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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
One bit of the story I'm very confused about -- going by the article, it sounds like the Freeman case was reopened after McGuffin had already been convicted of it, and then he was somehow convicted again of the same crime. Of course
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
(2017)
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This documentary sounds pretty bad from the description, but I this article paints an incorrect picture of how mathematicans study the infinite. Whether there is one infinity or multiple is entirely context dependent. Yes, there's far
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Is there a reason you would expect them to use floats here instead of fixed-point? I would naively guess the latter.
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
The thing to note here is that the theory of epicycles was never actually a thing; contrary to popular belief, geocentric astronomy did not fix its problems by adding additional layers of epicycles. It had one layer of epicycles, that was
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
(2014)
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(2009)
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I mean, the author's name is right on top, you can loop up what else he's done: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342057/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Grillo-Marxuach Looks like
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
FWIW, I did a PhD at University of Michigan, finishing in 2014. We did have to take this class -- I gather that the university put off implementing it for quite a while but eventually they gave in and did it. Nobody involved with it reall
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
It's not just on mobile; there really doesn't seem to be any visible boundary there.
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Oh, neat! I hadn't seen that one, thanks. :) Odd that she seems to dismiss sterile neutrinos in the OP video...
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Yeah, the whole thing with the Standard Model being only an effective theory is a definite issue, that's a good point. Actually Hossenfelder seems to more or less agree with this in the blog post she links? http://backreact
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
The distinction is easy to make because she draws a pretty bright line, one I agree with. The video doesn't mistakenly class the problem I mentioned as a pseudo-problem; rather, it fails to discuss it at all. Hossenfelder is pretty cl
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
I think the video's thesis is overstated; in this video Hossenfelder makes it sound like there are no (real) problems with the Standard Model and therefore no necessary reason to postulate any new particles. While I agree completely w
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
The term you'll actually hear from the conspiracy theorists regarding this is "predictive programming".
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The main issue with Thunderbird IMO is that line-wrapping and quoting (and especially their interaction) during composition is horrifically buggy!
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
They do link to the paper at least? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2022.2... But yeah, that's annoying.
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Two Amateur Discoveries in Early Notation(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
The text here would appear to be confusing about what circular polarization means. Circular (or more generally, elliptical) polarization doesn't mean the light doesn't travel in a straight line. Rather it means that the oscillati
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Ah, thanks, I missed that! Kind of disappointing that it doesn't give the instructions' dissassembly (so to speak -- obviously as you point out in reality they are nonsense), but I suppose I can sit down and figure that out mysel
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Thanks, I saw that, but I was hoping for explicit examples.
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What is it? I can't seem to find it in the paper.
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Going by the linked webpage, the answer appears to be "valid if we ignore the limit, but in fact the limit is enforced and you'll get an exception".
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Tangential, since it's not what this article is about, but it's worth noting that the apostrophe acts as something of a 27th letter in English.
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(Checking the second one, it's correct as written.)
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Those would be some of the implications of the ABC conjecture. However, proving the ABC conjecture, or any weaker version of it, is not what this paper is doing. This paper is exploring a family of examples where the ABC conjecture is as c
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by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Note that in Allison's Algorithm, that second ADD should actually be an ADC. (I say this both because that's what's in the original paper and because checking it myself that's what works -- it's needed to add the 1
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Hm, so the post mentions two approaches to BCD addition -- using a DAA instruction, and using a decimal mode like the 6502. It's funny because neither of these are what I would have thought of as the obvious way, namely, having an &qu
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I use Wine so I can run foobar2000 on Linux.
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Note that he didn't actually say that -- or rather, he did say that, but not in reference to the French Revolution: https://mediamythalert.com/2011/06/14/too-early-to-say-zhou-...

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