ogogmad

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by ogogmad 4y ago
The word is persecuted not prosecuted . They don't mean remotely the same thing.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
No, it's not "cancel culture". If you're not an expert in the area, you need to know how trustworthy the publication is. As it stands, there are indicators that it's not trustworthy. [edit] Sure, the article might h
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by ogogmad 4y ago
There's also nonsense like this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-need-t... https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6202 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Scientific American's reputation is in the toilet: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13152 I don't recommend wasting your time.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
For those who don't have an account: https://nitter.it/amasad/status/1595557790063304704
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Replit: Monumental changes to software development in this coming decade(twitter.com)
3 points by ogogmad 4y ago|1 comments
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by ogogmad 4y ago
There was a GUI at some point - in an old rarely used OS - that allowed you to use point and click to connect the output of one text box into a form field. Found it. Doesn't work quite how I expected it: https://en.wikipedia
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Advantages: - Drag and drop - Discoverability of features - Higher density of information - Changes can be seen instantly - The use of a mouse or stylus when it's natural How are you going to use Photoshop or Illustrator from the CLI?
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Exactly, and what if you forget or lose this string of bytes? Or what if someone finds it, and transfers ownership to himself? It's impossible to get it redeemed because of how the technology works. No court on Earth would - or even sh
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by ogogmad 4y ago
To redeem them, you have to sell them. Somebody might be left holding the bag.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
All of the seasoned hedge fund managers are suggesting to avoid crypto. By seasoned, I mean with a 30-year record.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Thank you for writing out this comment. It's an interesting suggestion to use two chat apps at the same time: One for convenience, and the other one for safety (but at the expense of convenience).
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Discord Will Not Help [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ogogmad 4y ago|3 comments
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Remark: Deciding if a proof of a proposition exists* up to a certain length n is NP-COMPLETE. Deciding if a proof exists at all - which is the Entscheidungsproblem - is semi-decidable. So the parent wasn't entirely wrong. * - In Peano
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by ogogmad 4y ago
I think Hofstadter's book GEB is a whirlwind tour of cool ideas in GOFAI -- that concludes that it's all hopeless for AI because of the liar paradox. Written in 1979.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
> we tend not to have things like stop losses I think those aren't necessarily great risk management tool It seems to me that you need to have a stop loss to prevent blowing up when you have leverage. This sounds like one of those
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Why is leveraged long even legal? I'm naive about finance.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Was this machine using a mechanical version of Euler's method?
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Yeah, sorry about the attack.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
It's not about our moral opinion of him, which is irrelevant, because he's dead. It's about how he failed politically. Committing a religious sacrilege so offensive to people that they killed him for it is politically incompe
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by ogogmad 4y ago
It may have been the "worst thing" he did politically. Do you not understand that?
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by ogogmad 4y ago
It's not inconceivable that people back then were sincere about their religious beliefs. Imagine going to St Peter's Basilica and replacing a crucifix with a statue of Baal. Or placing a statue of Krishna on top of the Kaaba. Thes
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by ogogmad 4y ago
> The debauches sound wholly fabricated Seems plausible to me. If you allow a horny 14 year old boy to get anything he wants, this is what happens. Any system that enables this to happen though is stupid.
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Maybe my criticisms are superficial, then. I guess superficially some problems with Sagemath I've found: - If you do matrix algebra in it, it rigidly insists on knowing which ring your matrix-elements belong to. If you have a symbolic
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Scipy is for numerical computation. It's not a CAS. While Sympy (which is one of the OSS libraries used in Mathics) is a CAS, it only implements a subset of the features of Mathematica, and not to the same standard. See here: https:&#
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by ogogmad 4y ago
It has a better equation-solver and simplifier than anything available in open-source. For instance, I have a lot of experience with Sympy, but Sympy has no ability to detect that an equation has a piecewise solution, while Mathematica does
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by ogogmad 4y ago
> For students/professors, Mathematica is basically already free at most major universities. I think this is usually an on-premise license, and not a license to use it on your own computer offline. You can use it on the cloud. I&#x2
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Take note: This sort of abusive comment is not persuasive. If somebody spoke that way to me, I would not listen to their suggestions, if only out of sheer spite. Why is this manner of speaking so common?
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by ogogmad 4y ago
> it's worth mentioning that the white-box / black-box terminology is in itself part of a long history of racially coded terms in science; researchers have pushed to change "blacklist" to "blocklist," for ex
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by ogogmad 4y ago
Can hashes not collide? Would that not cause problems?

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