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by lisper 2y ago
> nothing more than pathological liars Maybe. But I think there's something deeper going on. The flat-earthers-are-nothing-more-than-pathological-liars hypothesis fails to explain why they cling to this particular lie with such
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by lisper 2y ago
Also apparent links between Collatz and the busy-beaver problem: https://www.sligocki.com/2021/07/17/bb-collatz.html
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"Propositions as Types" by Philip Wadler [video](youtube.com)
3 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
The flat-earth community is actually kind of fascinating. Someone recently paid to fly some flat-earthers down to Antarctica to witness the 24-hour sun which is impossible under most flat-earth models [1]. The trip was extensively documen
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by lisper 2y ago
That makes sense. Thanks!
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by lisper 2y ago
OK, that I guess that kinda-sorta makes sense if the accelerometers were rigidly mounted to the floor. Was that the case? Because if so then what you would have would basically be a seismometer, and floor bending from the test masses woul
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by lisper 2y ago
> I screwed up my third startup You're half way there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42771676
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by lisper 2y ago
Thanks for the lobsters link. May I request an invite?
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by lisper 2y ago
That's true, but the details of the placement of the ladder doesn't matter at all. The only thing that matters is that the ladder doesn't move or wobble around during the experiment.
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by lisper 2y ago
> the pivot point of the swing arm is resting on the floor But it isn't. It's suspended from a support by a thin filament. That's the whole point of the experiment.
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by lisper 2y ago
Huh? Why would the bending of the floor matter?
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by lisper 2y ago
These are considered pretty common knowledge nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test
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by lisper 2y ago
> The inspection paradox in renewal theory that you linked ... is an instance of the inspection paradox described in the article I think that's debatable. The standard definition of the IP is intimately bound to random processes, a
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by lisper 2y ago
> the inspection paradox is a special case of selection bias Nope. Turns out that there actually is such a thing as the "inspection paradox" but this ain't it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewal_th
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by lisper 2y ago
> This is a misleading conclusion. No, there is nothing misleading about it. There are two equally valid conclusions. It depends entirely on what you take to be a data point. If you are asking about average number of students per cl
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by lisper 2y ago
"Inspection paradox" seems like a misnomer. It has nothing to do with inspection and it isn't a paradox. It's just selection bias [1] or more specifically, sampling bias [2]. In the case of class sizes, are you asking
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by lisper 2y ago
> that's the perspective of a veteran of the industry Yes, of course. The target audience for that comment is today's version of my younger self, the one who thinks that if you haven't made ten million dollars by the time
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by lisper 2y ago
I call shenanigans on the whole idea of publication as a success metric. I say this as someone who made a very successful career out of publishing for fifteen years. I was publishing non-fiction (scientific papers) rather than novels but
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by lisper 2y ago
Coincidentally (at least I presume it was) Sabine Hossenfelder just published a piece about geothermal today as well: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2025/03/i-was-wrong-about-...
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Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog all found dead in New Mexico home(salon.com)
1 points by lisper 2y ago|2 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
IMHO anyone who doesn't know where to start shouldn't be using an AI. If you don't have enough initiative to decide what to ask you need a very different kind of help.
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by lisper 2y ago
> lack of discoverability is an intentional misfeature of social media That's not the message at all. The message is that the problem with social media is that it feeds you content without any prompting, and so it turns the user in
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by lisper 2y ago
No, the blinking cursor is a feature, not a bug. Alec Watons over at Technology Connections has a much better argument for this than I could ever hope to muster, so I'll just hand it over to him: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by lisper 2y ago
Actually, I remember being thrilled to have finally figured it out. We had been beating our heads against the wall (metaphorically) for a year, and I remember looking at the screen at the disassembly sequence and thinking, Oh my God, I thi
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by lisper 2y ago
Yeah, I have a war story... I was working on mobile robot research at JPL back in the 1990s. We had a robot with an arm attached. It worked fine except that every now and then the whole system would crash hard with a totally corrupted hea
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by lisper 2y ago
Take a look at this: https://flownet.com/ron/lambda-calculus.html or the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qC1iZN5ozw It shows how you can compute factorials in pure lambda calculus, and
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by lisper 2y ago
Better that than bestowing that power on newbies and sock puppets.
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by lisper 2y ago
I cannot fathom that you think this is an inapt comparison. North Korea's raw body count might be slightly lower (though even that is questionable [1]), but in many ways, North Korea is worse than Nazi Germany was. In fact, this is s
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by lisper 2y ago
The fully honest answer is that I don't know. I have some first-hand data but no actual expertise in this area. But my personal advice is this: one of the best things you can do for a homeless person is simply to talk to them, to mak
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by lisper 2y ago
Yeah, I should have made this clearer. When I wrote, "some homeless people voluntarily choose the lifestyle" I did not mean to imply that they prefer it to all other possible lifestyles, simply that they could get indoors if th

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