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by pchiusano 8y ago
You might be interested in quantized inertia http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/ which is a model that does away with the need for dark matter and that has been gaining some interest. For instance, author claims it repl
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by pchiusano 8y ago
Could you link to your source? I recall seeing some research on this topic but I got the impression (perhaps wrongly) it has to make so many simplifying assumptions to get a result that it’s not clear how much carries over to real systems w
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by pchiusano 8y ago
Cool. :) Not sure how well this came across in the post but I was trying to be careful to say that even though there is a tendency for intelligence to arise (it is really more that evolution tends to accelerate its own rate of adaptation ov
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by pchiusano 8y ago
Related, this post has a simple argument for why intelligence IS a long-term trend in any evolutionary process: https://pchiusano.github.io/2018-04-21/evolutionary-methods.... So intelligence isn’t a fluke adaptive tra
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by pchiusano 9y ago
Random question, but did y’all purchase a different license from Zero Tier the company or is the GPL on ZT somehow not relevant for you given how it was deployed or used? (And if so can you elaborate?)
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by pchiusano 9y ago
Random thought: I'd be curious if results hold up after drinking sparking water regularly and the novelty of it wears off. Like is any of the effect due to an associations in your brain triggered by the carbonation.
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by pchiusano 10y ago
It would be a security problem if you could cast any value to an int array without getting an exception (and without the resulting byte code containing any sort of check). And it sounds like there is no guarantee that the exception will be
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by pchiusano 10y ago
People with families can certainly be successful entrepreneurs and create companies with "explosive growth that maybe change the world". (It kinda came across like you were implying that founders with families were mostly only int
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by pchiusano 10y ago
I think it can be tough to move to SV for someone who is married with kids. That is what has stopped me from applying, and I have definitely thought about creative ways I could make it work logistically. :)
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by pchiusano 11y ago
Wow, author here, was not expecting this to end up here! This project is very much in development, it's not close to a finished product and I hope I didn't give that impression. I created the site so there'd be a space other
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by pchiusano 15y ago
We have been using Scala pretty heavily since 2008 at Capital IQ (capitaliq.com) and ClariFI ( http://clarifi.com/ ) - check out this writeup - http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2009/08/scala-success-story-co... . Since then we've only increas