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by crdrost 2y ago
Thank you for posting this! It confirms my suspicion that Unit is probably not reinventing the meaning of computation to match the new visual medium? But still quite interesting how it is laid out.
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by crdrost 2y ago
I strongly recommend reading the actual decision, this is one of the topics that they address inside of this. The claimed absolute immunity only extends to "official actions" made in discharging the responsibilities of the office,
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by crdrost 2y ago
This was an interesting history, it seems like we actually kind of don't really get a clear answer or at least a clear villain. A lot of the discussion pieces from before 1950 seem to be talking as if the rule of thirds is widespread a
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by crdrost 2y ago
Slightly, yes! The Arecibo message was 73×23 bits, with the hope that the aliens would break lines after 23 bits. But, i f . t h e s n e i l a . e s . l i k e . o r t s u o b p h e d o n . w . r e d r o e . a
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by crdrost 2y ago
It's a rectangular grid. People aren't going to troll with dicks, but swastikas.
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by crdrost 2y ago
This problem is traditionally solved by attempting to teach the aliens how to decode the pattern inside the pattern itself. For example a rendering might look like x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _
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by crdrost 2y ago
Yeah, it is the standard idea of limits-of-rationals, but within the intuitionist logic that Brouwer championed. The easy semantics for intuitionist logic is that every statement is about provability: “A or B or C” is a statement that one o
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by crdrost 2y ago
The basis for this statement holds, but what the statement implies does not. That is, the numbers are a subset of the rationals, but it does not follow that we can't describe a rational with a number. In fact the rationals between [0,
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by crdrost 2y ago
Sorry, phone autocorrected “irational” to “rational” rather than “irrational.” fixed!
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by crdrost 2y ago
Yes, but it also messes with a lot of normal intuitions. Some examples: “Because rationals are dense —between any two rationals there are infinitely many other rationals—there are actually vastly more spaces between rational numbers, than r
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by crdrost 2y ago
On a related note, I have never seen a person trying to kill anyone. Rather I have seen movies about a bunch of things that are ostensibly people holding guns, that uncritically standing in the way of their shot paths as if the guns were to
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by crdrost 2y ago
Not the person you're asking but thought I would chip in. Domain Driven Design has a lot of good ideas, but then I consistently see them misrepresented by others who seem to half-understand it? Probably the clearest example is the id
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by crdrost 2y ago
I mean the whole paper is sloppy here. They kind of are writing to a biomedical journal and then say "well, it's NOT biomedical..." as kind of a little brush-off? And then they go through a couple explanations they have heard
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by crdrost 2y ago
Also note that during the experiment one of Spurlock’s medical professionals comments on his diet as averaging 5000 kcal/day given his food logs. At another point a different professional states that these results seem impossible witho
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by crdrost 2y ago
So Super Size Me is somewhat well-done; the vast majority of the info is talking with experts like a normal documentary, the “experiment” is mostly just communicated as a framing device for unrelated discussion. (This is not 100% true bec
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by crdrost 2y ago
No. The English terms "earlier" and "later" refer to the progression of time from the past (earlier) towards the present and future (later); they do not refer to the number itself being larger except incidentally. (The e
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by crdrost 2y ago
Nice livestream from a bloke on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTxvAQYKGPI
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by crdrost 2y ago
Just to give you a hint about how they work, slide rules are based on the geometric mean rather than the arithmetic one: halfway between A and B on a normal ruler you will find ½( A + B ), on a logarithmic scale you will find √( A ×
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by crdrost 2y ago
> how tf is NYTimes an authoritive source on purchasing headphones? Acqui-hire. So what happened was in around 2010 or so a voice-over artist named Lauren Dragan who I think was already dabbling in professional tech journalism, wanted to
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by crdrost 2y ago
OK, we need to get this as an April Fools RFC for HTTP. I propose HTTP 499 “Shame on you.” A client receiving 499 (perhaps on a request that it must have originated with a specific header like “Strict: true”) must terminate, in a language-d
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by crdrost 2y ago
This won't directly answer the question, but just to give some added context: Note that in abstract mathematics (which is what Conway was doing here) you’re kinda creating building blocks, and you're kinda playing for “street cred
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by crdrost 3y ago
I, too, spent a long time staring at expressions like “half-invert p(x, v) to get v(x, p) s.t. p(x, v(x, q)) = q then the Legendre transform is H(x, p) = p v(x, p) – L(x, v(x, p))” And I did come to one of the same
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by crdrost 3y ago
Rich Hickey once said something in the midst of my “TypeScript, Haskell, la la la la la” phase: > I like to ask this question, what's true of every bug ever found in the field? ( It got written? ) Pff. It got written, yes. What&#x27
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by crdrost 3y ago
It's also that PGN allows you to encode illegal moves, which is important if your dataset contains over-the-board games. That you only got to about 10-12 bits per move is actually kind of sad in a way, because it means you're not
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by crdrost 3y ago
So this is what the article is talking about, that it's not clear about the difference between killing vs recovering, they are both lumped together as hunting. The reasons that you don't want people to use spotlights for killing t
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by crdrost 3y ago
The precise claim (I believe) is that the prior update which you had, made some assumptions about the correct way to phrase your perceptions. That is, you say, for the update, "the probability that this trial came out with X successes
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by crdrost 3y ago
This vaguely reminds me of Jefferson's "Virtual Time" paper from 1985[1]. The underlying idea at the time didn't really take off because it required, like Zookeeper, a greenfield project: except that it kinda doesn'
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by crdrost 3y ago
I would be very interested to read this. I found one comment in the abstract a little bit off-putting: > Planck did not consider this a quantization, but merely a mathematical trick to be able to calculate the entropy of the oscillators.
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by crdrost 3y ago
> Issuing a license is a form of "using it" in a use it or lose it scenario. Patent trolls will point to their prior victims as current licensees, proving successful commercialization.
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by crdrost 3y ago
So having worked there, this was absolutely true, and the parent complaint about hot-potato is also absolutely true. The problem as I see it is that Google came to be dominated by an egalitarizing culture which at first wasn't necessar

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