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by SideQuark 3mo ago
I take it you don't know much about frequency time tradeoffs. It is not possible to convert 48 khz to 44 khz without approximation. And there is incredible room to design filters that have great response at frequency X but terrible at
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
It’s not that cynical. The author didn’t test on the most common rate in use, so it would be ludicrous for any serious project to wholesale replace a decades old working pipeline with it. It makes perfect sense to wait till due diligence is
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
There’s plenty of papers showing exactly this. What do you think has driven productivity? People simply bring smarter? The fact is capital expenditure from company or investors has bought machinery, compute, pipelines, transport, and massiv
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
True. From that page RAM companies have been sued and found innocent before: “ The district court ruled in favor of Samsung, Hynix, and Micron and dismissed the lawsuit. This dismissal was affirmed on appeal by the United States Court of Ap
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
RAII has nothing to do with garbage collection. It only provides a way to get a resource somewhat atomically. If the creator doesn’t delete the object, or if the object has a malformed destructor, it fails. If the creator calls delete twice
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
> where the programmer is responsible for invoking "free", was a serious mistake and it was an obsolete technique already at the date of its introduction. It wasn’t obsolete then nor now. Garbage collected languages, to this da
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
That's not a reason. That's an anecdote, a post selected and cherry picked example. Is this truly how you'd allocate resources? A more correct way to use reason is to look at all possible things that have been proposed that c
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
It’s 500m spend without guaranteed success.
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by SideQuark 4mo ago
The Englert paper did not have the equations for the the hypothetical field that would become known as the Higgs field, and it did not have the Higgs boson. The Higgs paper had the details to make these more aptly named for him. Englert (an
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by SideQuark 4mo ago
The photo is subtitled “ Representative image of a vintage notebook, not Marie Curie's. Photo via Pexels.” so it’s clear it’s not trying to be deceptive. It’s entirely common, even among the best human authors, to put in a photo to giv
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by SideQuark 4mo ago
Because it costs a massive amount to get standards with this technical quality. They go through meetings, have a decent amount of staff to run, organize, have conference costs (locations...), take years to get done. Someone has to pay for t
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by SideQuark 4mo ago
It is 3 dimensional. That commonly repeated CIE diagram is a 2d slice of the color volume. Since 1931 that diagram is obsolete, misleading, and fails at a lot of modern color science, and has been replaced many times, but is what many peopl
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by SideQuark 4mo ago
It never ceases to amaze me the selective reading skills required to remain ignorant when facing clear evidence.
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by SideQuark 4mo ago
Here’s evidence from 2025. 2026 has increased. https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/Resources-American-S...
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by SideQuark 5mo ago
> It tries to get people to take a concept that has been understood for thousands of years for physical objects That's false. Property used to mean a set of rights that gives legal control over valuable things, not limited to simpl
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by SideQuark 5mo ago
> which avoids many of the flaws with IEEE floats ... by repeating lots of the flaws that led to IEEE754, requiring extra accumulators (the "quire") and hardware to do basic ops since the posit format alone fails, and making nu
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by SideQuark 5mo ago
LUTs don’t magically add color volume, change the possible colors or dynamic range, or add much at all to the physics of a display. They’re usually used to reduce bit depth. They do not add more low or high colors than the screen physics st
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by SideQuark 5mo ago
Your eye also doesn’t have a consistent gamma, nor does the camera, now does any viewing technology. If you’re complaining about the slight linear section of many gamma curves, they are very important for avoiding various artifacts.
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by SideQuark 5mo ago
> but the pattern holds across more than 70 years of evidence No, those are also stupidly small samples. Look at the papers I listed. > That 2014 study you linked is noting that it does happen with other kinds of blindness Yes, from 1
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by SideQuark 5mo ago
Market cap will price in the debt, as it always does. Empirical evidence (dig through Google scholar) finds that cash assets, debt, profits, settlements, and the like, all are reflected in market cap changes at over 99% accuracy (the 1% is
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by SideQuark 5mo ago
And laws can be completely useless when enforced intermittently. Laws that are enforced and more importantly are enforceable have a much higher rate of making a difference. The same works here.
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by SideQuark 5mo ago
> The most rigorous evidence comes from a 2018 whole-population study tracking nearly half a million children born in Western Australia between 1980 and 2001. Of those, 1,870 developed schizophrenia, but not one of the 66 children with c
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by SideQuark 5mo ago
M-expressions were never implemented and never used.
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by SideQuark 6mo ago
Completely worked out at least 20 years ago: https://www.lomont.org/papers/2005/CompareFloat.pdf
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by SideQuark 6mo ago
> The extra half ulp error makes no difference to the accuracy of calculations It absolutely does matter. The first, and most important reason, is one needs to know the guarantees of every operation in order to design numerical algorith
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by SideQuark 6mo ago
All of these are standard fare in abstract algebra classes, and I didn’t care to write it all out. Once you have the “inverse” operations - and reciprocal, the entire structure follows, for a large set of objects, whether N or Q or R or C o
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by SideQuark 6mo ago
It generates the same class of functions. Read the comments and links in this thread.
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by SideQuark 6mo ago
> If you take a real analysis class, the elementary functions will be defined exactly as the author of the EML paper does. I just looked through many of the best known real analysis texts, and not a single one defines them this way. This
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by SideQuark 6mo ago
Yep, I’ve written numerical methods papers, and am very well aware of the field. A limit process is a definition. Try computing with it. You’ll end up with an infinite sequence, or an approximation. An iterative process is an infinite serie
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by SideQuark 6mo ago
His paper misses infinitely many such functions.

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