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by philipov 2y ago
sin(x)=x in the same way that c=π=1 when doing cosmology.
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by philipov 2y ago
I don't know what a normal human coin toss is. Does the paper contain evidence/argument to justify their way of flipping a coin as "normal"?
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by philipov 2y ago
Depends on what you consider diversity of thought. "Bashing evolution" is not diversity of thought, it is crackpottery. Diversity of thought exists in opinions about, e.g. what evolutionary mechanisms are most important, how to in
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by philipov 2y ago
A lot of people really don't understand the difference between science and opinion, and that's exactly what's gotten us into the trouble we're in today.
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by philipov 2y ago
Global warming will do more than cause suffering - it will cause resource starvation, especially water - and that will cause war and mass migration, which will destabilize the world on a scale much greater than poverty has.
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by philipov 2y ago
"All you need is Transistor" - can't believe how badly that ended!
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by philipov 2y ago
> law enforcement officers and forensic experts were concerned that some iPhones were rebooting themselves under mysterious circumstances, which made it harder for them to get access to the devices and extract data. > iOS 18 comes
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by philipov 2y ago
If life could stop imitating art now, I'd appreciate it very much.
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by philipov 2y ago
This is why economic inequality is a problem. Although it's often brought up that the economy is not a zero-sum game, and it's possible for everyone to get richer together despite rising inequality, this view doesn't recogniz
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by philipov 2y ago
There are some ideas that spacetime is an emergent phenomenon. One such proposal is that it is produced by the large-scale presence of entanglement between particles: that entanglement creates spacetime. Where entanglement between regions
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by philipov 2y ago
Mens Rea is exactly why you need Theory of Mind. One can't judge intent without it. The point is that some naive mechanistic definition like "Structured information" that another commenter suggested isn't going to fit th
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by philipov 2y ago
Yes, the proper definition of "code" here is " something the author expects to be executed as instructions to a computer " - which inherently requires Theory of Mind to identify.
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by philipov 2y ago
Clever is not the word I'd choose here. "Misleading and irresponsible" pun would be more accurate.
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by philipov 2y ago
At this point, 2FA is the only thing I use my phone for anymore. It's the only reason I even have a phone; I spent about a year without one until I had to for 2FA. But I don't need to carry it around anywhere for that. It would be
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by philipov 2y ago
Well, you've convinced me. M&A should be illegal.
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by philipov 2y ago
Make sure to always google a name you want to use before using it, to make sure you're not going to get clobbered by someone else's dominant SEO on the word.
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by philipov 2y ago
Putting autoplaying videos on every page farms their view count and gets the algorithm to show it to more people, which drives ad revenue. It's quite similar to how Fextralife embeds twitch streams to farm viewer counts.
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by philipov 2y ago
Using "disrupt" like this has not aged well, and people who still seek to "disrupt" a market sound like they're reacting to trends 10 years out of date. After everyone else realized that disruption is bad, these guy
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by philipov 2y ago
Problem is that everywhere is already someone else's kingdom. This advice amounts to "Don't bother trying to build a castle."
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by philipov 2y ago
It's not just waiting - have we already forgotten about the not-hypothetical supply chain disaster 4 years ago?
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by philipov 2y ago
It raises the question - begging the question is something else. As for the question, it probably has to do with the gender of the noun. I bet 'deer' derives from a neuter-gendered word in Anglo-Saxon, while 'bird' does
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by philipov 2y ago
> 2... It also moves the emphasis to the second syllable. Octopods - 8 times better than regular pods.
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by philipov 2y ago
A house of cards built on a foundation of quicksand.
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by philipov 2y ago
Introducing Sam Altman, inventor of artificial intelligence! o_o
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by philipov 2y ago
It took me a moment to realize you were using "Algebra" in a pejorative sense to mean a level of mathematics beneath Calculus, rather than as "The study of composable operators on quantitative spaces." Algebra is a very
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by philipov 2y ago
It's easy to forget sometimes that the people taking it for granted that the technology doesn't exist yet are also the people whose work results in that technology being created. Of course it doesn't exist yet. Needing to i
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by philipov 2y ago
Sounds like a poorly-chosen name. It's already taken by these guys: https://www.coregames.com/create
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by philipov 2y ago
I don't think the author understands that enjoying things will change your life.
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by philipov 2y ago
> I don't see how we could possibly criminalize anything like that without neutering the ability for a society to come up with new ideas. But isn't that exactly the point of policies like this? They're intended to dissuad
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by philipov 2y ago
Every linux system comes with awk already on it. Perl has to be installed, and might not be available on a system you don't control.

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