DrFalkyn

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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
E&M and gravity are both n^2 forces, but E&M has polarity, whereas gravity (at least we encounter it) does not.
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
IAMAP, but n-body problems result in non-linear partial differential equations, to which only a few special cases are known, and even that case its do to simplifications, e.g., treating planets as point masses and ignoring tidal forces, or
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't matter. The choice might be between dying on a hill or joining the party in the valley.
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
Those option pricing models (mostly) work because everyone uses them. Because (almost) everyone is convinced they work. Convince everyone to use a different model and it will work.
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
Sillicon is actually significantly more common, so relative abundance isn't a good reason to use carbon. Carbon would be used because it performs better
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
I believe a survey of planetary systems showed that the gas giants were more common closer to the stars (hot Jupiters), and they tended to eject the rocky inner planets. Our solar system might be exceptional because of Saturn preventing Ju
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
We know one filter. But to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, we don't know about the filters we don't know about. Something akin to a gamma ray burst (not that exactly, since we do know about it but something like it) So the Great Fil
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
Yeah the () overload was for functors, the old school way of doing closures before lambdas.
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
CAP has to do with distributed systems, not necessarily databases (unless they are also distributed) Document databases/KV stores had a reputation for scalability/speed primarily because of the way they were used (key querying), a
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
nginx/apache work well as secure reverse-proxies, load-balancers/etc. to the application servers. Complicating them with hooks for a bunch of random APIs is asking for trouble. Let the application servers sit behind them so they
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
There are some elements of HTMX that are done server side, such as HX-Trigger
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
Yeah, it seems to me if you're not buying into the entire app being based on React, including JSX with Router/Layout/etc. there's not much point to even using it library. At that point, you can just write your own Javasc
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
We know that light has a finite speed. We've measured it. We know that speed is independent of the relative velocities between the litter and the observer. Again, we've carried out experiments and measured that as well
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
I think it has to do with the observation that no matter in which directinn we look, galaxies are moving away. Its not like we look towards one direction and say, "aha, that must be the center of the universe". Its the same sto
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
> But.. somehow, they still account for only a small fraction of papers. They are only going to publish results which have no effect on their competitive advantage as a business ... which could be a small fraction of their results.
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
Ask the pilot ?
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
Its not the MBA, its the background of those calling the shots. Having people who were purely finance/marketing/business people be in charge of an engineering company is asking for trouble. So an engineer/STEM works in the in
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
Some people like the idea of a digital asset that is not under the control of any central authority
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
They're used in places that require real time processing (DSP) of raw digital signals at very high (several hundred Mhz and more), where you cannot afford to miss a sample because of latency from a microcontroller (uC). I think even s
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by DrFalkyn 3y ago
ELIZA could do that 50 years ago. I haven't been really impressed with ChatGPT. It basically seems like a more useful search engine.
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by DrFalkyn 6y ago
No, the big automakers had their chance to make a serious commitment to EV and they all failed to deliver. Now they’re playing catch up but Tesla is too big for them to drive out of the market
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by DrFalkyn 6y ago
It’s really nifty for solving LeetCode/HackerRank/coding interview type questions. Large standard library and code is very clean and readable, I should also add the umpire/scipy/matplotlib stack.
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by DrFalkyn 6y ago
Adults can work more and be more productive if they don’t have to take care of children