knzhou

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   by knzhou 7y ago

   That's a good point, 3x speaking speed is reading speed, so there's nothing unusual about using it on comments largely intended to be read. That makes perfect sense. What doesn't make sense to me is consuming things that have
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   by knzhou 7y ago

   Hey, I never said my comment was a novel insight! I'm here to waste time too. ;-)
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   by knzhou 7y ago

   I've known a lot of people that push podcasts, videos, and audiobooks to extreme speed. I knew a guy who'd turn video speed up to 8x so he could binge watch a season of generic anime in an hour flat. I knew a girl who'd get t
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   by knzhou 7y ago

   My favorite exposition of this is from this string theorist's blog: http://rantonels.github.io/gravity-entropy-and-life/
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   by knzhou 7y ago

   Physicist here. It's roughly right, but it's kind of the picture we had 50 years ago. 50 years ago, dark matter and modified gravity were both reasonably equally good hypothesis. Then we got a treasure trove of astrophysical, gala