d_tr

25 ms·

271.
by d_tr 4y ago
I was thinking about this amazing lecture series which I watched several years ago, and I figured that quite a few people here would find it interesting. It is about getting information on the solutions of hard differential equations, using
272.
by d_tr 4y ago
I fully agree about the problems and limitations with plain text and the lack of structure and types. It was the composability aspect of the philosophy I had in mind.
273.
by d_tr 4y ago
> Only if it is deterministic, which certainly seems not very plausible. A collapsing quantum state is so far the only proposed process which would result in a nondeterministic universe. The problem is that absolutely nothing is known ab
274.
by d_tr 4y ago
The philosophy itself is solid. The implementation is another matter. The only reason to go monolithic is because of technical limitations or commercial and financial considerations IMO.
275.
by d_tr 4y ago
Do you want to be a "kid prodigy" or do you want to learn and build cool things? If you want to become better at math, read math. If you want to become a better programmer, study concepts and write code. No one can tell you how fa
276.
by d_tr 4y ago
Living healthily is very important, but unfortunately can only help to a certain extent. Humans just get cancer. Screw this disease and screw nature; the misery it causes is just too much. There is a way to get rid of cancer, and the so
277.
by d_tr 4y ago
I think it is mostly about motivation. Intuition will come with practice and will remain even if you forget some details. Why limit yourself just to models that map well to everyday life? Everyday life sucks in a lot of ways after all, and
278.
by d_tr 4y ago
In your previous comment you seemed to suggest that we should not be very far. Maybe I misinterpreted you. I do believe that AGI is possible and that it does not have to resemble a biological brain though.
279.
by d_tr 4y ago
This is very impressive, but since a biological brain is so much more complicated, who could really make a solid guess? Probably no one right now. PaLM is not an attempt at AGI, a parameter is not equivalent to a neural connection, an activ
280.
by d_tr 4y ago
Maybe you could compute the spectrum or some other characteristic of the noise and compare it to the type of noise you would expect from a camera. I guess you can always mimic these things to some degree if you are determined enough though.
281.
by d_tr 4y ago
What Koshkin says is correct and has already been proven by others. You want to get a book that covers sets, maps and cardinal numbers, and read it carefully if you are interested in this sort of stuff.
282.
by d_tr 4y ago
It is a superset of (0,1), which is uncountable because it is an open interval. All open intervals except the empty one are uncountable. What kind of proof would you like? There is also no such thing as an uncountable list. Lists can be ind
283.
by d_tr 4y ago
> I wish I understood it better. Me too but... It would still be some form of mathematics as soon as you tried to write it down in a neat, precise way for others to understand it. Maybe exotic math, but still math :p
284.
by d_tr 4y ago
Not the parent, but I 'd say this amounts to how you define a "universe". There is a single wavefunction which says that one "copy" of you observes result A and another "copy" observes result B. Using the
285.
by d_tr 4y ago
It is the other way around. The "universes" are there when you solve the equations, and you can either let them be or keep only one by invoking the collapse. The collapse amounts to just setting some terms to zero.
286.
by d_tr 4y ago
In this case you are basically just changing the path of the light already hitting the planet. It will eventually become photons again and can leave back towards space, plus there is no release of greenhouse gases. I guess it would still do
287.
by d_tr 4y ago
I agree about the power of language. Talking is generally much more powerful than pointing at words among a list. But think of a typical Linux system. The system's functionality is implemented in lots of different languages. Some of it
288.
by d_tr 4y ago
The cli is also used by Fragments, a Gnome torrent app.
289.
by d_tr 4y ago
Invent something better if you know how. For many people chemo is their hope and in many cases does wonders by itself or in combination with other methods, either in parallel or in succession.
290.
by d_tr 4y ago
There are a few dozen comments about this insignificant detail in this very thread.
291.
by d_tr 4y ago
> What's the minimal velocity for that to be plausible? The escape velocity, which is 2.4 km/s on the surface of the moon, so you would need a pretty powerful gun :p
292.
by d_tr 4y ago
A dead 11 y.o. young boy outside a school and a now 95% paralyzed 7 y.o. girl are two examples off the top of my head which happened in Greece within the last five years. The bullets fell on the upper part of their heads. In the latter case
293.
by d_tr 4y ago
How can GitHub be at fault for people being lazy or lacking common sense when filing a bug report, or being rude?
294.
What Is “Nothing”?(backreaction.blogspot.com)
2 points by d_tr 4y ago|0 comments
295.
by d_tr 4y ago
I have the same suspicion as you. I just think it's unfortunate that people know mostly about the billionaires and their tweets.
296.
Tentative Release Schedule for Emacs 29.1(yhetil.org)
1 points by d_tr 4y ago|0 comments
297.
by d_tr 4y ago
Looks like an ongoing work so more will probably be available in the future. I see an example for templates. Template metaprogramming is more advanced but would be nice to include.
298.
by d_tr 4y ago
> I wonder if any other aspect of life depends on quantum tunneling to function? Life has for sure adapted to quantum tunneling as part of the environment, since it plays a role in the rates of all the chemical reactions that sustain lif
299.
by d_tr 4y ago
The really sad story is the unjustified amount of shit C++ gets given its history and design goals. C++ provides features to write much safer and nicer code than with C, for the same effort, with minimal overhead. You have proper constructo
300.
by d_tr 4y ago
Half of retail (which is still high) for a mining card with expired warranty? No thanks.

More ›