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> I feel like Penrose presupposes the human mind is non computable. Yes. He has also written books about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose#Consciousness
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Penrose believes that consciousness originates from quantum mechanics and the collapse of the wavefunction. Obviously you couldn't (effectively) simulate that with a classical computer. It's a very unconventional position, but it&
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Why would they need to hide them? > these countries that are not allowed to have nukes Who says they are not allowed?
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> LaTeX was clearly inspired by it By initial release dates, LaTeX (1984) and TeX (1978) predate RTF (1987).
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> But how are animals with nerve-centres or brains different? In current LLM neural networks, the signal proceeds in one direction, from input, through the layers, to output. To the extend that LLM's have memory and feedback loops,
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2029, the year of Linux on the desktop.
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> I want to write BalancedI8 So, you want an integer, but one value sacrificed to denote not-a-number? Is this what "niche" means? So that with these, you can have Option[integer8, None], an option type that either contains a -
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I can translate the answers to you: --- > What marketshare do you think iphone needs to make such an impact? 5% > And why do you think it will gain that huge marketshare? Because of iPod (because iPod already has quite a bit of market
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There is "America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization", from 2019 by Graham Hancock. But while Graham Hancock refers to lots of real research, he also mixes in his own unverified ideas and theories. In that sense, Ch
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"$6,000 computer to run Deepseek R1 670B Q8 locally at 6-8 tokens/sec" https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ic8cjf/6000_comput...
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> i.e. high speed rail network instead You want to invest $500B to a high speed rail network which the Chinese could build for $50B?
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> What are you trying to say? Perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypothe...
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Git commands, while they may be cryptic, actually mean something. Whereas that was just gibberish made by putting random mathematical words together. (There is a similar sounding joke about category theory, "A monad is just a monoid in
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> Jorma Ollila retired as a CEO around 2006; he wasn't really pushed out and Nokia was still performing well. He handed the keys to the company to a non technical CEO with a financial background I wouldn't say that Ollila had a
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I think this is a traditional interface to the same archive: https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8...
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> If Nokia had paid attention to those design awards then they too could have moved quickly on a similar device. Nokia had their Maemo project [1]. A Linux-based OS for mobile touchscreen devices. They published their first device alread
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> There are facts that are known to be true beyond all possible doubt. The problem is that some people believe a fact is one way beyond doubt, and other way believe it is the other way. Epidemiology: Respirator masks help prevent infecti
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> In the lead up to the Iraq War in 2003, there was so much discussion in the media about how Iraq had weapons of mass destruction This is my favorite theory of what happened: Iraq perceived Iran, and internally Shiites and Kurds, as its
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Meta gets rid of fact checkers and says it will reduce 'censorship'(cnn.com)
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> The NYC death rate is based on a biased sample. It is not based on a sample. It is all reported Covid deaths divided by the population of NYC. Full set, not a subset.
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> https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9613797/ When it comes to Covid, John Ioannidis is a contrarian thinker [1]. He aligns with the Great Barrington Declaration [2] authors. This is the "covid is mi
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> The IFR for Covid-19 was not 2.6%. Less than a tenth of that, actually If we take the number of Covid deaths for, for example New Jersey (the whole state) or New York City from Wikipedia as: 26,795 [1] and 40,000 [2] and divide by the
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> It seems almost impossible that nobody in the entire contentious field of physical cosmology had considered whether our current consensus models account for the relativistic effects of the (known!) large scale structure of space. One o
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Also Pioneer Anomaly was solved, after dropping simple models treating the space probe as a simple or spherical particle, and accounting for the 3-dimensional shape of the probe. Because of the shape of the space probe, part of the thermal
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The seminal work is the 1982 book "The Extended Phenotype" by Richard Dawkins.
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> check out the movie "The Lost City of Z" And the 2005 Charles C. Mann book "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus".
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Here is a fisheye photo from the bottom of a rainforest. As you can see, some spots of sky are visible from the bottom. When you fly above the forest and LIDAR is looking down, similarly at some spots the LIDAR laser beams are able to hit a
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> > What about if Russia switch to just using Chinese boats as a proxy? > Beijing has no interest in this. The first cable and gas pipe sabotages using the anchor dragging method in the Baltic Sea in 2023 and 2024 were done by Chin
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> the ship was boarded in Finland's EEZ and then escorted INTO Finnish territorial waters You have misread. At least here in Q2 ( https://yle.fi/a/74-20133775 ) Yle writes that first the ship was asked to move to
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> In 2014, the US overthrew a democratically elected Ukrainian government by financing neo-Nazi militias and their political allies This is how the American far-right and far-left sees it. But how do the Ukrainians themselves see this?

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