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by miltondts 5y ago
"Humans generally don’t like to hear that they’re wrong." Maybe that binary view is one of the root causes, as being "wrong" is not really a thing in many areas. In fact this has roots in Aristotle's logic. Some yea
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by miltondts 5y ago
Great news! There are journals that do this! E.g. https://academic.oup.com/gigascience They require the full means for replication to be open access, and reviewers take this very seriously! They will run your code, open gi
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by miltondts 5y ago
This type of discourse seem to be more focused on affirming how this can't possibly work than on genuine interest in discussing the issue. Imagine I propose that everyone should get access to free universal healthcare or education. You
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by miltondts 5y ago
At least in Portugal, this is done in the form of lower taxes. Essential goods are at 6% VAT and the rest is 23%. Yes it's not perfect, but unlike how you paint this issue, it's far from difficult to implement.
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by miltondts 5y ago
"The solution is to use management." Not sure what you mean by that, but KPIs are generally put in place by high-level management. Or do you want more micromanagement? Either way, I think the solution is not more control, quite th
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by miltondts 5y ago
But why are we forcing people to work for the essentials when the essentials (water, food, shelter) require a tiny fraction of the population and resources? Is this the kind of society that we want to live in? Where trough automation and fi
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by miltondts 5y ago
What do we do when automation reaches most jobs? Create artificial jobs to keep people busy? Now that I think about it, that seems to be what we have been doing for some 30-40 years now. By artificial jobs, I mean jobs that if they disappea
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by miltondts 5y ago
This is probably the only way to have fast software in today's hardware. Unfortunately the popular languages are all about single element at a time, and pointer chasing with the compiler having a hard time vectorizing operations and re
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by miltondts 5y ago
The first episodes (5-6 I think?) aren't spectacular. I hate the type of humor they use (which is actually quite common for anime of the same era). But when the main story gets going, it really is one of the best hard sci-fi shows I&#x
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by miltondts 5y ago
I also find this to be the case. Specially on ramp-up the difference is night and day. I also felt a motivation boost in certain situations. As with everything, if it makes sense or not, depends on a lot of factors: Who are you pairing
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by miltondts 5y ago
I suspect one of the reasons things become more predictable is that overheads start to dominate the time it takes to do things, and overheads seems to be much more predictable.
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by miltondts 5y ago
I think that doesn't reduce complexity it just pushes it to the users and the software they create. So now you potentially have orders of magnitude more complexity than if you had dealt with it in the appropriate place.
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by miltondts 5y ago
> It also kind of cemented for me that weird edge cases don't actually matter in practice Just look at the linux kernel. The tremendous amount of complexity and code need to support all the weird edge cases of hardware that does pre
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by miltondts 6y ago
"The former selects the most unique and important elements from a set of data, while the latter attempts, in the case of lossy compression, to find a smaller approximation of the original data set." The compressor finds a smaller
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by miltondts 6y ago
A person is a very complex, multi faceted system. If we don't like one particular aspect of that person, must we condemn everything that he does?
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by miltondts 6y ago
I'm not sure, but I think Degiro offers several account types, and at least one of them (custody) doesn't allow that type of behavior. https://www.degiro.co.uk/helpcenter/faq/profiles/1068
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Holography 'quantum leap' could revolutionise imaging(phys.org)
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by miltondts 6y ago
Circles are also simpler than ellipses. Maybe that's a clue. Maybe we need a more complicated equation that makes the phenomena more understandable. EDIT: To stretch the metaphor a bit more. Maybe QFT is the analogous of the solar syst
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by miltondts 6y ago
To add a bit more to this, from [1]: “economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or
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by miltondts 6y ago
I can't wait for a world where economic sanctions are based on sunlight restriction. Is there any science fiction around this concept? Also, regarding your questions. It is possible to adjust the earth's temperature with that meth
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by miltondts 6y ago
Are we an invasive species? wiki: "An invasive species is a non-native species that has become naturalized and negatively alters its new environment." Seems about right. No predator. Also yes. Multiplying exponentially. In the pas
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by miltondts 6y ago
Our civilization is about to face its darkest hour. We need everyone working together, not just in the EU. Instead this type of isolationist response seems to be what we are going for, not just in the UK but the US and other places. Very s
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by miltondts 6y ago
"show that its better" I've being thinking a lot about this, and I think this is better addressed by using the same standards as in other fields. Namely, a scientific study. I imagine an environment like repl.it, with just a
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by miltondts 6y ago
What scientific knowledge exactly goes into writing a list like this? Or for determining our "best" practices? Last I check, none. So no, "software engineering" is not engineering. EDIT: I think this is ok in such a youn
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by miltondts 6y ago
Why do you think that? As another comment mentioned, the EU is indeed reducing emissions: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/30/report-eu-g... EDIT: I do strongly believe there is no way out o
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by miltondts 6y ago
Yes, this is a big problem. We want to do comparisons, and it is quite difficult to download much of the software and datasets. For example, we are in the process of writing a paper for the compression of proteins. There are a few papers ab
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by miltondts 6y ago
Please read about superdeterminism. Bell's theorem makes three assumptions. One of which has no basis other than "I like it". EDIT: Also, as Gerard 't Hooft points out[1], if you have a deterministic theory and you don&#
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by miltondts 6y ago
The rebuttal from someone more knowledgeable in the field than I am: https://youtu.be/YglT09Korr0?t=1115
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by miltondts 6y ago
Superdeterminism just says that there is no statical independence. Not sure where you are getting the future determines the past from that. However, yes, in a deterministic world there is only one way to get to a certain future, so I guess
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by miltondts 6y ago
Why? All physics theories we have are deterministic.* So if we take that to the limit, then we are also deterministic. To me, there is nothing conspiratorial about that. *Yes, quantum mechanics is kind of debatable.. But if I understand it

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