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by eref 9y ago
It is a great opportunity to shake up the sphere of extension development a bit. New alternatives pop up every day and eventually the best will stick. Here is a list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d
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When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot for Humans?(nymag.com)
49 points by eref 9y ago|32 comments
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by eref 9y ago
I think it is a pretty unnecessary sentence. 81 comes from the 9x9 kernel size. It is obvious that those will overlap despite of the stride of 2. Maybe they mean the projective field.
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by eref 9y ago
Neither is there for reproducible code, but now there are artificial incentives such as the Reproduction Challenge.
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by eref 9y ago
I wished more academic papers would have a "Limitations" section. Often it is so hard to tell what these are, e.g.: Does it scale well? How much faster/slower is it than other methods? Does it converge reliably?
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by eref 9y ago
What I gather from discussions about fine-tuning, it would not be enough to define all the constants as 1 to simplify the picture. In fact, this is already often done in physics. The universe still appears to be oddly fine-tuned.
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by eref 9y ago
Are there any statistics about how much of the value produced by professionals abroad actually flows back to the country of origin? Intuitively, I would say it is very little because why would you return once you live in much more privilege
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by eref 9y ago
I stand corrected. I only saw this on Reddit with an apparently misleading title.
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by eref 9y ago
The Touch Bar is also a ergonomic and UX catastrophe. Touching it accidentally happens way too often and your hands also tend to be in the way for reading it. It is also way too small and requires adjusting ones pose to read it properly. Th
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by eref 9y ago
It links a certain axiom set with computations, not all of mathematics (i.e. the set of all axiom sets), doesn’t it?
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by eref 9y ago
I am unsure now whether he describes the set of mathematical objects by enumeration and evaluation. He definitely describes the set of universes this way, as being “run”, so it is a computation. But you are right that he never discussed t
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by eref 9y ago
I think the universe could easily be less complex if you would simply remove everything below Newtonian physics and basic chemistry. We would have evolved in pretty much the same way. But our universe is also complex in that the currently m
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by eref 9y ago
Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (MUH) is actually pretty much a computational theory of the universe. It basically makes the assumption that there exists somewhere the simplest process imaginable: One that counts through and
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by eref 9y ago
Make them big enough to provide radiation protection and small enough such that they burn up in the atmosphere.
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by eref 9y ago
I was wondering whether one could bring several asteroids in a regular orbit near Earth and Mars with minimal need for correction. Perhaps there exist orbits which might take significantly longer than a more direct trajectory (e.g. several