roarcher

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by roarcher 2y ago
On the bright side, at least we'll be able to warm our hands by the waste heat of the GPUs.
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by roarcher 2y ago
No, in the sense that blockchain is. This is just the latest in a long history of tech fads propelled by wishful thinking and unqualified grifters. It is the solution to almost nothing, but is being shoehorned into every imaginable role by
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by roarcher 2y ago
AI in general is increasingly a solution in search of a problem, so this seems about right.
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by roarcher 2y ago
It was a joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox#Grandfather_p...
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by roarcher 2y ago
This one can murder its own grandfather.
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by roarcher 2y ago
Such as?
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by roarcher 2y ago
You're right, I misread your comment, my apologies.
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by roarcher 2y ago
I don't know what you mean--there's nothing highlighted in that link when I open it. Part of it is about elastic collisions and part is about inelastic. > the issue is that this is modeled as a very sturdy wall anchored to the
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by roarcher 2y ago
Kinetic energy is relative too. Two cars moving at 100MPH in the same direction (relative to the reference frame) have no kinetic energy relative to each other. You're right that if you match your reference frame to one car, that car b
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by roarcher 2y ago
I posted a long reply about how your math was wrong, and it is, but the correction I wrote was wrong as well. The correct way to solve this problem, which I do not have time to go through at the moment, can be found here: https:/&#x2F
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by roarcher 2y ago
In reality yes, but I assume the thought experiment is meant to take place in Spherical Cow Land where all colliding objects can be considered the same. I'm also not sure how relevant the crumple zones were when this was first thought
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by roarcher 2y ago
It falls straight down relative to the train, regardless of the train's speed. If you're standing next to the stationary brick wall, it falls straight down relative to the wall. To me this is a clear demonstration that motion is r
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by roarcher 2y ago
I've seen this too, but it was because those people were early/founding members and got some significant equity or options package as a result. If you're not one of those people at your company or there isn't a high chan
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by roarcher 2y ago
Presumably because there aren't many mature Rust GUI options at the moment. Egui is pretty good for what it is, but it's "immediate mode" which comes with some restrictions. Slint seems promising but the developer experi
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by roarcher 2y ago
> You said you didn't like arguments from authority but then you reverted to one here You're talking to someone else now. Read the usernames. And they were quite obviously refuting yours by pointing out that the authority you&#
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by roarcher 2y ago
I read your link. To borrow your phrase, I didn't find it persuasive. The paper promises in several places to address the issue of qualia, but never quite gets around to it. Instead it plays the standard linguistic trick that I hear so
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by roarcher 2y ago
Ah, so we weren't talking past each other. You actually do argue that the existence of qualia is an illusion. I would argue that qualia are in fact the only thing we can be certain does exist. I won't though, because now that you&
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by roarcher 2y ago
> or accept that your perceptions of subjectivity are not a direct perception of reality and thus illusory. I see now that we're using the word "illusion" in different ways and talking past each other. I agree that qualia
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by roarcher 2y ago
I said "who or what " in anticipation of this exact tiresome semantic game. Use whichever word you prefer, it's irrelevant to my point. My point is that qualia exist. You can call them an illusion, but we still "feel&qu
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by roarcher 2y ago
Agreed, I've never understood this argument. A hallucination or an illusion, or whatever this school of thought likes to call it, exists within consciousness. It's a qualitative experience. If my consciousness is an illusion, then
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by roarcher 3y ago
I had this exact kit! It was a little before my time, but I found it second hand at a garage sale. The kid who had it before me had drawn some of his own designs in the instruction booklet. Pretty cool to see it again.
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by roarcher 3y ago
> I’m curious how long other comparable batteries would last if you were only drawing 100 microwatts from them. The article claims they have about 10 times the energy density of Li-Ion batteries. So assuming their numbers are correct, ma
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by roarcher 3y ago
I agree with your points in general, though I wasn't talking about DSL generation or any specific task. I was talking about ChatGPT's general tendency to cheerfully apologize for mistakes, explain exactly what the mistake was, and
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by roarcher 3y ago
I call it an LLM, not AGI. Consider this scenario: - Ask ChatGPT to produce some output meeting certain criteria - ChatGPT responds, but the output does not meet the criteria in one or more obvious ways - Point this out and ask fo
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by roarcher 3y ago
It was also decades away for quite a few decades.
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by roarcher 3y ago
I didn't know that, that's wild. Does the government actually track their location in real time?
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by roarcher 3y ago
> Including stationary stuff that ought not to be. This has piqued my curiosity. What stuff is this? If something needs to know where it is and it's not going to move, can't someone just program its location once and be done wi
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by roarcher 3y ago
Those are perfectly effective, they're just easily removed. Something permanent like epoxy would be crossing the line into vandalism. I imagine nobody wants to take one for the team, seeing as how they're on camera.
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by roarcher 3y ago
I worked at a company that had these and was initially excited about it, but my experience ended up matching yours. The "real" work is planned as if these days don't exist, so I spent all of them on my regular duties so I wou
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by roarcher 3y ago
To be fair it says "more than 99%", which may just be popsci-journalist-speak for "very accurate". This is the same author who says terahertz waves "travel much faster than radio waves".

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