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The book Guesstimation leads to a good very rough approximation mindset, both in terms of how one computes as well as understanding the innate roughness of an answer to a question. They may already be comfortable with that approach, but if,
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I read about some of the history of Haiti on the Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/2018/09/shades-of-gray/ It is interwoven with describing an interactive fiction game, so not every word on there r
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Example 5 has long been a favorite of mine. So easy to investigate, so geometrical, and there is a pattern, just not the obvious one.
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Bell was inspired by Bohm's theory. Having seen that a rational theory of existence was compatible with QM, Bell wanted to know if the nonlocality could be removed. Bell's work showed that it could not be removed. Bell was a propo
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It reminds me of the discussion of forest fires and whether to let the smaller fires burn to avoid the big, devastating fires. And then there is the question of intentionally starting fires to do the role of the smaller ones. Given how that
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by jostylr 6y ago
The textblade ( https://waytools.com/ ) would be the ideal form factor in my mind. Unfortunately, it has been 6 years since they said they were going to release it though there have been people (testers) using it for real fo
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by jostylr 6y ago
It depends on the system as there are different levels. 1. Promote comments above code. So the syntax for comments is the default. A simple notion is a markdown file where the process to create the program is to concatenate all the code blo
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by jostylr 6y ago
His book Pi in the Sky was one of the two most influential math books for me in my youth; the other was Modern Mathematics by Edna Kramer. I had not heard of his death. Thanks for posting about it.
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The Bohmian model is that particle positions are an intrinsic part of the evolution of the theory. This is in contrast to, say, the Copenhagen interpretation in which the particle position is not a part of the evolution of the system. In t
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> Whether pilot wave theory can be made consistent with at least special relativity is still open as far as I know It can be made consistent, namely, adding a foliation (a notion of a canonical present moment) makes it work out fine. Th
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For those who enjoy historical and game-play review of text-based games and similar games, there is the digital antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ If you go to the ebooks page, you can get (free) ebooks of game coverage
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One thing to look at is how is the theory formulated. Standard QM seems to build its Hilbert space of wave functions from functions over R^3N. It has a Hamiltonian built out of the notions of that space. So configuration space seems pretty
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The key to identical particles is understanding the configuration space properly. Basically, instead of ordered n-tuples (R^3N), one can use sets of size n whose elements are points in R^3. This immediately eliminates everything except the
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by jostylr 6y ago
Hidden variables theory was not disproved. Local hidden variables theory was disproved, but, actually, all local theories of any kind whatsoever that say that experiments have definite results have been disproved. EPR is the argument that s
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I have been upgrading (and porting to new machines) a Mac account starting in 2008 on a white macbook (2006?), transferred to a 2009 iMac, and then transferred to a 2017 iMac. Never had issues until Catalina. Catalina finally made me do a c
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by jostylr 6y ago
Here's a non-paywalled article: https://ladailypost.com/lanl-simulating-quantum-time-travel-... Here is the preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07267 They are using the linearity to say that the
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by jostylr 6y ago
Read this article: https://www.marieclaire.com/career-advice/a32827211/universa... A book to read, though older, is Tyranny of Kindness and it expands on the plight in vivid detail of our current system. The artic
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Basically, people can move to other areas, people can buy and rehabilitate housing stock with the extra income, competition between landlords, ... I made a more detailed comment in response to a similar question: https://news.yco
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By making sure each person has their minimum needs met, one can then have a better chance at having support for solving big problems that require government which requires popular support. There are schemes for UBI which don't actually
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There may also be ways to rearrange the labor if insufficient people wan to step up. For example, there are places where garbage trucks lift trash cans to dump into them. If that is too difficult, one could setup dumpsters at the end of nei
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Keep in mind that the book that is from, Humankind, while a hope filled book (I enjoyed it thoroughly), makes the point that when we get together, the bonds between people can lead them to do horrendous things to others. Our power to cooper
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But that assumes the jobs guarantee is providing a reasonable job environment. Presumably these jobs would have bosses who can be cruel or can be prejudiced. And this being the job of last resort means they would not have an alternative. I
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Read the Tryanny of Kindness. It is from 1993 and is a former welfare mother and advocate who advocates for a guaranteed income. The book goes into great length of the pathology of the welfare system and its non-profit charity profiteers. O
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Saudi setup a lot more like a government "jobs" guarantee where the job was rather pointless. The lack of ability to do a real job without giving up the zero stress bs job w
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Every system I have ever heard of has the "system will crash in the future" fear. Capitalism will eat up all the resources and pollute us to death. Democracy will lead to mob rule. Philosopher kings get replaced with crappy kings.
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The goal is to ensure people have a minimum. Taxing money back is perfectly fine if you need to. People can move to less expensive areas which the UBI facilitates. This makes expensive areas less expensive as well. In terms of how much to g
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by jostylr 6y ago
There are plenty of cities with plenty of housing going vacant. In Baltimore, for example, it is a city designed for a million people with about 600k in residence. Houses go vacant, neighborhoods loose value, and the city dies. Why? A large
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That sounds more like a jobs guarantee than a UBI. Many UBI proponents are against a jobs guarantee for fear of these kinds of outcomes. UBI is untethered to any conditions on people. So there are no bad incentives created by the system (no
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People are forced into needing external management. The innate nature of life is to self-lead, but 15 years of being told to sit in a chair and listen to someone else blah-blah-ing will kill that idea. We do want to be valuable to one anoth
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Another reason is stock market cushion. Notice how stocks go up when companies lay people off. So instead of accumulating profits for a rainy day, which would just be taken for buy backs and dividends, they store away "reserves" i

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