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by quantadev 1y ago
Bekenstein-Hawking entropy goes up when an Event Horizon increases in radius. That means some mass "falling onto" an EH. So this implies, if our universe is actually a 3D EH, both time and increasing entropy can be explained by on
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by quantadev 1y ago
An observable is always the strongest evidence but there's also the improbability of a mathematical coincidence that can serve as almost as strong evidence. For example the fact that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of an Event Horizon c
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by quantadev 1y ago
Gravity doesn't interact, other than to simply set the shape of the spacetime in which particles move.
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by quantadev 1y ago
The way I do most of my coding nowadays is by describing (in English) to Claude LLM what I want done, and it just does it, while I sit back and watch it type. It's amazing. You should learn to code!
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by quantadev 1y ago
I don't think RPN is as simple as parenthesis. All RPN does is replace the easy to get right parenthesis with difficult to get right newline characters.
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by quantadev 1y ago
RSS XML file format could've also been written "before lunch". And yet it changed the world. Sometimes the right "simple thing" at the right time, used in the right way, can change the world. My favorite example of
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by quantadev 1y ago
The reason I say LISP is close to English is because it's syntax is purely a verb followed by objects, and there's [practically] no other symbols in the language other than parenthesis. Since the word "best" always gets
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by quantadev 1y ago
I wouldn't exactly call APL simpler than LISP. Just because there are some things in APL that _can_ be coded with less characters doesn't make it overall simpler or even more compact in the general case. It's just axiomatic t
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by quantadev 1y ago
The point about `(+ 1 2)` v.s. `1+2` is about the fact that the LISP syntax generalizes to all computations, whereas mathematical expressions do not. The beauty of LISP is that one simple syntax solves everything about computation in the ax
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by quantadev 1y ago
* I use "English Language" as a synonym for "Human Language". However even if you want to be pedantic and interpret all my words in the literal sense, everything I said is still literally true. * I never said LISP format
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by quantadev 1y ago
English Language is the best general purpose conveyance of arbitrary ideas, and it has syntax rules just like programming languages. It's "best" by the metric of being "easiest for humans to understand". That's
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by quantadev 1y ago
I've been realizing lately that we're already to the point where LLMs can basically take written English language and create the computer code it's describing. I think in the future perhaps most (and eventually all ) softwar
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by quantadev 1y ago
I just saw the click-bait garbage headline, and from that alone I knew it was a lie, so I never even clicked it to read any articles.
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by quantadev 1y ago
People are intimidated by large tasks because they're thinking about the entire task all at once. This blog post points out the key element which is that you have to think about small easy tasks instead. Once you move your focus to sma
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by quantadev 1y ago
I always knew this story was fake. Even if you have a trillion expert developers it would still be impossible to get fast enough answers to "Fake an LLM". Humans obviously aren't _parallelizable_ like that.
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by quantadev 1y ago
There's a specific frequency of brain waves which are always correlated with wakeful consciousness. I never looked up whether 'binaural' stuff is normal in that same freq range or the lower ranges. The lower freq ranges are s
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by quantadev 1y ago
The important discovery is not that sensory experiences correlate strongly with specific areas of the brain. That's been known for decades. What I think is possibly new here is that the musical waves are genuinely getting "in sync
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by quantadev 1y ago
This is also direct evidence that qualia/consciousness is made of waves, not computations. The Neural Net "wiring" of the human brain is mostly I/O signal routing for various sensory input data and motor neuron output. T
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by quantadev 1y ago
A large amount of pharmaceutical ingredients come out of China, and are safely used in American drugs approved, inspected, and tested [hopefully] by FDA. For those supply chains that are supposedly well regulated there's less risk than
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by quantadev 1y ago
Consciousness is essentially made of brain waves, and it's the 3D positions of the EM fields which is at the core of it. So it makes sense that jiggling around brain matter to where it is in frequencies that resonate with the same freq
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by quantadev 1y ago
You mean why would it be risky to ingest substances into your body from an untrusted source? I think that question answers itself.
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by quantadev 1y ago
On a related note: I've been predicting that if things ever get bad between USA and China, models like DeepSeek are going to be able to somehow detect that fact and then weaponize tool calling in all kinds of creative ways we can'
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by quantadev 1y ago
I think for every platform you could name there will be a certain sub-culture of people boycotting it for one reason or another. Sometimes it's about politics, sometimes about censorship, etc. I do it myself too. I boycotted StackOverf
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by quantadev 1y ago
Thanks for the links! Yeah, I'm on X as my primary news source for tech, but I mainly only follow AI-related people and orgs. I should search for WebRTC.
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by quantadev 1y ago
Where's the best place that people are talking about WebRTC then? Hacker News doesn't have rooms by topic does it?
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by quantadev 1y ago
Public Service Announcement: There's a reddit topic for WebRTC, that doesn't get enough action imo! Get in there ya'll... https://www.reddit.com/r/WebRTC
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by quantadev 1y ago
Right, there's kinetic energy in a system, and potential energy. For example the total energy that can be released from a moon in orbit is it's 1) kinetic energy of motion plus 2) potential energy, available thru the gravitationa
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by quantadev 1y ago
Objectives can come into conflict. For example, if you have two employees who simply cannot work together, and you have no other team to move one of them to, you fire the guy who's less productive, because your primary objective is get
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by quantadev 1y ago
Yep, I forgot to consider the tidal forces, but that generates heat for sure.
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by quantadev 1y ago
I just mean there's probably plenty of companies where there's a lot of unhappiness and with a boss who doesn't even care as long as they produce. Infamously this is how Steve Jobs supposedly managed. He was a very hard perso

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