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by riemannzeta 3y ago
The ultimate question for consumers though is this: Are you better off in the Apple ecosystem? As bad as things are with Google, the answer is probably no. But not many have the time, tools, and training to be independent of either.
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by riemannzeta 3y ago
Not allowing good search within a channel is the most ridiculous. They're a search company. How is that self-consistent? Especially when you know they have the data and index, but are simply using it for advertising.
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by riemannzeta 3y ago
Their position in the Sonos lawsuits is looking pretty stubborn and selfish at this point. Just pay for a license rather than inconveniencing your customers. They should be working together rather than fighting over a royalty that's re
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by riemannzeta 3y ago
According to Thorp himself they were collaborators on the roulette scheme.
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by riemannzeta 3y ago
The full story of the invention of the first wearable computer is told in Ed Thorp's memoir https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00SEFEYCI/ Highly recommended!
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
“Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day – that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you’re writing.” — Cory Doctorow
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
Yup. Different problem space! Thanks for laying it out clearly.
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
Yes, 1 seems to be the most important difference, with 4 as one of its most important consequences. It's definitely intended to be a solution to Byzantine faults (or double payments as they would show up in practice if the transactions
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
Curious to know whether, in your opinion, the use of verifiable delay functions and proof of history represents a more reliable and scalable approach to decentralized time-ordering. https://solana.com/news/proof-of-hist
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Tuning GPT-4 for Writing Style(symmetrybroken.com)
2 points by riemannzeta 4y ago|0 comments
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Synchronization and Banking(symmetrybroken.com)
1 points by riemannzeta 4y ago|1 comments
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
Synchronized deposit withdrawals are a positive feedback loop that results in a market failure. More generally, market price signals help to stabilize cycles of consumption and production.
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
This is a test for theory of mind -- a term of art used by psychologists for the ability to understand that other people have their own consciousness, with different memories and awareness.
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
Is anybody compiling a list of errors specific to GPT-4? This has been a great resource to-date: https://github.com/giuven95/chatgpt-failures
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
Your ideas seem really cool. I'm sad that you chose a name so close to another great startup that does vector databases and search. https://www.pinecone.io/ You're headed into a place where some customers may conf
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
I believe Mr. Barry is simply doing what very few of us are brave enough to do: To think for himself! We are social animals, and many of our goals are the defaults set for us by our social cohort. Very seldom do we take the time to think de
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by riemannzeta 4y ago
Great comment. But you meant 2 helium atoms and 1 neutron in the second equation, correct?
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What's Wrong with the Patent System?(symmetrybroken.com)
2 points by riemannzeta 5y ago|0 comments
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Desynchronization of nickel production and consumption(symmetrybroken.com)
60 points by riemannzeta 5y ago|66 comments
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
Was he tutored? I also thought of Ed Thorp. But he was NOT tutored. He was kind of an autodidact according to his memoir. He had good teachers too, but not aristocratic tutoring by any stretch.
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
I believe at least part of the answer is that many of the would be geniuses went into financial services. Ed Thorp and Jim Simons come to mind as examples of people who made important contributions in mathematics, but spent a substantial ch
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The Problem of Synchronization(symmetrybroken.com)
1 points by riemannzeta 5y ago|0 comments
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
Actually, one of the fascinating facts about the history of PCR is that Kary Mullis didn't optimize to make billions on the patent rights. In his Nobel acceptance speech, he reminisces about how a coworker told him to quit his job and
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
UC was first to file some other claims. In the claims that were at issue in this decision, Harvard was first to file. Actually the opinion does a good job explaining some of that. But Harvard is labeled the senior party in the opinion becau
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
Yes, just in the US, and only one of the sets of patents in the US. This one is about use of CRISPR-Cas9 in a eukaryotic environment specifically. Both parties have some other claims, and ultimately will have to cross-license each other for
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
I agree that publicly funded research should be easier to get access to. Ironically, you have it backwards. Before the Bayh-Dole Act, there tended not to be any patent filings on publicly funded research at universities because it wasn&#x27
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
This the first-to-invent rule going out with a bang. Under a change in the law in 2013, the UC Regents never would have had the chance to argue that they were entitled to the claims here because Harvard filed first. Actually, they could sti
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
A person who refers to themselves in the third-person is called, in English, an illeist. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/illeist Elmo, Julius Caesar, and Salvador Dali have been identified as illeists. https:/&#x2
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
Would it be harder? Maybe it would make adjusting to the fact that you live in a different longitude easier.
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by riemannzeta 5y ago
So you still need lookup table to figure out whether you're being considerate of them or not. At least you don't have to worry also that you're miscommunicating with them regarding when you want to meet! My sense is that more

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