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by calf 6mo ago
What do you recommend instead? Reddit is like reading YouTube comments nowadays, I miss when discussions were literate and informed.
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Are prime numbers hiding inside black holes? [SciAm](scientificamerican.com)
2 points by calf 7mo ago|0 comments
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by calf 7mo ago
If a tree knows something but still falls then did it really know anything?
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by calf 7mo ago
What structural change would permit a worker to take initiative and say "Hey, these working conditions are wrong/inadequate and I will not safely do my job today unless proper changes are made", without risk of getting fired
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by calf 7mo ago
Ah, the good old Clever Hans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
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by calf 7mo ago
But the title claims it is a "frontier" math problem, so which is it really.
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by calf 7mo ago
Well, I disagree, you are, effectively, calling entire textbooks and CS sub disciplines merely "pretty", which is again the strawman I am referring to. This is like calling theoretical Turing award level advances mathematically pr
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by calf 7mo ago
This comes to mind how during the Boeing news scandals, commenters would confidently argue "Flying is still ridiculously safe, statistically speaking", "these things happen every day, just underreported", and "you&#
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by calf 7mo ago
What's the steelman argument though? Why do languages like Haskell have currying? I feel like that is not set out clearly in the argument.
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by calf 7mo ago
Very much so, I hold this view as someone who reads a bit of Critical Theory; Catherine Liu recently makes a case for this as well as disparate other public intellectuals from Chomsky to Zizek have also generally critiqued CT academics, pos
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by calf 7mo ago
I miss having snappy menubar lists, at the Apple Store yesterday I noticed on the Neo that the transparencies and iconified menu items with shortcut glyphs are still perceptibly less buttery smooth.
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by calf 7mo ago
It has even regressed, I'm still on my High Sierra 2011 MacBook Air, but on my mom's M3 Air I can't help but observe that they did all that engineering to reduce the black bezel around the lid, only for Tahoe to have overly r
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by calf 7mo ago
It is giving me choice paralysis, last week I made a mental graph of the ones I wanted and went over all node pairs choose 2, now it's down to waiting for a fall M5 Mac mini paired with either: a MacBook Neo, or an iPad Air 13";
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by calf 7mo ago
I woke up to see my other comment downvoted by some rando, but I honestly think this is the best line in the entire article and Gruber's wish is telling (I quote the line only here, but it is best read in context of the original passag
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by calf 7mo ago
"I wish Apple would make a MacBook that’s akin to the iPhone Air — crazy thin and surprisingly performant." I think a lot of us wish that! I'm struggling to pick either the Neo or the new iPad Air 13", the former for hav
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by calf 7mo ago
Not really, Max is to violet as Ultra is to ultraviolet, as in something exceeding an established category (visible light)
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by calf 7mo ago
We can't use understanding but we can use learning, got it.
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by calf 8mo ago
One would think on HN there would be sophisticated grasp of complex systems than Reddit or what have you, so either there are just as many politically dogmatic/biased people in tech, or political threads are dominated by non-tech users
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by calf 8mo ago
Actually I do this a lot, I cite specific examples a, b to indicate a much more general category C that I have in mind. It's the 21st century and plausible that new types of failure-states unlike those seen historically will happen. So
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by calf 8mo ago
People don't agree on what a dictator looks like.
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by calf 8mo ago
You asked two perfectly valid questions; rather, those who ought to admit correction, in threads like these, tend to behave confidently opinionated while engaging deeply with a commenter who disagrees with their take on things.
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by calf 8mo ago
Why do I keep proposing things but they fail to exist and I can't ignore my failures?
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My 2025 Apple Report Card(daringfireball.net)
1 points by calf 8mo ago|0 comments
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by calf 8mo ago
As an em-dash abuser I have decided that it is a crutch to not think through what I am saying--I can lazily connect a stream of thoughts rather than think clearly and explicitly form sentence transitions and so on
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by calf 8mo ago
Doesn't matter, I don't consent to misleading titles influencing what articles I choose to read.
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by calf 8mo ago
8 minutes into the video yet again a physicist who has no idea what a Turing machine is, he claims a Turing machine is like a laptop that cannot self replicate because its tape is symbolic and a von Neumann machine is more like a 3D printer
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by calf 8mo ago
It's individualist exceptionalism taken to modern extremes. I remember having these sorts of science assignment in middle school, one with dried pasta with textbooks, and another with dropping egg safely in a box. Invariably the winner
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by calf 8mo ago
Babylon 5 was space fantasy in the vein of epic literature, like a Lord of the Rings in space, and influenced modern TV productions like Game of Thrones, whose author says that he was indebted to the former. Both TNG and B5 have significant
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by calf 8mo ago
Ok I have a question, if adversarial game theory helps neural nets learn world models then why can't logic help. After all the former is just a special case of the latter.
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by calf 8mo ago
I am flattered it chose my comment to respond to, but insulted I had to read through it ...

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