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by lupire 1y ago
The idea of living in a simulation was well imagined separate from trans identity. The people in the Matrix aren't trans -- they are the same people in the same bodies whether they are in or out of simulation. It's OK for a trans
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by lupire 1y ago
Jurassic Park is 2h7min. 9min of animatronic dinosaurs 6min of CGI dinosaurs.
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by lupire 1y ago
Occasional reminder that YC application required applicants to give an eample of how they cheated a system for personal gain. YC prefers "naughty" founders over honest ones.
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by lupire 1y ago
What is the mechanism for enforcing laws passed by legislature? The local executive is breaking legislature's law. The governor should be ordering state police and lawyers to prosecute these local officials, or else the legislature sho
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by lupire 1y ago
This author somehow managed to avoid the word "sortition" under which this concept has been studied for millennia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://www.sortitionfoundation.org&#x2F
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by lupire 1y ago
They were 20% underestimating how long it took them to do a 1-8 hr task that they had just completed. It's like Tog's study that people think Keyboard is faster than the mouse even when they are faster with the mouse. Because they
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by lupire 1y ago
Are the words different in the voice model? The text flattery I see can't sound sincere when spoke.
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by lupire 1y ago
Theres an interesting recent study showing how poorly developers measure their own productivity: https://secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-slowdown HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44526
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by lupire 1y ago
The delight of pure maths is in its uselessness :-)
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by lupire 1y ago
I think not, because moving to a higher dimension is exponentially worse (density ~ n^2/2^n) than this linear improvement. So it's only helpful for naturally high dimensional objects. Digital objects do not have a natural dimensio
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by lupire 1y ago
It's usually the case that the low hanging fruit in a decades old commercially valuable field have already been picked.
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by lupire 1y ago
Feynman was happy to explain why he couldn't explain how magnets work! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
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by lupire 1y ago
Hard to explain doesn't make it interesting either.
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by lupire 1y ago
Most of math is not nearly formalized to this extent. This paper shows that this hypothesized set of mathematical objects is actually now hypothesized to be a slightly smaller set of objects. Most papers don't care or depend on the dis
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by lupire 1y ago
Kasynski got his masters degree at 22, which just slightly younger than average.
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by lupire 1y ago
"Draw a picture of a gorgon with the face of the 2024 Prime Minister of UK."
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by lupire 1y ago
Apple isn't the only one doing this.
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by lupire 1y ago
Was she eating at Jimmy's Buffet?
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by lupire 1y ago
Using a trademark as a noun is automatically genericizing. Capitalization of a noun is irrelevant to trademark. Even Apple corporation says that in their trademark guidance page, despite constantly breaking their own rule, when they call th
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by lupire 1y ago
Maybe so, but think about how such a thing would be technically implemented, and how it would lead to false positives and false negatives, and what the consequences would be.
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by lupire 1y ago
Tick-tock model. Research switches between adding new ideas and pouring more power into good ideas.
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by lupire 1y ago
Which is cheaper, among these two logically equivalent things: reducing one weight, or increasing every other weight?
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by lupire 1y ago
Not "more" context. "Better" context. (X-Y problem, for example.)
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by lupire 1y ago
Attracts people who like to display expensive decorations, at least.
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by lupire 1y ago
Women's bathroom is a social space. Men's bathroom is a social space only for sex, which most venues don't want.
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by lupire 1y ago
That's not ad hominem at all.
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by lupire 1y ago
https://www.sligocki.com/ hasn't posted since April, and the very first link on that blog is a link to... Scott Aaronson.
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by lupire 1y ago
Only if you believe that a number you can't count is a number. You can believe that, but it's a leap.
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by lupire 1y ago
Here's a more common example of this sort of comparison: In significant figures, 1.0 billion minus 1.0 million equals 1.0 billion.
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by lupire 1y ago
It has to come from a finite value (specifically, the amount of complexity that can be enocoded in 745 pieces of information https://turingmachinesimulator.com/shared/vgimygpuwi ), because the finite size 745 with infin

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