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by philipov 2y ago
Here's a non-facebook link for anyone who refuses to use that site: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director...
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by philipov 2y ago
Someone being payed 100 million dollars is expected to have 20/20 foresight . Ludicrous sums of money come with ludicrous expectations. The presumption that we're all rational actors with access to reliable information is not bor
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by philipov 2y ago
One could argue the moon is made of cheese.
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by philipov 2y ago
> Despite their formal rigor, Infinitesimals are liked in some settings, ... Even better without a split clause. "In some settings" was also repeated.
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by philipov 2y ago
A better example would be the Fibonacci sequence, or some other inductive process.
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by philipov 2y ago
A new meaning for the Principal-Agent Problem... or maybe just the same meaning in a new context.
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by philipov 2y ago
It's unwise to forget that the thing that pulled both the US and Germany out of the Depression was war.
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by philipov 2y ago
I went into it thinking they meant numbers are leaf nodes of a graph, but no: they meant the entire graph looks like a leaf.
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by philipov 2y ago
They should have called it COBOLstone
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by philipov 2y ago
If we're only talking about simple vector spaces, your understanding is accurate, but when we're talking about visualizing shapes in 4 dimensions, we typically want something more. We are doing geometry then, and so we want a met
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by philipov 2y ago
Time is not a dimension of the same kind as spatial dimensions. It has a different metric and you can’t move freely back and forth on it. When you rotate on the XT plane, it doesn’t mean the same thing as rotating on the XY plane. It is not
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by philipov 2y ago
To start with, any definition that ends with a constant number is wrong. The living wage in an area depends on the cost of living in that area. I don't have that number on hand, but I expect it to be included in any discussion of what
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by philipov 2y ago
I think you meant to say "local maximum". If they were in a local minimum, moving out of it would improve conditions rather than worsen them. The situation where you can't improve without going down is a local maximum.
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by philipov 2y ago
Yes, chaotic systems can be simulated, and that's the only way to find out what happens with them. The thing one can't do is reduce them to a closed-form function of x and compute their value for any point along their domain.
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by philipov 2y ago
Nature vs Nurture arguments always suffer from a reductionism problem by assuming there's a dichotomy between the two, which owes its origin to a feeling of exceptionalism that separates anything Human from anything Natural. In fact, n
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by philipov 2y ago
When all the acceptable solutions are taken off the table, people start turning to unacceptable solutions. It's not good, because the erosion of social institutions will worsen the situation for everyone, but the only way to deal with
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by philipov 2y ago
If I told you that all the world's cryptographic security is founded on the study of prime numbers, would it be impressive enough?
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by philipov 2y ago
Yeah, and in English, people constantly confuse Pink (light red) with Magenta (red+blue). Our notion of Blue isn't so pure either, since it's considered acceptable to call Cyan a type of blue, yet no one would ever make the mistak
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by philipov 2y ago
It has been long understood in linguistics that languages don't divide the continuous spectrum of light wavelengths into the same buckets of arbitrary color words. It is just as well understood that this doesn't have any impact on
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by philipov 2y ago
As you have just described, accusations of virtue signalling are really accusations of people acting in bad faith by another name - and doing that without evidence of bad faith is corrosive and fallacious. Hacker News even has rules against
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by philipov 2y ago
Welcome to the J.J's Cyberia world! If you like to have some fun - just get on the dancefloor and screeeeam like this! Nnnnnnnnyaaaah!
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by philipov 2y ago
While I may have sympathy for your more substantive points, anytime I hear someone mention virtue signalling, it makes it sound like they're virtue signalling. Better to just not bring up that dog whistle.
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by philipov 2y ago
Does it use a sat solver that has better average-case behavior, or does it sacrifice on full sat solvability?
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by philipov 2y ago
The Conda package manager is available to users of the Anaconda/Miniconda distribution, which is very popular. Conda uses a sat solver for dependency resolution. It's a lot slower than pip, but it's not a thing that has to
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by philipov 2y ago
In a well-functioning capitalistic system, the sell side of the labor market has equal power with the buy side. When the buy and sell sides of a market have a huge power imbalance, this leads to market failure, which is contrary to the goal
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by philipov 2y ago
It sounds like you're confusing what they do currently and what the system should be set up to encourage instead. That things are broken right now is not a valid argument in favor of the status quo. The point you make only proves why
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by philipov 2y ago
> How much revenue do you think a janitor or café staffer generates? Close to zero. The same goes for engineering. Someone has to do the unglamorous staff, or you end up with a dysfunctional company, with amazing talent (on paper). If th
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by philipov 2y ago
Statistical analysis, more or less. Alphabets have a couple dozen characters, syllabaries have a couple hundred, and logographic scripts have thousands to tens of thousands.
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by philipov 2y ago
Let me know how that works out for you!
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I always thought that's what Seasonal Affective Disorder was all about.

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