PavlikPaja

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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
The problem is our obsession with positive results. Let's say there are 57 possible ways of doing something, only two of them work, but there is objectively not enough information to decide which one and testing each of them requires d
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
It's a common myth that you can get less noise from bigger pixels. Smaller pixels only allow you to see more of it, as you can see higher frequency noise that you wouldn't see with the bigger pixels, but the SNR shouldn't be
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Some languages also use rhythm to distinguish words, such as Finnish or Japanese. It could arguably be a factor in English as well, and the cause of such effects as the "sesame street F-bomb" where the odd rhythm led many people t
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
The measurement is itself still in superpostion though. You know it's taken place, but not with what result. It's kind of like quantum eraser.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
It just doesn't bring anything new. It was obvious it has to work this way, since non-elementar particles can be in superpostion. If we assume that the time is still going for systems that appear to be in superposition for the outside
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
It's essentially the schrödinger's cat - the first observer is the observer, while his friend is the cat. But the time won't stop going for the cat, it does experience its death and not, but it's vawefunction only collap
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Because the second group is still in superposition relative to the first. It's kind of exactly like the schrödinger's cat, where the cat is in the same position as the second group.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Oh. No you don't translate when you speak another language, you may be worse at speaking it than your native one, but speaking any language works the same way, you speak or write directly and don't translate. It still could be a t
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
"Mistranslation" to me implies something that was originally written in another language.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
"Mistranslation" to me implies something that was originally written in another language. Not somebody speaking poor English.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
We were able to deal with time and space being relative, we can deal with superposition being relative. It was kind of obvious anyway, since superposition can affect non-elementary particles as well.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Or they could publish the actual term used so that anybody could check, but they didn't. But they use Beijing written in the characters, as if it was the important part.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
There is a relatively strong correlation between immune function, intelligence and longevity. Maybe the epidemics made the population smarter on average?
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
It is "the" problem, as it makes it impossible to tell what is natural and what is intentionally created by advanced civilizations, making it impossible to know if the paradox even exists at all, since we may be looking at "o
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Do you disagree with me on something?
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Well, yeah. "with all the expected technology" is the important part.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
The problem with the Fermi paradox is that it requires you to assume the existence of spacefaring civilizations, with all the expected technology. The possibilities are just to many, and we only know relatively well our own solar system, we
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Any sound that starts or end very suddenly. Drums of any kind will sound kind of weird in MP3. Applause used to be the bane of MP3. Encoders got better at it, but it's apparently impossible to get rid of completely. As far as I underst
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Its brain must be huge for an insect. Maybe it's smart enough to hide from the omnicidal maniacs.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
The problem with censorship is that either the truth is obvious, and there is no need for it, or it isn't, so there is no way to decide fairly what to censor.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Maybe insects evolved to avoid such traps, cars, and people in general.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Yes.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
The thing is, when there are so many people who insist it isn't working, or even makes things worse, (while nobody has much of idea why the drugs should work in the first place, and there seems to be a growing movement to try treating
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
tl;dr: He needs subjects with a particular mental illness, so he needs to recheck the diagnosis. Turns out this person is actually ill from using drugs since he was 10, so he can't use him in his study, and he wonders how meaningful th
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
Don't you think it's pretty damning for psychiatry if this guy is the first one who figured out he's actually ill from taking drugs, after decades when he was treated as mentally ill?
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
When you breath pure nitrogen, you suffocate without really noticing anything.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
I don't see how that could be possible, unless it is a transmissable disease that infects the brain.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
I suppose recreating those would be much harder, because of the gap between them and the other elements.
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
There are no other resources depletable in the same sense - even if you burn coal or oil, equivalent resources can be synthesized. The rest is usualy not depleted in the literal sense, only put into use and may need to be recycled to be use
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by PavlikPaja 8y ago
I'm going to attack nuclear from an entirely new point of view: What if thorium or uranium have other, yet unknown uses? We could be burning potentially invaluable resources for relatively unimportant amounts of energy.

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