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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
This is true for Newtonian gravity, but only approximately true for general relativity (or so I understand it).
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That's why it's important to single out individual senators supporting the bill. Then the response is no longer a slap on the wrist to Congress.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Just a friendly caution: overcoming procrastination to study is very different than overcoming procrastination to work. I'm not exactly sure why. Perhaps because learning is more passive than producing. Perhaps because learning usually feel
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
> the advantaged human has to beat the disadvantaged super-intelligence every single time, forever. There are alternatives. The human can keep the AI boxed until the AI has augmented the human's intelligence, or helped create human uplo
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
My experience with the gifted program was similar, but I'm not sure it's fair to judge it based on what it accomplishes with it's current paltry funding.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
>a super-intelligence just beats human intelligence [e]very time. You are overstating the case here. Super intelligence is superior to human intelligence, but it isn't magic. There are situations where an advantaged human will beat a di
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
You'll have to deal with escaping it, but you won't need to escape as often, and may never need to escape if you aren't writing code/documentation dealing with the system itself.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
> with organic food alone, the earth population would have to be around 4 billions. We're 7 billions. Oops. And if everyone had a car and lived like Americans then the world would be in a tough spot as well. That doesn't mean I'm going
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I would like to see a statically typed language with compile time checking of comments. If a comment references a function and the signature later changes, that comment should throw an error at compile time. It would also be nice if a comme
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
You need more than money if you're buying something illegally. You also need a certain amount of sophistication to know you're getting what you want.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
That's what grad students are for.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
It's painful even when it only takes a single time step to reach the error (sometimes upwards of a minute or more). It's as if I've gone from an interpreted language with no compile time to a compiled language with horrendous compile times.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Most academic code is poor quality and not easily extensible/wrappable. I suspect many people would still develop their own code. People might be more lazy in some situations, I agree, but at the same time the number of eyes per lines of co
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Yes! I wasted almost 6 months last year attempting to replicate some results from a paper I was reading. It turned out the authors of the paper hadn't included in the paper a key addition to their equations, which they were nonetheless usin
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Cultural pressure must start with awareness.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
From the video: "So, I mean, we're all of a sudden talking petabits of memory in a square centimeter device. What can you do with that? Interesting to think about."
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
This would be a huge boon for scientific computing. The data is often huge, but all of it must be constantly pushed through the CPU every iteration.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
What are the implications for back end development? Will this greatly reduce server complexity (need for redundancy)? Could AWS just give you a machine in the cloud, and you wouldn't need to worry about databases and database backups and so
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
The Collatz Conjecture nearly killed me. Literally. For three months I was consumed with the conjecture. I slept, ate, and breathed it. I was sure I was on to a successful line of attack, using some sort of inverse tree approach mixed with
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Pinky Twirl, cross application keyboard shortcuts(github.com)
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I just started a postdoc at NYU and have been forced into using Blackboard to teach my class. Inspiring alternatives can't come fast enough.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Agreed. As a carnivore with a conscience I'm all about jumping on the lab meat bandwagon. But as someone big on natural foods and skeptical of the current state of nutritional knowledge, I would be hesitant to base a substantial part of my
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Squirrel it away for 5 years then retire on 5% returns on a million bucks ($50,000) a year?
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
This sounds awesome, and the potential to monitor other chemical levels is even more exciting. My concerns: Do the polymers wear out? Presumably they are binding to the target chemical. Can they rebind afterward? Does the body clear out the
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Is it possible to extract the names of individual items as well? I keep a food diary and it would be amazingly helpful if I could have an automatically compiled list of foods in my fridge (by scanning my grocery receipts). I would switch to
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Just tried it and I actually prefer it to the right side ad. It takes up less space and is slim enough not to catch my eye.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
What about just major allergens? Peanuts, soy, wheat, etc, etc? Information that would be given to anyone dining at the restaurant if they asked.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
(I'm not a Linux user, forgive my ignorance) Is there no way to prevent bugs like this at the source, by modifying Linux, rather than hoping there isn't any extra white space in a command that might delete your usr directory?
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Less buyer's remorse.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I've learned that certain refined carbs (white flour) give me an energy boost followed by a satisfying crash, whereas other refined carbs (white rice) just make me moody. I avoid refined carbs in general, but I have occasional insomnia so i

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