhas 1y ago
I don't follow. If social media sites are shut down but I am free to post my opinions on my personal blog site, how is my freedom of speech affected? Did I not have freedom of speech before social media existed? Is there an implication
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by Certhas 1y ago
Conversely, if your restaurant is well known for hosting criminals plotting their next gig, it will be put under tight surveillance. And if the police has reason to suspect that there is illegal gambling happening at your dinner party they
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by Certhas 1y ago
If you ship the wine to the US things are different though. And if you don't do business in the US there is only so much the US can do. Most importantly it can ask ISPs in the US to block your site. As they do for copyright infringemen
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by Certhas 1y ago
No. The busy beaver function grows faster than any computable function. What's more, for any N > 549, you cannot prove (in the usual universe of mathematics) that any computable number is equal to or larger than BB(N). (At least tha
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by Certhas 1y ago
As a European, US Unions seem absurd. I can't recall a Union in a country I lived in so blatantly agitating against technology (though I am sure you can find examples if you go looking). Maybe because they tend to be much much larger a
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by Certhas 1y ago
I find it much easier to filter out the politics on BlueSky and focus on my professional connections. I gave up on Twitter years ago precisely because I got sucked into politics all the bloody time. Having control over your timeline/al
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by Certhas 1y ago
So one of several teams working on Chrome Mobile (so not the rendering engine, JavaScript engine, etc...) was 40+ people. That tells us nothing about the size of the overall Chrome team. I have seen comments on HackerNews that estimated 100
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by Certhas 1y ago
What do you even mean? They have adequate funding. Financially they are doing extremely well.
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Not sure that's a realistic assessment of the cost of developing a browser. Mozilla gives Software Development exp names as by far the single largest expense at 260M$ in 2023. According to DuckAI 700 out of 750 Mozilla Co employees wor
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by Certhas 1y ago
I think Mozilla makes a lot of sense if you consider the following long term strategic goal: Become independent of Google money. None Google income has grown to 150M$ in 2023, up from 80M$ the year before. Mozilla has used dramatically more
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by Certhas 1y ago
> The restrictions on "free speech" that European countries implement, and which are increasing, would be unthinkable in the US because of their understanding of "free speech" and the legal protections in place. Concr
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by Certhas 1y ago
I am not a lawyer, but, including as in the US case the interpretations adopted by the constitutional courts, the "freedom of expression in spoken and written word and image" is considered to not enumerate a limited list of expres
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by Certhas 1y ago
The internet will never run out of idiots arguing that there is no freedom in the EU and freedom of speech is a uniquely US thing. The German constitution guarantees Freedom of Speech? Doesn't matter. The US limits plenty of types of s
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by Certhas 1y ago
I would argue that salary caps + drafts are very successful at evening out the competition. European football leagues have come to be dominated by very, very few clubs. Bayern, Barca and Real, PSG, to a lesser degree Manchester City, have b
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by Certhas 1y ago
If I have a coin that shows tails 55% of the time, then there still is a 45% chance that heads wins. If heads and tails play many games against each other, then the probability for tails to win the overall "tournament" goes to 1.
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by Certhas 1y ago
Look at the Wikipedia article on dynamic programming. They are very much related. My impression is that the deep part of the math of dynamic programming, the decomposition into interrelated subproblems, is trivial in the CS text book exampl
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Again, if the term linear programming makes sense for linear optimization problems, then the term dynamic makes sense for time dependent ones. Also: the core of dynamic programming is breaking down a global optimization problem into many in
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The alternative are optimization problems without explicit time dependency. As in linear programming.
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Why do you think that what I wrote implies they are static? I didn't say that recursion and caching are the opposite of dynamic, I said they are essentially orthogonal concepts to it. Generally speaking, dynamical systems are systems t
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by Certhas 1y ago
Dynamic is definitely not meaningless. I am familiar with dynamic programming from the optimal control theory point of view, and it's squarely focused on dynamical systems. The central equation of dynamic programming is the Hamilton-Ja
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by Certhas 1y ago
The sequence of steps is the result of dynamic programming. Not every sequence of steps is a dynamic programme. And (what I would argue are) the core results are fairly mathematical, memoization and recursion don't feature, but partial
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by Certhas 1y ago
Everybody shits on the trolley problem, until it gets to the question of forcing people to get vaccinated...
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The statement was pretty clear, right? Most European countries are less than 500km wide is almost certainly true, no matter how you define width. There are only 8 EU countries that are larger than 500km^2. And that includes the vast spaces
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When studying physics, people eventually learn about Fourier transform, and they learn about quantum mechanics, where the Fourier transform switches between describing things in terms of position and of momentum. And amazingly the harmonic
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THe thing is, if one is an expert it is incredibly difficult to understand the beginner perspective. Here is one attempt: C is simpler than Rust, but C is also _much_ simpler than Python. If I solve a problem in Python I have a good standar

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