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by shomp 11mo ago
The book Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud is a tremendous study in this area, Scott shows how you can add abstract meanings to words and pictures through illustration.
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by shomp 11mo ago
You go into a cafe and order a slice of cake. One is delivered. You order three more, three more are delivered. You conclude that the kitchen has infinite cakes based on the observable evidence. That's the argument.
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by shomp 11mo ago
>Evidently energy was created, or it would not exist, would it ? It is constantly transforming, but that does not signify that it was created, that is beyond the evidence
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by shomp 11mo ago
Noether's theorem tells us when symmetry guarantees conservation, but it says nothing about conservation in the absence of that symmetry - it's not a biconditional statement. Talking about endless expansion is like observing 1 se
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by shomp 11mo ago
Because energy cannot be created nor destroyed
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by shomp 11mo ago
Mainstream physics has been delighted to ignore/abandon essential conservation laws when talking about the expanding universe. It's kinda weird, I tried publishing a paper on it recently and it was not received well. In general,
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by shomp 11mo ago
In high school a friend of mine told me about "microsleep" and how your brain will oscillate into it if you're under-rested. This would align with that theory.
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by shomp 1y ago
I think we should be careful about materialistic reductions of awareness. Because some rats dreamed detours that ended up being correct in waking rat life, it does not follow that all instances of deja vu are misfirings. It's a tempt
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by shomp 1y ago
Some people think it is the eyeball (glasses), some people think it is the brain (NeuraLink). Some people think it is the wristwatch. The pins were an attempt at a pendant. I don't think anyone has tried the necklace, yet. A glove
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by shomp 1y ago
This is a really cool idea. So the pieces that are on display are able to be bought and used as the icon to the app? I think I get what you mean but I'm not sure. And these are... not NFTs right?
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by shomp 1y ago
Right now the API is nonexistent, relying entirely on people using the web interface to make listings, upload photos, and set prices. But if you would find this useful I can happily build it out. Our stack is Elixir and building APIs is v
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by shomp 1y ago
Building a donations powered marketplace, zero platform fee: https://shomp.co Merchants who want to sell on Etsy or Shopify either have to pay a listing fee or pay per month just to keep an online store on the web. Our goal is
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by shomp 1y ago
Hemingway said to always leave some ink in the quill: “I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well.”
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by shomp 1y ago
Out of curiosity, how did you "lose" them? Was it a 3 week stint from the getgo?
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by shomp 1y ago
In the paper summary they did not call it a bug explicitly, but they do say there are 32x improvements in using single bits instead.
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by shomp 1y ago
Turns out using floats is a feature and not a bug?
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by shomp 1y ago
Why do we not like Yandex?
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by shomp 1y ago
Language choice isn't about religion, it's about leverage. Lisp-family languages like Clojure and Racket are at the zenith of expressive power. Elixir/Erlang is for telecom-grade fault tolerance, concurrency, and distribution
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by shomp 1y ago
If you don't solve the problem, do you get the job?
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by shomp 1y ago
Right now I'm using Elixir to build an open-source nonprofit tech company, I will have to remember to add it to this project directory once we launch. Cool idea, keep up the good work. As a nonprofit tech company keeping costs low ma
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by shomp 1y ago
Campfire needs 64GB RAM for 10,000 users, that surprises me, I would think we could get to 10k users with far less RAM.
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by shomp 1y ago
With truly personalized learning I would expect more than incremental returns on the traditional pedagogical approach. I learn very rapidly with LLMs at my fingertips, largely due to the dialectical approach -- that is, having a conversati
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by shomp 1y ago
This is amazing. Well done figuring out the shared memory hack. That's a huge time saver and really makes sense from an engineering perspective. Ten dollars for the hammer and five thousand for knowing where to strike the machine, t
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by shomp 1y ago
That can pay each other? For what? Genuinely curious.
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The True Rate of Unemployment(lisep.org)
4 points by shomp 1y ago|1 comments
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by shomp 1y ago
As someone working on a tech nonprofit right now, I find a ton of value in your post and really appreciate the time you took to elucidate the minutiae of seeking funding from qualified donors. Thank you.