im3w1l

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by im3w1l 2y ago
I hadn't realized that "differential" entropy and shannon entropy are actually different and incompatible, huh . So the case I mentioned, where you know all the positions and momentums has 0 shannon entropy and -Inf differen
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I think this is basically right, but I would add the suffering of the family as well. Obesity will not lead you to abuse your spouse or children. Obese people can hold down a job. Obese people don't lose custody of their children. The
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by im3w1l 2y ago
In classical physics there is no real objective randomness. Particles have a defined position and momentum and those evolve deterministically. If you somehow learned these then the shannon entropy is zero. If entropy is zero then all kinds
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by im3w1l 2y ago
But the aristocracy didn't micromanage that, is my point. Unless you were a slave I guess?
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by im3w1l 2y ago
> Same as it always was. I feel like it's an industrialization thing. Before industrialization people would farm their own land, set up their own shops etc. Sure there would be people above you, but they wouldn't and couldn&#x2
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Payment is out of the question - too much of a hassle. What is likely is websites either requiring you allow ai training in exchange for hosting your content, or giving some minor perk/incentive for it. Consider this comment itself. Ho
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by im3w1l 2y ago
It's not so obvious to me. I think it's easy for a rich country to just "solve" security by throwing money at fancy gear, but these poor countries they must have some way of incentivizing people to die helplessly in a di
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I'm kind of curious how accidental collusion could work out. Like imagine multiple players playing in such a way that they help each other - but purely out of ignorance on how best to play the game!
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I feel like I still didnt fully understand what's going on here. Is the following correct? "Threads hava a 'canonical' stack that the OS auto-grows for you as you use more of it. But you can also create your own stack by
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by im3w1l 2y ago
The issue with this is that it lacks the semantic - styling separation of proper modern HTML with CSS. Like compare that mess to the elegant semantic structure of a state of the art webpage like google.com <div class="gb_Ld&qu
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by im3w1l 2y ago
This argument makes sense semantically, but not in practice. Consider these two people "I should kill myself" grabs gun and fires "I should kill myself. I'll go buy some poison pills tomorrow." feels better the n
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by im3w1l 2y ago
> When someone decides to do it, they will try, and there are things worse than dying. Science disagrees. Many attempts are impulsive and a minor hurdle can be enough to stop them.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Maybe it's running at high rate to compensate for some issue? An issue that could be found and resolved?
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by im3w1l 2y ago
To me, you have to distinguish between harassment directed at a person, and on the other hand discussion about a person. It is not possible to use hacker news to send messages to someones email. It is not even possible to send a dm to a
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Amazing work. But I have some questions. The tool lowers the amount of the protein by 80%. That seems a bit low? Like I'm sure it's way better than nothing, but is it really enough? Also they say that the gene is turned off perma
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by im3w1l 2y ago
It's a lot easier to more or less accidentally create something quirky than it is to create a second quirk-for-quirk compatible system.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Sounds like a case of "Old measuring instrument cannot tell two things apart. New more precise instrument can tell them apart"
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I disagree with everything you said. Code is not short for encoding a solution. Code is any kind of program whether correct or not. You can have a solution without understanding it. You can for instance know the rough shape a solution shoul
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by im3w1l 2y ago
This code is incorrect though, as it doesn't account for braces in strings and comments. There are other issues too, but that is the big one.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Long but enjoyable read. I was surprised it didn't mention AI.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
This is such a boring dismissal of a very interesting subject - what information is important to whom and why. A pretty important reason for learning about the history of democracy is to learn how and why to preserve it.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
It's always fun how to debate how to square circles, something has to give, but what? My proposed solution is to make the first "century" 99 years.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Late reply, but I think that people who use a "proper function" don't usually put it immediately after the call - can you really call it a proper function if control flow falls through into it? That's certainly not how f
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I assume that the reason this is relevant now is because of the the announcement of FinalSparks NeuroPlatform, that gives SaaS access to brain organoids? Very cool but also very creepy. Has a clear potential to become the most evil thing hu
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Interesting, I've never made that connection. Not an easy fix though I think; taxing increase in market cap, through mark-to-market has its own issues.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
How much is actually gained by removing checks like these, and is it worth the cost? Can we find a safer approach to making the code fast?
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I think it's simply a matter of cost.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
The strategy that society chooses is hugely important. And it is decided to a large extent by public opinion and debate. Thus participating in that debate can make a difference.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
If its frontloaded, then it makes sense to keep this ace up our sleeve until temperatures become unbearable. Then at that time, we can cut methane for immediate relief, to flatten the temperature curve if you will. Doing it too early is poi
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I have done my part by advocating a climate strategy for carbon neutrality without giving up our quality of life based on nuclear. Maybe the people that advocate the wait and see non-strategy can make the sacrifices?

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