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by lisper 2y ago
Wow, that really is impressive!
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Kayaker briefly swallowed by humpback whale in incident caught on video(washingtonpost.com)
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by lisper 2y ago
> that is making an assumption that the dynamics of an entire system could be thrown into reverse No, that's not an assumption, that's a mathematical feature of all known laws of physics. An it's not that "the dynami
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by lisper 2y ago
Almost 20 years ago I spent two years trying to get a homeless person off the street and made a movie about it: https://graceofgodmovie.com/ It's an incredibly complicated problem, but if there is one message I can sha
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by lisper 2y ago
> What am I missing? Your theory: > If you have a casual system, then statistically, things will tend to become more disordered over time, because there are just more ways to be disordered than ordered. contains a tacit assumption tha
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by lisper 2y ago
PG&E publishes a real-time outage map with granularity down to the individual neighborhood grid: https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outage-tools/outage-map/
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by lisper 2y ago
SCSH is a shell embedded in Scheme, i.e. it's a Scheme library that lets you easily create unix processes in Scheme. Schemesh is Scheme embedded in a shell, i.e. it's a shell that lets you easily call Scheme code. For example, if
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by lisper 2y ago
Gotta put in a plug for QIT, which is very similar, but I think a little easier to understand: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9512022 and a more accessible version that I wrote a long time ago: https://
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What's Inside the Worst EBike? Reevo Teardown [video](youtube.com)
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by lisper 2y ago
Palmyra Atoll was also the scene of a rather horrific murder documented in a book by Vincent Bugliosi, the same person who prosecuted Charles Manson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Sea_Will_Tell It makes an inte
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Iceberg A-23A could hit South Georgia Island, home to penguins, seabirds(washingtonpost.com)
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Origins of the Common Fork(leitesculinaria.com)
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A History of Western Eating Utensils, from the Fork to the Spork(smithsonianmag.com)
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The History of Chopsticks(smithsonianmag.com)
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by lisper 2y ago
That effort is somewhere between stalled and dead. Matt Emerson was funded to work on it, but that funding fell through a few months ago. I made him an offer to resume the work but he hasn't accepted it and hasn't said why. So
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by lisper 2y ago
MCL lives on today as Clozure Common Lisp: https://ccl.clozure.com/
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by lisper 2y ago
That is manifestly untrue because the SE is time-reversible. That is the whole problem.
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by lisper 2y ago
Well, yeah, but that seems like a vacuous observation to me. In order to find solutions to the SE you have to know the initial conditions. How are you going to obtain those for an isolated system? You haven't solved the problem, you
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by lisper 2y ago
> Even for isolated systems where, in principle, we could have zero surprisal and access to all possible information... This makes no sense. How could you have access to "all possible information" in an isolated system? You o
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Mandaeans(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lisper 2y ago
> His arguments about the feasibility of a 51% attack are off by an order of magnitude, About that: https://blog.rongarret.info/2023/04/bitcoins-value-propositi... (I'm the author, BTW.) > and the fact
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by lisper 2y ago
https://blog.rongarret.info/2023/04/a-systematic-critique-of...
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by lisper 2y ago
When you suddenly have a big financial windfall, all kinds of people crawl out of the woodwork and find you. One of those people introduced me to this VC. And BTW, I ended up losing well over a million dollars through him. It turned out
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by lisper 2y ago
> do you think there's a baby in that bathwater? That's a very hard question to answer because it depends on what you consider "that bathwater." I think using digital signatures is a win. But mining is a BIG lose IM
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by lisper 2y ago
> the jet owner goes wherever and whenever they like You'd think that, but it turns out not to be true. There are a lot of constraints even on the owner: weather, mechanical failure, crew members getting sick. And it's even w
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by lisper 2y ago
> I personally know of one ongoing effort whose founders think it's very much still viable. Link?
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by lisper 2y ago
Thanks!
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by lisper 2y ago
Yes, exactly. (Maybe I should have said "widely read".)
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by lisper 2y ago
I don't know that I have all that much to say about it. Research is (at least to date) a human activity and so it is necessarily beset with human foibles. It requires resources, so it necessarily involves economics, which necessarily
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by lisper 2y ago
Thanks! I miss ZeroLag. You guys were the best.

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