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by rantwasp 6y ago
if we’re into this, Valis, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, A Maze Of Death, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are all facets of the same diamomd. IMHO, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is by far the b
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by rantwasp 6y ago
what git server is that?
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by rantwasp 6y ago
Jace was banned for a long time for a good reason
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by rantwasp 6y ago
why not? my electrician is also a computer. a biological one.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
all switches are computers :) you have an input, a state and an output. if i'm hearing what you're saying correctly, you seem to have a complexity barrier that something must reach to be called a computer. i'm more liberal wh
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by rantwasp 6y ago
an npn transistor can be regarded as a computer. it's like a digital switch. was there something special that made you think npn or could it have also been a pnp transistor? (ie it was just acting as a transistor) anyways, we may disag
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by rantwasp 6y ago
i believe there is a disconnect between “is like a computer” and “is like a computer that i can understand and program”. if you were going for the latter i agree, we are not there yet. but it you define a computer as something that runs on
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by rantwasp 6y ago
technically what we call computers are nondeterministic. it just so happens that the way we model the hardware and feed/extract data gives us predictability. There are a lot of things going on, even in silicon. as far as biology goes,
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by rantwasp 6y ago
http://packaging.python.org/discussions/wheel-vs-egg/ use wheels
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by rantwasp 6y ago
hah. technically your brain is a prediction machine and, when you are trying to touch your nose, it’s really good at minimizing the prediction error.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
the analogy is good but i think it kinda breaks down when you consider the machine the kernel runs on. so you would mostly represent the machine the software run on.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
the complexity of the linux kernel (and in man-made things in general) is usually really small compared to biological systems.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
i independently ran across this when going through: https://www.edx.org/course/principles-of-biochemistry As someone who is formally trained in computer science I was literally blown away by biochemistry. Once you see
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by rantwasp 6y ago
do you have 100% control over it? no. do you have 0% control over it? hell no. there is rarely a situation where you have 0 agency and if you incentivize certain types of behavior (by providing aid/benefits) you will get that type of b
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by rantwasp 6y ago
yeah no. one needs to take responsibility for actions. if you did something without thinking it through, you should experience the consequences. I am all for having a social net and helping people that are going through a rough time, but I
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by rantwasp 6y ago
yes but the difference if that you hear the sound a couple of times per day vs continuously
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by rantwasp 6y ago
the numbers of cells your eye perceives movement with it limited. you brain interpolates like crazy (did you know that most of the stuff you see, you actually don’t see? it’s a result of heavy editing done by the brain). so now the question
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by rantwasp 6y ago
isn’t clojure like a lisp with extra steps?
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by rantwasp 6y ago
just doing my job (ie correcting random people on the internet) :))
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by rantwasp 6y ago
so my original claim was that: > i can extrapolate even further and say that everything is a state machine. humans are a state machine, plants are a state machine, reality itself is a state machine. we don’t see it like this because of t
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by rantwasp 6y ago
you obviously did not do metaprogramming in Ruby. Try it and you will never look at the "metaprogramming" capabilities of other languages in the same way. no offence to JS, but JS and a proper programming language are not even the
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by rantwasp 6y ago
> Mount Rainier, originally known as Tahoma, is the tallest volcano in the Cascade Range and the 2nd tallest mountain in the continental United States at 14,411 feet. Yeah, it's not the 2nd tallest mountain in the continental US. Th
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by rantwasp 6y ago
nobody is "doing" quantum mechanics per se. they are applying predictions from a theory that has been around for a while and those predictions work well enough in narrow domains to be useful. i know enough to understand some of th
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by rantwasp 6y ago
IMHO the man is a genius and the idea is brilliant. it’s the only place i’ve seem a reasonable interpretation of the uncertainty principle.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
hahaha. oh nooo. you’re not satisfied :) the initial discussion was about all physical object. since you cannot have concepts without representing them onto something physical (paper, in the memory of a computer, in brain, etc) it immediate
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by rantwasp 6y ago
wave function collapse is not an open and shut case. it’s fancy math in place to explain it. there are multiple interpretations of what is going on including the many worlds interpretation and my personal favorite the GWR interpretation.
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by rantwasp 6y ago
i think we maybe are mixing measuring with the actual evolution of the state. you cannot observe a quantum system without altering its state. also, there is no such thing as an isolated quantum system. this is true even for classic mechanic
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by rantwasp 6y ago
nope. if you want to have your mind blown away look into Wolfram’s cellular automata and more recently his physics project
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by rantwasp 6y ago
nope. everything follow from something else. you cannot literally create something new. you only transform. the Godel fellow proved something else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_... it has
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by rantwasp 6y ago
the short answer that you’re not going to like is that everything you’re describing is a human construction. it therefore exists in the minds of people as a concept. we use it because it’s convenient. a pure function that does not exist any

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