mr_mitm

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by mr_mitm 9d ago
What? No one says you can't say hello. It just shouldn't be the only thing you say
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by mr_mitm 9d ago
That's probably already true for 7 days or less
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by mr_mitm 12d ago
If you define the initial conditions such that their relative velocity is zero or parallel to the plane, yes. But that's not the case in general.
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by mr_mitm 12d ago
I'm pretty sure there is always a unique solution to the equations of motions (safe for some pathological edge cases perhaps). Classical mechanics is deterministic, after all. But for more than two bodies, there is in general no solut
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by mr_mitm 12d ago
It's well organized, the animations are smooth, and it looks beautiful... I'm not sure what to do with the information, but it's mesmerizing and fascinating. Great find!
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by mr_mitm 14d ago
I also don't remember checks, but I believe that having an email address of an approved organization was enough to pass.
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by mr_mitm 14d ago
I checked, you're right, but I think it's important to note that the prize did go to Perelman and he declined to accept.
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by mr_mitm 15d ago
There is https://knock-knock.net/ , which is similar
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by mr_mitm 16d ago
It doesn't really make a lot of sense to contextualize a velocity with a distance or a time period. You think those time periods are large because you see a lot of numbers in the units you chose, or because it is much larger than your
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by mr_mitm 17d ago
I'm waiting for some data center to be built where no one can agree on who actually commissioned and payed for the thing. Every body "just followed orders" until it turns out that it was Grok.
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by mr_mitm 19d ago
The archive that bypasses paywalls is archive.today (or archive.is, archive.ph, ...) which is run by some shady person, not a professional organization like Wayback Machine.
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by mr_mitm 19d ago
That's a different archive
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by mr_mitm 20d ago
You also can run a Mastodon application server side and serve server-rendered pages. I'm not aware of anyone having done that yet, but, you know, be the change you want to see. It's probably got privacy implications.
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by mr_mitm 20d ago
How is that different from email, IRC, instant messaging, or anything else nerds use?
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by mr_mitm 23d ago
Why does he say what he feels? Is that how leading figures in the space define AGI - a gut feeling? What are the usual definitions and how can we test for it? Is there something like a Turing test for AGI?
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by mr_mitm 23d ago
Quantum Chromodynamics, path integrals, and what other mechanisms you need for deriving the half life are extremely complicated, especially for that many particles, so of course it's hopeless without approximations, which can be wrong,
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by mr_mitm 23d ago
Can you be more specific? I believe quantum mechanics explains all of radioactive decay. Unless the GP meant that QM is mysterious, I don't understand the problem.
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by mr_mitm 24d ago
Where is the mystery? Any system can spontaneously transform into a new state with a probability greater than zero unless some conservation law prevents it. In a sense it's just quantum tunneling.
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by mr_mitm 24d ago
TFA is talking about C2PA, a regular signature in the meta data. A lack thereof means nothing, but if it's there, the false positive rate should be near zero.
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by mr_mitm 24d ago
Let's see Paul Allen's text editor
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by mr_mitm 25d ago
In the original sense of the word, vibe coding means neither reading nor caring about the code: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/ Some would use the term "Agent Engineering" fo
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by mr_mitm 27d ago
Me neither, and it was the first thing I looked for. Instead I saw: "No ads. No hype. Just quiet wisdom". Okay then
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by mr_mitm 1mo ago
No, he didn't. He offered to cover a case of beer for after our game at the park, but he didn't have a car, so he asked me to bring it and he'll pay for it. Afterwards he came to me (I never brought up the topic of money) and
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by mr_mitm 1mo ago
I wish. The small inconvenience of putting in an IBAN and a matching name instead of just an email address is already enough for many people to default to paypal. Just happened to me again yesterday, the guy preferred to bring cash next tim
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by mr_mitm 1mo ago
> Germany has reported more than 5,000 excess deaths this year. We're up to more than 15,000: https://www.rki.de/DE/Themen/Gesundheit-und-Gesellschaft/Ges...
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by mr_mitm 1mo ago
Hard to keep up with lots of sites. At least provide a common interface, like an atom feed.
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by mr_mitm 1mo ago
They're credences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credence_(statistics) Everybody has them, and they're not useless. Usually they're regularly updated when new information comes in.
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by mr_mitm 1mo ago
And yet they struggle with the abstract concept. They'll wonder why the candidate with a projected 20% chance of winning won. They won't know what to do with the information of a 70% chance of rain tomorrow. "Either it will r
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by mr_mitm 1mo ago
I wish people had an intuitive understanding of probabilities. It seems the average person can only think in terms of "basically never happens", "fifty fifty" and "sure thing".
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by mr_mitm 1mo ago
100 pages of dense mathematics created by Claude. It doesn't even have an abstract or a summary. What are we looking at here? Has anyone read this? Please explain like I'm not a math PhD.

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