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by sixo 1y ago
The genre of this article is not pedagogical, really. One usually learns these techniques in the course of a particular field like physics, electrical engineering, or theoretical chemistry. This article is best thought of as "a story
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by sixo 1y ago
Would you explain the joke for the rest of us?
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by sixo 1y ago
uh oh we got a badass over here. The point of my argument was to express a "practical" epistemology in which Newton's successes represent exactly what they accomplished, instead of some failure to live up to an ideal "tr
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by sixo 1y ago
oh, what the hell, I'll argue with you. > vastly conceptually wrong Only for a useless definition of "wrong". Modeling reality well is an end in itself, and to the extent that model predicts well and "factors" re
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by sixo 1y ago
To the Stem-enlightened mind, the classical understanding and pedagogy of such ideas is underwhelming, vague, and riddled with language-game problems, compared to the precision a mathematically-rooted idea has. They're rederiving all t
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by sixo 1y ago
This comment thread is exhibit N-thousand that "nobody really understands entropy". My basic understanding goes like this: In thermodynamics, you describe a system with a massive number of microstates/dynamical variable accor
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by sixo 1y ago
"Midwit" must be new to you, but in fact it has a particular meaning and sense in internet parlance. A midwit is a person who believes themselves to have transcended the dimwitted, when in actuality the dimwit is in better agreeme
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by sixo 1y ago
Amazing. And shameful (for them.)
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by sixo 1y ago
The same but without leaning so heavily on Smolin's cosmological-natural-selection would be quite a bit more compelling. It should not be necessary; if it's true then the physics of our universe alone should predict it.
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by sixo 1y ago
It's usually taught not as an explanation of tides but a demonstration or exercise of newton's law of gravotation.
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by sixo 1y ago
This isn't what I'm talking about. I would want def my_func(a: int, b: int): ... def my_func2(args: my_func.__args_type__): ... with `my_func.__args_type__` standing for an object like `{a: int, b: int}`.
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by sixo 1y ago
A little while ago I sketched some ideas for a programming language [1], one of which was that I would like a language who did not distinguish between these two cases. Obviously you can always write a function with a single N-param argument
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by sixo 1y ago
This assumes the inputs are uniform distributions, or perhaps normals depending on what exactly fuzzy numbers mean. M-C is not so limited.
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by sixo 1y ago
That's just not validating your emotions—trying to, but doing badly. If ever someone actually did validate them it would feel validating , which feels good—rather tautologically, but hopefully you see my point. Thoughtful people usu
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by sixo 1y ago
The ability to have 20-50 tabs open without slowing the computer to a crawl was the reason I switched, and was highly publicized at the time. You don't need a "set of metrics", you need to do a good job on the one thing peop
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by sixo 2y ago
I think these highly-rational people are completely blind to the "soul"-like element of real art. (It doesn't help that 20th century art was full of people who were also blind to it.) Roughly I would explain the way this work
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by sixo 2y ago
It's difficult to have a productive, thoughtful conversation when someone reads a moral imperative into the phrase "supposed to" and starts lecturing about it. The sense of "supposed to" above is: the human system w
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by sixo 2y ago
That's right! And on average, the impact of mass protests in recent years, towards the causes they support, is somewhere between "zero" and "massively negative". Care all you want and politics will just ignore you o
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by sixo 2y ago
Or you can pay attention to it, in which case it will ignore you. Because what are you going to do about it? Say the same thing everyone else is saying? But a little different?
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by sixo 2y ago
well, all these tariffs are a major regression away from free markets. Although somehow I doubt this is what Bezos has in mind.
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Data Science Isn't Science(alexkritchevsky.com)
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by sixo 2y ago
1password, at least, has had this for almost a decade.
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by sixo 2y ago
Thank you!
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by sixo 2y ago
It sounds like this kind of essay isn't for you! > "nobody knows anything about the Spartans beyond.." "Sparta" is a "symbol" in our culture's "language of symbols" which stands roughly f
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by sixo 2y ago
Well they haven't. It's one group of fewer than 10 people, considerably removed from "the rationalists" as this point.
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by sixo 2y ago
Whether a thing can be selected-out depends on the shape of the fitness landscape in the environment. For example, appendix-bursts are clearly rare enough and treatable-enough that they cannot be selected-out in modern humans. (But almost n
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by sixo 2y ago
No, it's because complexity comes with a cognitive cost, and delegating responsibility to other entities minimizes this If you don't account for the benefit, it looks irrational, but this is true of absolutely anything
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by sixo 2y ago
people could not be more clear that their preference is for reliable and easy-to-use centralized services maintained by professionals, and not decentralized systems that require a great deal of user expertise
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by sixo 2y ago
When you name your enlightened government-saving organization after a memecoin you own a mountain of, only bootlickers are going to think you're in it for altruistic reasons. This is similar to elon's tendency to dump boatloads of
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by sixo 2y ago
> how modern western society is increasingly immanent This misses something about western society, though—it prioritizes immanence but in a way that fails to ever attain it. If you consider a Citizen-Kane type of person who accumulates w

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