ccppurcell

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by ccppurcell 5mo ago
The I'm sorry (that someone died) is easy to explain as it's obviously connected to the word sorrow. The hardest is "sorry?" (I didn't understand or hear you)
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by ccppurcell 5mo ago
Someone once came over to tell me I was using a machine wrong and I thanked them, collected my things, and left. Haven't been back to a gym in two years! But to be honest I enjoy body weight exercises and cycling better anyway.
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by ccppurcell 5mo ago
For a puzzle of this sort I would expect to be able to create multiple path segments and connect them later. I would be able to do this with paper and pencil. For instance on the first puzzle you can deduce the way 2 and 3 must be connected
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by ccppurcell 5mo ago
I think your characterisation of this as discovery is a little naive. What you are describing is a part of enshittification and it happens too often to be an accident. Revenue maximisation is always the end goal. Also it's not that the
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by ccppurcell 5mo ago
I will get downvoted for this but I can't help thinking that billions of dollars have gone into chatgpt over a period of years and an LLM can direct all its "attention" (in a metaphorical sense) on one problem. I think if you
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by ccppurcell 6mo ago
So what? If we need unscrupulous people to tell us what other unscrupulous people do, so what?
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by ccppurcell 6mo ago
Around the same time, Gödel proved the incompleteness theorems and Turing gave us the halting problem. These and the uncertainty principle tell us not only that the universe is somehow statistical and not mechanical, but that there are cert
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by ccppurcell 6mo ago
Not just that but the 30s was the tail end of a period of reduction and unification in science. If physics and biology (large portions of it) could be reduced to a handful of principles, why not economics and politics. Darwin, Maxwell, Eins
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by ccppurcell 6mo ago
Not a hoax, you can search GitHub prs for this string and find many hits.
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
The tone of a discussion is shaped as much by who doesn't comment as who does. A product comes out and a lot of people are excited by it, they comment accordingly. People who aren't, don't, unless there is something outrageou
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
I believe they are abusing their customers but I think it's in poor taste to compare this to domestic violence.
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
A related idea: politicians know how to fix the problems, they just don't know how to get re-elected after doing so.
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
I've never eaten a beyond burger or anything like that at home. At home the improvement in flavour over tofu or just beans isn't worth it. I can get flavour from herbs spices and other ingredients. I've only ever eaten beyond
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
Here's a bet for you: someone will be assassinated to manipulate a poly market bet by 2040.
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
This is a false dichotomy between spending the first third of your message on niceties and being maximally blunt. I don't agree that you do not owe other people a modicum of consideration about their emotional state. I advocate a middl
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
Use zotero and betterbibtex. By all means type a comment so you know which ideas came from where but I'm a big advocate of taking notes by hand when you really want to understand something, as opposed to reminding your future self abou
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
Same here! This poem and Anthem for Doomed Youth lodged deep in my memory. We all had to perform a poem from one of those GCSE collections and I chose Anthem for Doomed Youth. The silence in the classroom afterwards... We were lucky with En
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
The creativity and range of newgrounds content was mind blowing. The focus on fun as opposed to money making was really clear to me even as a kid. I've always had this little conspiracy theory that they killed flash because it was a th
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
Probably best to avoid the word ring in a mathematics discussion unless you're talking about the algebraic structure. It's very much a mathematical `keyword`.
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
I mean laptop webcams also shine a light when they're recording but obviously you don't just trust the light to come on right?
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
Not only is it unjustified, attacking during a negotiation seriously undermines future negotiations. This is a massive self face punching exercise.
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
I was just referring to one of the early sentences saying breakfast is a vector space. If you allow arbitrarily many (say) eggs so that two eggs and one egg are different breakfasts, you get a cone inside R^d. If you normalise and consider
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
In the breakfast space, I'm afraid, chicken is orthogonal to eggs.
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by ccppurcell 7mo ago
Someone else may have said this but strictly speaking breakfast is something like a cone in a vector space, unless you want to explain to me how to eat negative eggs.
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by ccppurcell 8mo ago
Amazing that when ai "solves" an erdos problem by finding the solution in an existing paper it gets hundreds of points and comments, but when ai fails a more rigorous test designed by practitioners (i.e. a much better test of the
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by ccppurcell 8mo ago
C is the only way to make a field out of pairs of reals. Also (or rather just another facet of the same phenomenon) we might be interested in polynomials with integer coefficients, but some of those will have non integral roots. And we migh
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by ccppurcell 8mo ago
"This matters because..." - dead giveaway.
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by ccppurcell 8mo ago
In my experience, the so-called 1% are mostly just thinkers and researchers who have dedicated a lot more time from an earlier age to thinking and/or researching. There are a few geniuses out there but it's 1 in millions not in hu
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by ccppurcell 8mo ago
I know what he was referring to. But the use case is obviously languages other than English, not the Motörhead fan club newsletter.
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by ccppurcell 8mo ago
Rock dots? You mean diacritics? Yeah someone invented them: the ancient Greeks, idiöt.

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