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by mellavora 3y ago
The problem with immortality is how does society create room for the next generation?
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by mellavora 3y ago
Shooting from the hip: entropy of a single signal, say a sequence of letters, "ababababab" is the scaled "average" surprise per letter. So if they are uniformly distributed, each letter is equally likely/unlikely to
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by mellavora 3y ago
And one day we'll even let them drive cars!
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by mellavora 3y ago
> I was pleasantly surprised by the significant difference in quality, considering the Superlux headphones were almost five times cheaper. Maybe your post needs an edit?
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by mellavora 3y ago
Who approved the PR?
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by mellavora 3y ago
This is a strange and limiting definition of music, and rather unfair to the birds. Jokingly, when I sing, it is also hard to tie the sounds coming out of my mouth to particular notes.... seriously, there are birds who sing in a choir/
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by mellavora 3y ago
Yes, a few objections, or at least requests for clarification. You propose that necessary conditions for "spiritual" are "consciousness" and "empathy". These phenomenon are regularly seen in trees, and also in
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by mellavora 3y ago
Sounds like you are discussing the demographic pyramid. 100 years ago, life expectancy was roughly 40 years. Death cleared out the old.
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by mellavora 3y ago
Huh. Those are my gripes about python, and it would also die without the ecosystem. Except that python also lies about it. "You don't need curly braces, indents are enough" "what do you do when your code is more than 80
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by mellavora 3y ago
I'd rather stick to my R guns than my python pea-shooters, thank you very much.
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by mellavora 3y ago
so, only twice as much code!
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by mellavora 3y ago
What makes you think it is clearer in your brain than it is in your words? My experience is that in my case it isn't.
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by mellavora 3y ago
Suspect this is a troll posting, but on the off chance I'm wrong... The LLM gives the output of a command. To do so, it has to be able to determine when the command exits. This is exactly the halting problem. For a trivial example, wha
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by mellavora 4y ago
What percentage of the services provided by today's government were not around at the founding? I'd very much like to see government downsize, but if you want to pay taxes at the level at which the country was founded, you also ha
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by mellavora 4y ago
You are right it is `required methodologies`, but wrong on the source. The source is corporations which sell curriculums which are mandated by regulation. These curriculums are designed to be easy to sell to governments, which means they ti
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by mellavora 4y ago
Wait-- so Algorithms, Data Structures, and Complexity is out of date?
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by mellavora 4y ago
Key word "isolated". The high-speed bluegrass I enjoy has so many string events, so close to each other (in time), that almost none of them are isolated.
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by mellavora 4y ago
Fortunately Hacker News is different
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by mellavora 4y ago
I thought class T amplifiers were trash. Class D are more along the lines of "dogs*t".
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by mellavora 4y ago
Torroidy, with the steel shield to reduce hum. https://sklep.toroidy.pl/en_US/index
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by mellavora 4y ago
I've usually seen the opposite.
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by mellavora 4y ago
I don't quite understand. Are you commenting on the much discussed U.S. Housing Prices Fall for First Time in a Decade" stories? https://time.com/6217372/us-housing-prices-fall/
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by mellavora 4y ago
> How many of those 77 million are dead? And of those, how many are dead because they forgot to bring their gun to the swordfight?
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by mellavora 4y ago
> there are professions like child care, education, healthcare where personnel is always needed and overworked. and also severely underpaid, and demonized if they try to organize.
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by mellavora 4y ago
I fail to see how larger TV sets equates to huge increase in living standards. Maybe we could measure living standards by looking at mental health statistics? Percent of population on prescription mind-altering drugs? Do bigger houses, lead
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by mellavora 4y ago
Now all I have to do is guess which order you used them in, and I'll have full access to your system!
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by mellavora 4y ago
> If you follow every rule you subscribe to dogmatically, then you're doing something more akin to religion My impression of religion is dogmatically following only a changeable subset of the rules you subscribe to, where subscribe
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by mellavora 4y ago
I wonder if today's epidemic of depression isn't in part fueled by the consumption of milk from grieving cows. That distress has to get into the milk; this is one of the pathways of epigenetic regulation -- meaning the distress is
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by mellavora 4y ago
> the cow has no concept of morality, only survival. Actually, many non-human animals have been shown to have strong view on fairness . If we assume evolution is mostly correct, then the assumption that "morality" only originat
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by mellavora 4y ago
> The ocean is really big and its teeming with life. The ocean is really big and was teeming with life. There, fixed it for you

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