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by sebastos 11y ago
Duh. You think a single person at NASA would have reported otherwise had you asked them before the Challenger disaster? Social pressure can influence people into engaging in wishful thinking. They made a horrible judgment call, and we shoul
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by sebastos 11y ago
On closer look it's actually trivial. Any move that requires rotating a middle layer is isomorphic to rotating the top and bottom layers in the other direction. :)
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by sebastos 11y ago
I'm just hearing about this stuff for the first time, and I've never felt a stronger "I want to believe" urge about anything. That being said, I think the emotional appeal of discovering long lost civilizations is SO ent
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by sebastos 11y ago
I think the point is that it lives on a spectrum. If inflation was so bad that your savings would be worthless tomorrow, you would run out and buy as many materials goods and services as possible. If you knew that tomorrow it would reach 10
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by sebastos 11y ago
Cancer is not the sole property of people who smoke. There is cancer induced by acute radiation, sunburn, diet, and so on. The reason for cancer is all things that cause abnormal cell growth, not smoking. Ergo, talking about how we can make
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by sebastos 11y ago
Thanks for the link, it looks great!
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by sebastos 11y ago
I really enjoyed this article, it was very accessible. Recently I've been studying some literature on stochastic optimal control, and I've bumped into the KL-divergence concept a number of times, but never really understood it. I
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by sebastos 12y ago
It's not just a drop-in glyph replacement. The 2 is a number that can, and frequently does, disappear. e.g. You would never write the area of a circle as (2pi)r^2/2 Are you really saying that he should have chosen a letter from th
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by sebastos 12y ago
... e^(τi) = 1 so still better.
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by sebastos 12y ago
We've come to talk about the Von Neumann architecture, but the information contained in his report on the EDVAC was largely lifted from the work of John Mauchly and Presper Eckert. Von Neumann's contribution was the relatively ped