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by smaddox 5y ago
> very hard to avoid microstuttering It's not just very hard to avoid microstuttering. It's quite literally impossible. And it's not just the timer precision. Chrome's `requestAnimationFrame` actually provides a ful
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by smaddox 5y ago
Because the value would tank when they tried to sell off all the Bitcoin, etc., that they mined.
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by smaddox 5y ago
I just read about it. It seems highly susceptible to disruption by a minority stake, via the birthday paradox. If only a fraction of the stake holders are validators at any given time, but the set of 1000 validators is selected randomly fro
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by smaddox 5y ago
Doubtful. Landing on the moon prior to the commercialization of BJT's would have been staggeringly more difficult.
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by smaddox 5y ago
I somehow had never seen/heard the word protist before (biology is obviously not my specialization). Thank you for that.
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by smaddox 6y ago
That's an interesting idea. There could be a sort of markup language for describing the text and other elements. A sort of hyper-text markup language. And then there could be a separate declaritive language for styling. Of course, you&
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by smaddox 6y ago
This appears to have a bit in common with an idea I was toying with a month or two ago. I see nothing in this implementation that actually encourages decentralization, though. The economics of providing compute services certainly won't
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by smaddox 6y ago
Each possible update path can be stimulated in linear time (or is it polynomial? It depends how you measure the cost of searching for a location to apply the update rules, and weather the update rules are fixed), but stimulating the full mu
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by smaddox 6y ago
The article is a high-level summary of the past year and a half of work. If you want to see the derivations, you have to read the research papers, which are available from the website: https://www.wolframphysics.org/ In par
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by smaddox 6y ago
As far as I am aware, this is the first and only discrete and computable model of physics capable of reproducing even one of general relativity or quantum mechanics, let alone both in a fully unified way. Are there others that I am not awar
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by smaddox 6y ago
So much negativity and character assassination in the comments here. Would be great if people could focus on the content of the article. The work Wolfram, Gorard, et. al have been doing on this is incredibly fascinating and mind bending. An
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by smaddox 6y ago
I guess I assumed you only need to be clear about the modifications if you are not also releasing them as Apache 2.0. is that not the case? If not, is there any other similar standard license with a patent clause that I could use?
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by smaddox 6y ago
If you haven't already, you might take a look at the LGPL.
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by smaddox 6y ago
A singly-linked list is perfectly possible in safe Rust ( https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/third-layou... ): pub struct List<T> { head: Link<T>, } type Link<T> = O
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by smaddox 6y ago
> wouldn't it be easier to implement this in Factor than in Haskell? I have no idea. I chose Haskell primarily because of the excellent "Typing Haskell in Haskell" resource: https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj&#x
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by smaddox 6y ago
:-D
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by smaddox 6y ago
Author here. Ask me anything!
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by smaddox 6y ago
Wow... How is this not more well known? It's not like von Neumann doesn't have plenty of other important contributions to his name.
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by smaddox 6y ago
I was hoping it was going to be a massively multiplayer dungeon crawling game...
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by smaddox 6y ago
Interest rates are the driver, but the proportionality is between the rate of change in mortgage debt/credit and the rate of change of house prices: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fneweconomi...
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Thanks for the tip!
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Ignorant and authoritarian tend to go hand in hand.
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I agree, they are not doing climate science. Instead, they are equating changes in global climate over time with differences in local climate in space and then extrapolating that "simplifying assumption" into absurd conclusions, s
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by smaddox 6y ago
I think there's a place for privately operated power generation. It doesn't have to be one or the other. There should be some avenue for the profit motive to produce effeciency gains. There needs to be effective regulation, though
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by smaddox 6y ago
Venus has a quite stable climate. It just happens to be extremely hostile to life.
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by smaddox 6y ago
Don't trust neoclassical economists to understand macroeconomics, let alone climate science: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14747731.2020.18...
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by smaddox 6y ago
Based on what I've read, my understanding is that the separate Texas grid and ERCOT exist because Texas politicians wanted (and still want) to avoid federal regulation. The parts of Texas that were not on the separate Texas grid, i.e.
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by smaddox 6y ago
Perhaps... Perhaps righteous indignation is not helpful. Perhaps some humility and resolve would be more helpful. Perhaps each and every Texan, myself included, should take personal responsibility for this failure to prepare for the consequ
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by smaddox 6y ago
Computational irreducibility breaks the apparent paradox. "You" are an extremely complicated computational system. Even if the choices you make are fully deterministic given the current arrangement of the atoms, molecules, cells i
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by smaddox 6y ago
Not anywhere near room temperature, anyways. Plus it's not particularly helpful to store data in a single atom when it takes a much larger device to read the data. NAND flash cells are already about as small as they can be, but now the

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