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by drostie 12y ago
I normally really like you and upvote your comments as thoughtful, but in this case I really have to disagree. Eugenics arguments are deeply flawed. They are based on an assumption that the nature-vs-nurture debate is decided firmly in the
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by drostie 12y ago
The actual document is available as a PDF from the FCC, here: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014... I do not see the '40 million' number mentioned in that document, but there ar
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by drostie 12y ago
The "speed" of consciousness would just be in terms of the subjective rate of experience. But yes, that's a significant problem with appealing to this sort of attitude outside of this 4D world (you have to invent some notion
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by drostie 12y ago
The philosophy of time is one of the remaining bulwarks of a philosophical position called 'dualism', which holds that minds are completely separate from our bodies: if you view us as being big ropes of particle-worldlines in a 4-
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by drostie 12y ago
> I think this is just one example of how little we understand nature's systems. Oh, definitely. And it applies at a very broad sense of the word "nature." For instance, weight-loss. As a physics guy I have a minor aneurys
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by drostie 12y ago
Pattern matching is one of the ways to get "two-mod" code where the modulus operator is used two times. For example, string concatenation and assignment operators do the same in this Python code: for i in range(1, 101):
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by drostie 12y ago
The Majorana discoveries are condensed matter physics, not particle physics. In particular, when they say that they've discovered "a new particle" it's important to understand that this is not going to appear on the Stan
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by drostie 12y ago
Right, s/he's giving you a sense of "classical entanglement", but quantum entanglement can also do some interesting things which classical entanglement cannot do. However, the scope of that is not as simple as "set
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by drostie 12y ago
So, the deal is that quantum computers don't do everything for you. They can do some things faster than any classical algorithm, but they're not known to, say, do NP-complete problems in polynomial time. (Friendly reminder: we
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by drostie 12y ago
That's awesome. The only thing I think would make it even better would be if we could make it an interactive course online, since so much of these details about shells, commands, etc. are things which happen in a computer context anywa
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by drostie 12y ago
There may be space in the whole curriculum for that, but it's probably not essential here and now . The whole pull of Bret Victor's presentations is that they show us what it would look like to program if our tools were as mode
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by drostie 12y ago
Well, I don't think it's a huge problem. Maybe I'm wrong. I feel like it's core to the idea of "let's go play a game" that we largely agree on its rules -- and if more than half of us deny those rules, the
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by drostie 12y ago
If you think about what magicians do and how they do it, "making the complicated look simple" is also a nice definition of magic. In other words, if you're ever thinking, "how could she have known that I'd choose
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by drostie 12y ago
One thing that was exciting about Datomic to me (and still is, I just don't have any projects big enough to use it for) is that you get an immutable database state. You can emulate this in any normal database, but it gets harder to enf
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by drostie 12y ago
> I'm still on the hedge about it. Yes, it's more relate-able and inspiring, but it isn't really a contribution to physics as much as engineering. You need to understand a bit more of the context then, which is: the Nobel
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by drostie 12y ago
It doesn't sound like that at all. The person you're replying to just said that they were sufficiently frustrated with the physics engine's treatment (or lack thereof) of network phenomena that they bypassed it completely, te
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by drostie 12y ago
The golden ratio is not particularly magic in aesthetic pleasure; playing cards are in fact made with a ratio of 7:5, being 3.5" high and 2.5" wide. You get closer with bridge cards (a 1.555...) and index cards (1.666..). If you d
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by drostie 12y ago
That doesn't sound right to me. "I just want to get rid of the whole project" sounds like a position of great strength in a negotiation. You might as well say "I'm not signing anything unless I get X" and as lo
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by drostie 12y ago
I've on more than one occasion used Lisp's "everything is data" idea to build little domain-specific languages in JSON. One of the easiest places to start is with representing HTML this way; you can e.g. start to write t
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by drostie 12y ago
Very interesting! I'm more interested in it as an attraction to new users; I agree that "morally" it should probably start in command mode since it should be designed for its most common use cases first. I'm just observi
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by drostie 12y ago
I'll tell you the dinky stupid reason why I started using vim over nano: I like my shells to have white backgrounds. I don't know why, but it's just restful to my eyes. Nano's default syntax highlighting on bash scripts
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by drostie 12y ago
On the other hand, if you write Elisp in JS, you can run Emacs in the browser.
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by drostie 12y ago
That's actually really interesting. I wanted at one point to run Joyent's SmartOS ( http://smartos.org/ ) on a desktop, since it seems like I live my work-life in VMware anyways. I'd like to know what VMware&#x
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by drostie 12y ago
I'll definitely look into that book; thanks!
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I have too; I just think that most people don't come up with as many ideas while running as do when walking. I'm not sure why exactly that is, but it is the stereotype, no?
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by drostie 12y ago
The reason that I'm optimizing those sentences away is, they aren't pulled back into the central question. I take as my central question: why is walking better than sitting for some kinds of intellectual problems? That first quote
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by drostie 12y ago
This is an unusually verbose article even for the New Yorker. The TL;DR appears to be simply "increased heart rate," with no real citations to prove it. And it just sounds a bit absurd. Increased heart rates don't have a reli
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by drostie 12y ago
That is the big take-home problem here. I looked up the address that they said was in Nigeria (it's actually in Mali), REJATE-POKAJA. I wanted to know, "well, what's the address of the building across the road?" and it t
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by drostie 12y ago
I mean, they've explicitly disclaimed that this is version 1.0, but they've also explicitly claimed that this is complete, which it doesn't seem to me. This spec is extremely repetitive (0-3 spaces is okay, 4 spaces is too mu

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