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by atemerev 4y ago
Something is wrong with the cosmic distance ladder. Space is anisotropic, or gravity interacts with itself somehow. The distances are not what they seem to be. I think this will eventually be the solution to the galaxy rotation / dark
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by atemerev 4y ago
The difference is a a single question: “do you have family/kids?” This is also the main reason for ageism in the industry, where employers prefer to hire younger people. I love programming, but I love my family even more.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Globalization is very much not dead. What we have now is a final roadbump before the ultimately connected, para-governmental world. The governments of countries who feel that they are excluded from globalism (Russia, China etc) are currentl
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by atemerev 4y ago
I also have chosen entropy for my most memorable grokk! :)
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by atemerev 4y ago
The relationship between entropy and states of matter (including pressure and temperature). How “degrees of freedom” are calculated and compared for gas molecules, if they are infinite. All that stuff.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Switzerland is Europe.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Blocking is opt-in, becoming increasingly more difficult, and next to impossible in native apps (which is why every ad-supported site like Reddit constantly spams you with “it looks better in the app”, and deliberately spoils the web experi
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by atemerev 4y ago
I am trying for nearly a year to get a grant for my multi-objective drug combinations therapy optimizer, which seeks to adapt drug combination regimens for long-term robustness against emerging drug resistance. And I am getting one rejectio
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by atemerev 4y ago
Advertising will be there for ad long as the need to sell things is there.
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by atemerev 4y ago
The future of advertising is this. GPT-3 will be trained on all content you have ever produced, will build a model of you, and generate an ad copy (and media) that will move you personally at this particular amount of time to buy the servic
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by atemerev 4y ago
Gorgon Stare?
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by atemerev 4y ago
Inform 7 is a work of art and one of the most interesting programming languages out there.
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by atemerev 4y ago
In Switzerland, everything is self-checkout. There is no “unexpected item” bullshit, everything is just scanned as is, with occasional random control. It works perfectly well.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Countries are bound by international agreements. There is no such thing as full unrestricted Westphalian-style sovereignty anymore for more than a century already.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Well, 150 years waiting list time for a green card (with a deportation looming if any of the long list of administrative conditions is violated) definitely looks like discrimination to me.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Australia is already full, it seems.
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by atemerev 4y ago
To learn about their degradation modes and how to maintain them (since full-scale nuclear tests are now verboten, and subcritical experiments only deal with fission part of the entire assembly -- we now also need some experimental setup to
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by atemerev 4y ago
I have macOS on my laptop and Fedora on my desktop. Both are fine, and, I think, they converged somewhat (Gnome3 is increasingly macOS-like, macOS started to take some UI decisions from Gnome as well).
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by atemerev 4y ago
Breeder reactors are not "notoriously dangerous", they are just a little too expensive to justify their construction when the uranium is cheap (like it is now). Also, there are proliferation risks. However, these are not engineeri
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by atemerev 4y ago
Normal nuclear reactors are a good thing too, and they alone are enough to solve all of humanity’s energy problems (though we should pursue fusion power too, of course). See Integral Fast Reactor.
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by atemerev 4y ago
“Gravitationally only interacting dark matter” is sort of synonymous with “non-homogeneous spacetime”, or am I missing something? Ah, yes, we also need to have some sort of bound energy, to balance Einstein’s equations. So, geons! https:&#
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by atemerev 4y ago
Stay alive. Stay in the country where I live. Get some new assignment. Have the capacity to work. Survive.
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by atemerev 4y ago
OK, fair enough! But it would be interesting to add the link with the real Internet in the next release. Sadly, the model’s global state is not immediately updated, there are snapshots… but I think it would be interesting to watch it conver
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by atemerev 4y ago
It could be given access to its own virtual machine connected to the Internet, for experiments. We don’t know exactly how OpenAI’s setup works.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Perchance.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Because it wasn’t an emulation. Perhaps it _was_ connected to the real Internet.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Well here where I live, the median age for a woman giving birth is 42. The old normal is not normal anymore.
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by atemerev 4y ago
I also recommended another Heuer's book in this thread! Apparently, he's onto something, or intelligence analysis in general requires a lot of introspection about your ways of thinking (I'm not an analyst, but it was intrigui
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by atemerev 4y ago
Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis (Randolph H. Pherson, Richards J. Heuer Jr.) I am not an intelligence analyst, but this book is very insightful on thinking about your thinking.
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by atemerev 4y ago
Oh hi! Yes, it was your book in fact that inspired me to work with Common Lisp! Thank you so much! Your book is a work of art.

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