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by qubex 4y ago
Allow me to be a Debbie Downer but the whole idea of statistics and data-driven decisions sort of falls apart if people are not able to interpret the output, distrust the input, or are just cynical. If you’re OK with having a small, unmeasu
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by qubex 4y ago
Orbits are always periodic functions, so quite amusingly heliocentric and geocentric models are equivalent (because of Fourier transformations).
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by qubex 4y ago
Independently from being an atheist I’m very dubious about the historic validity of Jesus. Clearly all the supernatural aspects (virgin birth, miracles, & cetera ) are to be eliminated as implausible, but even what remains doesn’t stri
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by qubex 4y ago
You’re going to have to define the perimeter somewhat more specifically. I’m in Europe and the foundational document is the EU’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). If applicable I strongly recommend you read it and a commentary the
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by qubex 4y ago
I cannot recommend William Gary Flake’s The Computational Beauty of Nature (1998) enough.
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by qubex 4y ago
This reminds me of three things: the foundational idea that humans are the “ the animal that trades ”, Mark Fisher’s concept of Capitalist Realism, and finally David Graeber’s observations regarding debt and his unpublished works regarding
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by qubex 4y ago
Forgive me for going slightly off-topic and perhaps prying, but: how come did your employer provide you with an Apple Watch, particularly if they don’t provide you with an iPhone to use it with?
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by qubex 5y ago
> * Anybody 45 and under randomly dying these days is most likely from exposure to fentanyl.* This might be applicable in some places (particularly in the USA) where the opioid crisis is in full swing, but it’s a very rare event outside
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Virtual Colossus (Lorenz code-breaking special purpose computer emulator)(virtualcolossus.co.uk)
2 points by qubex 5y ago|0 comments
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by qubex 5y ago
That sounds very wrong to me… I’d much prefer “who at the University of Maryland studies the processing of language in dogs and humans”.
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by qubex 5y ago
I’m delighted they mentioned TAOS and (following through) the amazing Transputer architecture of the 1980s. Being a teen ‘interested’ in computers in the early 1990s I was fascinated by massively parallel architectures (Connection Machine 1
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by qubex 5y ago
I keep hoping that the next version of iOS will include the possibility of adding other instant messaging service backends as iMessage plugins. It would finally unify messaging on iOS.
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by qubex 5y ago
Way back in the late nineties I scanned my father’s signature, transformed it into a vector image with Corel Vector, and then would use a dumpster-dived plotter to sign any school document I needed to get his signature on.
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Previous, Next Emulator
1 points by qubex 5y ago|1 comments
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by qubex 5y ago
(!TRUE)³
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by qubex 5y ago
My desktop backgrounds have been solid black since 1993.
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by qubex 5y ago
I’m truly delighted to see Antitrust (2001) made it onto the list. I was very much ‘into’ computer security around the turn of the century, when this film was released, and it totally amazed me with the fact it had no strange FUI “future
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by qubex 5y ago
As an origin story for our computer-driven era, it’s pretty desultory. I say this as somebody with Turing’s Theta Combinator tattooed onto my left arm… so that qualifies the statement somewhat, I suppose.
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by qubex 5y ago
To fellow lovers of that film: allow me to introduce you to No More Secrets , an implementation of the decryption effect shown in the film. https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
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by qubex 5y ago
I highly recommend The Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary William Flake (1998).
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by qubex 5y ago
Or toxins, for that matter.
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by qubex 5y ago
There’s lots of things wrong with the naivest formulation, and plenty still wrong with the most sophisticated constructions: for example, you cannot steer your ship, as that requires violating casualty locally, and also you’d blast your des
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by qubex 5y ago
That’s surprisingly similar to my build-a-laser-to-traverse-the-core-and-then-beam-financial-data-through-it. Current state of research: my remote cousins in New Zealand and I have made a “planet sandwich” by laying bread on the floor of ou
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by qubex 5y ago
As I understand it, supersymmetry was taken as a concept and baked into the strings concept, to come up with superstrings. So it’s not really a prediction as much as it is baked-in by the prevailing notions of the time.
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by qubex 5y ago
Negative energy is “theoretically possible” in the same way that you can take the formula for compound interest and substitute it an imaginary or complex interest rate: it will generate results, but the whole premise is profoundly suspect a
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by qubex 5y ago
I remember learning a procedure that involved determinants of hessian matrices. I wish I could remember it. 22 years ago now.
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by qubex 5y ago
And it probably always will, because it’s so stark and devoid of period references that it’ll never look more or less in context. That’s the point, I think.
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by qubex 5y ago
I’m just going to say: after the monopoly-induced stagnation of the 2010s, finally we’re back to something looking like competition-driven Moore’s Law-level performance increases.
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by qubex 5y ago
For anybody who wants to try it out in a spreadsheet environment and/or is looking for a useful abandoned project to duplicate, I recommend Risk Engine for Mac. Unfortunately it hasn’t been maintained for a long time and has been aband
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by qubex 5y ago
Actually “gli/ti hanno plagiato la mente” is a sentence that, as an Italian, I have heard often.

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