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by ordu 4y ago
So do you argue that memory is different from point of view of resourse allocation/deallocation because it is much harder to exhaust memory than file descriptors, tcp ports and such like?
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by ordu 4y ago
I don't think Elon is trying to evaluate the code. It seems to me he is trying to evaluate people.
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by ordu 4y ago
I'm not sure that this is the whole story. Analytical Engine of Babbage was designed at 1830. It was not built at the time of course... But the idea was tried again and again unless it made it's way into practical applications. It
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by ordu 4y ago
> What if the knowledge behind that device hadn't been lost and we were 1k years further along into our understanding of mathematics and computing? I believe that knowledge is overrated on the long run. It is methods for knowledge
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by ordu 4y ago
It is orienting reflex[1]. You car comes from a blind spot, triggers the reflex, they turn their heads. Then would return to a staring straight ahead, if they didn't noticed that you are staring at them. If they did they would look at
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by ordu 4y ago
> For example as I was first introduced to it, frequentists simple count frequencies [...]. While Bayesians count frequencies [...] I think that it is a bad way to explain differences. The good way is to look into the history of approa
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by ordu 4y ago
> half the argument seems to be the a mismatch between mental models and actual reality. Which half seems to be a mismatch to you? A bayesian half or a frequentist one?
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by ordu 4y ago
> Do you give it a starting point and apply it to a bunch of elements like some giant automata like game of life? Roughly speaking yes. Divide all into a grid of cells. Model a cell state with a bunch of numbers, apply some rules to up
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by ordu 4y ago
What is the difference between a camera and a telescope? Is it just how it looks, or there is some deeper difference?
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by ordu 4y ago
I'd say that the premise of the article is captured in the title perfectly. One needn't to read the article to get it. So, we can strengthen your assertion and to say that "lotta people here are not reading the title." P
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by ordu 4y ago
The article talks not about "personal" optimism/pessimism, but about a social one. It compares an optimistic society with a pessimistic one. What this choice brings to a society? > A very driven and confident pessimist mi
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by ordu 4y ago
"Barrow and Tipler estimate that it would take 10^15 years for a white dwarf to cool to 5 K;[11] however, if weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) exist, it is possible that interactions with these particles will keep some whit
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by ordu 4y ago
> What I meant is that whether Taleb is a conduit to Dostoevsky or not has no bearing on the latter's continued relevance. Yeah. And then others will come to have no bearing on Dostoevsky's continued relevance. Dostoevsky rel
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by ordu 4y ago
> You, as a contributor, can advocate a certain decision, which means you present arguments why I should approve it. I don't need to advocate a decision in that sense. A long long time ago I was a moderator at a (mostly) teenagers
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by ordu 4y ago
White dwarfs will be hot for eons. Long after other stars burned out. So if humanity find a way to live through a red giant phase of the sun, then it will have plenty of time to watch how Universe loses its starts while circling the white d
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by ordu 4y ago
> Maybe if you squint hard enough, you might claim what he did was a scientific case study. If Einstein gathered facts about reality then it might be a case study. If he didn't then it was not a case study by the definition of a c
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by ordu 4y ago
Why should I be worried about that? Taleb is remembered now, it is relevant now, and it makes people think about Taleb now. So why not to try to understand Taleb deeper by reading Dostoevsky? If Taleb will fail to be relevant in 50 years, t
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by ordu 4y ago
> Of course he's still relevant, he's Dostoevsky. It is a theoretical prediction: Dostoevsky will be relevant forever. When someone reads Dostoevsky and sees Taleb's ideas there, it is not an insult to Dostoevsky, it is
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by ordu 4y ago
> You needed Taleb to explain why the classics are good reading? Why literature that has been treasured for the entirety of human history is valuable? Classics are good reading because every new generation of readers can find there som
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by ordu 4y ago
> Unlike scientific knowledge, Dostoevsky doesn't propose a model with a degree of accuracy and best practices on how to apply the model. Isn't a case study is a part of science? Please correct me if I'm wrong. One can s
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by ordu 4y ago
> Now, I'm advocating the third "technology", clear writing, And you are doing it in a response to the obscure prose of Socrates. It shows one more time that Socrats' obscure prose make people think. Cleverer people
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by ordu 4y ago
> It has a block of text, whose purpose isn't clear at the beginning [1], and requires you to read the entire comment Nah. It makes you think, I personally like to practice the art of thinking, of making connections between seemin
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by ordu 4y ago
My experience of such discussions hints that they lead nowhere. It is a classical mystery. It is impossible to solve without additional information. But if we need to guess based on our current knowledge, then Putin is the best bet: he is a
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by ordu 4y ago
The whole war makes no sense. Putin had lost his senses. 1. Putin seriously cite Dugin[1]. Putin acts like he believes this bullshit. 2. There was a lot of people who on different occasions told "Putin wouldn't do that, it would m
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by ordu 4y ago
> This is absolutely hilarious Not absolutely, it could be even more hilarious, if PM/AM switches happened at 11:00 and 23:00, not at 12:00 and 00:00. Or even better, the switch could ignore seasonal timezone shift.
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by ordu 4y ago
You need to repeat it many times. Then your mind will grasp the idea: you run marathon, you get endorphins, you feel good. When conditioning kicked in, it wouldn't be such a boring experience.
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by ordu 4y ago
> You may notice that in movie theaters—the most focused and immersive watching experience there is Movie theaters have the same influence on a mind as any other experience of collective attention. It keeps your attention aligned with
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by ordu 4y ago
It is sad when people die, and I'm feeling guilty laughing at people fighting for the right to write history at the same speed it happens.
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by ordu 4y ago
Irregular slices... The "dad's joke" of my grandfather. I'm not sure my translation is good, but hopefully it is good enough. Granddad: Do you want a slice to hold in one hand or in two? Me: mm... in two. Granddad carefu
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by ordu 4y ago
When I was a kid I taught my neighbor kid to ride a bike by rolling him down a hill. He crashed eventually into a wall (tangentially, so no great damage to him or to a bike), but he did ride bicycle after that crash course, no problem.

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