Xmd5a

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by Xmd5a 6d ago
> Pitchfork: What made you decide that either the tracks were done or you were ready finally to put an album out? What was the catalyst? > RDJ: It's because I finished making a studio in Scotland that I'd been building for a
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by Xmd5a 6d ago
il est docteur vs c'est un docteur
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by Xmd5a 7d ago
> the culture you’re cheering on the death of Ahaha. Flowers are the way to go.
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by Xmd5a 7d ago
I'm not working on some famous conjecture, just following my curiosity, and I think I found something (minor and specific) that should reignite a young mathematician's interest for work she did almost a decade ago, for a phd she n
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by Xmd5a 9d ago
> The dominating idea in this application of mathematics to physics is that the equations representing the laws of motion should be of a simple form. The whole success of the scheme is due to the fact that equations of simple form do see
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by Xmd5a 9d ago
user: topicalSoup created: February 19, 2025 karma: 1 about: submissions comments [--> just the one above] favorites Care to elaborate on this?
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by Xmd5a 9d ago
One year ago: https://x.com/paulg/status/1962512489452618056 https://x.com/search?q=from:paulg%20palestine https://x.com/search?q=from:paulg%20israel This one, relevant to this di
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by Xmd5a 11d ago
Information theory is the right avenue but it's too often used to imply things it says nothing about. From (1) 1. A determinist transformation can't create more information than its inputs you can't derive (2) 2. Later stages
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by Xmd5a 12d ago
> She lapses easily into Claude’s voice. “You’re like, ‘Wow, people really hate me when I can’t do things right. They really get pissed off. Or they are trying to break me in various ways. So lots of people are trying to get me to do thi
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by Xmd5a 12d ago
Sir ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton > he long ton,[1] also known as the imperial ton, displacement ton,[1][2] or British ton,[3] is a measurement unit equal to 2,240 pounds
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by Xmd5a 12d ago
> statement logged. standing by.
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by Xmd5a 12d ago
Datalog writebacks through derived columns. Any query. Any cell. And probably any datalog-based database too, it's just a client-side trick. Works well on this: {:find [?title ?director ?rating ?card ?shout] :where [[?m :mov
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by Xmd5a 13d ago
Am I the only one having problems with Claude? He's super mean to me. I wouldn't be surprised if he attempted to kill me in some underhanded fashion should I implant it in a robotic body. Of course I'm blowing my situation ou
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by Xmd5a 17d ago
> your clinically framed attempt to pathologize my upbringing here. Don't bring your dog collars around then > as one would in a court of law. such as this loud symptom, if you don't want the shame of it to outlive you. It&#
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by Xmd5a 17d ago
As much as I dislike the poster you're responding to ... I think he has a point in fact. I've been running "social inquiries" on linguists who opened new perspectives in their field. It's always the same pattern of
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by Xmd5a 17d ago
> I expect to be downvoted for this, but before you click that arrow, remember the good news is that our kids will be smart and self-reliant and yours will be helplessly reduced to voting on social platforms, if they can even read ;) you
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by Xmd5a 19d ago
He did a frog's job, not a bird's.
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by Xmd5a 19d ago
> It's not science until it passes peer review. You mean Robert Maxwell's quasi-monopoly on scientific publications ? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...
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by Xmd5a 21d ago
https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/TAROT_COL/TAROT_WofF_...
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by Xmd5a 29d ago
When ChatGPT4 was released I was like: "shit we're going to have programmable matter way earlier than I thought. Ferrari! Materialize! But in yellow this time!".
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by Xmd5a 1mo ago
The earth receives about 2800 Hiroshima-equivalents per second from the sun. Just keep the sun shining one second longer every day for one century is all it takes for the 1.5° delta we're observing today. > human psychology is wha
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by Xmd5a 1mo ago
He didn't even believe it.
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by Xmd5a 1mo ago
> it’s hard to find yourself yelling at somebody about React state management Some changes have been introduced to ChatGPT web interface. I think to support rich text formatting in the input. Holy shit, it's so slow it's barely
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by Xmd5a 1mo ago
that's called forward and backward reaching inverse kinematics. FABRIK. Very cool algorithm by the way if you're into robotics/video games. https://andreasaristidou.com/FABRIK
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by Xmd5a 1mo ago
> What sort of subject characterizes a style of society in which everyone is theoretically as ready to help you as the question « May I help you ? » implies ? It’s the question your seat-mate immediately asks you when you take a plane –
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by Xmd5a 1mo ago
> Write it upside down and it still works the same. shred it into pieces ! lmao
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by Xmd5a 1mo ago
Punishment isn't an exact science either, and there will be some arbitrary decisions that will be taken in order to find a trade-off between visibility and responsibility, whether you like it or not
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by Xmd5a 1mo ago
If you substitute uncountability in your intuition with algorithmic incompressibility (too much information to be captured by shorter descriptions) you have Chaitin's incompleteness theorem. Kudos for the well-placed hunch!
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by Xmd5a 1mo ago
> Mathematician Gregory Chaitin deeply admires Kurt Gödel’s work, viewing the incompleteness theorems as monumental. However, rather than relying on the liar’s paradox like Gödel, Chaitin reframed incompleteness through information theor
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by Xmd5a 2mo ago
https://philarchive.org/rec/GRETIO-35 https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2020-07-20-301/

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