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by joycian 6y ago
Perhaps the exorbitant price of a PC that could run Crysis well enough to even think about multiplayer acted as a filtering mechanism?
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Marian Reforms(en.wikipedia.org)
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by joycian 6y ago
It seems Bayes never actually wrote down what is now called Bayes Theorem. (Perhaps he knew of it). I think it was Laplace that recognized the full generality of the relationship.
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by joycian 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by self-contained, but there is the Homotopy Type Theory book: https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/
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by joycian 6y ago
Susskind's Theoretical Minimum series might be to your liking?
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by joycian 6y ago
Also, Visual Group Theory.
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by joycian 6y ago
Seconding this. His other books are great as well (Reverse Mathematics, Naive Lie Theory). Great writer.
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by joycian 6y ago
I don't think the genealogy is that convenient - the Eastern Roman Empire arguably has a stronger claim to being the successors of "The Greeks" that are often claimed to be the root of "Western" civilization than an
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by joycian 6y ago
It's not because it's not part of western culture. Is Eastern France part of the west?
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by joycian 6y ago
AlphaGo != AlphaGo Zero
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by joycian 6y ago
Only because we somehow don't count the Byzantine empire (actually the Roman Empire) as western.
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by joycian 6y ago
Well, no, it doesn't change the fact that DNA contains (most of) the information. What it means is that even if I give you all of the bases on all of the chromosomes, if you don't know how these strings of beads will fold in a rea
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by joycian 6y ago
I don't know, are go-to statements and code reuse a small twist in the dogma of software engineering? Is your Python-level code directly interacting with CPU operations and memory bit flipping a small twist? Hi-C 3D DNA structure exper
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by joycian 6y ago
Not much. Society is paying to improve the value of the land.
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by joycian 6y ago
Does anybody here know of a good modern book about land value tax or Georgist economics in general? Any (constructive) opinions would also be welcome.
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by joycian 6y ago
I just want to add, because some people might find it interesting, that a version of the fast Fourier transform was already known to Gauss (though not published in his lifetime). More info can be found in the article "Gauss and the his
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by joycian 6y ago
A virtual particle is only a virtual particle because we as humans implicitly have the particle view as fundamental. There's nothing special about a fluctuation in a quantum field being not long lived enough or not stable enough for us
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by joycian 6y ago
> I can imagine a being that is physically identical to a human in every way, but is not conscious I can't, and I think that's the central point. This means you're claiming the big c is not a physics process. But I suspect
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by joycian 6y ago
I understand, there is indeed a large difference between Orthogonal and the rest in the sense that it might be technically a fantasy series instead of hard science fiction. However, the exploration of the alternate physical laws gave me the
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by joycian 6y ago
The Quantum Thief trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi.
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by joycian 6y ago
Why did you single out Orthogonal as lesser? I found those better than some of his other books (Quarantine, Teranesia and Distress). I would say Diaspora is his best by miles, with Schild's Ladder. In general, I like the physics discov
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by joycian 6y ago
Most of this structure comes from the ordered set properties. Special relativity can be seen as a consequence of trying to quantify length by projecting to two ordered sets. K.H. Knuth, a professor at Albany, has been working on this for so
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by joycian 7y ago
And Hilbert actually beat him to the final equation.
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by joycian 7y ago
No, it's called "history". At least that's what the poster means I think.
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by joycian 7y ago
Could you point me to resources where I could learn about this?
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by joycian 7y ago
What? Human cloning is basically possible but illegal, we can absolutely grow artificial organs (intestine, heart, certain brain structures), life extension and diseases cures are closer via Crispr, metabolomics has advanced, hospitals use
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by joycian 7y ago
Have you seen CTRL Shift Face, the YouTube channel?
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by joycian 7y ago
Why is it weird that simple programs have a sliver of consciousness? That seems like a nice practical, non-magic conclusion?
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by joycian 7y ago
What do you mean by "original paper" here?
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by joycian 7y ago
According to Scott Aaronson, Martinis himself rebutted Kalai's objections: the calibration still allows you to load any circuit later.

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