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by aortega 4y ago
>indestructible intelligent nano-scale machines that can be anywhere any time They are not nano-scale, they are planet-scale, 11-dimensional computers projected into 3-dimensional space.
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by aortega 4y ago
There are much more ideas, I.E. (Spoilers!) dimensional attacks, slow light-speed areas and their effects, math attacks, destruction of the fabric of spacetime, nano-scale multi-dimensional computers, whole universes trapped inside elementa
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by aortega 4y ago
You need to physically send a Sophon for it to enable FTL, so the first message is not faster than light. Near the end I think future civilizations communicate via dimensional membranes or some magic-technology like that, but it doesn'
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by aortega 4y ago
This trilogy is the first one that I read that is on the same level, or even better, than Asimov's novels. Concepts and ideas here are much bigger, but there are so many cramped into every book that sometimes it feels like a Rick &
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by aortega 4y ago
>Not bad! Its terrible. This is totally not how GPS works, I.E. the terminal never sends a message to the satellite. This is the danger of early LLMs, a large amount of their output is false and there is no way to tell unless you are alr
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by aortega 4y ago
There is a big difference between infinite and very high gravity. Neutron stars have only about 50% time dilation on the surface, as the surface is at about 50% their Schwarzschild radius.
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by aortega 4y ago
I read somewhere (if someone remember it, please tell) a short history about life in neutron stars. It would be incredible fast due to the abundance of energy, with the evolution from 'stone age' to computer age happening in milli
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by aortega 4y ago
While superficially similar, BitTorrent and a blockchain are inherently different designs that target different problems. Blockchain is massive data replication, BitTorrent is massive data distribution (with some replication too). That&#x27
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by aortega 4y ago
Be careful with the redefinition of words, as it's a basic 101-mind-control-technique.
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by aortega 4y ago
What's the difference between this and the Diffusion bee? The DB project has not been updated in a while.
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by aortega 4y ago
I know that I never detected them. Also it never crashed nor malfunctioned in any way (thanks in part to Linux), so any undetected error didn't caused any problem.
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by aortega 4y ago
I have a lenovo P52, it came with 16 GB ECC. The dimm is not super-expensive, but it's hard to find, and only comes in half the size of regular dimms. I replaced it with non-ECC memory and never had an issue. In fact you can combine EC
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by aortega 4y ago
I have 128 GB of non-ecc memory in my notebook, never detected a single error, and has been on 24/7 for more than 4 years. Unless you live over 4000 meters over the sea level, like to compile while flying or live close to an unshielded
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by aortega 4y ago
With correct encoding you can detect signals way below the noise floor. Thats how GPS work, you detect a satellite signal orbiting at 400 km with an antenna the size of a chip. The Curiosity rover communicates with Earth from Mars with an a
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by aortega 4y ago
Your calculation is likely wrong. See, you can build a laser in a spectrum not generally emitted by stars, and point directly to another star system. You dont need much power, yes, perhaps some terawatts, but it can be pulsed, total energy
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by aortega 4y ago
> isn’t 1 million a frighteningly small sample to draw conclusions from? Sample size in a survey will just give you more or less error. You can calculate exactly the expected error of such sample size.
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by aortega 4y ago
The article is brilliant until observed.
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by aortega 4y ago
I saw that wormhole article and something in it triggered the bs detector. Those discoveries are often made by a big team in a big lab, the article only named one researcher. IMHO Quanta is far from the most respectable source of science ne
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by aortega 4y ago
I believe he's mostly right except that he need a hardware breakthrough, the same way mobile phones had a hardware breakthrough in 2007 with the invention of good enough LCD touch screens and batteries. VR and AR is much harder but not
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by aortega 4y ago
>By spreading, I think you're referring to interleaving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst_error-correcting_code#In ... , which doesn't need randomness. I stand corrected!
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by aortega 4y ago
Also, how RAID works, and how ECC memory works.
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by aortega 4y ago
One important stage of error correction is spreading, that use a pseudo-random function to 'spread' the damaged data over several blocks that can be then completely recovered, instead of concentrating the damage in a single block
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by aortega 4y ago
There are many types of Reed-Solomon codes, each with different amount of redundancy, they are a special case of BCH codes, a kind of code that approach the Shannon limit (the maximum rate of error-free data that can be transferred over a n
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by aortega 4y ago
Powerful people are pulling strings to control AI everywhere. OpenAI is exactly the opposite of open. Now someone is pushing on Stability AI to close it up, I believe those models are more powerful or dangerous than they seem, and it got so
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by aortega 4y ago
>There are infinitely many truths Obviously not.
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by aortega 4y ago
EVs are just marketing, they not much more efficient than gas cars, it just moves the energy source from fossil fuels to...well, nuclear at best, or centralized fossil fuel generators at worst. You are not fixing global warming with EV cars
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by aortega 4y ago
There is always a cyberpunk feel of weird hardware and weird OSes clobbered together with wires and sticky notes.
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by aortega 4y ago
Psychology is a pseudo science because it doesn't not make testable predictions.
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by aortega 4y ago
>but the more important thing is not to go into such flamewar territories in the first place. It may be more important to you, but I don't care. For me, truth is important, and I wrote the truth.
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by aortega 4y ago
Tuition in many colleges is over 80k usd/year.

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