adalacelove

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by adalacelove 22d ago
Grigori Perelman rejected the Fields Medal and the Clay prize among other things for what he considered unjust decisions and lack of ethics and proper attribution to other mathematicians. I find it surprising that he hasn't been mentio
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by adalacelove 1mo ago
Should you learn history if it is already written in a book? Should you live if others are already living?
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by adalacelove 1mo ago
The Statue of Greed, located appropriately at a Casino
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by adalacelove 2mo ago
Happy paying Mathematica customer here. I think this is great. A lot of people want to have a free alternative. For me, the real value of this is the creation of a community and setting the foundation for something better than Mathematica.
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by adalacelove 3mo ago
The very point of the article is that you can win individually and lose as a colective, and that the competitive nature of the field goes against the greater good. And the people betting against AI will be ripped off.
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by adalacelove 3mo ago
Physics simulation is a dangerous rabbit hole. Even if you focus just on rigid bodies and just physical plausibility there are plenty of open problems related to collision detection and collision resolution. Convex approximations and/o
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by adalacelove 3mo ago
Reading AI PRs reminds me of Monty Python's holy grenade: "And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt coun
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by adalacelove 4mo ago
It reads like those nightmares where you need to pass final exams again. I guess nowadays it is much simpler to correlate some text with prior work, more so with LLMs. It is like those doping cases where several years later we are able to d
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by adalacelove 4mo ago
Maybe it's time to acknowledge that current copyright laws do more harm than good and put another framework in place.
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by adalacelove 4mo ago
Why have the powerful not completely killed the rest of the people? A. Ethics/Morals B. Power balance C. People are a valuable resource I think we are all a little concerned it is C. It's a grim thought and I'm optimistic, bu
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by adalacelove 4mo ago
Tangentially related, but I hope will be appreciated by the nostalgic people here: Recently, reading the Wikipedia article about Z-order curves, I found this link inside the article: https://hermanntropf.de/media/DBCode
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by adalacelove 6mo ago
That's like 4 times the ESA budget, and still insignificant compared to the money poured into AI. Several companies could cover that budget with quarterly profits.
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by adalacelove 6mo ago
Yes, it has the authority. There are plenty of EU regulations that states must obey, from fundamental rights to taxation.
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by adalacelove 10mo ago
Everything is OK. I love looking at desktops, but I became old to put the effort. I think you are a bard more than a wizard.
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by adalacelove 10mo ago
Apple makes excellent hardware (laptop, phone, mini...) to the point I'm willing to pay more for it, but I would prefer a lot to customize my SW. And so I avoid their hardware.
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by adalacelove 10mo ago
Most screenshots for these well known guys are quite boring. Coincidence? I think if you want to be good at something you need focus.
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by adalacelove 10mo ago
You cannot uninstall Apple Music. That alone is alienating.
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by adalacelove 11mo ago
Everybody chooses a favorite depending on their domain. A function executes, and some error happens: - Return error value: try to handle the error ASAP. The closer to the error the more detailed the information. Higher probability of recove
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by adalacelove 1y ago
One reason in Julia for having an organization with multiple repositories is how unnecessary is in Julia to have big packages. It is better to have smaller more focused packages and combine them as necessary. Julia needs to improve some thi
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by adalacelove 1y ago
In some fields throwing away and rewriting is the standard, and it works, more or less. I'm thinking about scientific/engineering software: prototype in Python or Matlab and convert to C or C++ for performance/deployment cons
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by adalacelove 1y ago
People adapt to the circumstances. A lot of Python uses are no longer about fast iteration on the REPL. Instead of that we are shipping Python to execute in clusters on very long running jobs or inside servers. It's not only about havi
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by adalacelove 1y ago
From TFA: "There is no legal responsibility for a landlord to enforce the payment of taxes by their tenants, nor any suggestion that Aziz should be paying the bill." This usually makes some sense. But in this case it is obviously
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by adalacelove 1y ago
Same here. I just use https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm and https://github.com/suonlight/multi-vterm
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by adalacelove 1y ago
I'm a developer and: - I hate ORMs, they are the source for a lot of obscure errors behind layers and layers of abstractions. - I prefer analytical APIs for technical reasons, not just the language. Reasons: - I can compose queries, wh
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by adalacelove 2y ago
According to Wikipedia [1] we consume 9717 Mtoe or equivalently 408 TJ (per year, although it is not explictely stated, which I find annoying). The earth moment of inertia is about I=8e37 kg m2 [2] The energy extracted by a slowdown of angu
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by adalacelove 2y ago
It's because the quaternion is part of the state of the Kalman filter.
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by adalacelove 2y ago
Sometimes I wonder if we are going to be the unkillable plague that takes over the universe. Or maybe we will dissappear in a blink. It's hard to know, we don't have any reference point except ourselves.
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by adalacelove 2y ago
True. I was citing from memory and only recalled the most famous author.
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by adalacelove 2y ago
Nice book. For another old but excellent math book I recommend Geometry and the Imagination by David Hilbert. No gutenberg remake I'm afraid, maybe because of the numerous (and incredibly high quality) illustrations.
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by adalacelove 2y ago
I guess because mathematical formulas usually use single letters for symbols. It is so common that you end using several different alphabets, lower/upper case and even calligraphic variations. Of course it doesn't scale when you n

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