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by nilkn 2y ago
No, it’s a legitimate answer to why all electrons have the same properties. This is the real answer according to our best modern theories of particle physics. It explains why all elementary particles appear to have fixed sets of properties.
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by nilkn 2y ago
The conventional answer is that all electrons are the same because they are all local excited states of a single quantized field (the electron field). So we just have to shift perspective from "there's only one electron" to &
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by nilkn 3y ago
I still wouldn’t use the word “discover” in this context. Physics is not pure mathematics. There are many theories that just do not correspond to reality. Would you say that strings and extra dimensions have been discovered? No, we’d say th
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by nilkn 3y ago
The ability to move around while I’m actively wearing it is not particularly compelling or relevant to me. I didn’t get it for room-scale VR games, and I tend to take it off when I get up anyway. I find it really amazing that I can set up a
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by nilkn 3y ago
MacOS has had features like expose and Mission Control for many years. Even something like that would be a big step forward for window management in visionOS.
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by nilkn 3y ago
I got an acrylic tray [0] that holds a keyboard and trackpad and can comfortably sit on my lap to use with the Vision Pro. It’s truly marvelous and makes the VP feel like an actual laptop replacement, with the only real problem being that v
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by nilkn 3y ago
Doing their best to avoid it does not mean always avoiding it. People travel for work all the time, and many of them have kids.
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by nilkn 3y ago
The passthrough is not perfect, but it’s certainly not nauseating.
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by nilkn 3y ago
I’d really love to see a rigorous explanation of renormalization, plus why it doesn’t work for gravity, with no handwaving. As a non-physicist, that has always been the point where I hit a wall on traditional treatments of QFT.
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by nilkn 3y ago
Is it, though? On the AVP it looks better than an actual theater and almost as good as a $5k 80+ inch OLED TV at home. The fidelity is incredible and well beyond anything I’ve seen before from a VR headset.
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by nilkn 3y ago
Redfin's data says otherwise -- Seattle SFHs are up 5.5% YoY. [0] [0] https://www.redfin.com/city/16163/WA/Seattle/housing-market
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by nilkn 3y ago
Unfortunately, shutting down OpenAI would probably be seen as a win for Poe by Adam D’Angelo. He literally stands to lose both Quora and Poe if Sam keeps scaling up OpenAI’s product strategy. It’s one of the biggest conflicts of interest I’
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by nilkn 3y ago
What matters is how much personal work and money Adam put into Poe. It seems like he's been working on it full-time all year and has more or less pivoted to it away from Quora, which also faces an existential threat from OpenAI (and AI
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by nilkn 3y ago
Adam D'Angelo, who is primarily focused on Poe, a competitor to Sam's GPT store. From Adam's point of view, it would likely be hugely favorable for OpenAI to just be a research company providing APIs and for companies like Qu
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by nilkn 3y ago
As new datapoints emerge (like Ilya's expression of regret), it's certainly starting to look like most folks got it wrong and Ilya was not the architect of this chaos but rather Adam. Let's hope that Ilya's genuine moral
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by nilkn 3y ago
While I wouldn't go so far as to say it was all a ploy to get OpenAI to buy Quora/Poe, I do think it's increasingly plausible that Adam was the orchestrator out of this and that his motivation was purely that OpenAI had becom
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by nilkn 3y ago
I'm going to offer a surprising "devil's advocate" thought here and suggest it would be a brilliant strategic move for Sam and Satya to hire Ilya anyway. Ilya likely made a major blunder, but if he can learn from the mis
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by nilkn 3y ago
Sam was taking OpenAI in a direction that would pose an immediate existential threat to both of Adam's businesses -- Quora and Poe.
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by nilkn 3y ago
I highly doubt this was a coordinated plan from the start by Microsoft. I think what we're seeing here is a seasoned team of executives (Microsoft) eating a naive and inexperienced board alive after the latter fumbled.
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by nilkn 3y ago
At this point, is there any reason to think this arrangement will last longer than 24-48 hours?
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by nilkn 3y ago
Only time will tell, but if this was indeed "just" a coup then it's somewhat likely we're witnessing a variant of the Steve Jobs story all over again. Sam is clearly one of the top product engineering leaders in the worl
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by nilkn 4y ago
I wouldn't infer that the person is a low performer. However, I do think it's fairly likely they were either unknown at the VP level or not viewed as worth fighting to keep by VPs. Large layoffs are typically discussed and orchest
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by nilkn 4y ago
> [it] is just as applicable to situations where positive traits are assigned to men as it is when positive traits are assigned to women Can you point out some examples of such usage for men? Any paper I've found so far defines it s
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by nilkn 4y ago
It's definitely not a third of the price. There are definitely parts of the Bay Area that are more expensive, but certainly not every part. It's pretty close to Menlo Park in affordability or lack thereof. Property taxes are also
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by nilkn 4y ago
Indeed, use of the phrase "benevolent sexism" for this is in fact an example of "benevolent sexism" (because nobody would use that phrase to refer to sexism in favor of men).
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by nilkn 4y ago
This is a very good point that often gets overlooked. Empty lots in desirable inner loop Houston neighborhoods cost $1M. That's not really any different from Austin.
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by nilkn 4y ago
I think you replied to the wrong person. I did not choose Gary as a comparison; rather, I explained why it was not an appropriate comparison.
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by nilkn 4y ago
The most expensive house listing for Gary right now seems to be for $575k; for Houston, it's $20 million, a difference of 35x. The average sale price in Piney Point Village is apparently just under $3.7 million ( https://www.
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by nilkn 4y ago
Houston is the home of the US oil & gas industry and has one of the largest and most advanced medical centers in the world. There's a lot of money in Houston, and the city has incredibly ritzy neighborhoods like River Oaks and Pi
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by nilkn 4y ago
Not every expensive neighborhood is expensive for the same reason. There's definitely an "archetype," if you will, of neighborhoods that primarily derive their value from being exclusively home to the upper class. Atherton, R

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