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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
So why is it called "Silent Running"?
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
That's just a link to Gelman's blog. You seem to have meant to link to https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/03/14/heres-the-...
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Does anyone know where some of these follow-up posts might be?
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I'm not sure what you think "etymology" or a "root" is. The word is quite regularly formed via English derivational morphology. Start with "shit", which -- like every word that isn't a pure coinage
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I think one of the most unexpected words in English to be named for a person is "guy"! From Guy Fawkes. The word went from meaning an effigy of Fawkes, to any doll, to a person.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Also at https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censors...
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Does Mamikon's theorem have any good generalizations, say to higher dimensions?
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I'm responding to your claim that he says nothing about this attempt. He does, in fact, say something about this attempt. I guess perhaps you were only saying that that particular claim says nothing about this attempt? I mean, OK,
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> * Seen lots of previous attempts to make testable predictions that didn't pan out (says nothing about this attempt). Not at all. He quotes two string theorists who say they think this proposal is unlikely.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
An electrical issue wouldn't be caused by crossing the international date line.
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> The theory, which Romeo relied on partly to guide his search, suggests that when Earhart crossed over the international dateline during her 20-hour flight, her navigation system became inaccurate and misdirected her by about 60 miles,
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
For those who haven't heard of it, the actual law governing this is the Ivention Secrecy Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
The previous articles appear to be these: https://www.filfre.net/2011/12/lord-british/ https://www.filfre.net/2011/12/akalabeth/ https://www.filfre.net/2011&#x2
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> It's interesting that people read a blog by a someone who visited for 10 days, instead of someone who has lived there their entire lives or otherwise has far more experience. Because they found the one and not the other. Matt Lak
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Hm -- for some reason it 404s when accessed via HTTPS. The link in the original post is a straight HTTP link, but I guess you have something that's turning it into HTTPS instead. Anyway it works just fine when accessed via straight H
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Possibly worth noting that this is a crosspost of https://acesounderglass.com/2022/02/04/butterfly-ideas/
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
This is a link to a tag on the blog rather than the particular blog post. It should link here: https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2022/09/15/the-ghost-...
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Sorry, did you mean to reply to a different comment? This doesn't appear related to what I was discussing (the etymology of the terms; I'm aware of what they mean).
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Hm, looking into it, I'm having trouble finding an easy answer. A quick search turned up this article [1] which says that yes Paul Samuelson named it that way for that reason, and links to this video [2] where he claims exactly that.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I think you've misunderstood the terminology a bit. "European options" and "American options" don't mean "options in Europe" and "options in America"; they're just names for two differ
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
This is addressed in the video. Tezuka's work has very little in common with The Lion King. The bulk of the apparent similarity comes from the 1997 movie; if one ignores that there's very little.
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Sarah Constantin has been writing a series of posts about such technology (these aren't the only people trying it) over on her blog: * https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/ultrasound-neuromodul... * https:&#x2F
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
I mean, it's not actually. It's just a somewhat unusual transcription (well, originally somewhat unusual, now obviously it's the official English name) of what might be more usually transcribed as "Gojira".
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Ah, I see. By "sign-magnitude" I just meant that the sign and the magnitude are stored independently, and I think that's the usual usage of the term; I wouldn't expect "a sign-magnitude format" to mean one whe
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
IEEE decimal is definitely complicated and confusing, but it does seem to unambiguously be sign-magnitude? The confusing part is how the magnitude works, not how signedness works...
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Hm, seems a black hole would have to be at least about the mass of an asteroid in order to be down to a manageable temperature...
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Going by the article, the piece wasn't actually recovered from the wall. Rather the wall just inspired Tacconi to look for it elsewhere, and she found it in a library. It hasn't been heard for 250 years simply because it's
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
Yes, that's the point -- Euclid's proof doesn't require that, it works like you said; but it's a widespread misconception that it does work that way. It's a counterexample to the misconception, not to the real pr
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
> Of course, I'll now fall back on godel's second incompleteness theorem and say that one cannot prove, inside ZFC, that ZFC is consistent. But if the above turing machine halts, then we proved ZFC is consistent - a contradicti
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by Sniffnoy 3y ago
The canonical link for this is https://www.npr.org/2023/10/11/1205045583/sam-bankman-fried-... so this should point to that.

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