jayajay

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by jayajay 10y ago
No one is extrapolating that way, please re-read. All of my words are really applied to small N societies, which I made very clear to anyone reading this.
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by jayajay 10y ago
You've chained together a lot of "what if"s. The truth is, you and I have no idea how people would behave or react in such a situation.
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by jayajay 10y ago
If the probability that a person is "in on it" is P, then the probability that N people are "in on it" is P^N, which converges to 0 as N goes to infinity. For every library you use, all of the independent people providin
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by jayajay 10y ago
Half (as mentioned in article) of soon-to-be parents are not fit for the job, and a significant amount choose to defer the job via abortion or adoption. This begs the question -- should the state intervene in sexual reproduction? Should m
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by jayajay 10y ago
You are right, I only mentioned bikes so as to draw a more stark contrast between the two extremes.
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by jayajay 10y ago
I'm not OP, and I am not against self-driving cars, but self-driving cars are more unstable to perturbations like malicious software, hacking, and rogue or untested updates. Edit: E.g. you can't tell a bunch of bicycles to crash i
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by jayajay 10y ago
I benefited from this repost.
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by jayajay 10y ago
This. People who drive automobiles for a living should start investing in new skills now .
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by jayajay 10y ago
The answers you are looking for are Nobel-worthy. I have not formally studied linguistics, but you might wanna start there. Regarding the king equation, I think "king" is actually a vector in this context, as with the other object
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by jayajay 10y ago
King - man + woman actually is illuminating. Your 6 year old son might even say that's what a queen is. There is useful math here.
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by jayajay 10y ago
What is god, if not a tool to inspire questions?
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by jayajay 10y ago
I haven't heard the 'dirty hack' argument before. Perhaps we only see those things as 'dirty hacks' because of the incompleteness and inelegance of our own theories.
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by jayajay 10y ago
That's got to be the biggest waste of unethical computing power I've ever seen. It's a good proof of concept. Organic computing is the future, but this smells a bit too much like Leonardo Da Vinci.
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by jayajay 10y ago
This is why I rage quit that game after I died. Like, I gotta use my mouse? Pfft, I'm out.
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by jayajay 10y ago
Is this a bad joke about minification? Or is this a good joke about how the future will be run on true black boxes?
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by jayajay 10y ago
If the music was algorithmically generated, what methods were used?
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by jayajay 10y ago
Society = Google + O(ε) An aerospace engineer might be able to rattle off all of the important higher order and relativistic corrections to the hydrogen atom, but when it comes to society...
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by jayajay 10y ago
Attention (see Google papers) seems like a pretty promising way of dealing with countable states. In quantum mechanics, we change the question we are asking. Instead of "which countable eigenstate are we in?", we ask "how muc
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by jayajay 10y ago
Postcards aren't popular, you are right. I don't think they will be anymore. Kids my age are sending snaps, and even archaic image texts. I think we are are more interested in showing our friends "I'm here, look at what&
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by jayajay 10y ago
Yeah, the first few opening comments were crickets, everything later on was superb. Did anyone else notice how the host just didn't give a single fuck?
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by jayajay 10y ago
If, by "nobody", you mean "around 100 billion cumulative people", then I agree with you.
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by jayajay 10y ago
"Inertial frames are the reference frames upon which the laws of motion and the conservation laws are defined, yet it is still unknown what causes inertial frames to exist or if they have any deeper properties that might prove useful.&
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by jayajay 10y ago
This is so true, I feel like I have to justify to people what I'm doing with my life and why it's important and even necessary, which I wouldn't have had to do if I stayed in my physics PhD program. It's actually rather
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by jayajay 10y ago
Mermin's special relativity book is fucking fantastic as well. His writing style is very motivated.
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by jayajay 10y ago
[ joke abut how people oversimplify the universe differently depending on their field of study ]
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by jayajay 10y ago
Honestly mate, I appreciate the conversation and your response, but this is starting to reek of quantum spirituality, which is fine, but you're presenting ideas which I can't argue against. Regarding interpretations of quantum mec
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by jayajay 10y ago
> There are complex emergent properties here, which your Bose-Einstein condensate lacks. Which is also why it has not practical use beyond theoretical research. I'm sure someone said that "doping insulators has no practical use
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by jayajay 10y ago
I think a really good example of this is boson gasses versus fully connected neural networks (phase only). A cold enough boson gas will undergo a phase transition where each particle falls into the ground state. A fully-connected strongly c
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by jayajay 10y ago
> Self-organizing has a very clear definition. Not true. The "definition" in Wikipedia is essentially saying that a complex system exhibits self-organization if there is order observed at various scales. I didn't read the
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> As a result, the iron–ligand bonds can readily break and re-form while the iron centres still remain attached to the ligands through the stronger interaction with the pyridyl ring, which enables reversible unfolding and refolding of th

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