Cogito

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by Cogito 5y ago
The continued assertion that "we don't understand heavier-than-air flight" is a weird one. The article even skates around this, saying (essentially) "well maybe we do understand it, but chaos theory!" If you're
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by Cogito 5y ago
The idea that a higher power would care if we ate shellfish, but is ok with us beating our slaves (as long as they don't die straight away), is really hard to rationalise. The humble position, when faced with something you don't k
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by Cogito 5y ago
Is the Amazon forest a contract job? Would love to read more detail about that arrangement if you can make it work. Sounds big enough you could also get an ongoing retainer for maintenance and support of their set up after the initial work.
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by Cogito 5y ago
Per the grandpost: > Twitter recently introduced topics, so that you can follow one topic that aggregates lots of tweets from various people. This is not what I want: I’d like to follow @JohnSmith, but only for the JS content.
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by Cogito 5y ago
The general way to do that correction is to look at actuarial tables for deaths by cohort. These models are obviously not 100% accurate, but they do take into account many factors, and are incentivised to be as accurate as possible as they
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by Cogito 5y ago
The ( terrible ) thought experiment that perhaps gets the parent's point across: Which "costs" more, 100k 20-year-olds dying today, or 100k babies dying today? The 20-year-olds have already had a lot of time, money, and oppor
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by Cogito 5y ago
Correct, before reading I presumed it would be about tone. It’s possible the title is a bit of a pun, and refers in part to both tone and shape.
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by Cogito 5y ago
I took it to mean the toms were descending towards the ground like stalactites descend towards the ground - they used to be shorter and now they're longer.
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by Cogito 5y ago
I think it makes sense in practice too, if you accept some incentive scheme. Perhaps no incentive is the best incentive, but I don't know the data on that. In my experience there was never a huge disconnect between an individual&#x27
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by Cogito 5y ago
It's fairly standard, in my experience, and makes sense if you come form the position of the company. In the budget a certain amount of money is allocated towards the incentive scheme. If the company does not perform as well as planned
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by Cogito 6y ago
You find it odd that people think about what intelligence is, or how it presents? If you’ve got links/references/keywords for research that invalidates (or validates!) these ideas please share them, I’d love to look them up. From
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by Cogito 6y ago
The way I talk about this is to frame what people call intelligence as the combination of memory (+ actual memories) and comprehension. Your ability to 'just see the answers', in this framing, stems from having a lot of data point
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by Cogito 6y ago
yes I like that phrasing. Similarly we can say there is a class of primes that have this property, what other classes of numbers also have this property?
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by Cogito 6y ago
Ah of course and that makes far more sense. Adding this prime to the end of a number guarantees a composite. I wonder if that is a property the belongs to primes, or if there are non-trivial composite examples (any number ending in 2 has th
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by Cogito 6y ago
The way I understand this concept of a 'widely digitally delicate prime' is that you can take such a prime, prepend it with any sequence, and receive a prime in return. If that is the case, then finding such a number immediately t
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by Cogito 6y ago
> It's apparently an indirect reference, because its taken from the master/slave usage in BitKeeper, even though there is no slave on the git context The (likely) basis for the belief that BitKeeper use master/slave and gi
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by Cogito 6y ago
> Given that the "master" in historic VCS programs (like Bitkeeper) is explicitly based on master/slave terminology, that git deliberately picked the term to maintain continuity of context with other VCS systems... While s
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by Cogito 6y ago
> Git's terminology descends from BitKeeper, which was explicitly using master/slave That GNOME mailing list post was retracted the next year[0]. I wrote a summary of the history[1] for Git Rev News, the git developers newslett
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by Cogito 6y ago
> I believe that usage of 'master' in git was copied from bitkeeper which did reference the master/slave relationship. The (likely) basis for this belief, the GNOME mailing list post[0] that reignited this discussion in 20
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by Cogito 6y ago
The state which has the most international arrivals (NSW) just had its first locally transmitted (ie not in hotel quarantine) case in 55 days. The positive case is a security guard that works at quarantine hotels. Immediate and immense effo
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by Cogito 6y ago
A different mission, but Jake from We Martians did a really great twitter thread[0] about what goes in to the mission length. I'll summarise the thread here (mostly just quoting verbatim): Firstly, this is about why solar powered Mars
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by Cogito 6y ago
> Once the rover knows it's position, it can now determine the safest spot to land using an onboard hazard map. The spot it chose to land at vs the spot it actually landed at was 5 meters apart. To add a bit more info, poorly rememb
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by Cogito 6y ago
When I ran into this, it came down to if I wanted to splice two videos together, or re-encode them. Due to how keyframes work, cutting on keyframe boundaries is a lot faster and easier and doesn't require re-encoding in many cases. Thi
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by Cogito 6y ago
It landed quite close to the centre of its landing ellipse, which was significantly smaller than the landing zones of previous missions. Perhaps most impressive is the success of the terrain relative navigation. During descent a specific la
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by Cogito 6y ago
Just to reiterate the other response to your comment, meta comments are often welcomed, especially when they are expressing thanks or gratitude. Content-less comments that derail the conversation, comments that are needlessly inflammatory -
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by Cogito 6y ago
A circle has a fixed level of abstraction, and representing a complex thought requires many circles. Importantly, in a complex image each individual circle doesn't convey much information, it's the composition that encodes any inf
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by Cogito 6y ago
My first thought was for the ends, and for a similar reason that the smaller diameter cans pack more densely. If you're punching circles out of sheet metal, you'll get more waste with larger circles.
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by Cogito 6y ago
For those interested in the original source, one of the replies [0] links to [1] which says that you can find the letter in Applied Mathematics by Farlow & Hagggard (Pub. Random House, 1988) p613. > "There is a nice letter from
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by Cogito 6y ago
Hey FYI looks like you got an auto ban, I've emailed the mods to get them to review in case it's a false positive. This was an interesting comment. I don't think it is particularly likely that Neanderthal DNA is associated wi
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by Cogito 6y ago
For a real-life example look into dengue fever. There are multiple variants that - to our immune system - look very similar, but antibodies for one do not protect against the others. This means that if you recover from one variant and are s

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