loose-cannon

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by loose-cannon 22d ago
I don't understand. This past week we saw them announcing a solution to the Navier-Stokes, which we're supposed to interpret as a success? But they're slowing down? They're slowing the development because they want to or
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by loose-cannon 24d ago
These kinds of responses aren't helpful. Your response essentially muddies the water because it sets an artificial standard that nobody can/will meet. Yes, you're correct. There likely is some grey area with how we decide to
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by loose-cannon 24d ago
1. Tristan's research direction was known to only a handful of other academics. It might help if you can be more specific regarding the origin of the contamination. 2. If someone did come out and claim that their ideas were used withou
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by loose-cannon 24d ago
dude, proper attribution is part of scholarship and academics. Not giving credit to the people whose work led up to your solution is malpractice.
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by loose-cannon 25d ago
Yes, I also think it's alarming. And I don't think there is enough reporting/weight given to the circumstances in certain mainstream outlets. There are certain mathematical programs that have existed for decades (for example
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by loose-cannon 26d ago
In the PDF: "The route to the Clay problem through a smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to attack. Almost nobody else I
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by loose-cannon 26d ago
where does it pull its sources from? Should I expect some degree of exhaustiveness? Meaning: does it miss information? Does it ever prioritize one source over another? Will somebody ever see a source from, say, a Joe Rogan podcast? What mak
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by loose-cannon 26d ago
I'm almost instinctively opposed to software that claims that it can "fact check".
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by loose-cannon 29d ago
>Memes are inherited. You brush your teeth because your parents do. Memes are subject to selection via biological fitness. The people who didn't brush their teeth died sooner of tooth disease, so those who brushed their teeth had mo
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by loose-cannon 29d ago
I mostly agree. There are certain classes of tasks where the spreadsheet is more efficient. It's "more efficient" because it 1) requires less set up time (like you said, translating a computation in a more traditional system
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by loose-cannon 29d ago
I work at a small business where probably 95% of the work gets done through spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are incredibly valuable, but yea, like you said it requires a certain mindset or discipline. Otherwise you end up with a disorganized mes
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by loose-cannon 1mo ago
Show me instances where we've observed any of those mechanism occuring at the cosmic-level.
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by loose-cannon 1mo ago
It's an interesting idea, but I feel like this is taking a lot of speculative (not observable) ideas for granted. What is a "variation in the basic parameters of matter"? Has anyone observed such a thing taking place? Also wh
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by loose-cannon 1mo ago
Some computer science is mathematical. A lot of computer science is about abstraction: creating interfaces independent of implementation. For example, we have models of digital components and construct circuits that perform meaningful tasks
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by loose-cannon 1mo ago
I don't think "more rules" is the answer. There needs to be people in our government who have integrity, who can apply pressure and take risk. It's the people, not the constitution. The last 1.5 years is evidence that le
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by loose-cannon 2mo ago
I agree with your larger point. Though I think it's pretty natural to wonder how the poster ended up with a multi million line codebase.
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by loose-cannon 2mo ago
The thing that you assume in a theorem is usually called a hypothesis.
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by loose-cannon 2mo ago
I think "being concerned with knowledge" and "being invested in the process of creation/discovery" can occur at the same time. There isn't a singular "scientific mindset" or set of values that differe
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by loose-cannon 2mo ago
there's a human element in discovery and in problem solving. Whether or not somebody chooses to sidestep work isn't necessarily an indication that the work isn't science. It's just an indication that some people are pass
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by loose-cannon 3mo ago
Yea sorry. I didn't mean to criticize or diminish its value by saying it's just an educational tool. It's a powerful tool that lets you do some advanced things quickly. That's totally valuable outside of an educational s
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by loose-cannon 3mo ago
I thought Scheme was just an educational tool - a minimal language that allows the student to explore language construction & design relatively quickly. I'm not sure I understand your comment about homoiconicity leading people astr
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by loose-cannon 3mo ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. In science and engineering, being able to provide justification is a core skill. The comparison we should be making is against the human practitioners who are trained in their fields.
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by loose-cannon 3mo ago
Dude, these two things are not at all analogous: 1. Asking a model why it did a certain thing, and 2. Expecting a human to say which neuron fired in their response.
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by loose-cannon 5mo ago
So nature doesn't exhibit justice, but a society likely needs to implement it, yes? But you don't want to say who gets to receive those rights? Some might say that those millions of dying children is an injustice that we should tr
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by loose-cannon 5mo ago
There will always be scarcity and inequality. The point is to minimize/mitigate their effects. Can't you make the same argument for justice? Why does everyone deserve justice? Isn't that just entitlement? What is the historic
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by loose-cannon 6mo ago
I think it's slightly comical to see people from the tech community deal with the problems, as customers, that are brought about by the dysfunction of AI. No, I'm not making a sweeping statement on the usefulness of AI. It clearly
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by loose-cannon 6mo ago
There is value in critically evaluating ideas and possible endeavors. On the other hand, demanding an answer to every little pocket of uncertainty creates a huge burden that prevents exploration. It's one thing to be exhaustive in the
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by loose-cannon 7mo ago
I'm curious about manufacturing from like 10-20 years ago. Would it be cheap to make a RAM chip from like 15 years ago? Or would it just not even work with our modern hardware? Like if we want more of something, can we pay with perform
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by loose-cannon 10mo ago
You sound like you're writing from the future. "or see a doctor, if that’s still a thing people do?" Yep. People still do that.
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by loose-cannon 1y ago
So this is aimed at somebody who has mathematical maturity but prefers... less content and detail? The point is that you are losing something in a shortened presentation. You're not just losing "unnecessary exercises" as yo

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