MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Base 2/3 seems tantalizingly close to Collatz.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Ditto for a really positive narrative. The desperation comes in when you try to keep the chocolate out of the peanut butter, and tell only the side you're trying to push without a hint of the counterarguments. (Or to provide only weak
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
> There are some drawbacks to the nuclear bomb rocket. You don't say.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
That's half the story. The other have is that the same press and analysts still desperately construct negative narratives (note, for example, the very story we're commenting on). The point isn't to pump the market up or to c
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Three more common ways of responding to a problem: Weaponize it. Study it. Blog about it.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Now my computer can sound just like the people that make me turn off my radio!
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Thank you!
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
What would happen if you added a capacitor (to ground) on the base? Could you adjust the frequency?
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Like this? https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=nino3.4
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Right. Specifically, "I want the human cancer gone from this planet." That's a kind of caring, but probably not the sort you were trying to imply.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
The trick for paying for healthcare is simple, though no one likes it: we need to start paying for healthcare. By building a huge byzantine bureaucracy around everyone trying to get someone else to pay for it, we've driven up the cost
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
No, it's a specific thing you can do. You can literally just sit down, right now, and do this. But if you insist on hearing about a specific example of something I did, here's one that's appropriate. I was frustrated that al
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Ok, here goes: You could look at your situation, think about it as objectively as you can (ignoring, as much as possible, any media driven mind worms), pick any particular problem you face that looks solvable, and try to solve it. If none
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
If there are super bright light sources on the ground nearby that are bright enough to produce a visible reflection off a satellite, you are about to be dead.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Sorry, forgot the "/s" My view is that anybody is free to give commands if they feel like it, just as I'm free to ignore 'em.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Very nice to see someone actually looking at the issue objectively instead of the unholy blend of clickbait, shoddy "science" and either fear mongering or blind denialism we usually see. Getting to the point where we're actua
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
"lalitium" -- it says so, right above the text.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Which makes the headline quite clever in this case, since people will assume that means they aren't wrong, when in fact it means they aren't _always_ wrong.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
I remember it taking long enough (they had to wait for another project to need a lot of that color) that we wound up using dope to mock it up. (Regular paint didn't hold and just chipped off.)
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
It would help if the variables were defined somewhere near their point of use. Economists may have dedicated uses for P & Y as well known (to them) as π, but to the casual reader they are...just letters?
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Having now read the actual complaint / emails, I'd like to revise my position (if anyone cares). Prices go up in response to shortages in a properly functioning market, but these clowns were clearly over the line and trying to man
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Reminds me of the Egg Greed Graph. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HFa2bQlWcAARYNB.jpg Why is it people have such a hard time understanding that this is what we want markets to do? If there is a scarcity of some resource,
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
The GP post's point was that, logical as this would be, the IAU definition explicitly states that planets are "in the Solar System". So no, exoplanets are exoplanets, not planets. And Pluto isn't an example of either.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joke
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/simple/fiction
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
My point was, LLMs always generate fiction (bad fiction, but fiction nonetheless); what they generate is plausible, grammatical text that may have many points of congruence with the truth, but are not in any way constrained to do so. In sh
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
> Are readers generating fiction with AI models? Why not? Journalists, lawyers and pundits of various stripes are already doing it. Why shouldn't readers?
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Yup. But 1) `dbg!(·)` uses normal syntax and 2) my expository version is two characters shorter. :)
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
You managed to break out of the trap! Thank you for this; I'd not seen it, but needed to.
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by MarkusQ 3mo ago
Opioid use comes to mind.

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