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by gpsx 8y ago
Yes, glacier melting should mean more water. That is not what the graph labeled "The Rhine river has been receding as alpine glaciers at its source melt" shows. Another alternative is that, because temperatures are warmer and ther
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by gpsx 8y ago
Other people here have said this general idea here, the large centrealized services like Google and Facebook have succeeded in becoming so big through a lot of effort and a lot of cost, which was paid for by all the money they make. At a mi
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by gpsx 8y ago
I usually toss the ideas around in my head for a little while and then I will write it up and keep it in Google Drive. It may be a page or a few pages, or a half a page. I create a folder for the idea and then put the document inside that.
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by gpsx 8y ago
I usually toss the ideas around in my head for a little while and then I will write it up and keep it in Google Drive. It may be a page or a few pages, or a half a page. I create a folder for the idea and then put the document inside that.
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by gpsx 8y ago
It sounds like two guys made this. Its hard for two guys to be experts enough to make a product like this and also happen to be up on the current state of making web sites. I say this because I am working on a product in my spare time and I
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by gpsx 8y ago
The article talks about people companies and factories, and I think it is calling a tech company a people company. Lawyers and engineers are not the same in the sense that lawyers have to spend hours of time to bill clients (in theory at le
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by gpsx 8y ago
I enjoyed reading the chapter but I didn't have enough time to put into it to understand all his derivations as well as I would like. So I may be incorrect here but I don't think he is proving the gaussian distribution is correct,
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by gpsx 8y ago
As I understand (or maybe I should say "in my opinion") the magic of the gaussian distribution lies in the two assumptions you make. You have a rotational invariant answer (X and Y are related) but you are assuming the distributio
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by gpsx 8y ago
If you have can find a post I'd like to see it. I don't quite follow. In what I am describing, the two "worlds" don't really separate. It is possible that they can interact, theoretically. However, you can't co
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by gpsx 8y ago
No. I may not have conveyed the idea very well in the comment. That is normal quantum mechanics. People just use the term "world" when it applies to these observers and not when it applies to something like an electron.
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by gpsx 8y ago
Are you a many worlds person, Or is this your interpretation of what they believe? There is no need for an irreversible decoherence. Any real situation where there is a question of copenhagen versus many worlds is a pretty decoherent proble
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by gpsx 8y ago
People have an adverse reaction to the "many worlds" theory. Maybe they don't understand it? Or maybe what I think is the many world interpretation is really something else. Back when I was in theoretical physics we weren&#x2
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by gpsx 8y ago
Software is hard. I blame it in Moore's law, in the sense that computers have gotten more capable but we programmers have not. Its like the brain can only hold so much before it gets overrun, and we reached that point several years ago
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by gpsx 8y ago
As a serious question, aside from communications, what are examples of things they are looking for?
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by gpsx 8y ago
I have trouble connecting to the cell tower down the street. I don't know how they are going to receive a real communication signal from that many light years away.
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by gpsx 8y ago
Finally, a graphical programming environment that is as fast as programming with text files.
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by gpsx 8y ago
Yes, these are not causally connected, so we can call the different universes. I interpreted the original post to be saying that if life is very improbable then it is unlikely we would be here. And If there were only one universe then yes,
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by gpsx 8y ago
The fact that there is at least one intelligent civilization in "the" universe is not necessarily that informative. This depends on the number of universes. If there is only one universe, then it is informative. If there are many
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by gpsx 9y ago
I would like to use Firefox but I still use Chrome as my main browser. Edge, in fact, is my secondary browser (I'm on windows) and I use Firefox last. The speed of Firefox is much better than before but it's appearance is very clu
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by gpsx 9y ago
If someone is using machine learning to advertise to me on the web and they come up with some crazy ad they think I might like, no harm done. Using the "probabilities" they may be making the ads marginally better. But if someone u
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by gpsx 9y ago
Maybe everyone should use HTTPS, or maybe it's a bad idea. But Google shouldn't unilaterally decide what is good for the rest of us. I'm with the author on that. This also applies to AMP. Its bad enough they have so much cont
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by gpsx 9y ago
Previously I really like the flexibility of the tagging system in open street map. I used something like it for a unrelated commercial product and we have found we have to switch away from it. And we had very tight control over the definiti
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by gpsx 9y ago
I agree with you here and think Microsoft Office does not make us les productive, for the reason you give. It would be nice if the OP actually did some measurements to test his idea or at least the extent to which it is a factor. Maybe he l
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by gpsx 9y ago
I don't think Facebook is the real problem when it comes to splitting the world. The users are the problem. People are so divided because they are getting information in silos. They end up seeing the world they want to see. And if it i
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by gpsx 9y ago
America in general is pretty dumpy. For one thing we have not been spending much money on infrastructure. I think Palo Alto is nicer then your typical comparable cities in the US, but that is not saying much. I think Silicon valley has chan
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by gpsx 9y ago
I usually go to Whole Foods in Mountain View and I don't see shelves like that. In fact, I used to complain that some of their things like meat and dairy are not as fresh as I'd like. It has been better roughly since the time of t
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by gpsx 9y ago
Jsut to be clear, the idea was that you would go to the gas station and trade in an empty battery for a full one. In this case it is better for the people to not own the battery since they will be getting different ones all the time. Of cou
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by gpsx 9y ago
To make electric cars really mainstream, I think it would help to make some standard, easily removable battery modules that different manufacturers use. Then they sell the electyric car without battery and you lease the battery from provide
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by gpsx 9y ago
I understand the singularity and I am not arguing against it. It is reasonable to expect exponential development as a rule, but that doesn't mean development happens smoothly. The intended point was about how foreign the world would lo
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by gpsx 9y ago
I'd like to back this up and I am going to use a really bad example - the movie "Back to the Future". When they went from the present back to 1955, the world looked a little different. When the went back to 1885 in "Back

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