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by effie 3y ago
Can you share a link to those claims from academia?
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by effie 3y ago
You might like the original book Solaris better. It has a unique atmosphere, isolation and mystery of the alien planet, and explores a different idea of alien life than we usually get in movies. This is hard to communicate in a movie, Tarko
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by effie 3y ago
Government measures protecting country from attacks are fine as long as they don't erode individual liberties. When they do, the official rationale becomes suspicious. Forbidding installing apps from non-official sources is obviously b
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by effie 3y ago
> Why? Because access by password provides unique abilities to the person who knows the password.
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by effie 3y ago
"It wouldn't work 100%, so they won't do it." Most naive argument ever.
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by effie 3y ago
> Whatsapp gives both these powers to US agencies and not local ones. Source?
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by effie 3y ago
"Sideloading" is the likely next target. "We have to protect our people from dangerous Russian hackers spying on people, so we will make sure only clean and safe applications from $CORPSTORE are used".
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by effie 3y ago
> However, you should know that this [liberal democracy] has precisely nothing to do with the Liberal Democrats in the UK. The Liberal Democrats are so named because they're the result of a merger between the Liberal Party and the
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by effie 4y ago
> for small edits sed it's better, and awk for some tabular based files by using xml2tsv or lots of TSV related tools. That, and shell, sed and awk are standard tools which are easy to learn, every unix user should learn basics of (
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by effie 4y ago
Perl can do everything, but it does not replace those tools. They are better adapted to their specific domains.
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by effie 4y ago
The article is citing real experiments, names and numbers, and is very well argued.
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by effie 4y ago
See also https://www.refracta.org/docs/readme.refractasnapshot.txt
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by effie 4y ago
> "The reason entropy was lower in the past is that the universe started out in a low-entropy state. The reason for that is still a mystery." And my answer to this is the same. Unsubstantiated assumption that universe started o
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by effie 4y ago
So, we started with your plausible argument why 2nd law holds, then I point out deficiency in it, then we talk past each other, then you say "we can explain those observations in terms of a past that actually existed". In other wo
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by effie 4y ago
> Images are now obtained quicker and are higher resolution than ever. > I’m lucky to be able to compare imaging with and without the technology applied Interesting, can you share some images, or a paper on this? Btw I've tried
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by effie 4y ago
> There is actual evidence that it is possible to remember the past but not the future. (I can't believe I'm actually having to persuade you of that. This is a pretty basic fact about reality.) You certainly don't have to
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by effie 4y ago
> ...it is not true in general. Agreed. But it is true for your original argument applied to a non-equilibrium state at any single time instant, while not assuming any more on the past or the future states. If we adopt further assumption
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by effie 4y ago
Probability is useful also when we have complete knowledge of the state of a model involving many particles (e.g. gas), but can't reliably integrate equations of motions. This lack of skill is the same towards the future as towards the
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by effie 4y ago
> No, I lack information about the state of the coin. And that implies you lack information on the record, which is decisive for predicting successfully its playback. > But under no circumstances can I ever accurately predict the o
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by effie 4y ago
When you do not look at the coin result that gets recorded, your knowledge of the state of the recorder (the record inside) is not "exactly the same as before". You lack information on the state of the recorder that you would have
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by effie 4y ago
> I claim that this asymmetry in my prophetic abilities (100% ability to predict what will be seen on the video vs 50% for re-flipping the actual coin) is a result of the asymmetry between the past and future. No, this and other simila
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by effie 4y ago
> you don't need any additional assumptions What you wrote after that is such an assumption. You can't derive asymmetry from nothing, logic or mechanics. The only way to have it, is to assume it in addition to those.
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by effie 4y ago
By intervention I mean some external agent causing the system to leave the initial equilibrium macrostate A, which would not happen spontaneously. E.g. a wall is removed, or a piston is quickly pushed, to make the system evolve towards new
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by effie 4y ago
You have missed my point. The formulation of 2nd law I'm talking about is stating something about all pairs of two MACROstates A,B, not MICROstates, such that B reliably succeeds A after intervention. This pair of MACROstates is not
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by effie 4y ago
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "those microscopic processes that are compatible with macroscopic processes that systematically lead to the same final state". (The same as what? The same in what sense?) In t
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by effie 4y ago
I think you're broadly right. Wolfram did some theoretical and computational physics at young age (numerical quantum chromodynamics), and in last decades he likes to speculate about how all fundamental physics (3D space, matter and bas
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by effie 4y ago
> But given that set of accessible microstates, you are more likely to get a macrostate corresponding to a larger number of microstates than a smaller number. This is due to mixing in phase space, which is plausible for many particle s
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by effie 4y ago
> The more possible configurations there are, the greater the entropy. And this explains the second law: given a set of measurement values, the more states there are which produce those values, the more likely we are, all else being equ
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by effie 4y ago
That's exactly how I feel about this fake term. The job description should be something like "data analyst". Very little people doing that reach the level of scientist. You need to publish useful research and get feedback on
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by effie 4y ago
Now you're describing sysadmin work. You don't need university for that. University is for getting a universe of exposure to ideas, to learn fundamentals to their depth. You need to study some fundamentals to be able to create tho

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