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811.
by russdill 4y ago
The set of problems that are computable by a classical computer are the same set of problems computable by a quantum computer. I think you might be misstating the Penrose argument/position.
812.
by russdill 4y ago
Sorry, I was misreading "wait until medical intervention becomes necessary" as "Do not perform scheduled c-sections, only perform unplanned and emergency c-sections". Anyway, I really don't think the issue with the
813.
by russdill 4y ago
It's 100% relevant. If you have a pregnancy for which there is a high chance of an emergency c-section, an alternative is a scheduled c-section.
814.
by russdill 4y ago
There's a huge difference between arguing that many scheduled c-sections are not for medical reasons vs that there are not medical reasons for a scheduled c-section.
815.
by russdill 4y ago
If it were a simple choice between natural birth and a planned c-section then sure. But it's a choice between a planned c-section, and the high possibility of an unplanned c-section, an emergency c-section, or in some cases very seriou
816.
by russdill 4y ago
I can assure you, it's a much much better situation than three hours of active labor followed by an unplanned or worse, emergency, c-section. Consider yourself fortunate. Labor isn't just painful, it's trauma which makes surg
817.
by russdill 4y ago
A c-section performed after several hours of active labor leads to a much higher chance of hemorrhage and danger to the baby than a scheduled c-section. Additionally, there are many factors that can be used to determine the risk of natural
818.
by russdill 4y ago
OK, because he does spend a lot of time shitposting.
819.
by russdill 4y ago
Are we taking about musk or the engineers at Twitter?
820.
by russdill 4y ago
Yup, the same guy saying how important it is to avoid echo chambers and always interacting with and retweeting the same right wing characters over and over again.
821.
by russdill 4y ago
In this case, they blur the image and allow the user to click to unblur.
822.
by russdill 4y ago
I think you are confusing persistent vegetative state and coma. We don't pull the plug just because someone is in a coma
823.
by russdill 4y ago
It's precisely the reason dark matter tends to not fall into black holes. If you put a particle into an orbit around a black hole, it will basically do so forever as it needs to lose an enormous amount of energy to drop down to a low e
824.
by russdill 4y ago
The number of free variables has gone down dramatically due to extensive theoretical and experimental work. And as already mentioned, there are many very different lines of evidence and it's not like different variables are being to fi
825.
by russdill 4y ago
I feel like the author is assuming here that the reader knows this is how Neptune was discovered and that the procession of mercury caused by relativity was long thought to be caused by a hidden planet. A very literal example of something t
826.
by russdill 4y ago
Except the evidence of dark matter isn't just about the orbit of a single planet. It goes all the way to predicting the spectrum of the CMB.
827.
by russdill 4y ago
Except an important property of dark matter is they it's interacts weakly with itself. But still good for sci-fi
828.
by russdill 4y ago
It reads more as if both parents are at home, being able to take care of another newborn/infant/toddler becomes more manageable.
829.
by russdill 4y ago
I like that the term chosen by AI researchers for many of these applications is "transformer". That way, I can look forward to a future where transformers do my dishes.
830.
by russdill 4y ago
I think you are folding two things together that are related but not the same. Hidden variables are about the state of an entangled system. The uncertainty principle can be applied to measurements taken of an entangled system but can also j
831.
by russdill 4y ago
You'd think something like "the uncertainty principle" by it's name alone would be a pretty good hint.
832.
by russdill 4y ago
Hopefully in a few years most people will be using it and have no idea due to framework adoption
833.
by russdill 4y ago
Because there'll also be a large number of ICE fires to deal with?
834.
by russdill 4y ago
There's a great book discussion this problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Empathy
835.
by russdill 4y ago
That's can be a super hard line to draw as many hardware implementations are just firmware running on hardware with some specialized dsp instructions.
836.
by russdill 4y ago
Apu2 is starting to get rather long in the tooth. Hope there is a refresh soon because it's a great little piece of hardware
837.
by russdill 4y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they modern fission plants that are not designed with portability in mind also have really low power densities. Just imagine the weight of the cooling towers. And yet, very different designs with
838.
by russdill 4y ago
We're already capable of huge energy releases using fusion. And also of machines that can run for decades with nuclear power, both via rtgs and just fission.
839.
by russdill 4y ago
Fusion is likely to be useful in situations where renewables are just not feasible. For instance, anything large that moves (large boats, spacecraft, or even aircraft) or has no limited to sunlight (bunkers, deep space outposts, etc).
840.
by russdill 4y ago
The coolest accessory was a Bluetooth flip phone that fit into the PCMCIA slot for charging.

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