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by jules 11y ago
Simply feeling better does truly help solve the problem though, because in many cases the problem for a large part is the stress itself. It started with external factors, but then the stress creates a self reinforcing spiral where you don&#
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How much do you know about type theory? If you know type theory then the gist of HoTT can be summarized as follows: HoTT is a dependent type theory where you have a user defined equality for each user defined type (this is what HITs, higher
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University is 1 hour from my house by public transport or walking, 15 mins by bicycle and 10 mins by car. My parents' house is ~4 hours by public transport and <2 hours by car. That is why people prefer other forms of transport. I d
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Most people drive cars because it's much faster, cheaper and more reliable than public transport.
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There are good answers to that question, but let's answer that in the same style that you answered, albeit a lot more concretely: cars rely on science, philosophers use cars, therefore science is useful to philosophy.
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I agree, but doesn't this mean that scientists should read about the history of science, or sociology of science, not philosophy of science?
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Newtonian mechanics is the mathematical limit of quantum mechanics for ħ -> 0. It is still taught to every physics major. It is still useful. We use it to calculate whether a bridge will collapse, to simulate car crashes, to simulate wat
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Miller, Tichý, and Grünbaum are philosophers. He definitely had a big influence on philosophy of science, but the question is to what extent he had an influence on science. The works of physicists before 1930 are so sophisticated that I hon
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This is a popular view that philosophers have about scientists, but as usual it fails to mention how exactly philosophy of science has been or is to be useful to scientists. Ironically, science has been very influential in advancing the sta
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Evolution is not trying to find one particular DNA string out of that exponentially sized set. There are lots of members of that set that are viable organisms. In any case this is beside the point. The fact remains that genetic programming
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It doesn't have anything to do with GPUs. Genetic programming simply does not actually work for solving any nontrivial problem, in particular it does not work significantly better (and oftentimes worse) than brute force search.
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I have a Microsoft Surface, but I only use it with the keyboard so next time I'm going for a small laptop instead.
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Right, but I didn't want to complicate the explanation. Only deterministic strategies are allowed, or require both answers to be correct in order to get a reward.
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This is trying to find meaning where there is none. I don't think shading of seeds has any impact on the evolutionary fitness, even if we assume that light is coming in radially which is of course not true at all. Furthermore, even if
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That argument is too hand wavy to be convincing. Can you make it precise? How exactly are the seeds or branches being distributed in 2d/3d space, and how does that minimize shading? Why would sunflower seeds want to minimize shading in
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Why would something evolve in such a way that the ratio of two lengths of its body parts is hard to approximate by a rational number?
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Both answers are valid because the question is ambiguous. Asking "what is your belief" doesn't work because there are multiple ways to interpret that. You can clarify such situations by putting them in a game. Probabilities a
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The point of the article is that the fibonacci spiral isn't particularly more common than any other spiral. There is a whole range of spirals in nature, yet people worship fibonacci spirals as if it is something special.
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The reason why adults in the netherlands are biking is because they started at age 7 or younger. So at least from this perspective it's a sound design principle. Making safe bikeways is easy and benefits 7 year olds and adults alike: i
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I don't know how hilly SF is, but the Netherlands does have some areas that are somewhat hilly. With a bike with gears it's not much of an issue. You go slower yes, but it still works great. In fact I prefer to bike in the hillier
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FYI, in geometric algebra you can truly multiply two vectors and get another element of the geometric algebra out, no matter the dimensionality.
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> Unfortunately this initial simplicity introduces unexpected complexity, things like deep dup and deep merge are now needed. Not if your data structures are immutable, which is exactly what he is advocating.
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One wonders how many of those 2000 are actually women.
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There is always a discrepancy between what people say they want and what their actions show they want.
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What does size have to do with it? If anything, size should be beneficial because of economies of scale.
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What about tiny dust particles getting caught in the water?
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Does running the welfare system actually cost a lot? Last time somebody claimed that about US social security another person responded with data showing that it's less than 1% overhead.
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The signup form has a field named Full Name, but what's stopping you from using a pseudonym?
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Presumably twitch works just fine for it. The software doesn't really care whether it's streaming IDE pixels or game pixels.
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Brilliant writing style! Also check out his work on Naiad, which is IMO by far the most interesting work in its area, and check out the Scalability! But at what COST? paper: http://www.frankmcsherry.org/assets/COST.pdf

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