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by ordu 3y ago
Was it a low probability outcome a priori ? Should we update our beliefs and expect (say) half of asteriods to be binary?
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by ordu 3y ago
My psychology professor used to say that boredom is very important state for kids. They should experience it on a regular basis, because it is the state when people become themselves. It is not external events drive their existence, nor hab
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by ordu 3y ago
And no neocortex. Smart birds like ravens rely on a traditional system of ganglia to be smart, not on that hyped six-layered neocortex covering most of the brain.
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by ordu 3y ago
>> I don't know why this topic polarizes people to such an extreme degree. > Because some people are so rabidly anti-Elon You know, polarization takes at least two poles. If some people are rabidly anti-Elon, so some peopl
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by ordu 3y ago
My cyclist's intuition says that leg clipping allows you to extort greater force on a down stroke. Without clipping the force is limited by your body weight, with it the only limit is your muscles. Thinking about it your hands and a ba
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by ordu 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement I learned this relatively late in my life, but it was so an insight. From one hand it is just obvious facts, but from the other hand they are nicely categorized and so
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by ordu 3y ago
I can add a use-case for that. I'm trying to read Joe Dispenza "Breaking a Habit of Being Yourself". The book starts with Joe Dispenza views on a quantum nature of our world, and I see that the author knows about quantum even
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by ordu 3y ago
> So you seem to imply that the experience was not what you expected it to be so I need to ask: What did you expect it to be? Something special enough so I would feel an urge to use a special word to describe it.
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by ordu 3y ago
> a particularly biased view of the world We can safely drop "biased" from the quote, because an unbiased view is a mirror. A useless thing. > statement is only true for the rather small subset of things that can be scien
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by ordu 3y ago
> Just that morning I had put on a pair of steel toecap boots for the first time. Saved my toes. Amazing coincidence. Cannot help but think that it was not a coincidence, but you feeling your toes safe because of toecaps.
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by ordu 3y ago
Oh, no. Musk can do nothing good for social systems. His models of social systems are oversimplified, and his methods are not for social systems. You can fail an orbital launch just to see how it will go wrong, to learn things. But such exp
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by ordu 3y ago
Don't use pointers to functions, or if you must then hide them behind typedefs.
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by ordu 3y ago
for-loop in C is still primitive and limited in applicability, while it makes the most frequent use-case much more difficult. For example, it is normal practice to do some of initialization outside of a loop. It is normal to deal with finis
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by ordu 3y ago
I hear about this imbalance for the first time, and reading about it for half an hour left an impression that no one tried hard to prove anything. The very first thing that begs to be done is to plot this imbalance on a time axis to see was
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by ordu 3y ago
> reaching peak brightness and fading again in a matter of days, unlike supernovae which take weeks or months to dim. This phrase appears in the article four times. It is not the only phrase repeated multiple time. This is not the firs
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by ordu 3y ago
I think it is a statement when philosophy draws its tongue and starts making faces. Technically you cannot prove anything about the universe, because you need some presumptions to start any proof. Like you need to believe your senses for
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by ordu 3y ago
> How useful are universal truths compared to getting shit done? As I understand Greeks invented proofs because "universal thruths" they exported from Babylon and Egypt sometimes explicitly contradicted each other. I believe
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by ordu 3y ago
I believe there are two possible exolanations for that behavior, and I feel that they are different. Though I have no PhD in the field. First it can be just a learned behavior. For example it could go like this. Your dog at some point in th
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by ordu 3y ago
I'm not sure that this is a teasing by definition of the article. Running away dog does nothing surprising for another dog. They just follow a protocol.
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by ordu 3y ago
I do not think that resemblance to "Thinking Fast and Slow" is a thing that will necessary happen. Human mind is "designed" that way to overcome some limitations of his substrate, of a brain made of very slow neurons. AI
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by ordu 3y ago
I believe the opposite. It seems like a standard KISS artefact when abstractions leak from lower levels to upper.
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by ordu 3y ago
> I feel this is one of those moments when the technical term "whew" is appropriate. I thought mostly of "wow". They had a plan for a case when this "shout" didn't work. So they had at least two plans
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by ordu 3y ago
> Make it about living your proclaimed values. Otherwise, those aren't your values. Yes, exactly.
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by ordu 3y ago
Recently Nature and Ars published articles about LK-99, and in both cases it seems to me that a) they couldn't allow themselves to keep silence about a hot topic; b) they successfully didn't answer a question is it a real room tem
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by ordu 3y ago
I believe you should take your time and watch them. It is possible that it will work like with reading: if parents do not read, they do not show an role example to their kids, and then kids do not like reading. I believe parents should thin
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by ordu 3y ago
> Sounds to me like he might also be "hiding from himself what he doesn't wish to see". He tells exactly this. You and him are looking from different sets of axioms, so you come to a different language, but it is just ou
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by ordu 3y ago
Maybe instead of saying "saved" to users of your app you need to say them "NOT SAVED" in big red letters? Draft saved regularly is an expected behavior, it is futile to notify people about it. If they wouldn't annoy
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by ordu 3y ago
> This seems incredibly naive. I personally see nothing naive in the parent post. It brings arguments based on knowledge how organization works and appeals to a game theory (stakes do not match). I'm not saying the reasoning is ne
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by ordu 3y ago
Cyclic data structures are implemented easily with unsafe. Like non-cyclical ones (Vec for example). The difficult part is to make a safe API to that. This difficulties are not of syntactic nature but design difficulties. You need to think
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by ordu 3y ago
They used p<0.001. It is not social sciences, there anti-noise filters are stricter.

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