commonlisp94

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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> some experiment is possible which could go one way or the other. Yes, I agree, but like I said it's much harder to find what these are and create experiments to show them. I'm also saying the theory part is more than the math
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> there is no such distinction between "laws" and "theories" There is according to the academic circles I participated in, although it wouldn't surprise me if most physicists you meet wouldn't know that.
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
I don't think most philosophers would agree with you. One framing of determinism is that you can only choose from the options in your head, weighted by your preferences. Both your preferences and those options were acquired through you
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
I disagree. The law of gravity is what you describe, masses attract, and is falsifiable. The theory, that masses are distorting and curving space to cause that effect, is very hard to falsify.
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
I think your exaggerating by saying it has nothing to do with science, even if most scientific thinking isn't focused on falsification. Theories are the explanatory part to explain why a law or correlation occurs. The law can be falsif
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
It's your own test, I don't need see why you need to respond in this manner. > Running 3000 processes is a few orders of magnitude less than running 1000000 I didn't decide on the limit, my OS did. So they must think it&#x
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
I just tried your tests on Debian. For some reason the threads one was failing at about 3000 (probably my config), so I bumped it down for both. Here are the results: $ gcc threads.c $ time ./a.out real 0m10.097s use
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
I have seen similar claims that computer science is wrong about complexity theory. What field did you move to?
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
Finding historical quotes seems like a gotcha, but stating the actual conclusion that's implied makes it appear much less plausible: > The level or kind of work ethic in the population has been about the same over time. Or > Chil
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> Except that the threads share the exact same virtual address space, and processes do not, which makes the thread context switch faster That's what I said. But it's really not much. I'm afraid we will need numbers now to
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
It does feel like academic outsiders hacking/taking on the brand of serious academic research to give themselves authority. > Baseless empirical result that probably was p hacked This to me seems like the biggest regression in scien
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> if people in machine learning ever look at literature. They don't. A few other things they seem completely unaware of: - other ways to represent functions besides neural networks (harmonic analysis, polynomials, etc) - other mod
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
When you write the entire system in python instead of using python to coordinate programs and libraries written in other languages.
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> context switch between threads is less expensive that switching a new process onto the core But the overhead of a context switch for a thread and process is very similar. The main difference is whether memory is shared by default.
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> because it simply can't. It can't for the same reason python can't - every part was designed without it in mind. > Python already does support it The language runtime might have it in a branch, but the vast majority o
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
I completely agree with this position. If you need an optimized paralyzed code to chew through a tough workload, write that part in C, and spawn it from python. Python is a coordinating scripting language.
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> influence US elections I can't believe this narrative is still repeated. "influence" can mean almost anything. In the headliner 2016 story, it meant a few based Russian organizations bought several million dollars of tar
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
Except for the articles and comments that are flagged and removed. So the "counterculture" is only the opinions everyone mostly agrees with.
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> prison for punishment, not rehab. Prisons are already an idealistic institution, in the interest of being more humane. The alternative before was capital punishment, work camps, or slavery (including in war). That's not to say pr
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
Exactly. I think a lot of the negativity about GIL comes from a misunderstanding about forking processes. If python is being used as a scripting language, and spawning other tools, you're already getting free multi-core. A similar misu
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> humanism (essentially, "be excellent to each other") That's definitely not what humanism means. No I don't think this conversation will lead anywhere. Goodbye.
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> that's what an atheist is Generally atheists claim to be skeptical of all religion and mysticism regardless of whether it claims a "creator god". If you want to be pedantic and say someone who believes in ghosts, but not
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> useful filter I guess it is useful to know when someone can't entertain hypotheticals, make light conversation, lacks sensitivity about other's world view, and is allergic to beliefs which are not promoted by large organizat
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> thousands of religious/pseudo-religious systems. I'll double down. Yes, I think all of these that have been practiced by large groups of people and demographics have had some utility of some kind. Their explanations for why t
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
Not only science itself, but humanity being a grand progression of scientific progress leading to our year 2023.
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
Is it rational to believe in humanism? Is it rational to believe in social progress narratives? Is it rational to believe in science as a "force for good"? I have only met a few "true atheists" -- people who do not deepl
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
When you're responsible for something you have to understand it better (or at least get good at making justifications). All people do this, they just typically aren't responsible for keeping an object or program working. I don&#x2
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
> unrelated culture war policies It seems pretty relevant to me. The comment was also positive, applauding this policy for actually trying to identify improvishment. I don't see how you could describe this point as "culture war
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
In my experience they just stop attending, not hit a class they can't pass. There is no standard of achievement required to graduate high school besides participation.
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by commonlisp94 3y ago
Indeed, but not without tradeoffs, including: - accepting fewer students (having strict requirements). - failing students out in early classes (fewer opportunities to retake classes). - more professionally focused and shorter curriculum. -

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