gnramires

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by gnramires 2y ago
Related to what GP said, I think desires are complicated. What you (and commonly you hear) referred to as desire might be something like a "first order desire" -- either what you would desire if there were no constraints or conseq
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by gnramires 2y ago
I spent a long time thinking about this same dillema as Penrose: if solving maths is undecidable, how can humans do math? It seemed like a great paradox and maybe revealing a super ability of humans. I think the truth is both more boring an
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by gnramires 2y ago
Yes, although I say, if you can make your play healthy as well as fun, might as well :)
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by gnramires 2y ago
It's probably not something you secretly wish when playing, and perhaps for the best (that you don't have fun and enjoy things always with an ulterior motive, except enjoying the experiences). I guess he's saying in the sense
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by gnramires 2y ago
Rectangles are straight up simpler :)
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by gnramires 2y ago
I'm glad that war is not really considered a large risk. I know some people from Taiwan, does seem like quite good quality of life! I didn't mention, but I think there are other important factors like the cultural importance given
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by gnramires 2y ago
It's a bit of a cliche, but as I live in Brazil I'd say it's mostly true that people living happily at the beach aren't desperate for economical and technical development, and mostly to enjoy daily life and nature. When
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by gnramires 2y ago
Indeed. Another fact you can use is that in Newtonian mechanics (although not in GR due to frame dragging, only approximately), a rotating spherical body has the same gravitational field as a static one. So there would be no mechanism for t
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by gnramires 2y ago
It follows from conservation of angular momentum :) If the axis direction changed (for a fixed orbit), then Earth's (or Solar system's, etc.) angular momentum would be changed, not be conserved.
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by gnramires 2y ago
It wasn't clear to me you can place colors/groups arbitrarily -- maybe add "Each group can be assigned different colors based on location." to instructions. Maybe color each group background instead of individual letters
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by gnramires 2y ago
It's not always possible to design avoiding precision components though (although as you mentioned trim components could fit the bill). If you want to precisely measure current with a shunt resistor for example, you need high precision
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by gnramires 2y ago
Sounds interesting. I really liked (and like) Homeworld, not only because of the really captivating setting and gameplay, but also because of the stories. They really add meaning to a game: it wasn't just a few ships skirmishing, it wa
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by gnramires 2y ago
What I got from his interviews is not that he disliked the GoL, it's just he disliked the GoL overshadowing everything else he did (basically, becoming the GoL guy). He personally didn't see much more interesting mathematics that
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by gnramires 2y ago
For reference, I believe relatively rudimentary chatbots have been able to pass forms of the Turing Test for a while, while also being unable to do almost all the things humans can do. It turns out you can make a chatbot quite convincing fo
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by gnramires 2y ago
It shows that family/environment influences life outcomes (it should be obvious); it's not conclusive (in establishing causation), it does show a correlation. I really think it's almost obvious this is true, but it's imp
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by gnramires 2y ago
I think the core message is that a child's life is strongly determined by his family life/environment, it's not just a personal choice to succeed or to fail. So if we want people to have better outcomes, we need to help bette
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by gnramires 2y ago
I think something like a touch-based display would be cool. Like an array of low cost transducers (maybe there's a way to multiplex the output mechanically like we do with electronics (so only 2*sqrt(N) motors are needed), but in mecha
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by gnramires 3y ago
I find equally valid (and perhaps more useful) to say that the notion of truth is the basis of all that exists, and this debate is far from simple. If we don't allow anything to be true at all, then even this discussion, any discussion
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by gnramires 3y ago
Edit: Now before commenting, I see there's an overarching theme of: sure, there is a bunch of unhealthy stuff about social media, but meanwhile there are some things you can do to make your interaction with it better. > That's
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by gnramires 3y ago
Good points, I would say that defense in depth is useful when the layers of defense need to all be broken (more or less) independently for a successful attack (this fails only if you add layers that expose vulnerabities compromising your sy
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by gnramires 3y ago
Defense in depth has value I agree, but I think it can also be counterproductive in some cases. Every layer can also be buggy and have vulnerabilities, which can often leak (e.g. into code execution) and compromise the whole system (bypassi
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by gnramires 3y ago
Related, a friend likes to say instruments that produce too pure sounds (too much like a sine wave) sound somewhat boring, because of their lack of timbre characteristics. I think this is a somewhat general property; although in general art
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by gnramires 3y ago
Another advantage of hobby anything is that you can just do, and reinvent whatever you want. Sure, fast CPUs/MCUs exist now and can do whatever you want. But if you feel like reinventing the wheel just for the sake of it, no one will s
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by gnramires 3y ago
Interesting. I ask because I have a suspicion that Quantum theories seem more fundamental than General relativity, because treating geometry within a quantum framework seems very hard and "non-natural", or implausible (e.g. when c
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by gnramires 3y ago
I've recently learned about Kaluza–Klein theories (just curious wiki browsing), do they unify electromagnetism and gravity in the sense that electromagnetism also "works by changing the geometry of spacetime" ? How does this
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by gnramires 3y ago
> How do you reconcile this with the frame-dragging effect? Namely, in that it shows that the distribution and movement of mass (not just the presence of mass/entropy) can influence the curvature of spacetime and thereby gravitation
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by gnramires 3y ago
Correction: I've got the integral wrong, of course :) I've got an expression (after correcting my rusty maths) of i = k*(n-1+k) / ( (1-r)*(n-1+k)^(p-1) + r*k^(p-1) ) ^ (1/(p-1)) - k I think there could be precision probl
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by gnramires 3y ago
No worries :P It's just a way to try to avoid showing the most popular, instead you'd choose randomly from a curve from most popular to least popular, with the chosen index given by i. An easier idea to understand is to pick rando
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by gnramires 3y ago
This is pretty cool! If I may suggest something, on the explore view, avoid showing most popular (I think it can lead to rote behavior!) If I may suggest another algorithm, something like picking from most popular to least with probability
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by gnramires 3y ago
I think it's important to understand what bias is . Bias is not having an opinion. Bias is when several particulars to you influence your opinions in ways that don't reflect certain values, like the common good, truth, accurate r

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