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by hexane360 3y ago
I don't know how you can describe "equal to the world's fastest supercomputer, which was built less than a year ago" as "quite modest".
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by hexane360 3y ago
The problem with prison reform is politicans are incredibly afraid of being seen as "soft on crime". Paradoxically, this is especially true for democrats, because republicans are assumed to be tough on crime by default. Opposing p
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by hexane360 3y ago
Sure, but saying "Google did all the books" seems to imply there's no reason to make a scanner. But Google made this scanner specifically because they were interested in "doing all the books", even if they didn&#x27
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by hexane360 3y ago
"The periodic table" in this case refers to the original idea of Mendeleev to arrange elements into eight columns. This was done emprically based on a few elements, but its predictions continued to hold after many more elements we
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by hexane360 3y ago
The device in the post was actually developed at google: https://linearbookscanner.org/designs/
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by hexane360 3y ago
>It's probably about five people working for a year from being ready. The trouble is, we actually have tens/hundreds of people, all working on their own. The blessing and curse of open source development
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by hexane360 3y ago
The derivation is pretty simple, but a little messy in the integral formulation of Maxwell's laws https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/B...
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by hexane360 3y ago
Just like a physical bit, qubits are basically an abstraction over an analog world; they can be implemented in any physical medium you can make a quantum measurement with. Most current implementations are "trapped ion" computers.
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by hexane360 3y ago
There's a lot of minor points in that post, but it seems like both authors largely agree on the meaning, but are using different language. From Dr. Davies' post: >To remain Newtonian and preserve determinism, we can exclude the
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by hexane360 3y ago
Declarative vs. procedural is orthogonal to data oriented vs. object oriented. The functional way to make a declarative interface would be to have a single type, `Expression`, and all operators take expressions and return expressions. Howev
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by hexane360 3y ago
>“I had a sneaking suspicion that women were going to be regular hunters,” Wall-Scheffler says. What surprised her was the intentionality: Among the societies with women hunters, 87% did so deliberately rather than opportunistically happ
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by hexane360 3y ago
I used to play a mobile puzzle game with similar rules. I loved to make busy beaver solutions on the simpler levels.
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by hexane360 3y ago
I have two questions: - If pulse waves 'aren't propelled by the explosion', what propels them? - Why would seeing a pulse wave in nitrocellulose prove that it's an explosive (as you claim), if you're defining pulse
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by hexane360 3y ago
I can't quickly find any resources that distinguishes between a 'shock wave' and a 'pulse wave' in the context of explosions. Do you have some resources? If you're defining pulse wave as a sub-sonic pressure wa
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by hexane360 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion >An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressur
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by hexane360 3y ago
At least for the orthogonality thesis, it is a base assumption. It's a claim that cov(intelligence, goodness) = 0. For the instrumental convergence thesis, it assumes rational agentic behavior, which assumes AI behaves like an agent.
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by hexane360 3y ago
Anyone who has nostalgia for SimCity should definitely give a listen to its amazing soundtrack: https://youtu.be/PSv37HwwojU Jerry Martin, the composer for most of The Sims franchise, is a legend. The music is like vaporwav
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by hexane360 3y ago
Yes, but a broken glass has much less entropy than an intact glass at a slightly higher temperature.
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by hexane360 3y ago
Your argument falls apart when you consider that the people who would be working those jobs overwhelmingly approve of the minimum wage. It's a coordination problem caused by the power imbalance between labor producers and consumers. Wi
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by hexane360 3y ago
These are marginal decisions. Eventually, the additional utility of more money drops below the additional cost of more time.
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by hexane360 3y ago
Yes, this is a big part of quantum telecommunication. But you always need a classical side-channel. You can even copy a quantum state using 2 entangled qubits and a classical channel. This is called quantum teleportation.
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by hexane360 3y ago
>Either the chair supports your weight, or it breaks. Well, it's very easy to make a chair that works a couple times. Whether it holds up for a week or a century is another matter.
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by hexane360 3y ago
I loved AutoHotKey V1, in all its janky glory. Say what you will, it was better than batch scripting. I especially loved the primitive GUIs you could make with it. Nowadays I don't have as much need for Windows automation, but I'm
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by hexane360 3y ago
So you see people both in the third world and first world with this mindset? Is it possible that this mindset isn't actually the cause of the third world's problems? Could it be that the governments are actually worse in the third
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by hexane360 3y ago
What third world countries think 'government magically solves' everything? If anything, trust in government is much higher in regions with more political stability and prosperity.
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by hexane360 3y ago
What's even crazier is it's 2500+ year old tech that we turned into science in a period of about a hundred years (1860s-1960s).
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by hexane360 3y ago
I'm glad someone else noticed this. It drives me unreasonably crazy.
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by hexane360 3y ago
Seems like she supports abortion rights, which definitely doesn't give the government more power over people than criminalizing them.
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by hexane360 3y ago
Sure, but the compiler at least needs to know it's size, right?
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by hexane360 3y ago
For variadic functions, what type is the built-in 'argv' variable?

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