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by avmich 6mo ago
The quote at the beginning is of Alan Kay though. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
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by avmich 6mo ago
Was it then re-invented or maybe popularized in these two countries?..
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by avmich 6mo ago
It could be matching theory for outcome though. The unpopular opinion may still be wrong too. Russia was quite different in 1999, or better in 1992, to the point of joining NATO, and China was nowhere the threat of today, and it could be di
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by avmich 6mo ago
> At the end of the day chatgpt won't be there Are you sure it won't?
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by avmich 6mo ago
I'm not sure it's the same kind of buffering. I would assume the "winning" strategy for the case when the known final demand is fixed is to maintain fixed the upstream orders, and buffer outcome, and for non-fixed final
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by avmich 6mo ago
As a society, US is in doubts now. Not only we've got hard to heal crack between political sides, we - additionally or as part of that - have distrust into our institutions, which aren't at a great form either. How can we improve
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by avmich 6mo ago
Can we talk - or assume, or understand - about "average frequencies" of requests and still use Hz as units?
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by avmich 6mo ago
I've thought something like that, but I'm interested more in details of the argument. As for why this could be important... we sometimes find new ways of solving old problems, when we formulate them in a different language. I reme
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by avmich 6mo ago
I'd really like more details on the terminology used. Also I'd be glad to see a specific example of a function, considered elementary, which is not representable by EML. It could be hard, and in any case, thanks for the article. I
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by avmich 6mo ago
Well, it is still the case, even if not explicitly shown. Personally I think it almost boils down to school math, with some details around complex logarithms; the rest seems to be simpler.
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by avmich 6mo ago
The principal result is "all elementary functions can be represented by this function and constant 1". I'm not sure if this was known before. Applications are another matter, but I suspect interesting ones do exist.
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by avmich 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Brackett has nothing to do with it...
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by avmich 6mo ago
Seems like a contradiction to other ideas expressed in founding documents. Also the flexibility of the system surely shifts the focus from plans of original builders towards means and intents of current thought and executive leaders.
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by avmich 6mo ago
Why do we have society where this can happen, and what should we do to fix it? Traditionally problems like that are addressed towards government-like structures of various levels (federal, municipal...) and kinds. How we should work with th
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by avmich 6mo ago
MS Windows is walking joke for at least a decade, UI consistency isn't it biggest problem. Unfortunately both Linux and MacOS have their own deeply seated issues. This leaves users in an unenviable situation and encourages experimentin
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by avmich 7mo ago
Unlike other government agencies, space fans are electorally meaningful number of people, as far as I know. Wait till China start scoring firsts with manned Moon expeditions and journalists start explaining that Senate not caring, and situa
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by avmich 7mo ago
No, but I'm not making a statement.
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by avmich 7mo ago
NASA is the goverment agency routinely favored by the general public. They can't meaningfully reduce funding, now that "race to space" with China is heating up.
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by avmich 7mo ago
Seems like a very broad statement. Do you have anything to confirm this opinion?
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by avmich 7mo ago
It's all those parts which, in the absense of GPU, would be done by CPU. No qualitative difference.
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by avmich 7mo ago
Did USSR shatter that with Afghanistan, or USA with Vietnam?..
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by avmich 7mo ago
Fundamentally different? Don't GPUs just speed things up in hardware?
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by avmich 8mo ago
When Korolyov worked on N-1 rocket in 1960-s, some plans included building a hydrogen upper stage. http://astronautix.com/n/n1blocksr.html Hydrogen is rather hard to keep cold, but that stage was designed to work for o
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by avmich 8mo ago
"I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible. — Lord Kelvin, 1895" I'm sure this doesn't apply to you since you're not Lord Kelvin. On the other hand, people like Peter Norvig state in a
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by avmich 8mo ago
You're missing the point. It matters little where exactly money to pay for acquisition of Twitter came from. What matters is that nobody expected Twitter to lose employees and users in such numbers. So, whoever gave the money, was stil
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by avmich 8mo ago
> I don't really see a reason to believe that Starship will ever achieve the goals that were declared for it. If you consider declared goals for Starship to be too hard (I assume not impossible), what aspect makes them that hard? An
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by avmich 8mo ago
That's maybe the second law. The first one is: money is always finite. Look at how Elon Musk behaved. Do you think VC gladly approved what he did with Twitter? They might want to keep chasing quarterly results - but sometimes, like wit
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by avmich 8mo ago
Important for what? To enjoy a piece of art one need to know how it was created?
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by avmich 8mo ago
There are many examples when scientists strongly believed something to be obviously impossible and yet being wrong - Poisson spot or heavier-than-air flight machines coming to mind. So what you believe might be intuitive - that doesn't
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by avmich 8mo ago
I don't think you understand, but you effectively shutting down the discussion. Your choice.

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