jjaredsimpson

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by jjaredsimpson 8y ago
I dunno. I think the Cylons are clearly bad. Genocide, pursuit, enslavement. Sure they have a grievance. But the response was quite disproportionate. If you restrict the scope to just human interaction on ships then you retrieve the good-ba
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by jjaredsimpson 8y ago
But now you are lifting helium out the potential well of a gas giant instead of Earth's.
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by jjaredsimpson 8y ago
IIRC the pattern still arises even if you generate pseudo-primes randomly.
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by jjaredsimpson 8y ago
Those have better asymptotics but worse constants.
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by jjaredsimpson 8y ago
Why would the bandwidth be better? I don't see a difference between a Chromecast making network requests or my PC doing it. Also casting your desktop is encoding the desktop. The quality is worse. The only advantage is for casting cont
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by jjaredsimpson 8y ago
So the rules are there is a highlighted word above the bottom 4. Type a word you think is semantically related to that highlighted word. Then the game will sort all words by its relation function. If the word you supplied is in the highest
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by jjaredsimpson 8y ago
Are you color vision impaired? Because I had no trouble distinguishing the words even as they moved? This might be an accessibility issue?
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by jjaredsimpson 8y ago
I'm not sure this is a counter example. It sounds to me like you are learning faster by unifying 2 streams of information. You read the music notes and you listen to the performance. How would you perform just studying sheet music the
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
But that's the point of basic research, no? Minds are things that function in a physical universe. At some point in the future there will be a description of function, followed by a plan for modification or augmentation of existing min
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
I didn't make an argument saying that the way it is, is the way it should be. I just said it is the way it is for reasonable reasons and I don't see how this new way could gain traction. Pushing up hill isn't a great strategy
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
Every woman I've ever been with has already been on BC, this is the same for all my guy friends. It's never something I've ever had to consider. I think the article doesn't bother separating real motivations from stated
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
Article version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIlsN32WaE
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
And yet I spend a summer immersed in Emacs and the thing I miss most is the navigation commands and incremental search. It's not premature in my opinion.
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
I don't follow what this hypothetical atan3 implements?
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
All triangles are 2d. Using atan2 to find the angle between 3d vectors would require projection onto an orthonormal basis. atan2 requires this even in 2d, we just assume the natural basis and assume the other vector is x hat. Dot product av
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
We can't only experiment with structures and tools that have only upside positive consequences. The existence of a bad outcome is something to be avoided and guarded against, but I don't see why any possible tool which has a poten
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
Bad governments will do bad things. I'm talking about how surveillance could be a useful tool in designing society as a counter to anonymous speech.
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
Surveillance isn't a good or evil unto itself. That's all I'm saying. It's a tool. I think it could be used to nudge behavior toward better global outcomes. I'm not wedded to the idea that everyone nearly everywhere
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
Anonymity paired with speech is a new modern invention which didn't always exist. I don't this it is necessarily true that that kinds of speech is always for the ultimate good. I'm fine with societies experimenting with more
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
I looked at the scroll thumb after the first two paragraphs when I saw a long list of disclaimers and was disappointed that I hadn't read anything useful yet. I closed the tab. I get that I'm not the audience, but still this conve
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
I've seen rates of supernova for the milky way as 1 per century. So that's 1 per 10^13 star-years. With 10^22 stars in the observable universe distributed uniformly we would expect something like 10^9 stars to supernova this year.
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
It does default to center of Earth. However even if the default wasn't center of the Earth, that couldn't alter the apparent size of the Earth from the perspective of the Roadster. It would've altered the parallax.
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
Twice as large. The angle was subtending the radius of the Earth not the diameter.
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
Not accounting for position on the surface of the earth could introduce as much as 0.45 degrees of error in the apparent position for an object 500000 miles away. This is same as the apparent diameter of the moon for a reference.
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
These are the same people who want "intuitive" understanding of fundamentally mathematical subjects. Anytime I see a title, "X without math," I just see "X without X." Intuition isn't understanding and ign
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
But this is just a blip. When Pascal GPUs first showed up gtx 980ti where going on ebay for <300. Markets are markets.
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
I don't understand this tendency to promote subjective experience from a process occurring in a physical universe to some property which constrains the universe and knowledge itself. I prefer to believe the universe exists and whatever
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
10 years ago I would routinely go to facebook and see friends saying what they were planning to do and make plans with them. Facebook served a real purpose in college (we got it my junior year iirc). Now its nearly all trash. People bitchin
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
So you are going to time the market? Why do you believe you can do this better than others?
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by jjaredsimpson 9y ago
I don't think people are choosing to pay a premium in favor of lower density. Incumbent land holders using local zoning laws to prevent density to maintain their wealth. Also using the phrase overpopulated ant farms isn't useful o

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