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by dfdz 5y ago
Thanks for sharing.
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by dfdz 5y ago
> for anyone who prefers pdf https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2022-59-01/S0273-0979-2021...
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by dfdz 5y ago
The quotes from scientists at the end of the article nicely summarize my opinion on this article: > Deutsch, too, seemed impatient with my dissatisfaction over our understanding of the nature of reality. “Someone might equally well say:
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by dfdz 5y ago
If no one is going to say the obvious answer, I will: You sit further away from your screen (relative to your screen size), than the average user. Let’s work backwards: Assume you use 150% zoom on average. And you sit 100cm from computer sc
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by dfdz 5y ago
>Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall carbon emissions So The Cloud, arguably the peak of human technology, uses contributes a tiny fraction of our total carbon emissions. Is curbing this t
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by dfdz 5y ago
The only purpose of my comment was to provide context for the numbers in the article via a thought experiment involving doubling. Since the calculation involves taking log_2, even if the estimate for the "used power" is off by a f
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by dfdz 5y ago
> This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997. The experiment produced > 11 megawatts of power and at Jet > two 500 megawatt flywheels are used to run the experiments log_2(2*500/11)*(2022-1997) +
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by dfdz 5y ago
Can someone change the title to: “Yandex, Mail.ru Group, and Rambler will deindex domains that have 100 links to pirated content starting September 2022”
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by dfdz 5y ago
> I have observed similar patterns in some of my own work. For example, in a very recent study I conducted with 440 online adults (I will add a preprint link when it is available)… Can anyone find the preprint? This blog post was from Ap
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by dfdz 5y ago
> I'm tired creating backups, or loosing data. Let's be honest, sometimes it happens. Does a filesystem that never deletes/overwrites anything exist? I use linux and system link the home folder to a Dropbox folder. There i
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by dfdz 5y ago
Before people start making conspiracies theories, I want to mention a reasonable explanation that answers the following question: how could it be in Youtube’s financial interest to block views from small channels that go viral? I think the
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by dfdz 5y ago
> Phone is still the best way to order Pizza Best for whom? [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/dining/restaurant-phone-l...
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by dfdz 5y ago
Personally I use fastmail.com and I am happy with the service, but it costs $5/month so I am not sure that is what you are looking for. You could self host, but setting it up is a time investment and probably not worth it unless you ha
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by dfdz 5y ago
In case anyone missed the response to a similar comment on the blog: > Terence Tao on 27 January, 2022 at 10:31 am The production values of the lecture series given by Masterclass would not be possible for me to replicate by myself. (For
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by dfdz 5y ago
I did verify that you found the "harder" treasure, but I am not sure this is a good example of zero knowledge proof. The author claims that > you can Download the JSON Proof file, and share that publicly. It does not reveal any
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by dfdz 5y ago
> schoolwork survives, as do the student’s errors (10 times 45, for example, is definitely not 270). So a student makes an arithmetic error and they author concludes: > [this] work is a reminder that no matter how elegant or infallibl
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by dfdz 5y ago
This article has very poor reasoning. For example, the author states > Everybody knows that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. But if hospitalizations and deaths were almost exclusively occurring in the unvaccinated, why would boost
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by dfdz 5y ago
Just FYI there is a solution to this: enroll your gmail account in the advanced protection program https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/ When you login you are required to use a security key (like Yubi key) bu
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by dfdz 5y ago
> Why? Because none of these chapters answer the most important question a reader has, the entire time, WHY!? Why is all this important and what problems does it solve? When should I use this thing that I learned? When I was an undergrad
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by dfdz 5y ago
> This is a criticism that the late philosopher Hubert Dreyfus made for half a century to no avail. Whenever someone says a particular machine learning application is not going to work, and their justification is something a philosopher
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by dfdz 5y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by dfdz 5y ago
I really dislike how this data is presented. Trying to imagine 4.5M workers quitting their job is really difficult since it such a big number and lacks context. I think it would be better to say "about 3% of US workers quit their jobs
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by dfdz 5y ago
This was an interesting read, but the aspect I am curious about (which was not discussed) is the Demand Curve [1], which describes how price and demand are related. The example graphic from the article [2] indicates that a Doner costs $11 a
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by dfdz 5y ago
> im really missing concept of any cloud/online password manager ... im just curious of benefits and hope to get enlighted by people who use it. Since you are curious, here are two reasons: 1) I regularly use multiple devices, and
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by dfdz 5y ago
You are missing the key point: these experts on maths, sciences, etc are not arguing HOW to teach maths, sciences, etc. They are only arguing WHAT is important to teach. High school math teachers do not have the perspective to understand wh
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by dfdz 5y ago
> At any given university, the kids from public schools are smarter than the kids from private schools. This is a necessary consequence of private schools improving kids' admissions prospects, and parents wouldn't send their ki
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by dfdz 5y ago
> Because if there is such a thing as good art, it's easy to tell which of two people has better taste. Show them a lot of works by artists they've never seen before and ask them to choose the best, and whoever chooses the bet
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by dfdz 5y ago
> arguably one of the most famous bong clouds of all time came from Magnus Carlsen to win a blitz tournament last year against Wesley So There is nothing impressive about beating Wesley So according to another chess meme that became popu
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by dfdz 5y ago
Here is a concise summary of the classification methods and results of the paper: > Modeling was conducted with a variety of machine learning algorithms using the scikit-learn library: K-Nearest Neighbors, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regressio
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by dfdz 5y ago
The key point which the author eventually realizes: > Circular Harmonics are just a Fourier series The term circular harmonics is just a nonstandard name for Fourier series.

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