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by shiftingleft 6y ago
From the website: "The Great Silence implies that one or more of these steps are very improbable; there is a "Great Filter"" The paper argues against this in that you don't need a few very improbable. In fact, the
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
The Fermi Paradox has essentially been resolved: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404 This explanation is much more plausible than a Great Filter. Here's a great comment summarizing the argument very intuitively: htt
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
Is the gaussian mixture model required for this? Can't you just use the nearest neighbor?
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
Good luck! I hope you safely navigate(d) out of your crisis.
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
Have you heard of magic wormhole?
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
This is a great idea. I hope you can win many restaurants to join this endeavor.
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
I agree, that the current economic situation is likely much better for almost everyone in China. I'm not so certain, however, that the previous failures can be directly attributed to central planning? It seems officials were too afraid
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
Is there anyone who would like to explain their downvote?
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
A probability should never be greater than 1. After trying out B ≥ 2ⁿ distinct passwords, the probability of guessing the correct password is 1.
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
Which recent edits?
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
China is a capitalist state - its economy is based on corporate profit. If the word communism has any meaning it cannot apply to China. I can't say for sure, whether China is fascist, as I don't know whether they are ultranational
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it's not my area, I just tell everyone I converse with to use signal and most of them do.
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
What gripes did you run into with Signal? Most of my friends (tech or non-tech) use Signal, so I'm really curious.
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by shiftingleft 6y ago
It does have a backup functionality, which unlike WhatsApp's doesn't store your messages unencrypted. It also doesn't force you to use a specific storage provider. If you want to have it synced, you can point your favorite sy