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by jbotz 7y ago
"two of our own species [discovered calculus]"..? Which two species are those? I assume by "own own" you mean Terran species, and one of them is Homo Sapiens, which is the other one? Really curious...
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by jbotz 7y ago
Since about a week ago data has been coming in from antibody testing in Europe... and the results are that IFR (infection fatality rate) is clearly less than 0.5% (0.37% in one city in germany[1]) and the number of actually infected people
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by jbotz 7y ago
Life may not be the only process that works counter-entropy. There are two lines of thinking emerging that the principles we see so clearly in life may be more general and appear in abiotic processes as well... that physical systems &quo
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by jbotz 7y ago
That's not what he's saying at all. He's saying that it may not be the right language for an intro CS course for typical freshmen. One can argue back and forth about that. But if you want to learn deeper concepts about pro
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by jbotz 7y ago
I second this recommendation. A really good course, and if you do all 3 parts it's really the equivalent of a full university course. Covers the main concepts in modern programming languages, such static vs. dynamic typing, OO vs fun
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by jbotz 7y ago
Learn to meditate, vipassana or "mindfulness meditation". This has a dual benefit... one is the physical benefit of leaving body and mind in a calmer state. The other is training the mind to become more accepting of whatever occ
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by jbotz 7y ago
I don't think reality is quite like your little image here. There is no absolute security, ever, but we can create layers of difficulty for attackers as appropriate for our threat models. Someone with a reasonable amount of exper
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by jbotz 7y ago
Yes, compromise in that typically US-centric way, and to hell with any culture that doesn't fit the mold, they can adapt! It's true, they can adapt! They proved that when they didn't have much choice, back in the ASCII days
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by jbotz 7y ago
Toastmasters have online clubs: https://www.toastmasters.org/Resources/Online-Clubs-List
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by jbotz 7y ago
Borg Control Language, as others have said, Google's configuration language for "Borg", the precursor of Kubernetes. Both Jsonnet and Cue are descendants of BCL, developed by people who were previously involved in BCL develo
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by jbotz 7y ago
Granted. 8-)
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by jbotz 7y ago
Both ML and Smalltalk are definitely not dead, not even mostly dead, they’ve just evolved into language families whose members have different names. The ML family has Standard ML, OCaml, and Haskell, and the Smalltalk family has Pharo, Gem
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by jbotz 7y ago
Superdeterminism doesnt obviate the multiverse, just Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics. There are still three other levels of multiverse according to Max Tegmark. See: https://space.mit.edu/home&
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by jbotz 7y ago
Actually I think this something that goes far beyond relatedness and the capacities of our common ancesters... consciousness appears to be an emergent property that is substantially similar even when it emerges in physically radically diffe
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by jbotz 7y ago
This is exactly the main idea behind the Unison language.[1] All functions are immutable and identified by a hash rather than name. When you make any change you are creating a new function with a new hash. It's definitely a very int
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by jbotz 7y ago
Claim A: Human speech has a constant bitrate. Claim B: The intelligibility of a computer program is proportional to its complexity of the problem it solves, not to the number of characters in its source code. First off, I don't see how
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by jbotz 7y ago
Awesome. "Our error is not anthropomorphism, but the opposite. We refuse to believe, to the point of absurdity that we and they are first animals, that there is no us and them in this regard, only us, all of us." I raise chickens
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by jbotz 7y ago
I think your BS detector has a bug that may cause you to miss out on some good stuff! ;-) Sometimes there are ideas which are really good and very simple, but hard to explain because understanding them requires a shift of perspective whic
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by jbotz 7y ago
Except that it is doubtful that it actually has a 2% death rate. Some huge number of coronavirus infections are not being counted because they are asymptomatic or presenting minimal symptoms[1], and thus those people aren't being test
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by jbotz 7y ago
Not being plastic is what it brings to the table.
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by jbotz 7y ago
And it's about just loving the work so much more than anything else that when you're in the zone you think about it 16 hours a day and dream about it the other 8 hours! ;-) Someone who's 2x smart and 2x experienced, only nee
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by jbotz 7y ago
According to this at least one satellite with the new coating went up in December... anyone know how that's working out? Also, why are they so bright, given that they're pretty small?
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by jbotz 7y ago
French does, too... the Académie Française makes sure of that and slaps you on the wrist if you use loanwords. Germans are rather more laissez-faire about it, and recently are absorbing rather a lot of English. For example, the other day
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by jbotz 7y ago
"The swarms increase in size twentyfold with each successive generation and could reach India by June." India? Am I missing something or is this is an error in the text?
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by jbotz 7y ago
As best I can tell, reports of data loss on btrfs are all from the early 20-teens; after about 2014 or so I can't find anyone who claims to have lost data due to a btrfs bug on an up-to-date system.
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Information May Have Mass(aip.scitation.org)
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by jbotz 7y ago
For getting interviews, your resume will only look better with more variety of experience. Most people scanning resumes to pick candidates for interviews are just looking for relevant experience and bullet points... the more the better, th
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by jbotz 7y ago
"starving fat" is not an oxymoron. You can absolutely get fat from excess calories while literally starving from malnutrition, i.e. lack of essential nutrients.
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by jbotz 7y ago
Incorrect use of the term "tipping point". Reaching this point may be noteworthy, but there is absolutely no evidence or reason to believe that the remaining poverty will diminish much more rapidly, which is what "tipping po
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by jbotz 7y ago
All sorts of stuff can be used for agregate, but not all of it produces concerte of the same quality. Also, the problem is local availability... most of the sheer mass of our construction projects is the aggregate for the concrete, so gett

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