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by sampo 4y ago
Quantum mechanics
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The song by Younha in the video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SuI6snsbc4#t=1m26s ), doesn't it look like you'd need more than 2 hands to play the piano arrangement?
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> This is one advantage of Ada, where parameters are abstractly declared as "in" or "in out" or "out". Also Fortran has "in", "inout" and "out".
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What about the competitors, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Rock Pi and others? Now that that Raspberry Pi's are usually sold out and difficult to get. In what case would you need an actual Raspberry Pi, and a competing product would not do?
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by sampo 4y ago
Quantum mechanics has wave function collapse, which is both essential in applying the theory to explain any physical situation, and at the same time not described by the theory. Other than "and then it collapses". Classical theori
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> we still do not really know whether masks at a population level tend to reduce transmission We don't know this about condoms, either. https://jech.bmj.com/content/65/2/100
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> So they still don't know if masks work? It took decades to get medical doctors to start washing their hands [1]. It took decades to get people to use seat belts in cars [2]. It took decades to accept that tobacco smoking causes lu
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> Look at toilet paper So you are saying, the authorities should have send out a public messaging: "Don't buy toilet paper, toilet paper doesn't work", and that would have solved the situation?
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-hol... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/descendants-of-ho...
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> What would evacuation deaths even be? I think some deaths occurred when evacuating hospital patients.
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> You can't automate a live performance or an oil painting with AI in this way. You'd have to combine it with these guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqE9zIp0Muk
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by sampo 4y ago
GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters (says Wikipedia). What is the size of the neural network used in this riffusion project?
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by sampo 4y ago
"What Is Alternative Data and Why Is It Changing Finance?" https://builtin.com/fintech/alternative-data
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Hon gör sig av med alla som spammar Ja, inget kan slå våran bot
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> If you had the hardware, would you rather see it used or see it dog slow trying to load UI components from disk? I am willing to bet, that while Xfce uses less memory than Gnome or KDE, Xfce is also more snappy. I bet smaller memory us
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This is starting to feel like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopsychology
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> Experiment is done in two dimensions Not even that. They use the holographic principle (which itself is only a conjecture) to reduce dimensions. The actual experiment is done in 1-dimensional space-time: 1 time dimension and 0 space di
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> They simulated a toy space-time model And not even. A toy model in a space-time that is wildly different from our real space. Their space is AdS, i.e. negative curvature, vs. our dS space with positive curvature. Their toy space has a
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by sampo 4y ago
Matt Strassler is writing a series, explaining the background and physics theories behind this... this thing, whatever it is. https://profmattstrassler.com/2022/12/05/physicists-discover... https:/&#x2F
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> I think it's not unreasonable that we are sort of early to the party. Earth has existed for about 1/3 of the lifetime of the universe Universe begins | 9.2 billion years Earth formed | 0.5 billion years
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> piracy does considerable harm to large institutes What do you mean by the word "institutes" here? First thing that comes to mind is academic and research institutes, but surely piracy doesn't harm them. So you must mean
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I only have a TFA Dostmann CO2 monitor. It doesn't have any data connection capabilities, you just read numbers from the display. And it needs usb power, doesn't have batteries. Maybe I should buy an Aranet4. https://ww
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Google’s Sycamore chip: no wormholes, no superfast classical simulation either(scottaaronson.blog)
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> It’s pretty simple to understand the gist of the problem: modelling something I also think that there is a difference between modelling something, and sparsifying the model calculations so far that what you have left is 164 steps of 2-
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> I would think you need a bit more machinery, like a real convolution, wouldn't you? No. I think pointwise multiplication of functions is what you need here. Just as Deming did.
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> president precedent
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> but has she done any meaningful research? If you want someone with a stronger track record in research, but with essentially the same message, there is Lee Smolin and his book "The Trouble with Physics". (1) Google Scholar li
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This is what Firefox shows me: > Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead > This site is blocked due to a phishing threat. https://phish.opendns.com/main?url=www.onebigfluke.com%2F202...
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by sampo 4y ago
> It reliably responds to the wakeword ("hey Mycroft") from men, and only responds about 50% of the time to women. They have instructions on how to train your own version of the wakeword listener. https://github.com&
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"The more I ponder the principles of language design, and the techniques that put them into practice, the more is my amazement at and admiration of ALGOL 60. Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvem

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