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by lutusp 9mo ago
This article reminds me of my favorite John F. Kennedy quote: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of whe
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by lutusp 9mo ago
To some extent this misses the distinction between style and substance. People who read a lot, and/or who evolved at a time when critical reading was an essential skill, can be relied on to distinguish between conveying an idea versus
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by lutusp 9mo ago
> The use of ln 2 for argument range reduction has nothing to do with half lives. That is a false statement. > In fact, only doubling or halving times are directly measured for radioactive decay or population growth. That is a false s
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by lutusp 9mo ago
> When using the exponential e^x or the natural logarithm, the number "e" is never used. Only ln 2 or its inverse are used inside the function evaluations, for argument range reduction. That is only true in the special case of
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by lutusp 9mo ago
> Edit: how do you escape equations here? Lots of the text in my comment is getting formatted as italics. Just escape any asterisks in your post that you want rendered as asterisks: this: \* gives: *.
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by lutusp 9mo ago
> It should be noted that the number e = 2.71828 ... does not have any importance in practice, its value just satisfies the curiosity to know it, but there is no need to use it in any application. In calculations like compound financial
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by lutusp 10mo ago
> The point is that people are drawing all sorts of unwarranted conclusions from this lay report on early stage research. That is partly because no one seems willing to summarize this work, in concise form, for nonspecialists. Such a sum
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by lutusp 10mo ago
I hope the article's authors aren't taking the position that mass surveillance is a bad thing, signifying a breakdown in civilized norms ... after all, they're using the same methods to "track the trackers."
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by lutusp 10mo ago
> But it is divided into more specific diagnoses with distinguishing diagnostic criteria The criteria are based on effects, not causes. They lack depth. Let me put it this way -- if a trained actor can acquire a diagnosis, then it's
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by lutusp 10mo ago
Bad article title. It should be "Autism should be divided into more specific diagnoses, once we have reliable, evidence-based diagnostic criteria. " There's a reason Asperger Syndrome was abandoned as a separate condition an
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by lutusp 10mo ago
They included everything but the 3D printed material. If it was PLA, no surprise (and no excuse). Even ABS might not stand up to the temperatures at that location. I hate it when a news report tells you everything except details that might
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by lutusp 10mo ago
> OTOH on Linux out of the box they'd get /media/usb0, /media/usb1 etc. Which has the same exact problem. Linux can exploit the UUIDs of USB drives to avoid confusion, and Linux users know how to do this. Windows
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by lutusp 10mo ago
All true, all good points. Some day partitions and their unique UUIDs will be the sole valid identifiers. Then end users will have to be warned not to copy entire partitions including their (no longer unique) UUID. Sounds bizarre but I&#x27
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by lutusp 10mo ago
> Are Linux /dev device paths (originating from Unix) really much better? Not better at all, which is why Linux uses partition UUIDs to identify specific storage partitions, regardless of hardware identifiers. This isn't automa
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by lutusp 10mo ago
> [ .. ] Inserting an USB drive before boot breaks booting. Only if the machine's BIOS is configured to give bootable USB devices boot-order priority. So it's not about Linux -- in fact, the same thing would happen on a Windows
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by lutusp 10mo ago
I hope this article gets archived in a computer history, so people in the future can read how today's default operating system persisted in requiring its vict..., umm, users, to honor an archaic practice long past any imaginable justif
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by lutusp 11mo ago
I'm in complete agreement with the idea that people should express themselves in their own words. But this collides with certain facts about U.S. adults (and students). This summary ( https://www.nu.edu/blog/49-adul
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by lutusp 11mo ago
This is another psychology narrative put forth as a quantifiable scientific finding. Q: "Is this based on a clearly expressed scientific theory?" A: "Be serious -- it's just an idea, a narrative." Q: "What woul
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by lutusp 11mo ago
> Are you using one of the 3D presets/random config or are you using a 2D preset? Thanks! The 3D presets work, they provide good anaglyphic results. I didn't notice the presets option on my first visit. So ... nice! Even with c
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by lutusp 11mo ago
> If you are presupposing external perturbations or collisions, it's not an N=3 system... we're talking about the three body problem. Let me clarify something. A "three body problem" system is any orbital system wit
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by lutusp 11mo ago
Thanks! I tried the anaglyphic option, but the data being provided to the engine doesn't include third dimension data (so the orbits are essentially flat in the third dimension). Also the orbital colors interfere with the anaglyphic ef
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by lutusp 11mo ago
> There are stable solutions. See: Earth’s Moon (or any other planetary moon in the solar system). Those are not stable solutions. Remember that Earth's moon only came into existence because of a collision with a protoplanet in the
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by lutusp 11mo ago
I'm just saying that, because of energy conservation, an escaping member would need to permanently carry away more than 1/3 of the system energy (for equal-mass satellites). This is possible but unlikely.
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by lutusp 11mo ago
> However, some of these were misleading. I had one running for 15 minutes at 5x, and the third body did eventually return. That's not misleading. Real three-body orbital systems show this same behavior. Consider that such a system
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by lutusp 11mo ago
> Is this with Gemini 3? An LLM couldn't provide results for a sim like this, compared to a relatively simple numerical differential equation solver, which is how this sim works. Unless you're asking whether a sim like this cou
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by lutusp 11mo ago
> No physics expert but isn't this unpredictable (based on what I saw in series) ? A three-body orbital problem is an example of a chaotic system, meaning a system extraordinarily sensitive to initial conditions. So no, not unpredic
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by lutusp 11mo ago
> Open to suggestions for additional presets or features! Anaglyphic (red/cyan) 3D rendering would be nice. I've created a lot of anaglyphic 3D apps over the years, but they're no longer very popular -- I suspect it's
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by lutusp 11mo ago
Granted the humorous intent, it's a reductionist outlook. If we were to embrace the premise, then life would be about spawning replacements, or, as is sometimes said, "A chicken is an egg's way to make another egg." When
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by lutusp 11mo ago
Great! Another LaTeX competitor, doubtless "better" for an obscure reason known only to its author. Especially appealing is the fact that, when embedded in a Web page, it must be translated into LaTeX syntax before rendering by Ma
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by lutusp 11mo ago
> ...I wrote this article about people who are coders ... Maybe vibe coders. :) People who have never been in the opposite predicament.

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