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by feoren 3y ago
It just feels like asking which bits of a human wouldn't have been possible without having evolved for billions of years. It's an interconnected body of work that made cryptography possible at all. So ... all of it? I know it soun
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by feoren 3y ago
No, we could not wait to start doing number theory until after we discover that it's useful for cryptography. It took thousands of years to get to the point where we understood it well enough to use it. Its use would never occur to
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by feoren 3y ago
There are two different things people mean when they say "mathematics". (Probably lots more, but I'll focus on two.) There's mathematics that is invented , and then there's mathematics that is discovered . The &qu
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by feoren 3y ago
> An example is why a general quintic cannot be solved with radicals A general quintic can be solved if you allow the "Bring radical", which is a function f(x) that gives the (unique) real root of x^5 + x + 1. When I first he
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by feoren 3y ago
> that they are one of the simplest and most intuitive ways to write code that learns from input data Linear regression is significantly simpler and also learns from input data.
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by feoren 3y ago
> What I generally want is: > 1) Something translating SQL syntax into my native language, but maintaining SQL full semantics and expressiveness. You have just described a good ORM used well. > 2) This should allow me to be databas
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by feoren 3y ago
That's like saying: my problem with Functions is that people sprinkle them throughout their codebase, instead of having one single place where all their Functions are defined. For most applications, "Retrieving and updating data&q
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by feoren 3y ago
> SQL is the abstraction. SQL is an abstraction in the same way any programming language is an abstraction, but that's beside the point. Within the programming language itself, some support abstraction better than others (and lots o
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by feoren 3y ago
Every time I see a post talking about how bad ORMs are, they're using ORMs in an awful way. It's not really their fault: most ORMs seem like they encourage the worst ways to use them. But they're entirely missing the point: S
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by feoren 3y ago
I find it hard to remember a ton of different rules, so I just count configurations, and I'm right on these problems basically every time. You count configurations by enumerating all possible combinations of unknowns, then "score&
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by feoren 3y ago
Both of those have the same answer. Why would they not?
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by feoren 3y ago
> read historical case law on the topic in question Is this even at all accessible to anyone who isn't already in a major law firm? I'm assuming it requires some sort of thousand-dollar subscription to an exploitative publishin
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by feoren 3y ago
Of course there are enough high-value projects to do. You just need to be willing to experiment, expand horizontally, and let your employees go out on a limb with new ideas; something that no corporate leadership anywhere has ever been will
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by feoren 3y ago
I wouldn't say all social engineering is a $5 wrench attack. A $5 wrench attack is having physical access to the person and using physical means (handcuffs, prison cells, guns) to convince them to comply.
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by feoren 3y ago
> From a logical perspective, ignoring all of the politics possible, there is a clear best solution Any solution that "ignores all of the politics" is not a solution at all. > evacuate the innocent people from Gaza Evacuatio
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by feoren 3y ago
Well that goes against multiple different sources claiming that such long-term digital storage doesn't exist. Plenty of threads on data hoarding talk about the problem of keeping data fresh even a few decades. It's pretty hard to
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by feoren 3y ago
> I think you missed the point. They put it on tape and claim it will last 1000 years. I didn't miss that point, because they never made that claim . At least in the linked video. If they had, it'd be bullshit.
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by feoren 3y ago
> Architects, we have to admit, are under-performing in the metric of "creating new architectural styles and schools of thought" Why is new styles a goal? Shouldn't the goal be a building that is functional, beautiful, a
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by feoren 3y ago
> I'm not saying there should be a master plan (I actually don't like those) > the street network design largely seems to be on autopilot with very few opportunities for a change in direction You can't have it both ways
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by feoren 3y ago
There are a lot of awful effects of plastic in the ocean, but I agree: this doesn't really seem like one of them. Hermit crabs seem to readily move into better homes if they find them, meaning that these are only providing them with mo
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by feoren 3y ago
I'm pretty sure we don't have any digital storage media that last 1000 years, or even 100 years. There's no point even trying to read it that far in the future; it's completely gone.
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by feoren 3y ago
> Because then you're under, you can even be "interactive" but you're not conscious of it because your short term memory has been disabled. I don't find this convincing. If you asked someone under such anesthesia
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by feoren 3y ago
> If graph theory was low-hanging why did it take thousands of years since Sumer or ancient Egypt? Because it wasn't low hanging thousands of years ago. It was only low hanging after an enormous body of foundational work was laid
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by feoren 3y ago
By all means he was a crazy outlier generational genius. A few others in history, like Archimedes and Newton, have been accused of "not leaving anything for anyone else to discover" as well. The question was: why do we not seem to
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by feoren 3y ago
Part of that, too, is the "founding father" effect. Most humans alive today are related to Genghis Khan and/or Charlemagne. It just takes time for new ideas to dissipate and cross-breed.
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by feoren 3y ago
A lot of decisions come from experience and expertise. There are hundreds of little data points that all come together in my brain when I make an engineering decision, and I can't even necessarily enumerate them all. It's exhausti
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by feoren 3y ago
Yeesh, I don't know. I think we have enough data to decide the shape of the Earth, yet there are still Flat Earthers. Your approach works in an idealized world where everyone is perfectly rational and emotionless and all facts are perf
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by feoren 3y ago
Part of it is low-hanging fruit, certainly. Euler lived at a time when it was still possible to "know all math". That breadth of knowledge is simply not possible for a single human anymore; the discipline of mathematics is orders
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by feoren 3y ago
The other responses actually have this a bit wrong: this was unique among "bright fireball" asteroid impacts, because before it impacted (second), it was (first) detected. "First" is referring to the order of events: det
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by feoren 3y ago
GP said "System A doesn't work without controls" and you replied "that's disingenuous: System B also doesn't work without controls". Okay? That has nothing to do with it.

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