Enginerrrd

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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
I agree but when you’re dealing with celebrities people sometimes lie and exaggerate, and third parties sometimes extrapolate beyond any semblance of grounded facts. So most people subject to that level of scrutiny and fame are likely to h
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
I keep getting timeouts so I'm unable to test this. However, I have a suggestion: What's really needed IMO is a drop-in tool to increase the ranking of thoughtful comments and decrease comments that drive engagement by making peo
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
Ethical humans are pretty hard to come by if you put them under a microscope.
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
>it's sort of like running a JS crypto miner in the background on your website. To be honest, I wish the web had standardized on that instead of ads.
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
To be honest, my working heuristic for over a decade now has been to assume that if someone openly admits to reading 4chan without any hesitation, caveats, or embarrassment, they can quite likely be lumped in with a general basket of deplor
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
Since lifespan can't follow a power law distribution, I suspect the error in variance from assuming it IS normally distributed is far less than you're suggesting. Like even if I'm off by a factor of 2, then only ~3ish years a
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
In case anyone was curious like me: the standard deviation of lifespan is ~12-15 years in developed countries. So environmental effects, sleep, diet, lifestyle, etc (I.e. modifiable factors) maybe account for half of that, so like 6-7.5 yea
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
I have one on my watch. It’s a citizen with a circular slide rule /E6B flight computer. I need my reading glasses to use it, but it’s fun. It can reliably get me 2 sig figs, and a decent guess at a third. But… if I think about it fo
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
>... has there ever been verified science that shows exercise is unhealthy? Yes, the extremes of endurance have certainly been shown to have a negative effect on heart health, and possibly also colon health, but the amount of exercise re
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
I think that the engineering is very challenging and the market for this is nonexistent. First, anyone truly concerned about this for actual use cases just isn’t going to bring their phone with them at sensitive times. Especially after the
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
One thing I noticed is that the water matters. I noted that when visiting my sister down in the Bay Area, I had to steep for quite a bit less time before the bitter tannins would start creeping in. Like 1.5-2 mins tops for cheap PG Tips.
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by Enginerrrd 8mo ago
I think you’re missing a major point the article mentioned. High level athletes are genetic freaks that can tolerate much higher training loads. Recovery capacity is somewhat trainable within limits but there are limits and there’s a bi
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by Enginerrrd 9mo ago
No, I mean a reference event, though you bring up an interesting subtlety. (Essentially I just mean an event that definitely happened [A particle decay, a supernova, an omnidirectional radio signal, etc] which will serve essentially as an
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by Enginerrrd 9mo ago
Also frankly, doctor =/= expert on probiotics. None of their training really addresses that and while they might be more qualified to read research than random layman I would not in general ascribe authority to what a random practition
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by Enginerrrd 9mo ago
3dimensions still allows for more freedom than that though since the couch can stand on end. I would contend that it's still useful since you'd be able to turn the corner without over-complicating it by getting it into some weird
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by Enginerrrd 9mo ago
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!” A tale as old as time.
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by Enginerrrd 9mo ago
You can still order them with the spacetime interval compared to a reference event, even for space like separated events. It allows for differing elements of the set to share the same value but so does using time alone. It just also allow
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by Enginerrrd 10mo ago
I think you just nerd-sniped me but I’m not convinced it’s impossible to assign a consistent ordering to events with relativistic separations. For starters, the spacetime interval between two events IS a Lorentz invariant quantity. That cou
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by Enginerrrd 10mo ago
I’m a little out of my depth, but I’d guess a lot of them would probably fall into one of two categories: Something we believe should go on forever (and not halt) if the math problem is resolved the way we expect, but theoretically could s
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by Enginerrrd 10mo ago
You say that like it’s even remotely feasible at the frontier of mathematics and not a monumental group effort to turn even established proofs into such. Most groundbreaking proofs these days aren’t just cross-discipline but usually involve
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by Enginerrrd 10mo ago
I actually think math and sciences should introduce what I call "synthesis" much earlier. i.e. I don't think it's unfair to give students all the ingredients and add in a question on the exam to see if they can take tho
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by Enginerrrd 11mo ago
If you follow the things that have been disclosed / leaked/ confirmed when they’re 20+ years out of date, then yes the probability this is true is significant.
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by Enginerrrd 11mo ago
Don't get excited. The author also claims to have proved the twin prime conjecture. https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_Twin_Prime_Conject... They don't seem to be affiliated with any university
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by Enginerrrd 11mo ago
Pro-tip, state your assumptions baked into the estimate. If one of them is wrong you can renegotiate price, although depending on the client, you may not always want to do that to show good will and whatnot.
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by Enginerrrd 11mo ago
The current generation of LLM's have convinced me that we already have the compute and the data needed for AGI, we just likely need a new architecture. But I really think such an architecture could be right around the corner. It appe
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by Enginerrrd 11mo ago
On many occasions in my mathematics education I was able to figure out and use a concept based solely on its name. (e.g. Feynman path integral) Names are important.
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by Enginerrrd 11mo ago
Yes but the wikipedia article is referencing YASA, the company in the featured article.
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by Enginerrrd 11mo ago
From Wikipedia on Axial Flux Motors: >"Mercedes-Benz subsidiary YASA (Yokeless and Segmented Armature) makes AFMs that have powered various concept (Jaguar C-X75), prototype, and racing vehicles. It was also used in the Koenigsegg
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by Enginerrrd 1y ago
That's unfortunate. My personal sense is that while agentic LLM's are not going to get us close to AGI, a few relatively modest architectural changes to the underlying models might actually do that, and I do think mimicry of our
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by Enginerrrd 1y ago
I mean historically, with essentially every other incrrease in technology and GDP this has been true, at least broadly speaking. The quality of life of the poorest in the world has been improving over time. It is absolutely worth considerin

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