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by Smaug123 5y ago
Well, I think one could plausibly argue that the early small mammals which liked to be around flowers were more likely to survive because they could eat the abundance of insects attracted to the flowers. That effect compounds, and in genera
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I don't think there's any technical knowledge needed here; the concepts are common ones. "There was a big hoo-hah about how it used to output a certain well-known piece of code in possible violation of its licence. They fixed
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by Smaug123 5y ago
> What are the two words not here? Unknown as of the posting of the Twitter thread.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I dunno - I'm definitely a language purist, and even so, I will admit that the emoji is not redundant. It causes the emphasis of the sentence to fall on the word "love", rather than "work". It has a similar effect t
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I didn't really read your proof, because it's late and I'm tired, but there is no Banach-Tarski construction in 1 or 2 dimensions (whether or not you like the axiom of choice). The third dimension is crucial. So if your proof
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I specifically said that the resistance of GR to quantisation is why I'm not very happy saying that it's fact.
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Z3 approach to discover that “q_rsqrt” is in Copilot's slur list(twitter.com)
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by Smaug123 5y ago
In case anyone else got confused about how lactose-free milk somehow managed to have exactly the same macronutritional profile as ordinary milk, it turns out to be because "lactose-free" really means "we added lactase so the
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by Smaug123 5y ago
It's not about the axioms , which are perfectly fine as set theory. It's about the encoding of geometry in set theory , for which there are many options, some with nicer properties than others. Cf the original link in the thread
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Is that known? It's an appealing idea, but bearing in mind that general relativity is very resistant to quantisation, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable to declare it as fact.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
From your description, I fear you don't understand the usual diagonalisation proof that constructs an uncounted real from any attempt to count the reals. Why should "the longest" diagonal have anything to do with it?
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by Smaug123 5y ago
An internal London-to-London commute could well be like that. My Kennington to Goodge Street commute started with an empty train, while if you can flex your starting time to 10am you're going to have a pretty empty Tube on much of the
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by Smaug123 5y ago
You're thinking of North Paw, perhaps, which is an anklet ( https://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/ )
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by Smaug123 5y ago
The ability to do it is equivalent to the axiom of choice, so my guess is going to be "not without considerable effort".
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Naturally, this is all phrased in general terms, and all hedged with e.g. the direct quote "While there is no one-size-fits-all number when it comes to a person's ideal weight, men should not ignore significant weight gain and the
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I think you may have missed the point: the team with other work to do also insisted on taking on this work , and that team prevented our protagonist from taking the requisite two days to do the work.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I think your heart shouldn't quail at the thought of re-schemaing 5-6GB! I'm going to claim that the actual migration will be very quick.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
You're pulling a sleight of hand here with your definitions. To rephrase the sibling: if you are obese or overweight, you have, by definition, a certain BMI. (According to the WHO and many national entities, anyway.) The intended commo
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Your argument proves too much. Compare: "You can simply not smoke the cigarettes".
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Not to suggest anything about your personal experience, but note that in general pretty much anyone can follow pretty much any diet for two months and lose weight if they try. The seriously hard bit - and the way you know you've found
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by Smaug123 5y ago
That's not actually a solution. What do you do when someone holds the door open? Unless you have someone next to each door ready to boot such people out of the train, you simply can't stop yourself departing late.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I've had Moderna and the flu, and they were about equally bad ("I can move, but only because I'll wet the bed otherwise, please God let me sleep so it stops feeling like my bones are dissolving") but Moderna lasted only
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Well, "these kinds of approaches" isn't really a binary thing. When you're looking at a problem, you try a big mix of lots of different approaches - maybe you try making the problem smaller, and you get something that yo
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Shelah is a powerhouse , in fairness. A 10x mathematician.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I'd be interested to hear how you're going to bring it into alignment with GMT and the other Sun-and-Earth-based measuring systems which people are actually going to want to use. Note that the solar day does vary unpredictably in
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I'd been at my company for two years when the pandemic hit, and I continued learning loads by osmosis through a daily 30min team Webex "turn your mic and camera on, and just chat or work silently or whatever ends up happening&quot
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by Smaug123 5y ago
That is a glib answer which misses the point entirely. Why do they find long necks attractive? The answer to that sort of question usually turns out to be "because animals who randomly happened to be a little more attracted to long n
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by Smaug123 5y ago
This question is something of a category error - there are no "facts", only "theories which have a greater or lesser amount of evidence in favour of them". Some theories have such an overwhelming amount of evidence in fa
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I'm afraid I feel this is kind of missing the point. I assert that you will spend the time coming up with how to remember a thing; the question is whether you choose to do that at card construction time (easiest, because you've
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by Smaug123 5y ago
F# lacks an imperative "return" at all - a function returns precisely the value of the expression that is its body - which makes it a lot easier to think about this kind of thing, at the cost of sometimes having to be explicit abo

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