RockofStrength

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by RockofStrength 14y ago
"Many worlds is an interpretation. It is an untestable explanation of the evidence, there is no way to decide between many worlds and other models (besides, perhaps, convenience)." Many Worlds is the theory that best fits the evidence of qu
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Thank you - it is nice to get feedback from someone in the community. I agree that Many Worlds is not literally persecuted, but it is viewed as something of an absurdity by the layman, and seems to be a bit taboo among the elders in the fie
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
"While the Church may have opposed heliocentrism, Galileo defended heliocentrism, and understood correctly that it was not contrary to the Scriptures." Biblical references Psalm 93:1, 96:10, and 1 Chronicles 16:30 include text stating that
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
"Heliocentrism is and was obviously right, minus the blinders of religion." It is easy for us to judge now that we have pictures from space, but the concept would have been very non-intuitive in centuries past. For example, one does not fee
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
This phenomenon is explained by many-worlds: The two photons have both polarization orientations in the multiverse. We are limited to a single instance of the multiverse, and any interaction whatsoever between the photons and our universe w
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Musicnovatory.com presents quite a few interesting music theory concepts, though it is quite opaque and off-putting in parts. For example, they present a generative binary theory of rhythm, a 'tetrad' theory of chords (by fifths and 'metamo
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
The only new tip I received from the article (I'd pretty much heard the rest before) is to make the peak of your free throw's arc parallel to the top of the backboard. What I'm really interested in is learning how to dunk...all I need is ab
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
The good thing about patents is that they motivate the discovery of alternate approaches. The bad thing is that they stagnate inter-connective progress. Patents have become a hideously bureaucratic market unto themselves, creating a kink in
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
I'm a big fan of that approach. Betterexplained.com uses the method.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
A very interesting theory of storytelling is the Dramatica theory of story. http://storymind.com/dramatica/ I believe the movie Contact (any many others) were written with the Dramatica template. This area was how I was introduced to the
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Actually I've heard him say that it was a misunderstanding in multiple interviews, quite candidly.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Not necessarily; I usually don't use a score when I play. It would also be insightful to see the 1st person perspective of a jazz musician playing from a lead sheet, to see how his eyes jump between page and piano.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
I have a tangential question: What's the state of technology that would allow one to see through the eyes of another? This would be useful for piano tutorials, etc. I think it could be done with a separate eye-tracking device and a camera l
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
This type of technology would be a nice novelty item to implement into a futuristic zombie story. For example, there could be a large battle between humans and zombies, and the humans are equipped with pulse-magnifying glasses, allowing the
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
To turn small talk into a conversation, switch from objective facts to subjective opinions.
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
"There is an interesting paradox in teaching: the better you know a subject, the harder it is to talk to beginners. Experience means you have forgotten what tripped you up when you were a beginner." This reminded me of how I always have to
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by RockofStrength 14y ago
Simple explanation for Benford's Law: When numbers expand out into an additional digit through doublings, a "1" is always present, "2" is usually present, and so on down the line. The law is present in proportion to the degree that the samp
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by RockofStrength 15y ago
Thirty of the top fifty players are South Korean, while only one is from the US.
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by RockofStrength 15y ago
Both pi and tau form infinite strings of prime numbers with their digits. See if you can get the first twelve!
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by RockofStrength 15y ago
This is my layman's understanding of Godel's incompleteness theorems: Any set of axioms powerful enough to decide all its theorems will always have inconsistencies in its theorems (e.g. "if true then false"). To be consistent, the set of ax
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by RockofStrength 15y ago
Hofstadter cares a lot about form, and thinks it is intimately connected to function. I believe in the end of "I Am a Strange Loop" he said that he edits every single line of text so it fits evenly and aesthetically across the line. In othe
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by RockofStrength 15y ago
I'm impressed that Madoff was smart enough to mimic Benford distribution in his monthly returns (that's what the article led me to infer). I actually made an r/math post about Benford's Law that I thought was pretty interesting, although it