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by diedyesterday 4y ago
This is a misunderstanding of AI (Stable Diffusion etc.), IMHO. The relation of AI-generated art, trained on human-generated art, to human creativity, is almost the same relation as human-generated art and history of human art and creativi
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by diedyesterday 4y ago
Fundamentally, "mass" is nothing other than "confined energy". Whenever you have a mechanism for confining energy (Higgs mechanism; or a force which binds and creates a bound state) the combined package has inertial &quo
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by diedyesterday 4y ago
Is that surprising?! That's a kind of optimization with not always optimum results.
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by diedyesterday 4y ago
Pi and radians mostly and naturally enter math when we are dealing with both angles and radial distances (e.g. in spherical coordinates). If we choose to normalize in terms of "turns", then angles and circumferences may look natur
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by diedyesterday 4y ago
Reminds me and sort of similar to NVidia's spatial/temporal upscaling DLSS. Lossy compression and upscaling are very closely related.
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by diedyesterday 4y ago
I have worked with Windows registry for at least 2 decades and it is one of the things I rally hate about design of Windows (and I like the way config files are kept in Linux). A very big virtual file system (with a parallel access API of
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by diedyesterday 4y ago
The basic reason is that the Pacific ocean is so big that it almost covers a full hemisphere.
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by diedyesterday 4y ago
It is meant as a guide and criterion for finding what matters the most in one's life and one's existence and organize their way of life around that. If it was your last day (and you were a philosopher) you would only concern yours
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by diedyesterday 4y ago
It's about time these lazy Euro countries contributed to their own security instead of just taking it for granted as always, assuming the rest of NATO members (specially the active ones) would be there for them, without themselves bear
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by diedyesterday 5y ago
Trusting a security firm is a chain of custody problem, which ultimately goes down to where are the premises and what is the legal and governmental environment. If this last stop cannot be trusted, then I guess it break the deal for some se
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by diedyesterday 5y ago
Minor note. If the original data is a time-signal like in electrical engineering (amplitude vs. time function), then the "frequency domain pixels" (its transform) are different frequencies (points in frequency domain: how many re
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by diedyesterday 5y ago
Not knowing those upper words and knowing these lower words is actually a badge of honor ;)
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by diedyesterday 5y ago
They want to push the PR cost of that to the government and make it uncontroversial for themselves.
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by diedyesterday 5y ago
For a device to be able to wake a Windows system, it has to be allowed both in the BIOS and also in Windows's device manager (In the "power management" tab on a device, the checkbox on "Allow this device to wake the comp
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by diedyesterday 5y ago
This hack reminds me of Godel's hacking of an axiomatic mathematical system, to prove and plant his incompleteness theorem; This is really a great hack: using a system in a unexpected and creative way for which it wan not originally d
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by diedyesterday 5y ago
Bitcoin is INDEED a ponzi/pyramid scheme. The main hallmark of a pyramid scheme is that is produced no significant net wealth but somehow makes a minority richer, much richer! How can this be? Because a pyramid scheme is designed to tr
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by diedyesterday 6y ago
Yeah exactly! That "undervaluing" is what initiated that whole fuck-up at the Jurassic Park :)
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by diedyesterday 6y ago
Bitcoin (as an investment) is a pyramid scheme. It produces no wealth but has become a powerful means of transferring wealth to the upper layers of the pyramid by growing through the base of the pyramid and recruiting the "greater fool
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by diedyesterday 6y ago
You first need to get yourself free of the opium of Islam. The unoriginal religion made up by stealing lots and lots of ideas from Judaism and Christianity, themselves sources of much suffering for humankind. The hell and heaven are not of
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by diedyesterday 6y ago
You could greatly benefit from Prof. Leonard Susskind's lectures on quantum mechanics and QFT on Youtube (Standford university's channel), which are very accessible. A great physicist who happens to be a great teacher and who gets
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by diedyesterday 6y ago
Fourier transform is so fundamental to understanding the world and mastering Fourier transform (and linear algebra too) is so sooo important before entering anything "quantum". Quantum field theory (QFT), especially, is essentiall
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by diedyesterday 7y ago
In a few years the Chinese economy will experience much slower growth rate (similar to the West) and people will get out of the this 30-year hypnotic state of fast-moving and dehumanizing economic development and quest for money (which the
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by diedyesterday 7y ago
A subtle point that is often missed is that only a growing plant population and ecosystem will have a positive oxygen balance and negative CO2 balance (trapping CO2 as tree biomass at ever increasing volume). Stable ecosystems reach an equi
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by diedyesterday 7y ago
Apple is not overvalued. It's P/E is actually very low considering the amount of cash for R&D and the potential for growth they have at hand. Currently it's bound by a lack on entrepreneurial imagination on part of its e
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by diedyesterday 8y ago
Of course they would. At least some feminists would. Even now some Nobel prizes (e.g. Watson for DNA structure) and the credit for some discoveries attributed to some men is disputed by some feminist activists. I hate all this identity poli
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by diedyesterday 8y ago
One difference is that you're all Portuguese in Portugal. But they are not all women in the US or whatever and they will react if they sense "unfairness". There are no (substantial) non-Portuguese in Portugal to react!
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by diedyesterday 8y ago
Some of this has to be a result of higher levels of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere and it is a known effect. It's essentially plant-food in the air. Plants are growing to be bigger (fatter!) and in higher numbers. At least something
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by diedyesterday 8y ago
It's like Robin Hood running from King John's guards and barging through other people's homes. Some would definitely be pissed.
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by diedyesterday 9y ago
TL;DR => Menstruation in human females is a monthly self-cleansing (although wasteful) FLUSH to get rid of all those "unworthy" scum who didn't make it as viable fetuses. Because being considered "worthy" by mot
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by diedyesterday 9y ago
Programming language 'sages' tend to blurt out these generalizations, although they are based on insights which are only PARTIALLY determinant. Many advanced ('fancy', if you will) algorithms are based on mathematical pr

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