joycian

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by joycian 7y ago
The fact that Z denotes the set of integers is a sort of mathwide standard. It comes up a lot (number theory, group theory) Did you major in some specific area of maths? Or is it just the span of years between?
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by joycian 7y ago
I think it does call into question the power of science, but also: assuming non-determinism does not give us this power back! If materials (atoms / humans) can arbitrarily disregard the laws of nature by making choices (however that wo
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by joycian 7y ago
In my opinion, it does, by assuming people can make choices about how to set their measuring apparatus.
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by joycian 7y ago
> Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with not just inanimate nature running on behind-the-scenes clockwork, but with our behavior, including our belief that we are free to choose to do one experiment rather than another, absolutel
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by joycian 7y ago
So this is what I do not understand about Bell's Theorem: it seems to dismiss in the assumptions the possibility of determinism (I don't understand where the super comes from, as there is no distinction) and then goes on to conclu
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by joycian 7y ago
My question was about the probability governing the chance at a jump. Apparently, it is not constant and takes t as an input. (Otherwise how does it know that it is rising to 1)
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by joycian 7y ago
But what mechanism is keeping track of the time since the last pitch?
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by joycian 7y ago
With your second paragraph firmly in the back of my mind: In the sister comment thread, two photon excitation seems to indicate that this intermediate state (0.5 in your coin example) is not invalid. Can you help me understand better? Edit:
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by joycian 7y ago
But in a quantum harmonic oscillator, the energy levels can only be certain values. As in the Hamiltonian is: H = omega*planckbar(N + 0.5) where N is the state counter (number operator). As a direct reply to your links: So did the fact th
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by joycian 7y ago
Uhm...forgive me for asking, but a continuous quantum jump is...what exactly? How is this in any way consistent with the rest of quantum mechanics? Edit: I don't mean to sound snide, I am genuinely confused about what this experiment m
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by joycian 7y ago
This looks great! Does anyone know if there exists something similar in Python?
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by joycian 7y ago
This looks very cool! Thanks for sharing it. I'm definitely going to mention this in the next technical meeting at the research group.
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by joycian 7y ago
Preferential attachment: The principal reason for scientific interest in preferential attachment is that it can, under suitable circumstances, generate power law distributions. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr
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by joycian 7y ago
An example of a building: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica
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by joycian 7y ago
Aren't the "environmentalists" the ones that are creating the mood that makes it hard to invest in nuclear?
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by joycian 7y ago
When you have DNA sequencing data, you often have to use bash / command line to glue together the various tooling. As an example: https://bedtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by joycian 7y ago
Most people I know use IDE with code style enforcement, automatic variable renaming, unused variable warning, etc.
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by joycian 7y ago
I don't see the line between science and engineering as clearly as you do, apparently. Is CERN a science or engineering project? Drug design? Genuinely curious what qualifies as science. Seeing some articles, it's not the quality.
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by joycian 7y ago
Not really true. Tesla is at the forefront of applying machine learning in real-world settings. It's definitely not unrelated to science, in my opinion. If autonomous driving in 2020 is on the timetable, Karpathy (Head of AI) is probab
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by joycian 7y ago
I don't get this article? Fitting the polynomial is learning, right? (fancy machine learning methods are also not much more than curve fitting)
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by joycian 7y ago
Anathem was inspired by the 10K clock project in the first place right?
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by joycian 7y ago
From what I have gathered from mathematician friends, they are catching on to CoCalc. I for one think it has promise. Especially with the dominance of Python in CS department intro classes, a Sage-based math environment for math classes (e.
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by joycian 8y ago
I read the comment as implying that the colleague had published a paper on power law distributions in order to publish (pressure) while the poster knew that the colleague did not believe in the subject.
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by joycian 8y ago
Could someone explain to me why we should look into this, because we do not live in an anti-deSitter universe. So what is the relevance (beyond the obvious mathematical curiosity and elegance)?.
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by joycian 8y ago
Perhaps this lecture by Leonard Susskind can help you with the hologram universe concept: https://youtu.be/2DIl3Hfh9tY
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by joycian 8y ago
Survival is instrumental to any goal. Not only self replication would create that drive.
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by joycian 8y ago
This is why the standard interpretation of QM to me implies that there is a higher-order universe, which seems a high price to pay (in Occam units) for an experimentally successful theory, even if it is so incredibly successful as QM.
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by joycian 8y ago
Why would that be necessary if there are local deterministic propagation rules, that have been there since the beginning?
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by joycian 8y ago
Isn't it simpler? There are just a few rules and everything works? For the normal QM you have to get some randomness from somewhere else. edit: I mean I agree it's problematic for experimental science, but I think Occam's raz

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