Cushman

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by Cushman 3y ago
Indeed. Bittersweet consequences, I’ve always thought, since it implies we wasted centuries recording empirical data that didn’t add up, while pure logical coherence was pointing straight at quantization and a universal speed limit. Modern
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by Cushman 3y ago
Yeah, exactly! You can see why the dome is the famous one, even though it’s the most recent. Previously there were models to finitize whatever term one was worried about specifically, but they all had an infinity somewhere. Even since Canto
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by Cushman 3y ago
Oh, of course! SEP’s summary is pretty readable. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/#ClaMe... Past that you’ll probably need to read the papers, it’s very niche. Sorry, I should have remembered
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by Cushman 3y ago
Mmm, I promise I haven’t taken any position. Is that a position? In which case, mea culpa, I really don’t care if the dome holds. Even if I cared, I wouldn’t care, because space invaders already gets us all that plus sound effects. Not for
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by Cushman 3y ago
I’ll take my lumps for saying this: If you’ve downvoted me I’d love to know why! Did I sound preachy? I really don’t mean to! I’m not an educator, and it’s hard to communicate a discipline’s “common knowledge” without coming off a bit patro
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by Cushman 3y ago
Good hypotheses both! “We’ve never been able to pin something this size before” covers a lot of wiggle room. So to speak. (FWIW I’m thrilled about the possibility of a rtrp drop this year, and I have to assume 'pera is as well. But t
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by Cushman 3y ago
> I don’t think this is a right approach. You’re welcome not to think so! I’m just pointing out the relevant context. This isn’t an argument in a vacuum, there’s an academic discipline that has thoroughly engaged with it. Part of that is
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by Cushman 3y ago
Hoping I’m not too late to head off the usual confusion: this is an interesting result in philosophy of physics, not in physics. We already know that classical mechanics is non-physical. This result (and others) show that it is not even i
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by Cushman 3y ago
Okay! I’m not here to tell anyone what to eat, so all I can say is I don’t have an opinion on that.
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by Cushman 3y ago
What accounts for the smooth “settling” into place after the last touch around 10s? I have no idea what I’m talking about, but in other flux pinning demonstrations the sample seems to oscillate around the fixed point. That smooth settling l
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by Cushman 3y ago
I’m not vegan so it’s none of my business, but: Sure! if you’re not eating processed foods, and you don’t want to spend hours a day cooking, everyone needs supplements. Don’t forget that our salt and our flour and our milk and — “raw ingr
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by Cushman 4y ago
Indeed, and to clarify, it's not a binary feeling for anyone-- IRC is better than email, FaceTime is better than the telephone. VRChat is state of the art on prosumer hardware, but it's not competitive with the boardroom. Yet.
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by Cushman 4y ago
> I can’t imagine anyone buying a $3000 headset for “videoconferencing” as the killer feature. Believe it. "Social presence"[0], the feeling of actually being in the room with another human being, is a very real phenomenon. I
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by Cushman 4y ago
This is a great point, but I think it goes towards the cost-benefit analysis. The relevant comparison isn’t a sophonically-suppressed humanity which is never inspired again, but rather Maciej’s new age of exploration— a humanity very much c
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by Cushman 4y ago
Will there be a chapter on this element? It’s always been unclear to me how much a Martian civilization would improve humanity’s odds of surviving Seveneves, what with humans being involved and all. I think it’s the article of faith I’ve se
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by Cushman 4y ago
Cool! Y’all, this is obviously an RPC interface, but the point is that `import { onNewTodo } from './CreateTodo.telefunc.js'` is not, as written, an RPC. That transform, with seamless type support et cetera, is what makes th
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by Cushman 11y ago
Well, yeah, I jumped in to defend the idea that the word "the" counts as an adjective . It seems vaguely possible that my argument is not backed by much besides bluster. (And of course the downvotes are my just reward.) To the ex
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by Cushman 11y ago
> "Grain silo" and "fish pond" are exactly-precisely compound nouns. Eeeh, not exactly in English. English does make some distinction between fully compounded words and noun phrases, especially in rules of productio
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by Cushman 11y ago
Fair point, apart from the invective. How do you feel about "hiking worn boots" or "mixed-breed adorable puppy"?
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by Cushman 11y ago
Indeed! Although I'd argue that probably is what it's supposed to mean. A "leather horse saddle" and a "horse leather saddle" are very different things, and no native English speaker would mix them up. You kn
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by Cushman 11y ago
If "brick ancient barn" is too plausible for you to get the full effect, try something with more diverse adjectives like "beef tasty stew" or "laptop lost bag".
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by Cushman 11y ago
Not to keep you up, but what's even cooler is that the degree to which you can deviate depends on the adjective's class, too. While I can sorta see " brick ancient barn" working, albeit with such heavy emphasis on &qu
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by Cushman 11y ago
Oh, I get what you're saying-- so "the" must be a superlative adjective, right? Makes sense really, as it's the "most specific" article.
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by Cushman 11y ago
> Where? Every treatment I've seen takes arithmetic as linear in the number of bits. [1] This is still consistent with O(n log n) for sorts because you can assume a bound on element size, and still only have constant factor overhead
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by Cushman 11y ago
I actually think this comparison is quite apt. Like those others, the science of linguistics has become heavily politicized in the US, most notably regarding the validity of AAVE as a first language. Though I'd still argue linguistics
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by Cushman 11y ago
Not to sincerely defend the claim that "the" "is" an adjective, but rather to dispute the general notion that grammar is "real": Here are some adjectives that fail your tests. > The, theer, theest? The, more
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by Cushman 11y ago
> And this results in meaningless complexity analysis which gives you things like "Insert is O(1) on Average but O(n) Worst Case or Θ(n)". I dunno, that just sounds like a time complexity to me. Quick, what's the time comp
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by Cushman 11y ago
Edit: Ugh, the old version of this post turned out really lectury, and I'm still working on my own intuitive understanding here, so I'm just gonna start over. Basically-- you're not wrong. It's a quirk of analysis that a
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by Cushman 11y ago
> As someone who has struggled with lifelong depression, I still didn't recognize anything familiar in his description of watching hours of television a day Since I wrote elsewhere that I feel DFW's writing captures depression
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by Cushman 11y ago
To answer your rhetorical: It can be both because depression makes boring things terrifying in a way non-depressed people find boring again. shrug Anyway, I don't want to go too deeply into this, so I'll just say you're act

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