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by college_physics 4y ago
Cities are generally built on flat terrain. There are some famous exceptions [0] but for obvious reasons the slopes of streets within city limits tend to be tractable. With the e-bike revolution one can also address the edge cases (historic
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by college_physics 4y ago
For some reason you want to hammer all of science into some sort of helpless pre-science. To a more-or-less direct statistical fit of measurements to a non-descript, intrinsically meaningless mathematical formula. A procedure that somebod
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by college_physics 4y ago
> “Physical law” is just a synonym for “extremely high-confidence interpretable model”. You are abusing the term "model" to the point of ridicule. What is the "model" in Newtonian gravity? An iconic relation to which
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by college_physics 4y ago
> It’s a little horrifying that Norvig doesn’t seem to understand these nuances. yes. its quite incredible actually. It is one thing to sort of tribulate about brain / cognition domains that nobody knows much about using a pseudo-la
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by college_physics 4y ago
Something that I have only really discovered in AI related comments here on HN (and it terrifies me) is that a good number of humans have a deeply-felt need to dehumanize humans (pressumably also themselves). Sure, a fraction is purely driv
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by college_physics 4y ago
That is ultimately the sad nature of this debate: exaggerating the capabilities of certain algorithms and diminishing the capabilities of the human intellect, for... monetary gain It is deeply immoral and it will rekindle the disturbing ima
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by college_physics 4y ago
The term anthropocene is not an exaggeration. We are changing everything on a planetary scale: light pollution, sound levels, chemical and gas abundances etc. People think that if something is not immediately fatal its somehow ok. That the
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by college_physics 4y ago
Methinks the inventor had the right idea with the potato name but they should go all-in and charge the potato with another potato https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project...
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by college_physics 4y ago
Microplastics have been found everywhere, from high mountains, to antarctica and deep ocean sediments. I am not claiming thats the vector responsible in this case but the human footprint is now everywhere.
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by college_physics 4y ago
Its hard to have a rational response to the steady trickle of warnings. We know that things are not going well on many fronts. We also know that we are locked-in along an unsustainable path that is extremely difficult to change given that p
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by college_physics 4y ago
GPU conspiracy or just the side-effect of the decline of Intel?
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by college_physics 4y ago
Never been close to one of these coveted Next machines but checking out what wikipedia writes about it [0] captures perfectly my point about good UI frameworks supporting productivity: "1990 CERN: A Joint proposal for a hypertext syste
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by college_physics 4y ago
No, when you mention js libraries you are already starting the clock way too late. The UI problem is not new. People were already building clunky UI cars long ago. MFC was introduced by Microsoft in 1992. Of course the emergence of the web
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by college_physics 4y ago
There is this niche movement that argues that good code should be very long lived. It should solve problems in a fundamentally efficient way that makes it hard to turn into obsolete and throwaway code. There are not many examples of such co
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by college_physics 4y ago
Is there a risk that postgres becomes sentient in our lifetime?
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by college_physics 4y ago
> some of them might even be in government by now. +1
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by college_physics 4y ago
FOSS is not a guarantee of privacy by any means. For example there is the confusion about mastodon / fediverse type social media and what sort of firewalls its creates, for posts, for direct messages etc. I think FOSS means there is mo
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by college_physics 4y ago
On other news, 80% of young people aged 13 to 17 years old from the same 13 EU Member States floked to tiktok, before that to instagram and youtube and before that to facebook. All along they were actively encouraged by authorities who are
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by college_physics 4y ago
In the first instance you probably did not delete yor account, you just declared that you are deceased or some obfuscation of that sort (talking from personal experience - and I am not calling in from the dead yet 8-)
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by college_physics 4y ago
> Businesses exist to make money by serving customer needs this is both correct and inadequate as a principle. Leaving aside the excessive focus on money and the convenient blindness around externalities, customer needs are not static bu
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by college_physics 4y ago
> That ability to cull keeps the suggestions workable for me. Don't you have better use for your time? Normalizing the disaster that has become the internet (and absolving the key actors in that development) is robbing us all from e
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by college_physics 4y ago
Ha ha, yes this is harder to copy structure is what I was alluding to. But I think, that too, is a conventional reading that doesnt really explain the disparity between regions. Great universities, massive amounts of capital, reckless, lemm
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by college_physics 4y ago
Physics is not scifi. As the good professor might say, its stranger and always more surprising than the bizarre combinatorial pseudoscience our brains might concoct in the absence of experimental guard rails.
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by college_physics 4y ago
A good summary of key attributes of that journey (why I like HN) but I would insist the conclusion doesn't follow directly and is rushed. We know that we are far from having figured out all fundamental physics: All the "dark&quo
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by college_physics 4y ago
> That's 40 years. Is that a lot? On what basis could we decide?(1) I am not saying it isn't, I am just saying it is a rather subjective call which sort of looks at the prior pace of discoveries and extrapolates a judgement. (1
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by college_physics 4y ago
the thing is that this pattern of pushing to unexplored energy levels did work before. Unicorns were found in the unexplored forests of Congo. In fact an entire zoo of unicorns of all shapes and forms was found, an incredible achievemen
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by college_physics 4y ago
Cargo cult tech: visit Silicon Valley, copy some striking behavioral traits not practiced in your little corner of the planet and hope that you will "eat the world" somehow.
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by college_physics 4y ago
Requiem for a dream
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by college_physics 4y ago
elixir is a newcomer in the web framework space. if one must be risk-averse (for whatever reason: limited resources, limited time, other more critical challenges to focus on) then it makes sense not stake the house and attempt "mission
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by college_physics 4y ago
The EU can keep chasing the symptoms of the disease pretending it is keeping busy. The vast range of possibilities that can be expressed in software and algorithms will keep throwing such "surprises". If you really want a healthy

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