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by RogerL 4y ago
Neither India or China had named the mountain (hence 'K2'), it is far from any trade route or village, the approach takes a month and you finally end up at a glacier which is still 10 miles from the base of the mountain. Starting
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by RogerL 4y ago
They say all of that, and more in the article.
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by RogerL 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus#Reliability_of_the_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Historicity I know it is not satisfying, but essentially all of modern biblical scholarship no l
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by RogerL 4y ago
A simple google search reveals youtube videos and books on how the world is flat. It ain't flat. swrc is not a valid source of biblical scholarshp, Douglas Petrovich publishes fringe theories and is not someone you want to be citing fo
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by RogerL 4y ago
Sumerians invented it circa 2800-2500BC. 300bc is a thousand years after the tablet in question. I believe the oldest extant example is 300bc.
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by RogerL 4y ago
replace chat GPT with slide rule and calculator and you have the endless arguments made against calculators in the 70s. change it to typewriters in word processors and you have all the hand ringing in the early '80s about how writing w
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by RogerL 4y ago
So I asked it "Write a story about a person that longs to turn into a chair. Explain her motivation and how she achieves it, and whether she regrets it" and got back There once was a woman named Sarah who longed to turn into a cha
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by RogerL 4y ago
Nothing. I don't mean to insult the author with this, but he is a 15 year old with a month old project. It's a toy. Toys are great, and teenagers attempting something like this is outstanding, but they are toys. This parses the py
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by RogerL 4y ago
So, what training do you suppose anyone has in interpreting these tests? No one in the hiring loop is a trained psychologist, why would I want you to try to interpret the results of the MMPI or whatever? First of all, and I know the law say
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by RogerL 4y ago
I have acquaintances that that couldn't pass this based on their common texting skills. There's probably no point to argue about what the Turing test "is", but the definition in this comment chain is pretty uncompromisin
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by RogerL 5y ago
None of what Rosen writes there resonates with me. This almost reads like the insufferable reddit comments where people claim you don't like Moby Dick or Shakespeare, that you are just parroting opinions you were told to hold in school
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by RogerL 5y ago
42 U.S.C. § 2274(a) Attempting or conspiring to do so is enough (IANAL). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2274
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by RogerL 5y ago
At an old job we used to get regular talks given by the FBI about espionage cases. A common theme was just how cheaply most sell themselves for. Motivations tend to be as much titillation (playing spy) and revenge (passed over for promotion
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by RogerL 5y ago
But we don't really think that speeds add linearly. if you drive 80 kph North, and I drive 60 kph East, no one would say we are separating at 140 kph. we would use Pythagoras to get the right number. We just don't realize we live
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by RogerL 5y ago
If you don't know, every experiment we have ever carried out to test this tells us it is true. I wrote a long answer to someone else; I'm not going to retype it. But what is invariant in the 3D space you think you live in is d
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by RogerL 5y ago
"that speed is relative to what" To you. There is no such thing as absolute speed. You say cosmic rays are crashing into the earth at 99% the speed of light. The cosmic ray says it is sitting still and you (and the Earth) are appr
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by RogerL 5y ago
I suggest stop giving time a privileged meaning, and think of it as just one of four dimensions. John Wheeler starts his book on Special Relativity[1] by talking about surveying. You and I survey a building (plot of land, whatever) separate
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by RogerL 5y ago
I think in some areas, especially the one you are interested in, do progress. We have Descartes, a bunch of people responded to him, that got us to Hume, who has a fairly modern outlook a scientist will resonate with. People like Kant tried
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by RogerL 5y ago
That's not the joke. The point is that the sun exploding is extremely rare, so you can essentially conclude that the trial is a false positive. If you just look at the p-value you ignore p(B| not A) (false positive), and conclude that
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by RogerL 5y ago
It's not special, except that for whatever reason people insist on treating random data as gospel. How long until we cure retinoblastoma? Everyone understands there is no way to produce a meaningful timeline. There are too many inter-r
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by RogerL 5y ago
This simple change is about 3x as fast. I think it is relevant because the same should be done in the original c code. 2x comes from the list swap, the rest comes from the use of N in the while conditional. def merge2(l1, l2):
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by RogerL 5y ago
If that's the difference, why would anyone care about using lisp? The examples you've chosen are nothing more than "parens before the statement instead of squiggles after", more or less. Why would anyone advocate for lis
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by RogerL 5y ago
These cameras are everywhere. I've been doing this stuff in one way or another since 2008 or so. Did it for the Air Force (mounted on the tower) and for more commercial applications. It's a solved problem, and it is not particular
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by RogerL 5y ago
> Couple of issues here; the first and foremost - recording people at their workplace. We can all argue how privacy is unreasonable in public but recording let alone pilots but anyone continuously at work will receive big pushback. Casin
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by RogerL 5y ago
> If you have that to add, I am pretty sure you don't have any formal experience with aviation Walter Bright is an aerospace engineer, programmer of flight critical systems of airliners, son of Charles Bright. You are way off on you
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by RogerL 5y ago
In your comment, in response to what should be done, you replied "just [stuff the victim should do]'. That strongly implies that that is all that should be done. Very different message then is you had started with "One thing
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by RogerL 5y ago
> Take breaks or you will break. Life is waaaaayyy to short for that shit. Work so hard you are in danger of injuring yourself. No thanks.
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by RogerL 5y ago
You don't need Monte Carlo, you just need a table with three rows. GGC, GCG, CGG. Pick the first door, cross out the other goat, and switch. you will lose once and win twice. if for some reason you think the door you pick at first matt
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by RogerL 5y ago
You are not allowed to create derivative works from another person's creation, regardless of whether you are making money from it. You can't go and make a Shrek III flick, for example, or write a book set in the Harry Potter unive
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by RogerL 5y ago
How do you "build that into your strategy"? That is so easy to type, but unactionable. A piano teacher can't build her own streaming platform, and if she goes to a different platform she'll die in obscurity. Concretely,

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