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by archgoon 10y ago
> Musn't SM be either incomplete or inconsistent, per Gödel's results? No. The point of physical models is not to be able to answer all possible questions that you can ask about the models, that as you point out, is not possibl
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by archgoon 10y ago
"But that fall Heisenberg's worried father wrote to the famed Gottingen experimentalist James Franck, asking Franck to teach his boy some experimental physics. Franck did his best, but could not overcome Heisenberg's complete
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by archgoon 10y ago
> But I agree with Scott Aaronson that learning about quantum information before learning about quantum physics is easier than the opposite direction. I'm unconvinced that this is anything but Scott's personal opinion. Basicall
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by archgoon 10y ago
The IBM IQE simulator, that the article mentions (somewhat derisively), actually has a good tutorial on the topic. I found that IQE, since it is actually designed to run on an actual quantum computer, to be the most helpful thing I've
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by archgoon 10y ago
The relationship between clockspeed and power consumption is nonlinear. http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/122050/what-l... (see graph in the first answer) Also, it's not known that the TPU have a
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by archgoon 10y ago
> The writer disbelieved their own results No they didn't. "To be honest it is hard for me to say, how exactly it happened that we got 70 times faster than C, but it is a measurable fact. "' You also don't publi
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by archgoon 10y ago
> Currently only the privileged can found and fund new companies. What? It's about $200 in Seattle to file to register a Limited Liability Company. It's a stretch to call that 'only the privileged'.
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by archgoon 10y ago
You are able to delete items from this log; this is no different than your browser's search history. You simply cannot have this both ways though; you can either be ephermal, or you can be auditable. I personally find the log to be ver
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by archgoon 10y ago
For those interested, here's an integration with Alexa and One Bus Away, with instructions on how to build your own skill that uses the library. https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-alexa
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by archgoon 10y ago
Hi, The echo does allow you to see a history of all previous recordings sent to Amazon (Settings > History), along with the actual voice samples that were sent. Now granted, I don't think you'd be able to ensure that all packet
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by archgoon 10y ago
> but if the universals that are now commonly used have turned out to not actually be true wouldn't that mean huge swathes of researchers have to retract/redo their research? Reproducibility is a major concern. Many experiments
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by archgoon 10y ago
Thank you for pointing me to TryVoices, it was helpful in finding the contact information for my representatives for Washington (state).
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by archgoon 10y ago
> All of them are flawed, either in their mathematics or assumptions (that will most likely never be true, like assumptions of linearity and your data set being on a manifold). Although I can see global linearity being unlikely in most c
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by archgoon 11y ago
Well, electrograv was not distinguishing between the llvm project and the clang project. So it seemed reasonable to point out that rust was using llvm. > I have suddenly lost a great deal of respect and confidence for _LLVM_ /Clang
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by archgoon 11y ago
> All the more reason to switch to Rust I suppose. Rust is backed by llvm.
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by archgoon 11y ago
Which is why the "Batman solution" as described in the article may actually be the best way of dealing with this problem. Individual citizens who care about the problem can investigate the issue, and once they've gotten the m
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by archgoon 11y ago
Not strictly true; the article details that 'The Batman' actually works in conjunction with the police. It seems more like the case that he's taken on the overhead of investigating and coordinating meetups. Once that's d
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by archgoon 11y ago
This comment is made redundant by linking to the full article, rather than the boing boing stub which I was originally commenting on. The new article talks about the point of deterrence, and the associated logic, in greater depth. Here was
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by archgoon 11y ago
> retaliate in kind so as to ensure that they could not mount a second assault and kill even more people The bigger issue is that they are more likely to initiate the strike if they know about this protocol and believe it will reduce the
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by archgoon 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555640 Alex3917: I like this idea in theory, but in practice if I see Dick Cheney coming at me with a butcher's knife I'm getting the hell out of there.
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by archgoon 11y ago
The entire calculus of having nuclear weapons in the first place rests on the assumption that no one will use them because to use them invites a retaliatory strike. Reducing the likelihood of a retaliatory strike, under this model, increase
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by archgoon 11y ago
> In STEM, if you don't get a financial offer along with your acceptance letter, then you've actually been politely rejected. This is important. I thought at the time that I accepted that it was due to the massive budget cuts h
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by archgoon 11y ago
>I'm sure that revisionists like Mr. Blow, who do understand how the internet work, can justify it, but it's not Mr. Blow's understanding that we're interested in here, as Mr. Blow is not proposing legislation to bloc
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by archgoon 11y ago
> but trying to send one more gallon of water through a pipe system. If you actually forced an additional gallon of water into a pipe, you make everything flow out faster.
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by archgoon 11y ago
Well, here's the original Steven's quote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE He was mocked more at the time for the email bit, namely the idea that the reason why he didn't get his email for 4 days w
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by archgoon 11y ago
It will manage all the package managers that do not manage themselves.
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by archgoon 11y ago
Yes; that is the line that danso noticed. However, nemothekid tried to verify it and was unsuccessful in finding any documentation for this presumbably publically available API. A github gist is the top google result for 'Tinder API do
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by archgoon 11y ago
Neither did he.
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Google Collaborated with US State Department to Try to Oust Assad(pando.com)
1 points by archgoon 11y ago|0 comments
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My conversation on secrecy with a Super Spook(blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
4 points by archgoon 11y ago|1 comments

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