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721.
by hugh 18y ago
Actually, the window stickers on new cars (at least in this state) do have a "total estimated annual fuel cost", don't they?
722.
by hugh 18y ago
Actually I think the Imperial system is better in this case. I find it easier to remember a number which is an integer in the 20-40 range than a real between 5 and 10. I find that in my mind, most of the relevant numbers tend to get rounded
723.
by hugh 18y ago
I agree that's not much of a twist, but the "looking for developers fluent in Arabic" is a bit of a surprise. Googleplex Dubai?
724.
by hugh 18y ago
Unnecessary conspiracy theory much? GTA makes fun of pretty much everything. Actually I'm finding the satire in the latest game to be far too heavy-handed to actually be funny.
725.
by hugh 18y ago
Couldn't they find more than one guy to interview for this article? One guy who happens to be a friend of the writer?
726.
by hugh 18y ago
No, you're not. Though I'm getting almost as sick of the "this belongs on reddit" comments as I am of the stories which belong on reddit, which I guess just means I'm getting sick of this site entirely.
727.
by hugh 18y ago
Interesting, but it ignores the other half of the phenomenon: richer peer groups generally tend to frown upon ostentatious displays of wealth.
728.
by hugh 18y ago
Are you suggesting that: (a) There is no reason why men like some things and women like others (b) There is a reason but it is unknowable, or (c) There is a reason and it is knowable, but it will never appear in any past or future article o
729.
by hugh 18y ago
There really aren't a quadrupillion of anything. not anything physical anyway. The number of particles in the visible universe is only on the order of 10^80. Of course there are some examples. There's a quadrupillion ways to organize N ball
730.
by hugh 18y ago
There are two questions here: (a) what's the actual value of this idea, and (b) what's the right thing to say to a child who has come up with an idea like this, in order to give them the correct amount of encouragement without over-praising
731.
by hugh 18y ago
Agreed. I suppose the important thing is to give praise in the right way. I think ideally praise should be phrased in such a way that gives them some gratification for doing what they've done, while challenging them to see if they can do so
732.
by hugh 18y ago
Actually, if you start making pages for every not-particularly-interesting integer on the order of a googolplex, you'll quickly find out that hard disk space isn't cheap any more.
733.
by hugh 18y ago
Why don't all the extreme wikipedia inclusionists start their own, more inclusive, wiki? One with a page for every random idea that anybody's six-year-old kid ever has? I'm serious.
734.
by hugh 18y ago
Get him to read this: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html Seriously though, what do you expect to gain by posting this here?
735.
by hugh 18y ago
Bravo, this is the best argument in favour of downvotes (or, indeed, fonwvotes) I've seen so far.
736.
by hugh 18y ago
I'll make you a deal. You leave the physics to me, and I'll leave the drugs to you.
737.
by hugh 18y ago
Actually you are supposed to worry about whether your posts are good... the little arrows just give you feedback about whether they are or not, and discourage you from posting things which aren't.
738.
by hugh 18y ago
The way I understand MWI it basically is a Schroedinger-all-the-way-down approach, and measurement just becomes the act of getting your measurement apparatus (and hence your own brain and mind) entangled with the system. Decoherence, likewi
739.
by hugh 18y ago
That sounds like a pretty loose criterion. I know plenty of non-notable people who have had, say, articles written about them in the newspaper. In any case, looking at the sources at the bottom of this page, this guy doesn't even seem to sa
740.
by hugh 18y ago
It really should be "Scientists confirm that simple molecules identical to those which were part of the earliest genetic material can be found on space rocks". Which is only slightly interesting. It's well known that these sorts of simple h
741.
by hugh 18y ago
i have some pretty crazy theories that neutrinos cause all Universal beings to expand No you don't. That's not coherent enough to be a theory, not even a crazy one. It's just some big words you managed to put together, one after the other
742.
by hugh 18y ago
I tried tryruby, and I have to admit it was pretty goddamn neat. Of course creating something goddamn neat still doesn't mean that you deserve a wikipedia article, but ultimately making previously-skeptical people say "Wow, that was pretty
743.
by hugh 18y ago
Hey, I'm not arguing either way. I said he's borderline notable, and I'm not that interested in arguing which side of the border he's on. I'm just trying to understand why some people seem to care so much that this guy should be listed on
744.
by hugh 18y ago
Wow, getting emotionally involved? Your tone really isn't at all appropriate for this forum. I said "it looks like he wrote it himself", not that he actually did (I know, I read the talk page). From the content it's indistinguishable from a
745.
by hugh 18y ago
Perhaps we're estimating differently the amount of work which will be needed to turn this into an actual paper. But I've never published in a maths journal (only physics) so you probably know better than I do on this point.
746.
by hugh 18y ago
Just two days ago I decided to read one of Feynman's papers (the one on the Hellman-Feynman theorem). His style is amazingly readable and almost conversational, even in dense scientific work, and yet it's still sufficiently precise and form
747.
by hugh 18y ago
I've read all his books except Strange Loop. I skimmed it in the bookstore, but it seemed like more of a rehash of ideas presented more interestingly in his other books. Personally I'd recommend starting with GEB.
748.
by hugh 18y ago
I was in the audience for that talk, it was brilliant. Hofstader gave the second talk (first was Kurzweil) at the Singularity Summit, and completely yet classily trashed Kurzweil's talk, including his apparent failure to understand basic ma
749.
by hugh 18y ago
I'm unclear on why people seem to care so much that there should be a wikipedia article on this annoyingly-named guy who is (at best) borderline notable. Is it because they've read some of his work and now feel a loyalty towards him? Or is
750.
by hugh 18y ago
I'd agree that "classical computer simulating the universe" is one theory which is local, deterministic and consistent with experiment, but are there really any others? Others which don't fall into the "grand conspiracy where everything is

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