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by leovailati 8y ago
Interesting, I wonder if it has to do with the marketing side of things rather than development. They cannot develop a CPU in less than 6 months. I think it could just be that they want to have the last word, so people will talk about it fo
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by leovailati 8y ago
Yes, but only momentarily. These big consolidated miners will keep investing in their highly efficient hardware and mining power will keep going up.
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by leovailati 9y ago
You are right, I am sorry about that. I didn't catch it the first time I skimmed through the comments.
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by leovailati 9y ago
I am surprised that Julia hasn't been mentioned yet. It is the language/program that I normally use when I don't want or for some reason cannot use MATLAB. Many times I don't want to start MATLAB because of how ling that
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by leovailati 9y ago
Link to comic: https://xkcd.com/426/
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by leovailati 9y ago
From the article: > It seems to me that the effort put into Bitcoin mining has gone off the rails recently. And that was in 2014! In the past three years the hash rate rose to about 20 times the level it was back then. This just blows my
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by leovailati 9y ago
> It's different from the sort of value that a startup creates: at least a startup is trying to affect the world in a tangible way that can usually be explained in a couple of sentences. I agree that it is different. Arguably, thoug
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by leovailati 9y ago
Me too! Sorry about that.
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by leovailati 9y ago
This is a great link, thank you for the reference. @lisper, check this out.
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by leovailati 9y ago
I feel like we are not gaining anything from this discussion. Here are some references to back my point: "Intuitively, the state of a system describes enough about the system to determine its future behaviour in the absence of any exte
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by leovailati 9y ago
Even a high school level equation of motion has a t squared term in it. Classical mechanics is not linear. And even if it were, the real world is obviously not. The basket ball will stop bouncing at some point, even though the model for the
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by leovailati 9y ago
I agree, but I don't understand what your point is.
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by leovailati 9y ago
Right, but that was not my point. I said two things: you can't always know the initial conditions and you can't transpose non-linearities. Yes, you can invert the sign of all velocities and trace the path of a particle in reverse,
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by leovailati 9y ago
You are incorrect. According to systems theory, the current state of a system holds the information you need to go forward, not necessarily backwards. Imagine a bouncing basketball: if you can only see its current state, you don't nece