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by gcanyon 1y ago
As an aside, I once worked with an IMO bronze medalist and a gold medalist. They were scary smart. And then there's the fact that I once got to talk with Erdős. I wish I had known to take that opportunity more seriously.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Once upon a time I was good at math -- like, win state-wide competitions, get a scholarship good. It's sad that I can easily follow the path laid out here, but I am nowhere close to being able to lay out this course on my own.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
No conversation on game theory is complete until someone brings up Golden Balls, and in particular this amazing moment (warning: terrible audio quality). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8
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by gcanyon 1y ago
The Xreal Air 2 Pro costs $299 new; why would you buy it used for $260?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
At the same time as I am super-impressed by the progress SpaceX has made, it scares the crap out of me that any part of the U.S. space program depends on the whims of Elon.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> Why not instead point your Starships at their capital city? I thought we gave up MAD as a strategy almost fifty years ago? Also, if you're just going to do that, ICBMs are way more efficient than Starship.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Maybe it's a distinction without a difference, but this wouldn't need to be orbital, just suborbital. That means something like 4K less KPH, which means less fuel needed or more weight capacity.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> If you aren't hiring junior engineers to do these kinds of things, where do you think the senior engineers you need in the future will come from? I know this isn't what you want to hear, but what makes you think senior engine
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by gcanyon 1y ago
You might enjoy For All Mankind -- it proposes exactly that the space race never ended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Thanks for the effort!
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Guys (I'm sure women do too, but I haven't seen it) riding wheelies seem to manage. But I take your point -- I've ridden a unicycle extensively, but never a wheelie.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
If a normal-weight person undergoes significant long-term sleep deprivation -- like >50% of nights on 4-6 hours of sleep over the course of decades -- what would the expected effect to be? And if the person's bloodwork nevertheless
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I can't stop thinking about riding this without the trailer, as a unicycle with gears.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Of course the guys find the old one tippy: there's no load in back. Put even twenty pounds on that platform and stability would be wildly improved.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Using Hohmann transfer, I believe the energy cost is the same both ways. Of course as you point out we have the Moon, "they" have none. So we'd have plenty of rocks to throw. That said, we'd have to throw much bigger r
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by gcanyon 1y ago
H.G. Wells has you covered here.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Venus outweighs its atmosphere by about 10,000 times. This is actually less than I thought -- for comparison Earth outweighs its atmosphere by over 1,000,000 times, which is still far less than I would have guessed. Venus's escape ve
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> ChatGPT 4.5 today is still the same as it was with GPT-3/GPT-4 in 2022. 4.5/o3 doesn't seem hugely more intelligent then 3.0 I think you're misremembering how 3.0 worked. Granted, the slope from 2.0 to 3.0 was very
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> Never give away "unlimited" anything This is resonating very much with me, but perhaps for a different reason. I'm launching a product within a business that is already successful. I get to give demos to potential custom
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by gcanyon 1y ago
First I expected this to be online. Then I expected it to be a notebook for sale. Now I'm just puzzled.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
We are going to be paying for this stupidity for generations.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
“There’s no need to fear! ...”
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Thanks! This wasn't it -- the story I read was a short short story, maybe only a page or two. It was basically: 1. Humans despaired that the stars were impossibly far away, due to lightspeed limitations 2. They realized it is p
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Thanks! I haven't read it, and this was maybe forty years ago, and it was a short short story, so it has to be something else.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
It's hardly faustian if your goal is to sell your product. If you have some weird hybrid sales/content-based ad revenue setup, then yeah, maybe it's faustian.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
There is a science fiction story, I don’t remember who wrote it or the title, where humanity discovers a way to modify the speed of light within a region. Excited, they work incredibly hard to implement the technology, only to discover they
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I tested on this image: https://imgur.com/a/YSoMBc1 It nailed it down to the exact park in Lisbon: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vpvqA14TCbeFb3Rd7 > The little clues that make me lean that way are the Por
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by gcanyon 2y ago
re: the GPS thing -- I have a very strong physical/arrangement sense/memory. Like, I remember where I sat in the theater, and where the theater was in the multiplex, as well as I remember the plot of the movie. In my twenties (p
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The concern over "LLMs vs. the Web" is giving me serious "The Web vs. Brick and Mortar" vibes. That's not to say that it won't be the predicted cataclysm, just that it might not be. Time will tell, because
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by gcanyon 2y ago
It's an awesome hack! It seems like the easier hack would be to put a peltier heater/cooler under the thermostat then control that remotely to assume control over what temperature the thermostat sees. The link to the exact model

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