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841.
by User23 3y ago
You can’t logically prove anything about anything unless it follows from the premises. Do you mean to suggest that all consequences of the premises are in some way part of the definition of said premises? That’s not irrational, but I don’t
842.
by User23 3y ago
Perhaps not everyone realizes that every year thousands (millions?) of people go out to shoot dinosaurs, often of the duck-billed variety.
843.
by User23 3y ago
That might be because it should be written: e^(i*θ) = cos θ + i*sin θ The formula loses most of its beauty when you just present it with a single arbitrary real plugged in.
844.
by User23 3y ago
Perhaps it was, but the article you link denies the certainty of that statement.
845.
by User23 3y ago
Reading about how these are generally made of an even number of cars reminded me of this[1]. [1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd05xx/EWD594.PDF
846.
by User23 3y ago
What’s your justification for learning from copyrighted materials? Why aren’t your reconfigured neural connections a derivative work that needs to be licensed from the original rights holder?
847.
by User23 3y ago
The Ancient Greeks didn't even think it started with Ancient Greece. Plato believed in Atlantis for example.
848.
by User23 3y ago
Cholula hot sauce is remarkably good for a mass market condiment. I like it far more than Tabasco and the other widely available alternatives.
849.
by User23 3y ago
What's more these people often don't know it's even happening. In fact, the odds are extremely high that you, me, and everyone else here has been taken in by some kind of ad or ad-like rhetoric and internalized it as just bei
850.
by User23 3y ago
You’re basically describing Lisp m-expressions. Which, incidentally, pretty much all Lispers ever have independently decided are a bad idea.
851.
by User23 3y ago
We’re reliably informed that race has no biological basis and differences are greater within groups than between them, so isn’t the answer obviously yes?
852.
by User23 3y ago
It feels like an homogeneous population would reduce rather than increase confounds.
853.
by User23 3y ago
https://archive.ph/TRCkv
854.
by User23 3y ago
I hate how wet streets cause rain.
855.
by User23 3y ago
The obfuscation to information ratio in this document blows past 100:1 and probably 1000:1 and maybe more. I don’t imagine calculating Shannon entropy is part of the curriculum.
856.
by User23 3y ago
Don’t get crazy now. If we go down this route we might start expecting working programmers to achieve basic mastery of the predicate calculus.
857.
by User23 3y ago
Ah yes, just like the New Math.
858.
by User23 3y ago
I grew up in a heavily Jewish area and most Jewish owned businesses that didn't absolutely require the owner present just had non-Jews working on Friday evening and Saturday. Similarly I've swapped on-call shifts with non-Christia
859.
by User23 3y ago
I find it helpful also not just because of the startup speed, but because I usually have one or more org buffers open taking notes on what I'm doing.
860.
by User23 3y ago
Near death experiences are really interesting. It’s particularly striking that some people report a kind of conscious, albeit altered, experience with no measurable brain function occurring.
861.
by User23 3y ago
RCTs show surgical and cloth masks to be ineffective or nearly so for reducing the spread of respiratory viruses. Obviously the kinds of masks used in BSL labs do work to prevent spread. However there are statistics that areas with more mas
862.
by User23 3y ago
The incentive is that the salary for a tenured professor is a sinecure. At that point you can just produce bullshit and maybe cash in on speaking fees and publishing. Source: TFA. But that's loserthink. The freedom to fuck around and (
863.
by User23 3y ago
> I “expanded the data pool” for my eight grade science project. My teachers warned against this and told us they would catch us if we tried.
864.
by User23 3y ago
Insurance adjusters are straight-laced to the point of being anal. They go to prison if they're not. I trust them here.
865.
by User23 3y ago
Lawrence Lessig's greatest claim to fame is handing Disney and friends unlimited copyright before the Supreme Court. I'd hold up Judge Alsup if I wanted to give an example of a tech saavy legal practitioner.
866.
by User23 3y ago
What do you mean by works correctly? By what standard do you say the software gets things wrong? After all it's an indisputable fact that computers only ever do exactly what you tell them to.
867.
by User23 3y ago
You jest, but that's why the first amendment precedes the second. A man with a gun can kill a few dozen, perhaps a hundred, people at most before he's stopped. A man with a microphone can and has caused megadeaths and gigadeaths a
868.
by User23 3y ago
One of the most wildly productive periods in small molecule drug discovery was back when crazy, mostly German, chemists would taste their products as part of characterizing them. That's why, among other things, we have such wonderfully
869.
by User23 3y ago
My personal favorite is when leaving your phone at home is entered into the record as evidence of wrong-doing.
870.
by User23 3y ago
I bet early search engines had similar or even better figures under similar conditions. I suppose this because I recall how much search improved my productivity over flipping through books and I know how for certain tasks ChatGPT is a bette

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