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by iliis 13y ago
Tha reasoning backward trick sounds very interesting. Certainly a cool idea I have to try! Also, it sounds you might be interested in LessWrong.com - if you haven't stumbled upon it yourself already.
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by iliis 13y ago
I haven't been in that many banks but I've never been at one that tells you to turn off cellphones , neither in Europe nor here in Africa...
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by iliis 13y ago
Can somebody please add a warning that there's an autoplaying video? It's a bit awkward if your phone suddenly starts talking about guns when your standing in line in a bank :/ Edit: A video tag would be nice in general for m
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by iliis 13y ago
A friend of mine writes firmware for embedded devices like automatic door controls. Besides having very well designed and redundant hardware (multiple PSUs etc.) the software does a lot of things to keep itself running robustly. For example
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by iliis 13y ago
It would have to be a very small sun tough in order to fit trough the hole and not burn the planet to a crisp. So we arrived at the Discworld, where the elephants carrying the world sometimes have to lift their legs to let the sun pass. Suc
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Porsche 'P1': Electric car from 1898 with 3hp and a range of 80km(usatoday.com)
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by iliis 13y ago
Thanks! It is nice to know I'm not the only one going trough this. Let me know if you find the/an/your answer! Some things I've noticed: Being physically fit helps and doing sport is a bit easier than overthrowing the wo
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by iliis 13y ago
Yes. Yes, I do. And it makes a tremendous difference. Abstractions are an absolute necessity without which we could never have built a computer. And may be fine to stay at one level of abstraction for day to day stuff. Knowing the levels be
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by iliis 13y ago
Well, you may never have read Asimov's "Last Question": http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
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The Great Locomotive Chase (1862)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by iliis 13y ago|0 comments
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by iliis 13y ago
If you're talking about Kolmogorov Complexity here, you can't really "circumvent" it. Kolmogorov Complexitiy of a string is basically defined as the size of the shortest possible representation of said string. If you man
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by iliis 13y ago
> Because it will marginally increase the cost of the goods And this is not even a given. Even in blue-collar industries it can be quite profitable to improve working conditions and thereby raising employee productivity.
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by iliis 13y ago
Yes, the economic argument looks solid. Good old supply and demand. Problem is, we may not be able to automate these jobs so easily.
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by iliis 13y ago
As a swiss I'm quite excited about this. Even if I'm pessimistic about a successful vote. I want to mention a side-point which I haven't encountered so far: In the 'problem of lazyness' (i.e. "who will do the b
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by iliis 13y ago
Ah, this is just beautiful. There's a whole community flying model airplanes trough a camera and video goggles: http://vimeo.com/16604842
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by iliis 13y ago
Good point. We let them shoot and kill each other however.
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by iliis 13y ago
This seems to be the norm here in Europe. Our university does have a very diverse offer of sports activities (everything from running, dancing, boxing or paragliding to jazz and waterboarding), but it is more a hobby-thingie and doesn'
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by iliis 13y ago
Nice to know there's a name for this concept! You can take the idea further and abandon any notion of time or even discreteness altogether: If the universe is essentially information, this information can be _completely_ described by s
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by iliis 13y ago
As always when this comes up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams Yes, you can indeed hijack an ILS system. At least during WW2.
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by iliis 13y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the Bastard Operator from Hell yet. It's a similiar story if somewhat more violent and on the technical side. Recommended reading for every sysadmin. http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/ind
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by iliis 13y ago
Yes, absolutely correct. Which is why I said for some definition of possible. 'Feasible' probably would have been the better choice. Keep in mind that we're talking exponential here! e^x blows up really really fast. Yes, it&#
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by iliis 13y ago
Actually this is not possible for some definition of possible (mainly performance). Feynman showed that you get an exponential slowdown when simulating QM with a classical computer: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/
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Link between quantum physics and game theory found(bristol.ac.uk)
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by iliis 13y ago
I'm always amazed on how much wisdom is in such old texts. People from hundreds or even thousands of years ago were still ... just humans. The same as we are. They had the same problems and desires as we have. Even tough their world lo
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by iliis 13y ago
This is seriously fun! You can actually search for "blue car" and it works. Searching for "picture" results in an error however. Same for "image". "photo" seems to return more or less everything.
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by iliis 13y ago
Not necessarily. Emotions are curios things and the part about riding them out helped me a lot. You can't end them right now. If you try to stop em or suppress em you'll only achieve the opposite. It's a bit like trying not to laugh when yo
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by iliis 14y ago
As others have said: You didn't learn touch-typing to churn out text as fast as possible. You learned it because it creates a more direct interface between brain and machine. It doesn't hinder your toughts, doesn't break the concentration.
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by iliis 14y ago
He explained in a comment how he ended up transporting it with a flatbed trailer: "It was transported by a semi on a flatbed trailer from Ohio to Montana. I looked into all kinds of less expensive alternatives including paying someone to d
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by iliis 14y ago
Well, my cat gets scared to death by a vacuum cleaner. She darts out of the room as soon as it's turned on.
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by iliis 14y ago
Thanks for a rather nice example :) Actually, it's somewhat meta for me: While I didn't squirm that much in the fireplace example, I'm a bit surprised by the amount of 'squirming'/'flaming' shown in this thread. I don't want to believe it.

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