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by gcanyon 3mo ago
Good thoughts, thanks
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
Wow, 97% that there will be elections. That's high, but if you handed me a gun with a 3% chance of being loaded and offered me a billion dollars to point it at my head and pull the trigger, I would not. My foot on the other hand...
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
If they will pay me $10 million I will guarantee to find voter fraud or refund half their money...
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
Isn't this exactly what we should expect/hope for? At least initially, chess computers were better than humans not because they were more creative or inspired, but because they thought harder/deeper. That's exactly the s
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
This argument seems, frankly, absurd to me on multiple fronts. First, it assumes that lack of genetic diversity in humans would be a serious handicap, when we're considering humans that are capable of making interstellar journeys. Assu
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
I read the main trilogy many years back; why would a faithful adaptation be a problem?
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
The IMAX screenings are pre-committed to future movies -- it might be the case that Spider-Man takes over in two weeks and the window for The Odyssey is closed, even if more people want to see The Odyssey in IMAX than Spider-Man.
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
The definition of "earth-like" in this context is almost absurdly broad: roughly it means: a rocky-metallic planet, around Earth mass (maybe 0.5 to 1.5 or so?), and in an orbit that might support liquid water -- not has water, j
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
AI didn't start the decline, it just finished it.
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
(in my experience) if this table included other flat-pack vendors the difference would be stark. Wayfair and the like are far more complex to assemble.
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
> If the letter of the law doesn't enforce the spirit of the law, it was poorly written or it's out of date and needs to be amended. I think if you rewrite that to, “If the letter of the law is demonstrably out of sync with the
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
I asked it to draw "two circles connected by an arc" and it crashed before drawing the arc :-(
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
I wonder if this will help them get a wikipedia page. (not sure whether this comment is a joke or serious...)
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
I have a friend who had a spontaneous pneumothorax. He even wrote a song about it after he recovered. I myself punctured and collapsed both lungs. My thinking is: if there's a reasonable chance I'll survive, go for it. If there&#x
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
Interesting -- does that have any macroscopic/real world impact?
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
One interesting point is that China "can't" (more like "is significantly behind on") manufacture jet engines -- the blades are the sticking point, they are ridiculously engineered.
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
There's a line from the movie The Way of the Gun that I love about this. The number is higher, but it still applies. Some criminals are loading a $15 million ransom into the back of a truck, and a younger criminal says, "Boy, $15
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
> The increased nuclear mass causes orbiting electrons to speed up to a significant fraction of the speed of light, where the rules of Einstein’s theory of relativity are important. Fun fact: this is why mercury is liquid at room tempera
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by gcanyon 3mo ago
Thanks! If you have any thoughts or suggestions I'm all ears.
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
You're reminding me of the Yogi Berra quote (paraphrasing): "New York is so expensive no one lives there anymore." You're not wrong, but millions (literally) of people do afford to live in NYC. I live in Harlem, which is
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Feynman's QED is an excellent read. It covers the topic in-depth in a descriptive, rather than mathematical way, covering many of the real-world effects that result from the way QED works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
I had an idea for a hard science science fiction short story about five months ago. I had grown tired of Star Trek digging their way out of every problem by throwing techno-babble at it, so I wanted to write something where one scientific l
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Shout out for Star City (and For All Mankind of course). The first ten minutes of FAM hit me unexpectedly hard, and the overall science fiction of both series is awesome.
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Maybe I'm unusual, but I live in NYC, with a grocery store a two minute walk away, a Target and Trader Joe's a three minute walk away, and a Whole Foods a four minute walk away. (and various bodegas within minutes as well) I went
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Isn't this pretty much a given? Performance per dollar has to be a ratcheting function because how would something more expensive replace something less expensive?
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
I think it's a useful distinction between learning about something and learning to do something. They have very different paths and methods of satisfaction.
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
I'll give a shoutout to Feynman's QED. It's approachable for anyone with high school understanding, and gives a reasonable insight into all sorts of phenomena.
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
I love barley in soup. I'd rather just eat it :-)
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Is there a reason to think this is anything more than increased productivity? And that therefore the case has to be made that labor, more than capital, should benefit from that increase? I’m not saying that argument can’t or shouldn’t be ma
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Everyone talking about strength training: that’s nice, but it’s not what this study was about. That doesn’t make it a bad study, it just means you’re looking for a different study.

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