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by Vetch 5y ago
I bet this objectively can't be helped. Nuance requires representing uncertainty and is higher complexity from accounting for multiple special cases. Placing more cognitive load and attentional demands on receiver. Human communication
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by Vetch 5y ago
I'm unable to reply to your latest comment and must leave presently so I will reply here. I feel the perspective you've taken downplays things a bit. The history of astronomy spans thousands of years, a high number of unusual obse
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by Vetch 5y ago
The mysterious (unpredicted/as yet unexplained) aspect is the precise physics of its emission properties. It's a refinement of known physics sure, but that doesn't make it less interesting. Not unlike how finally completing a
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by Vetch 5y ago
I understand the problem of sensationalism but maybe you're downplaying this one too much? The object pulses at an unusual frequency that's never before been observed, that's something with high suprisal relative to what&#x
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by Vetch 5y ago
Tortoises (and greenland sharks) are cold-blooded, living life in the slow lane, which makes things much easier. Hummingbirds OTOH, have an insane longevity metabolism pairing. My bet is that bats, parrots and naked mole rats probably have
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by Vetch 5y ago
Without reading the article my guess is it's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark#Longevity They're estimated to live between 250 and 500 years.
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by Vetch 5y ago
People have written notes, sketches, essays, letters, journals and diaries for as long as there has been writing. Even mathematicians of Gauss's or Newton's stature wrote vastly more than they published. It helps to organize and c
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by Vetch 5y ago
I've written a wordle solver (and tic-tac-toe, Chess, Leduc Poker CFR, mastermind and others) and I do agree it's a good start for AI. It's not trivial but still quite approachable, much like the game itself. My solver takes
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by Vetch 5y ago
Hey, air conditioning doesn't belong on that list. It uses a lot of energy but it also significantly improves quality of life in hot and humid regions of the planet. And unlike the other items on your list, there's no ethical or i
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by Vetch 5y ago
This is known as Wirth's law, which the page links to as well as to the ancient quip "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." A less cynical take would shift towards the perspective of Gustafson's law. Modern systems attend
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by Vetch 5y ago
My simple 12 line solver maintains a list of rejected letters, letters that must be contained and constraints on form (where letter must be and where letters cannot be). There was an additional step where words are weighted by spelling dist
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by Vetch 5y ago
> as far as I can tell I would prefer if we could have more certainty than that. I have a list of questions. 1) Does no one else have access to this codex? Has anyone tried to replicate this? It should be easy. 2) If it was not fine-tune
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by Vetch 5y ago
This is more like solving programming than doing math, it either outsources by writing a sympy program or generates a brute-force or monte carlo simulation based answer. My biggest gripe with this paper is how unclear it is on its methods.
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by Vetch 5y ago
> Let's start by explaining smartphones They had electric telegraphs, telephone and radio, so I'd explain it as miniaturized wireless telephones and typewriters combined, additionally with capabilities of paperless networked te
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by Vetch 5y ago
I think you're right, and I think what the author is actually trying to get at is what's known as a rival in anime (which is a bit more nuanced than the typical sense of rival) and roughly translates to friendly rivalry. Unlike
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by Vetch 5y ago
You're correct that Archimedes presaged core concepts of calculus: in his work building upon the method of exhaustion, quadrature for certain conic sections and tangent of a spiral. It's nonetheless quite a ways up the tech-tree f
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by Vetch 5y ago
The issue is most people coming to this are lacking in context, on whose details it seems all sides are not willing to be forthcoming. When I searched I could not find anything that could be pointed at to justify his being labelled racist.
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by Vetch 5y ago
Like you, I was confused by this whole thing. In my mind Wilson is slotted next to Attenborough as a kind and knowledgeable naturalist environmentalist. The only controversy I knew associated with him was his claim that skill with math is n
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by Vetch 5y ago
It's difficult to find material that's a series, rigorously demonstrated and advanced at the same time (there's lots excellent material that ticks either one or the other of those boxes). Here are some examples I subscribe to
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by Vetch 5y ago
> scams, vaporware, fraud, waste, crime In my country, this also describes the day to day situation. You can't trust doctors because they make up diagnoses, people pay taxes but it never shows up in infrastructure, schools or anywhe
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by Vetch 5y ago
One start on this question is with another question: What advantage does Nakamoto consensus have over typical Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance? It, surprisingly enough, scales better and is also open with permisionless participation. It&
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by Vetch 5y ago
A smart system would learn your patterns and eventually be able to predict your arrival, setting a temperature that's further away from ambient and towards some target the more confident it is. Or a tad bit more risky, you could email
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by Vetch 5y ago
I don't know any that are for sale on the internet but the deep learning, mesh network and microcontroller tech to join together such a capability are readily available and open source.
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by Vetch 5y ago
Generally, the concept of trust in poor countries is corrupted by centralized institutions, mostly as a means to redirect wealth. Rule of law is meager but in my experience, land rights are one of the few that maintain (as long as someone w
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by Vetch 5y ago
The problem, not unique to fast fashion, is we've structured things such that recycling is rarely economical. That shouldn't be the case, our damage to ecosystems means prices are not properly accounting for the cost of negative e
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by Vetch 5y ago
> just vectors with special behavior for some operations > basically just a structure containing two real numbers and some modified behavior I think the issue might be that you're brushing away what is central to their utility an
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by Vetch 5y ago
I enjoyed your comment and agree with all your well put points except one: on the rationals tie with reality. Having implemented exact real computation to better understand reals, I think of a real number as a kind of machine that generates
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by Vetch 5y ago
Kind of yes but also not really. The important thing is that the laws of physics are measured the same in all inertial reference frames. Consequently there is no non-contradictory sense in which an experiment could distinguish an absolute r
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by Vetch 5y ago
That sounds a lot like sequential monte carlo or a particle filter, which is a type of bayesian filter for inference. Really impressive what you did.
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by Vetch 5y ago
It's certainly possible but you've also chained a very specific series of events to explain an observation. Such scenarios are most hygienically reasoned about using a Bayesian quantification and updating of uncertainty. There&#x2

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