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by danbruc 4mo ago
Also [synthetic] sapphire [1] is just aluminium oxide. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire
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by danbruc 5mo ago
The crucial point here is the difference between response and answer. Saying that the question is not applicable because you never started murdering people is a response but not an answer to the question. And that response answers an omitte
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by danbruc 5mo ago
Two question, have you ever beaten your wife, if so, did you stop? You can not stop something that never started. Alternatively, if you know from context that the wife has been beaten in the past, then yes or no are perfectly fine as the on
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by danbruc 5mo ago
Which is exactly what I wrote. [...] two dependent binary questions [...] The second one is meaningless if the first one is false. Considered generally, though, if I ask a true/false question then read your answer from a single bit,
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by danbruc 5mo ago
In one respect, boolean logic is popular because of bits. If we had ternary processors, ternary logic would be more popular. Ternary truth values combines two dependent binary questions - do we know the truth value of X and what is the tr
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by danbruc 5mo ago
It's also important to point out that if we cant prove a statement or its negation (one of which must be true) [...] Is that true, could it not be neither, i.e. independent of the axioms? Or is this assuming completeness which rules
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by danbruc 5mo ago
That is interesting, I always thought that the incompleteness theorems says, there are theorems that are true or false in all models but cannot be proved to be so. But if it that is not the case and there always exist models where the theor
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by danbruc 5mo ago
Because it is scrolling. If they would show one page of text while filling the next one in the background, the result would probably be somewhat like flicking through a book at one page per second. You still can not read one page per second
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by danbruc 5mo ago
They routinely reach 100-150 tokens per second and that feels too fast, to the point where it's hard to keep up with what it's actually doing. There is no way you can follow what is going on even at 30 tokens per second. Maybe y
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by danbruc 5mo ago
Paxos is certainly non-trivial in the sense that tiny changes can break it, but in terms of functionality it is not that big. 50 KLOC just seems like a lot of code to me.
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by danbruc 5mo ago
Geogebra? [1] [1] https://www.geogebra.org/
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by danbruc 5mo ago
The US should be happy about this. Maybe. Iran seeking reparations is a reasonable demand, this gives the US a way to satisfy a demand without having to pay themselves - which certainly would not be popular, to say the least - making an exi
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by danbruc 5mo ago
There exists no translation that leaves the tiling of the entire plane unchanged. The same local pattern [1] will of course occur repeatedly, there are only so many different patterns of any given size, but if you look at large enough scale
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by danbruc 5mo ago
My expectation was none of the four presented. Evaluate left to right, a is five, post-increment, pre-increment, a is seven, 5 + 7 = 12. For right to left I would expect pre-increment, a is six, a is still six, post-increment, a is 7, overw
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by danbruc 5mo ago
How much energy does it take to pump the heat from a primary loop at a temperature tolerated by the silicon to a secondary loop at 900 K? If we pick 300 K for simplicity, would we not need twice as much energy as we want to get rid of just
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by danbruc 5mo ago
I am in favor of returning America to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. And while we are at it, let us also return Australia to the Aboriginal Australians. We probably also have to return Europe, Asia, and Africa - or at least some pa
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by danbruc 5mo ago
No, I was only wondering how many people believe that we were visited by aliens for somewhat reasonable reasons. I would guess quite a few people would say that they believe that at least one of the UFO sightings was an actual UFO but I wou
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by danbruc 5mo ago
What fraction of the population of your average country has done some serious thinking about UFOs? What fraction of those thinks at least one of those unexplained events involved aliens?
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by danbruc 5mo ago
I would assume they are just drawing the outline, not performing any distance calculations, and the differences are just a result of different linejoin choices. [1] [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/fill-stroke-3/#stroke-l
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by danbruc 5mo ago
If an AI driven car drives off the side of the road, I want to know why it did that. I could take the software developer to court, but I would much rather take the AI to court. How would that work? You have the AI explain its reasoning -
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by danbruc 5mo ago
That usually does not matter in practice because you quickly reach a level of sufficient understanding. We usually use UUIDs for this type of object but we have to send those objects to the legacy system XYZ, which only supports IDs with up
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by danbruc 5mo ago
The source code is not the specification, the source code is an implementation of the specification. The specification tells you what happens, the source code tells you how it happens. Ideally you also have some additional documentation for
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by danbruc 6mo ago
Why would you want to approximate tanh for the use in neural networks? Every smoothed step function will do, so if your concern is speed, why not design something for speed, who cares if it is an established mathematical function? Because y
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by danbruc 6mo ago
Complete tangent, what is going on with this image [1]? Render? AI? Too much post-processing? It has some computer game graphics look to me, but I can not quite put the finger on what seems off. [1] https://images.blackmagicdesig
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by danbruc 6mo ago
But that is not an increase in the expression size, that is the effort for searching for an expression tree that fits some target function. And that is no different from searching an expression based on common functions, that is of course a
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by danbruc 6mo ago
Where do you see exponential blow-up? If you replace every function in an expression tree with a tree of eml functions, that is a size increase by a constant factor. And the factor does not seem unreasonable but in the range 10 to 100.
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by danbruc 6mo ago
So is everyone with enough power, every law requires enforcement. But even without enforcement or with the ability to outright block laws, being in violation of international law still matters. It informs others whether you truly belief in
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by danbruc 6mo ago
The big mistake was attacking a state in violation of international law.
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by danbruc 6mo ago
On mine, too, forgot that link.
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by danbruc 6mo ago
Some of the scenes from the video remind me of Manifold Garden [1] - only 3D but a 3-torus [2] and you can change the direction of gravity, i.e. what is up and down. And also visually beautiful. [1] https://store.steampowered.com

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