MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 1y ago
A lunar beanstalk? How is that supposed to work? (Answer: it won't; Lunar-stationary orbits do not exist, since they would have a radius on the order of the Earth-moon distance, and the Earth is much more massive than the moon). htt
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
That gives context, but lacks the final ~900K downward revision the article is about. If it had been shown, it would be the largest revision on the chart.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
> There are plenty of books in libraries. You might want to check that. There are definitely a few libraries with plenty of books but, as I was shocked to discover a year or so ago, public libraries don't have nearly as many books
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
> ... your elevation angle is pretty high if you want to target the Earth-Moon L1 point or the Earth or LEO... You don't point at where you want to go. You point retrograde (relative to the moon's orbit) so that, after escapin
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
You are correct about the first part (I actually came back here to add a comment to mine saying that I'd goofed and the exponent should be 20, not 10). Also, I suspect that the width (your N) should be large enough in most of the cases
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
I wonder if it's some sort of search engine hack or something? The diffusion of "General Purpose Technologies" seems like a slightly strained way to phrase it, and should have struck the author as awkward given the name spa
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
I get frustrated by this sort of unthinking thought piece. To pick one example: "Rogers proposed a bell curve with five distinct adopter categories: innovators (2.5%), early adopters (13.5%), early majority (34%), late majority (34%),
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
There are two levels here. It isn't affecting the actual job market (what the Fed's talking about), but it's having a huge impact on the narratives surrounding it and the pipelines feeding into it (e.g. resume spamming and s
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Weird. You're right, but I can totally see the OP's POV as well. This reminds me of the way clickbait/spammy style (or, before that Headline-ese and News-speak) invaded interpersonal communication. LOL. Evolution of langua
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
I am increasingly convinced that a significant fraction of the population (or possibly _everyone_, a significant fraction of time) ignores content and relies solely on form to assess what they are being told. If something is structured pro
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
> On the other hand, a so-called mountain peak would be a 5 surrounded by 4’s or lower. The odds for having this happen in 10D are 0.2*(1-0.8^10) = 0.18. Then the total density of mountain peaks, in a 10D hyperlattice with 5 potential va
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
I had the same issue, which is somewhat ironic given the topic. Reading the body text and then revisiting the headline: "Why does Google word their privacy settings in a way that makes it sound like you are agreeing to let them harves
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
You are quite correct, that's not how it works. Corn mazes are actually created by selectively planing the corn in a pattern or by selectively cutting down plants to create the maze. This can be done with a variety of different plants
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
That's pretty much the definition of "agnostic". The gnostics literally claim to know and the agnostics say "Nope. Do not. In fact, we can't." Agnostics can play the odds and base their actions on what they
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
> “[The spike is] a novel contribution of this algorithm that is not > usually done in phylogenetics,” Douglas said. They built a model that incorporates a controversial non-standard dynamic and found that it exhibited the very proces
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
One way to get people to look at something is to show it to them rather than just describing it. What do you have that you could demo today?
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
This sort of model-free projection is basically useless. It's like the people who predicted that "Moore's law" improvements were over because clock rates were maxing out, but missed out on the parallelism that made GPUs
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
This reads like AI slop word salad: "Wherever the camera’s gaze turns, reality sprouts. Curiously, this representational tactic has overlaps with Medieval theories of vision, which philosophers believed to emanate outwards from human e
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
That's the key point though, this list isn't infinitely long, and all the numbers in it are rational. And it is an algorithm (specifically, a lookup table). All the numbers you get this way are going to be rational, and if you re
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
You can't get all the reals that way. The reals that can be produced by an algorithm make up a vanishingly small (e.g. countable) subset. Almost all of the reals are inexpressible.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
No, sadly the American response is to advertise the idea of mass shootings and run detailed how-tos for any potential copycats out there. We obsess over the shooter's motivation and shower more attention on him then he'd ever gott
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
In that case, why so big?
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Private companies spending (and potentially wasting) money investors voluntarily gave them because they think it may lead to a big payoff down the road is capitalism. Companies doing the "same thing" with government handouts (wher
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
SpaceX bid $60 million, a competitor bid over $600 million, and the state is giving it to the highest bidder. SpaceX is objecting that that's not how competitive bidding is supposed to work.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
LLMs don't think. At all. They do next token prediction. If they are conditioned on a large data set that includes lots of examples of the result of people thinking, what they produce will look sort of like the results of thinking, b
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
So close: [start of fragment] ... להמיר בחזרה למים. האם אתה יכול להדגים באמצעות אמפורה זו? ... [fragment ends]
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
The interior and exterior are isolated; we have no idea if are universe has an exterior or not and, according to present theory, never will. As another comment pointed out, in GR our "future" is a singularity which everything move
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Yes. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/11cnh0w/starl...
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
You could just reserve your rancor for posts that are completely vapid or trollish — and ignore the issue of how they were created. It works for me.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
You have elsewhere in this thread objected to people providing links without giving context, so I hope you won't mind being asked to unpack this claim a little. Why is it nonsense? If, as you say, it's principally pushed by one

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