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by rossnordby 3y ago
For irreversible computation, yup. If reversible computation turns out to be practical, things are a little weirder, and the bounds are... further away. Stuff like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margolus%E2%80%93Levitin
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by rossnordby 4y ago
I think a lot of people might be missing some cultural context, or something. At the risk of killing the joke, a bunch of this post is worded as it is specifically for the opportunities for absurdity. It's an excuse to write sentences
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by rossnordby 4y ago
>Most people would not be able to procreate - the world would overcrowd. This isn't quite true. Suppose no one dies. Starting from a population of 10 billion, suppose every person can have one child. The population after one iterati
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by rossnordby 4y ago
Having done a little work across the spectrum, this is definitely correct. Years ago, I targeted the cheaper end, and the amount of work expected was absurd. The nonmonetary terms of the deals were often even worse; think business destroyin
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by rossnordby 4y ago
"Do less with less" is a good way to put it. It can be helpful to look at the extremes- for example, people who are starving can end up with suppressed thyroid function (among other things). This appears to be adaptive; a hypothyr
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by rossnordby 4y ago
Pretty much all the standard performance advice from other languages like C/C++/Rust applies. The concepts driving "data oriented design" will get you a long way. The biggest difference is learning how to play nice with
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by rossnordby 4y ago
I can't comment on the ASP/web side of things, but C# matches up with my atypical use cases extremely well. The high points: 1. Fast compile times for most of development. I'm fine with waiting a while to do a special highly
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by rossnordby 4y ago
Another related option that sidesteps a big chunk of perceptible latency is to send clients a trivially reprojectable scene. In other words, geometry or geometry proxies that even a mobile device could draw locally with up to date camera st
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by rossnordby 5y ago
You may not complain, but you do observe that your experiences are different in a way that can sometimes be unpleasant. It appears that when another person recounted how their experiences are different in a way that can sometimes be unpleas
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by rossnordby 5y ago
Not OP, but consider being 6 feet and 8 inches tall. In many buildings (especially older ones), you will have to dodge light fixtures regularly. Many doorways will actually be too short and you'll need to duck. Cooking in most kitchens
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by rossnordby 5y ago
(alas the path of the tootbird is a lonely one)
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by rossnordby 5y ago
To any fellow seekers of the Tootbird, I can answer questions if you have them.
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Seeking the Tootbird(bepuentertainment.com)
2 points by rossnordby 5y ago|2 comments
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by rossnordby 5y ago
The usual approach is some form of sweep to get a time of impact. Once you've got a time of impact, you can either generate contacts, or avoid integrating the involved bodies beyond the time of impact, or do something fancier like adap
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by rossnordby 5y ago
Notably, there's some movement regarding the runtime in Unity; it may eventually hop over to CoreCLR (for supported platforms): https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-future-net-development...
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by rossnordby 5y ago
I believe that is correct. I don't have a great source handy, but here's a preprint which agrees: Conclusions: Myocarditis (or pericarditis or myopericarditis) from primary COVID19 infection occurred at a rate as high as 450 per
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by rossnordby 5y ago
I'm not aware of any great data on myopericarditis for very young people, and not as many have been vaccinated, so I extrapolate from older age groups: Of 3 482 295 individuals vaccinated with BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech), 48 developed
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by rossnordby 5y ago
If it makes you feel better, they can still happen anyway! yay!
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by rossnordby 5y ago
One day, fully alert and sober at something like 5 PM with no excuses, during a thunderstorm, I heard tornado sirens go off. I thought to myself, "sheesh they are only supposed to run tests at noon once a month, and not during sto- oh&
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by rossnordby 5y ago
Not OP, but: if you're thirsty and there's a cup of water nearby, presumably you don't need to verbalize the full set of motor commands necessary to move your arm, grasp the cup, and so on. It's a pretty complicated moti
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by rossnordby 5y ago
Putting academics aside, high school is not optimized for socialization. For many students, it's 5-7 hours a day of explicitly not socializing at all, with brief periods of maybe talking to your friends scattered around, mostly at lu
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by rossnordby 5y ago
I'd charitably interpret this as something like, "I did not learn anything useful or interesting in school that I did not learn elsewhere first or more effectively". I'd endorse that claim, for the most part. I definitel
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by rossnordby 5y ago
Removing high school doesn't necessarily deprive a child of formative experiences, it just changes them. It's possible for the change to be bad (e.g. parents in a cult pulling their kids out of school to move to The Compound), but
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by rossnordby 5y ago
Hence, they point out that focusing on superintelligence gets you a way bigger bang for your buck than, say, preventing people who exist right now from contracting malaria by distributing mosquito nets. The article seems to push for a nar
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by rossnordby 5y ago
Out of curiosity, did you have any luck at all with the glasses-style light therapy devices like the Luminette? I was having limited success with other forms of light therapy (and the rest of the laundry list of interventions), and some rec
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by rossnordby 5y ago
Yup- I'm sensitive to the unforeseen consequences of rug-pulling a massive existing social structure. If I actually had skin in the game and was forced to make policy decisions, I'd probably focus on pushing the start time as late
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by rossnordby 5y ago
In my proposal, the number of hours a student actually spends directly listening to/interacting with an on-premise educator is much, much lower. The hope is that those would be more efficient hours, to the point of getting better resul
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by rossnordby 5y ago
I'll admit I haven't put this through an extremely thorough vetting process, and I haven't proposed this in congress or anything yet :P That said, I roughly assumed a private tutor cost of $50/hour, 5 hours a week, for 3
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by rossnordby 5y ago
I've wondered about how well something like this would work: 1. Schools open early and accept students as early as they do now, but classes start around noon and extend to 4-6 PM. Students are not required to arrive early; the school o
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by rossnordby 5y ago
Without touching on the specifics of AI risk, it's worth noting that any approach which takes into account the marginal value of additional dollars towards a cause and 'room for funding' will tend to lean towards things outsi

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