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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
This is what I came here to say. Tech has been pretty central to the tools of professional graphic artists (which include video games) for a long time. I notice a lot of non-professional artists running to the rescue of artists. I suspect t
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
This is an awfully political thread. It might be helpful to distinguish between capital-A “ART” and professional “art” — like animators, illustrators, UI designers, etc.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I’ve never seen that, but I’d love to find it. Do you have a reference? It’s my understanding that there was no smoking in Europe before Columbus. (With the exception of smoking tents, like in Herodotus or the biblical tabernacle)
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Here’s a short Department of Energy discussion of the research plans for this technology (2016). https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2016/05/f32/Flash%20... So ostensibly there are some o
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
The addition of a concrete example almost always makes the pure math easier to understand. Knowing whether a particular aspect of math has real application is relevant to students. And this remains hard.
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Highly efficient flash iron-making moves to commercialization in China(scmp.com)
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
100%. And why is it so hard to have math education based on good concrete contextualized examples, vs just rules and problem sets? Understanding the “why” behind the math is often lacking… and math doesn’t always need to be applied, that’
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
The Dao created the One The One created the Two The Two created the Three The Three created the Ten Thousand Things Chapter 42 of the Daodejing
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Donald Knuth: “premature optimization is the root of all evil” The article suggests that premature specialization and premature generalization might, instead, be the root of all evil. Really! Well-written.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I’m working on a project now where we have to take the topics in algebra 1/2 and geometry (high school mathematics) and connect it to real-world activities in science, tech, business, etc. This has been fun — but harder than anticipate
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
> Before you ask: I know what I'm doing, and it did a better job in five minutes than I could have done over those six hours. Seems like lawyers could do more faster because they know what they are doing. Experts dont get replaced,
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
So, what does that say about the possibility of fungal symbiotes?
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“Silk residues were successfully detected, which confirmed the early use of silk as a material carrier to communicate between Heaven and Earth” Love that the work was strong enough that they could slip a line like this into their abstract.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I don’t mean 10% of their taxes, I mean charge 10% of their revenue to settle cooyright
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
You make it sound like banks tolerate fraud. A financial cleanup is coming to the carbon markets, because that’s the only way serious money will flow.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
“Think, do, observe” — that’s over?
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https://x.com/anthonynaguirre/status/1861893538532991096?s=4...
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Possibly. But I believe the mechanism for the movement of the planets was believed to be crystal spheres. Another possibility is that the Pythagoreans actually described the earth rotating around a central fire or Hestia. If that wasn’t the
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
A Pythagorean. The pythagoreans taught that there were 10 celestial bodies, but they could only observe 9, so they proposed a counter earth that could not be seen — behind the sun. Aristotle mocks them for this idea, but the idea implies ro
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
For instance, ARC prize now at human level… https://x.com/akyurekekin/status/1855680785715478546 I dont know why it seems bold. So many signs.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Proposed: 10% tax as copyright settlement, half to pay for past creators and and half to pay current creative culture
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Once we get superintelligence — some time next year I’d say — then we will have a tool to make all those dreams come true.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Silicon-based life seems pretty likely in the near future
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“when awesome technological powers are in the hands of the very few… [and] when the people have lost their ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority” the nation would “slide, almost without noticing, back
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
What was the baseline for AI generated posts prior to ChatGPT in 2022? Isn’t that a suspicious stat, that it only went up by 107%?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
“The release of the popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT at the end of 2022 likely led to a 189% surge in AI usage in LinkedIn posts.” 189%, eh? This stat makes me believe the entire article is made up.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Jains don’t eat foods like onions and potatoes. But, so far as I know, this is on account of the bugs that may be harmed when harvesting soil-based plants.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I’m also reminded of quantum probabilities and expected outcomes— how possibilities converge to create reality, like quantum Darwinism. https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-darwinism-an-idea-to-...
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Perfection might be imperfect. I’m reminded of Pythagorean philosophies of harmony that quickly reveal the imperfections inherent to math, ie right triangle with two sides of one unit producing square root of two or Pythagorean tuning which
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Without getting political, please, does anyone have a good argument for the expected inflationary pressures of the next year or two? Tariffs will make prices go up, investment in infrastructure will make prices go up… but on the other hand,

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