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by shasta 11y ago
I guess you can argue that it's not worth the cost, but at least half of the trends you listed are in the direction of increasing utility for the consumer. Spotify or a pile of CDs? Are you kidding? The main problem with this trend
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by shasta 11y ago
There are plenty of great scientists who have nutty ideas about things outside of their specialty. I've only read the OP, but that's the vibe it gives me.
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by shasta 11y ago
The way I heard it, old Ben saw the little fishes inside the stomach of the big fish and decided it should be OK to kill and eat the fisherman.
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by shasta 11y ago
Actually, empirical observation depends on the correctness of basic logic, which must therefore precede it. You can't do experiments without having a logical framework that allows you to interpret their results. You can certainly fin
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by shasta 11y ago
Who's PG?
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by shasta 11y ago
I was just tossing out an example of a higher dimensional function and counting the local minima. The reasoning that critical points tend to be saddle points, not minima, seems irrelevant if critical points are increasing exponentially for
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by shasta 11y ago
Take any smooth function f and consider the multi-dimensional g(x,y,z...) = f(x) + f(y) + f(z) + ... If f had m local minima, then the n-dimensional version of g has m^n local minima.
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by shasta 11y ago
The easiest way I can think of would be to render the boat first, then render an invisible depth-only polygon at the top of the boat (that, together with the boat hull, encloses the displaced water volume), and then render the water. This
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by shasta 11y ago
The water in the boat doesn't look like water in the bottom of a boat should look. It's clearly just the surrounding showing through and would be work to fix.
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by shasta 11y ago
The article makes it sound like a black hole with the mass of Everest wouldn't be scary, since it would only have strong attractive force within a few meters. But wouldn't it fall to the center of the earth, absorbing anything in
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by shasta 11y ago
I think the person you're replying to meant to repeat dumbest, from context.
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by shasta 11y ago
It is funny though that the law doesn't acknowledge the fuzziness of the law. In the article's example of the contract to buy a painting which ends up being very valuable, the law isn't going to apportion the value of the pa
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by shasta 11y ago
Nice segue.
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by shasta 11y ago
I think pressing 'i' to change bit rate from 8-bit helps with the crackling. I didn't get visual feedback that the bit rate was changing (bug?) but I similarly didn't get visual feedback when I changed instruments with
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by shasta 11y ago
There seems to be more to irony than just being unexpected. If I'm playing poker and get dealt a straight flush, I wouldn't describe that as ironic unless something about the context made that particular hand notable as well as
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by shasta 11y ago
More at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/IlluminationProblem.html . (If curved mirrors are allowed the problem was solved by Roger Penrose and there are rooms that cannot be illuminated - see link.)
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by shasta 11y ago
Maybe treble damages would help, but with many areas of the legal system it seems to me that what's needed most is a much more efficient first pass by a neutral party (court) to determine reasonable presumptions that can be challenged
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by shasta 11y ago
I doubt it. Isn't Unreal Engine still written in C++?
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by shasta 11y ago
If you take an information theory point of view, then a single question could provide more than a single bit of information, but it never will on average (for some suitable meaning of "average"). If I'm speaking to 1 of 1024
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by shasta 11y ago
Asking compound questions isn't the same as asking multiple questions because you can only ever get one bit of information out of each question.
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by shasta 11y ago
Yes, that part of the article was muddled. It first says the one spinning is dizzy ... and then goes on to explain that will not be able to figure out which that is without stars. How does that make sense?
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by shasta 11y ago
Good to know. Maybe the patented is warranted. Can you also argue that the $862 million is appropriate?
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by shasta 11y ago
> Maybe this is worth a patent, or maybe not. Maybe start with another question. What do you think the odds are that there was any kind of causal chain from the invention of this technique by the patent holder to Apple's use of the
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by shasta 11y ago
Your attitudes are common and somewhat align with the way things work today, but I think everyone would be better off if society viewed the market as just an efficient medium for exchange and took more direct responsibility for the welfare
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by shasta 11y ago
So how would you fix it if you were in charge?
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by shasta 11y ago
Right, that's the obvious situation that I see. I'm wondering if anyone can argue otherwise? If not, why isn't there a bigger push for market infrastructure that doesn't advantage high frequency trades? I don't kno
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by shasta 11y ago
I guess I see why high frequency trades are necessary in the current trading framework, but looking at the situation from a high level, isn't it obvious that the resources being spent on microsecond level response improvements don&#x27
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by shasta 11y ago
Analogies are like shopping carts; you can only push them so far before they begin to make an annoying high pitched noise. Your analogy probably works better in the ways that you've explained, though.
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by shasta 11y ago
> Better monitoring is another. Code review processes. Static analysis. Improved communication. There are many more. Did you mean this? Or NASA's process? Because I wouldn't characterize any of the above as "good ideas a
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by shasta 11y ago
But in a practical sense, the problem is that we don't know how to write correct software.

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