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The Sun Exploded Last Week [video](news.discovery.com)
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by drostie 14y ago
What you have described is an EPR experiment, not a quantum teleportation experiment. Also, we don't have any way of persisting a quantum state for 6 months. And, the above discussion is a little misleading because there exists a set of exp
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by drostie 14y ago
What's different in both cases is ontology , which is a fancy way of saying how things actually are . It may help to think of how you would program a computer to simulate either universe, or for that matter it may help to reduce the compu
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by drostie 14y ago
> Care to show me, for example, a single nutrition study where "skin color of participant" was a variable controlled for? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19656435 . > I'm taking this ad absurdum in an attempt to show you that i
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by drostie 14y ago
It is only "broken" if you assume incorrectly that the goal of science is to Discover Truth. Moreover it is broken in a more direct way: there exist certain models which are mathematically equivalent but which describe contradictory stat
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by drostie 14y ago
(1) Indeed, I am commenting on this particular mode of understanding , where one keeps a journal, waits for a deviation of a test from normal, and then tries to correlate the journal with the deviations after the fact. (2) "NO published re
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by drostie 14y ago
I'm sorry, but science is neither "we measure the things" nor is it "we look for the cause." Yes, those are things which scientists do, but no, that is not the essence of science. There is no attempt being made to come to any wholesome unde
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by drostie 14y ago
If you are requesting a very high-level description: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en . Basically you send an "envelope within an envelope within an envelope" over TLS (formerly SSL) to some node, they open it, read the a
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by drostie 14y ago
It's important to see that these aren't mutually exclusive, even though they sound quite contrary. On the one hand you have the hack -- the one-off prototype thrown together simply to verify what can or can't be done. On the other hand yo
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by drostie 14y ago
Just to be clear, the top shares right now are Asimov's Foundation trilogy (always a good read), a bunch of films, and My Little Pony pornography. "Free knowledge to everyone" -- we're not quite there yet, and I would stick with the vario
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Intro to Petnames: decentralized, secure, global identifiers (2005)(skyhunter.com)
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by drostie 14y ago
It's not bad, but the "0x" is part of the conversion into an integer, not part of the parsed address. That is, the more-complicated-looking combinator converts the string "03-c0" to `Address 3 192`, while it looks like yours converts the st
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by drostie 14y ago
Basically, the general idea of parser combinators is that you want to be able to express your parsing grammar in the sort of high-level description that people actually talk in, not in the low-level description that you get when you are con
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by drostie 14y ago
Well, let's be totally clear: "obtaining things for free" is not particularly what's at issue here. What's at issue is something more like "obtaining something which is not yours to obtain." That invokes a tremendous question of what is "
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by drostie 14y ago
One of the most fun discussions of the complications of reference counting and how nuanced you have to be comes from the Python docs: http://docs.python.org/extending/extending.html#reference-co... It relates "a true story. An older versi
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by drostie 14y ago
I don't write for atheists per se, I write for everyone. However, as an atheist , I won't inject supernaturalism into the religion: therefore, the religion mixes effortlessly with whatever supernatural predispositions you already have or
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by drostie 14y ago
I will upvote but I disagree. There exists a nontrivial subset of things which I think are incredibly fun when I am doing them, which I am not normally inclined to do. These range from practice with the Delft ultimate frisbee club Force-Ele
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by drostie 14y ago
It is. What «api» has been proposing is literally, "I want a no-censorship network which I can censor." That it is paradoxical does not necessarily make it impossible, though. The goals are certainly contrary but I am not certain that the
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by drostie 14y ago
Oh, I don't mean to demean the field of Quantum Information. Especially, I find it really useful to run through the double-slit experiment by labelling one slit as |0> and one slit as |1>, and then going through both slits comes out
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by drostie 14y ago
There is an advantage to the original formulations of QM and they are precisely these. It's true that in Quantum Field Theory you don't see these Bell Inequality ideas and I've seen people working in Quantum Information theory who struggle
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Tapered polygons made from wood with splayed miter angles (video)(youtube.com)
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Death claims singular "them" (2007)(itre.cis.upenn.edu)
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by drostie 14y ago
"E(N)" is not experience but "expected value." The expected value of the number of fissions caused by a fission must be greater than 1, then you explode. Basically, suppose you can market more. Each time you market a given amount M, you cre
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by drostie 14y ago
This. I have been dealing with Samsung half-phone half-MP3 players for a while now, and they all choose the next track randomly. I pine for the days when I used to have an iPod that could run Rockbox, so that the "back" and "forward" functi
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by drostie 14y ago
I actually got a really good question when I was using set diagrams to explain ideas from logic. So, I was explaining some logic ideas to a guy on IRC, and he was struggling with the contrapositive rule, which says "if A implies B, then not
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by drostie 14y ago
I think you need to be a little more careful with the word "product". I first learned that it has a little extra jargon above-and-beyond coding when I read a Joel on Software article about the "Developer Abstraction Layer." I won't link it
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Live cam of brown bears fishing for salmon(explore.org)
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by drostie 14y ago
Well, I had the opposite conclusion. Lots of the linear estimates were more or less right, and the ones that were wildly wrong were not linear enough . Like, here's a wildly wrong one: "Probate and copyright law will be entirely restructur
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The Telegraph summarizes most nations in six words(telegraph.co.uk)
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The videos from the MIT site have always had choppy audio. Since they are Creative Commons I've sometimes contemplated creating a more modern version -- a project where I copy the text and programs word-for-word, then perform a screencast o

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