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by auntienomen 1y ago
The genres weren't always as defined and distinct. The early authors and especially the editors who popularized the genre frequently worked in both.
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by auntienomen 1y ago
If you like these books -- early classics of the genres -- it's going to be well worth your time to check out Fantasy Masterworks collection ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Masterworks ). It's a set of
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by auntienomen 1y ago
Little, Big by John Crowley. Also everything else he's written.
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by auntienomen 1y ago
The quack rich kid is breaking the parts of NIH/CDC/etc that were working correctly. Writing that off as "some effect" ignores what we can already plainly see.
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by auntienomen 1y ago
I watched the same video. Karpathy isn't predicting AGI in 10 years. He's saying we won't have AGI in less than 10 years -- contrary to what industry boosters are promising -- and that what we end up with won't be some
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by auntienomen 1y ago
Fusion is a lot closer than it used to be. In the last decade, research uncovered a relatively large regime that seems like it could be commercializable. I know a couple researchers who've recently exited academia / national lab
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by auntienomen 1y ago
That's more of a crime film than a spy film. Worth watching though!
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by auntienomen 1y ago
The Compton wavelength will probably cause trouble for the storage scheme long before gravity becomes a problem.
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by auntienomen 1y ago
Yeah, it was bad. And then they really betrayed the story by trying to graft a happy ending on. The only ending that makes any sense is "Everyone dies, the bad guys win, the end". It's right there in the story's motto:
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by auntienomen 1y ago
Jim Simons did in fact fund Brookhaven national lab directly at one point. His foundations and friends continue to fund a variety of scientific endeavors. But we don't have too many scholar-turned-philanthropists around, unfortunatel
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by auntienomen 2y ago
"Photons (being massless) have 100% of their velocity in the spatial dimensions and no velocity in the time dimension" I kinda see what you're trying to say, but these words aren't a particularly good match for the math
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by auntienomen 2y ago
And Rajun Cajun. :)
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by auntienomen 2y ago
I've generally found it to be within a factor of 2 of hand-tuned C. (It's literally autogenerated C.) But implementation matters, and I doubt we're going to check your work here in the comments.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
Cython. Writes like Python, runs like C. Strangely underappreciated.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
They were allocated equally. The goal is to change that.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
He's been convicted of accounting fraud and he's nowhere near delivering the kind of returns that YCombinator seeks. Plenty of things to hold against him.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
Wars with our trading partners and military allies involved us, duh.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
DeepSeek is a subsidiary of a relatively successful Chinese quant trading firm. It was the boss' weird passion project, after he made a few billion yuan from his other passion, trading. The whole thing was funded by quant trading pro
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by auntienomen 2y ago
I think the use of the term "race" probably comes from early Dungeons & Dragons. The original D&D had dwarf, elf, gnome, and hob^H^H^H halfling as character classes. It used the term "demi-humans" for these. In
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by auntienomen 2y ago
The strange thing about this retirement plan is that it assumes you will spend 15 years living somewhere, and then one day just walk away from all the social ties you've made during that period, during the prime of your life. I suppos
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by auntienomen 2y ago
They're called suppressors among gun nerds. But silencer is the standard term in American English. If you have complaints about how language has evolved, you may contact Richard Stallman and ask him for advice.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
We don't have any idea what the motivation for this murder was.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
CNBC reports that the gunman used a silencer. Wtf?
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by auntienomen 2y ago
Although, the sources in this case are basically articles citing things he said on Twitter.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
Citation needed? That's ridiculous. The empirical evidence is well over century old at this point. Start with the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion. That already can't be accounted for by Newtonian gravity.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
It's been a generation since it was easy to go into finance from physics.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
Oil/energy, real estate pros, health insurance, ...
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by auntienomen 2y ago
Yep. Also, ignoring all the ways in which an electron isn't an electron. Electrons can be created and destroyed, and they are both indistinguishable and exchangeable. We can't assign identity to them, thanks to their Fermi stati
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by auntienomen 2y ago
You can't retire until you get the $2.5M, and your employer isn't going to give it to you if quit early. That's what makes it handcuffs.
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by auntienomen 2y ago
The problem is that no one has the courage to run a controlled trial to isolate the effect of banning short term rentals. Best you'll get is some natural experiments where you pretend you can compare NYC and Hoboken.

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