danbruc

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by danbruc 3y ago
The blind guy is of curse not hugging the entire universe but a part of it. Where there trees before humans existed? No. It took our minds to look at the universe and say »Hey, it would be really helpful for talking about the universe if we
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by danbruc 3y ago
I would guess if you are considering a semi-ASIC solution like Zero ASIC, then you probably want to build more than a handful of devices, so getting the FPGAs from the vendor would probably be the better comparison. What kind of price diffe
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by danbruc 3y ago
Does this transalte to if I have a design that I can fit into a $10k FPGA and that can also be implemented with Zero ASIC's chiplets, then I will be able to get a chip in the $100 to $400 range?
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by danbruc 3y ago
I guess the interesting question is how this approach compares to FPGAs in terms of cost and performance. Given the functionality of the different chiplets as soft IP, wiring them together and loading the design into an FPGA should be easy
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by danbruc 3y ago
This article is actually in response to that video by NightHawkInLight, the method used in the video is however different from the one explained in the article, at least that is what the first paragraphs say, I did not read it completely.
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by danbruc 3y ago
That would be 68 F, not 86F.
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by danbruc 3y ago
I meant that in the fundamental sense, that I can do whatever I want and nobody can stop me, as long as I have the most physical - in the sense of physics - power. The only thing that I can not do is force others to do things I want them to
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by danbruc 3y ago
It makes no difference for him that you want to see a proof of individual trees' objective existence - because he already knows this for a fact! You are missing my point here. The blind guys knows he bumped into something, so somethi
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by danbruc 3y ago
The most basic law is the only law that can not be broken, the laws of physics. That is what might makes right is backed by, surviving and reproducing is what you get as the result of being able to inflict more violence on the other side th
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by danbruc 3y ago
Only because our universe is currently expanding, if it wasn't or would stop in the future, given enough time you could eventually distribute the task over a large enough region to perform the computation and afterwards combine the res
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by danbruc 3y ago
El Salvador, completely forgot about that. How did the volcano powered Bitcoin farm work out? Can I still buy a sandwich at the beach with Bitcoin? And do people do so?
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by danbruc 3y ago
A blind person would definitely disagree, having “invented” things he keeps bumping into, one after another… See, knowledge is never invented, it’s based on discovery; and mathematics is a form of knowledge. I was not talking about invent
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by danbruc 3y ago
What then about mathematical structures that do not exist in the real world? Do you discover some and invent others? Or do you think all mathematical structures are realized? You say that no sane person will deny the existence of three, I a
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by danbruc 3y ago
I would say it is exactly the opposite - you invent the integers, you discover a proof. Discovery for me means finding something that already exists, inventing means bringing something into existence. You discover the electron, you invent t
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by danbruc 3y ago
Sure, randomly generating axioms would probably not be very productive, most of the time you will continue from known territory, generalize something, add additional constraints, whatever. And if that is what you mean with discovery, identi
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by danbruc 3y ago
Yes, but that is a technical detail, it was just easier for me to come up with that than making up a set of axioms. How is an obscure combination of existing axioms still mathematics but not any set of axioms I make up? And how would we eve
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by danbruc 3y ago
Why not? If I decide I want to study the properties of the space of total function from vectors of octonions with prime dimension to the surreal numbers, who is to say that this is not mathematics?
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by danbruc 3y ago
What are the constraints? I can make up any set of axioms I like and see what they imply, there is no need that they are in any way related to the physical world. Sure, there is a lot of mathematics that was specifically invented in order t
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by danbruc 3y ago
A language is invented; mathematics is discovered. I peg to differ. Mathematics is invented when you define the axioms of some structure, after that you discover the consequences of the axioms you picked. First you define the natural numb
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by danbruc 3y ago
Then I probably misunderstood you, I thought you were talking about how closely the math is tied to the actual world, say all the reformulations of classical mechanics as opposed to some supersymmetric theory. In the end physics is applied
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by danbruc 3y ago
[...] provide new evidence for the deep unity of fundamental ideas about mathematics and physics. This makes no sense to me at all. Mathematics is a modeling language and when we use it to model fundamental aspects of the real world, then
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by danbruc 3y ago
That probably depends heavily on the field, there is certainly a huge difference whether you are trying to better understand established physics or whether you are trying to come up with a new theory in an area where we are lacking experime
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by danbruc 3y ago
The title is clickbait - they found a connection between two mathematical objects by using a third mathematical object to translate between the two. The third mathematical object also happens to be useful in physics.
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by danbruc 3y ago
I actually remember from my software ergonomics course at university that black on white is better than white on black. I guess it stuck because it surprised my, I always considered the MS-DOS console easier to read. I do not remember any d
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by danbruc 3y ago
Dark mode is a weird phenomenon, I think. It kind of came out of nowhere and suddenly everything in existence started adding a dark mode and prominently listing it as a top features. That is not a complaint or anything like that, just an ob
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Or just get rid of all nuclear weapons.
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by danbruc 3y ago
This has barely anything to do with the name, the actual question is how many people would lie about their name in that situation. If nobody lied about their name, then you would know with certainty what that person's name is, if every
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by danbruc 3y ago
Increasing the wealth of a random nation for the sake of it? Or something about equality? Seriously? Would you say the same thing if you were on the less wealthy side? No worries, it is fine to be poor, I understand that this is necessary t
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by danbruc 3y ago
And even then, should you not be more mad at the politician that took the money? As I wrote, I am with everyone who considers that bad or maybe even evil behavior, but without a lot of other people from consumers, to voters and politicians
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by danbruc 3y ago
If you want to be able to implement nullary functions, then you need a nullary function to begin with. You are not really implementing anything besides maybe negating the constant you got. You would also have to extend { AND, NOT } with a c

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