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by eigenket 3y ago
> But pi is has infinite information It does not, according to any sane way of defining its information content. For example the Kolomogrov complexity of pi is clearly finite - I can write down a program for a Turing machine which will r
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by eigenket 3y ago
Consider the Hilbert L^2([0,1]) associated with a physical particle that has position somewhere between 0 and 1, the corresponding multiplication operator X which takes a wavefunction f and maps it to Xf where (Xf)(x) = x f(x). Then X is a
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by eigenket 3y ago
I think its a linguistic difference only. At least where I studied it was quite normal to call phenomena you can derive from a physical theory "predictions" even if they have been observed before. I agree the photoelectric effect
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by eigenket 3y ago
Quantum mechanics does not mean everything is quantized. It got its name because the first predictions of quantum mechanics were quantized energy levels in some example systems, but that does not even mean that all energies are quantized in
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by eigenket 3y ago
Quantum mechanics does not mean everything is quantized. It got its name because the first predictions of quantum mechanics were quantized energy levels in some example systems, but that does not even mean that all energies are quantized
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by eigenket 3y ago
My understanding is that ESA has agreed to fund their portion, but other partners haven't finished that process yet - e.g. the UK's science agency has to go to the treasury and make a case for it. Similar with NASA & the other
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by eigenket 3y ago
Its not quite true that none of those people are still around - a bunch of them work for Frostgiant & are working on Stormate.
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by eigenket 3y ago
> The scientific process only involves falsifiable theories This is definitely not true. One obvious example is that important scientific work is done turning unfalsifiable theories into falsifiable ones. After gravitational waves were p
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by eigenket 3y ago
See the icosahedron here for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#/media/File...
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by eigenket 3y ago
Dodecahedrons with nobs on the vertices aren't really fundamental shapes. As far as I'm aware there have been zero found without the nobs on, and hundreds found with the nobs.
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by eigenket 3y ago
There are examples known without the big holes in, which seem pretty much impossible to use for knitting.
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by eigenket 3y ago
> The knitting with the finger growing inside the dodec looks unhelpful and implausible There are also examples without the big holes in, which would make knitting pretty much impossible.
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by eigenket 3y ago
A very very large number of Christians have prayed if not to then at relics purported to be (parts of) Jesus' dick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce
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by eigenket 3y ago
More interestingly the optimum for the rest of the details is probably quite different from person to person. It's unlikely we like exactly the same coffee so even if we optimise very aggressively we'll probably end up at differen
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by eigenket 3y ago
Nah, we don't do anything like as consistent and understandable as that. We use a random mixture of imperial and metric measurements where the "right" one to use in each context is determined by cultural norms. E.g. we measur
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by eigenket 3y ago
You can very easily get replacement O-rings, I've had my moka pot for about 15 years and I'm on my third ring. The first got lost and the second damaged.
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by eigenket 3y ago
I would guess that your bank wasn't one of the 6 biggest banks in the UK in 2015.
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by eigenket 3y ago
I don't think the lack of such a system in the US is for the reason you think - all you do is tell your bank to send money to the account attached to whatever phone number you enter so it should be technically possible. As a former res
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by eigenket 3y ago
Blik is explicitly not private in that sense, you have to trust your bank to use it. Not sure what they meant by that. However if your bank has a crappy online banking app and you live in Poland then you should probably change bank. The ban
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by eigenket 3y ago
The way it works in Poland is that the banks which participate in the blik system (which I think is all or most of the banks with large usership) take care of the link between phone number and account for you. You don't need to registe
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by eigenket 3y ago
To send a normal person money using blik you just need their phone number, this is usually more streamlined to obtain/deal with than the traditional identifying numbers for bank accounts. To buy something online using blik your bank&#x
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by eigenket 3y ago
Maybe, I've never used the Dutch one.
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by eigenket 3y ago
The EU solved that in 2015, the fee is capped at 0.3% for credit cards and 0.2% for debit cards. Call up / write to your representative in whatever country you live in and ask why your country hasn't done that yet.
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by eigenket 3y ago
Germany is particularly weird for that. Visiting Germany from the UK or Poland paying for stuff feels like going back in time like 15-20 years. I have a strong memory of going to a cafe next to my hotel in Berlin and ordering a coffee and b
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by eigenket 3y ago
My impression (which might be unfair since I haven't used the Taler system) is that this looks like a technically better but practically worse version of payment systems which already exist in parts of Europe like the Polish Blik, Swed
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by eigenket 3y ago
Across a lot of Europe there are systems/companies which already fill this role. I'm familiar with Blik in Poland which in addition to letting you buy stuff online and in person pretty also lets you send money to an average person
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by eigenket 3y ago
No one would look at a veracrypt archive containing a copyrighted work and confuse it either. They look very different to the original files but both the encrypted file and the learning model's weights allow one to reproduce the copyri
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by eigenket 3y ago
It does match exactly what I claimed and it also states that even though the behavior was patched in GPT the ars people were able to easily reproduce it in copilot. Its funny that the behavior was patched if OpenAI believes it isn't
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by eigenket 3y ago
This is absolutely not true. Here is an article where ars technica tried it https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/ny-times-sues-op... And this is a screenshot of their session whith copilot https:&#x2F
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by eigenket 3y ago
The new York Times has examples where GPT will reproduce world for word exactly paragraphs of their (copyrighted) text if you ask it to. That's a pretty fixed tangible expression I think.

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