garba_dlm

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by garba_dlm 3y ago
what if we take earth to be flat but "flat" in the sense of 'euclid-ness' like in a Manifold[1] ? or maybe we gotta work on accepting that it may be possible for two completely different, even opposing theories, to expla
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
here's the kicker it's all connected to an organic deep neural network which means that the specific arrangement of the physical wires doesn't matter. because there's a training period in which the neural network literal
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
> if you want to solve the problem you do not want to create more problems by solving it. but if, in contrast, what you want to create is a business then it's easy to argue you actually DO want to create more problems; partially so
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
WOW all I can think is how all those gears have all those ratios ratios which are all somewhere in the stern brocot trees and which can be written as finite continued fractions I wish I could think about what this means in terms of compiler
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
games are a new medium you're right that software engineer and programmer types (of persons) would do well to learn form other older media formats that precede games. but let's not pretend that games are anything like what came be
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
stop mixing together actions meaning done (or doable) deeds, and statements such as speech an extreme example would be to ban all fictional writing because of the actions some reader may possibly take due to reading a about some terrible aw
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
would it be possible to induce the vibration of the metal piece (assuming it's magnetic) without nails? using very rapid magnetic oscillations (like a speaker??)? I think the electronics would be different, but is it possible?
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
but they're using the 'same' obsolete philosophy as the founding father used when writing those things so it's correct that they do this, else they would change the meaning behind those words. what is needed is that cong
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
and impossible things difficult (hence no longer impossible)!
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
> they are already thinking of things in the realm of the possible. very astute observation. Now I'm left wondering how this comes to be? what is it about the way in which a general CS practitioner's approach to problem solvi
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
but it also fails on the very philosophical framework used to come up with those laws they're using philosophical frameworks older than digital computers; which is ok, and is as should be. up to the point where those ways to understand
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
I will never get used to this geo-determined internet (i cannot see the phone's page without a vpn) is like we developed this new amazing inter-connection network. and then due to politics, decided it was much too good... far too much
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
as a person who has wished they could have studied microchip design, I assure you that the fact there are so little people able to do that is no accident. the less people can do it the more valuable the skill is, or maybe they're reall
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
i'm still working on understanding lattices better but i can imagine, based on my own ignorance, creativity, and lack of correct understanding, would be some kind of factorization. as I think while trying to better know what's a l
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
but this is more over the top, so this has outpeaked previous show
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
I just find it sad that it's things like these that make it impossible for the layman to figure out what is going on with, for example, Mochizuki's new stuff I have no reason to doubt that a lot of math has been made more difficul
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
it's an attempt to bridge the language because you're right, the people that own this stuff (and work on these companies) are used to thinking in terms of large transmission-interconnected facilities. so my take this move has mos
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
another perspective to the shared thinking is that if a lion is charging at you in the jungle, there very first thing isn't conceptual; it's just fear which will immediately coordinate any mammals in the group to run or prepare to
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
lucky me I'm speaking in English. also, what does informatics have to do with philosophy, andor phil. of engineering?
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
turns out there's no philosophy of engineering! IMO, this is also why we have "computer science"... as if computers were found in nature and we were trying to 'reverse engineer' how they are made; which is ridiculou
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
because twitter's real purpose is to manipulate its users and the issue is how this is more obviously the case now than before it used to be more important that users remained engaged, which in twitter meant people got to interact betw
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
and this is probably why and how it comes to pass that the taxpayer of the future is left holding the bills
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
nah, but the way in which ownership over media works right now (20th century style) cannot hold. media itself will adapt, change, morph or something
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
you know that semi-old saying "if you're not paying you're the product" well it's subtly wrong but points in the overall direction. the capacity to manipulate this kind of stuff, to sabotage ideologies such as EFFs
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
nonetheless astronomy is doing fine https://english.news.cn/20230928/5929e14fe40b4c939c1f8194e0b...
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
I refuse to learn anything about any propietary technologies unless you pay me for every minute I spend doing it. and I'll probably get right on to forgetting it if you stop paying me, but won't really cuz my memory and experience
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
what we really need, is for "engineering" as a discipline to rise to the same status as arts and sciences. computer science is not real. computers are not found in nature. they're not a natural object, hence the methodology o
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
I think it's impressive how he saw a danger, a possibility some 20 years before it was even a feasible technical reality referring to his story of "right to read" or something like that about books being able to get deleted o
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
> I'm just sad that there's no young people to pass the torch for when the time comes and the founding fathers are no more. yes there are; but also not really. due to my age cohort I'm see my self as this "next genera
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by garba_dlm 3y ago
are senators in USA a lifetime position?

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