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Actually yes, I think it is, though not exactly in the Max Tegmark sense (he's much more competent than I). Indeed, I don't think it could be anything other than math as it would be inconsistent (Daithi, where are you, you took me
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Humans are amazing but the Universe is not magic it is mathematical
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India banned in VLC media player is impossible, thankfully
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Super. I love the responsibility you're taking on, and why you're choosing the problems you do. You're doing dog's work. Nix ix the best thing in applied computer science since I don't know what (suggestions in the
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Yippee! DJB for the win for the rest of us!
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Euclid is still excellent. In general we're better off reading modern treatments because they have more context and more convenient notation. That said, it's important to read the old texts precisely because they elucidate the sta
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Yup, this individual is epochally awesome, and he still lets us try and correct him. So humble, so calm, so happy.
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Programmers are not Computer Scientists, and the world is poorer for their conceit.
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Web3! For people who can't count up to four but intend to make profit off those who can't count up to two! Chain!
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I legit believe they store everything they can because they've been doing exactly this for longer than anyone else. They are _the_ experts in metadata management.
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NixOS or Guix both allow one to fire up a vm based on a specification very easily, and positively encourage interation. The learning curve is steep but rewarding.
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Eh nope. At least not in common law jurisdictions. I recently sat on a jury (murder trial) in a common law jurisdiction (Republic of Ireland) and the sitting Judge is the judge of Law, and the Jury is the judge of Fact. Apart from that the
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Yes, Linux has (partially) done this already, albeit with some user interface incongruities, check out nixos and guix Hey NixOS and Guix communities! Your theory is awesome, your practice is great, we just need to work on making this trivia
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I agree, first drafts are most difficult, and second and third tend not be be much easier. As much as it's like slowly carving a gem from a rock it's also like cleaning a toilet with pristine thoroughness. It must a pleasure for t
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It's not so much about animals as about everything else. It's dangerous because we over-simplify in terms of ourselves, and we often therefore lead each other astray from demonstable accuracy. We might commit atrocities as we are
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Writing is not especially difficult but writing well is hard. The best writing is both poetic and scientific and so very rare. Euclid is still rare, as are Euler and Einstein. I find the most difficult art of writing is to share appreciatio
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Anthropomorphism is the curse of our intelligence
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Or, as all of us declarative junkies will admit, just nixos it up and forget about imperative tedium Seriously :)
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Tunnels (as mentioned below), sewage systems, foundations of large structures, detritus, glass and ceramics. Most modern concretes would decay quite rapidly on these scales, metals would disperse, plastics get eaten. The patterns we have ma
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<About a year later I had to write a paper. One of the disadvantages of being a researcher is that in order to get money you have to write a paper about something or other, the paper is never about what currently interests you at the mom
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I don't think it's "worse" is the intention, but rather that we need electricity as well as photosynthesis, and combining the two effectively is efficient for us. And now "it from bit" rears its beautiful head.
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Thank you for bring back so many memories of learning the unnecessarily hard way. This is great news
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Yes, but I get to choose the algorithms and their implementation, and can return such data as I see fit, within the limits of the law
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Nope. And I say that as a committed european and general approver of the EU. This is daft and contrary to fundamental human rights but as is so often the case in such matters it points towards the obvious solution. Do not rely on third part
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Got it upstairs and it's a treasure. Such a beautiful attitude and joyful playfulness shared with real generosity.
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Oh gosh, you speak to myself. Don't do what I did (hide under intoxication, brazen it out, wait too late to ask for help). There's absolutely nothing wrong with being shy or feeling awkward in company! As a matter of fact it'
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So imagine if you could convince the open source community of the planet to optimise clean water consumption based on a cool prototype and then you mass produce hyper-efficient instances linked to a google account. Saving the planet one art
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Somebody write the art of org-mode! I don't approach a computational problem nowadays without considering how it may be done in emacs. I'm spoiled rotten, it's an emacsystem, the utility is a learning experience. Text is a po
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On the difficulty of rigour in the discussion of current affairs(vdocuments.net)
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