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by smokel 2y ago
An EUV is not a second-hand EV. The term refers to Extreme UltraViolet lithography: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithogra...
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This particular implementation doesn't strike me as extremely useful, but stepping away form text based files opens up quite a lot of possibilities. For one, identifiers could be replaced by UUIDs, making some refactoring operations tr
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Hm, I think we are discussing different topics here. I doubt that we use the same definition for something being "real". I'd like to avoid that discussion, and talk about what constitutes a thing. To me, _things_ merely exis
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debug -a 100 178A:0100 int 19 178A:0102 -r cx CX 0000 :2 -n reboot.com -w Writing 00002 bytes -q
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Thank you for that link, that is a fascinating read! I have to study the text and its references some more before I can say something sensible. For now, it seems that I feel most comfortable with the "instrumentalist" view, even
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by smokel 2y ago
My favorite language for implementing short Hello World programs in is HQ9+ [1]. Joking aside, this page [2] used to be a great tutorial on writing small ELF binaries, but I'm not sure whether it will still work in 64-bit land. It pro
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I considered stuff that I could manipulate freely to be a separate thing. This meant that sheets of paper (being glued to the book) were not separate things. I don't recall checking for loose leaves that I stuck in books, though. I
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I once made a large pencil drawing of my living room using only words. Each word depicted a "thing" at the position I found it. It taught me a lot about what things are. A chair is obviously a separate entity and easy to list, b
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For better or for worse, it is probably time to get accustomed to this. Early AI operated with symbols, and it has been clear for decades that that was a dead-end. Contemporary AI is stochastic, and it works a lot better for many applicat
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That depends on your philosophical outlook. Existentialism and phenomenology both seem to think that meaning requires consciousness. I personally think that there is little or no meaning outside humans (or similar entities). Unless I&#x27
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My last comment on consciousness should probably also be interpreted from the rock perspective. It does not make sense, because I assume that a rock has no consciousness to begin with, and no memory to entertain it. A sister comment sugges
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Thanks for the recommendations! I have read Thomas Metzinger's Ego Tunnel (2009), but as far as I understand it, he takes on a naturalist standpoint, and assumes that consciousness arises from that. I prefer to take a radical agnostic
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I guess things went wrong with my sarcastic remark on being able to "dictate" the margin of error. With respect to statistics and online surveys, I'm not even skeptical but outright cynical. Calculating the margin of error w
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I find Thomas Nagel's "what it is like to be" [1] concept fascinating. I have spent quite some time trying to imagine what it is like to be a rock . Mind you, not from the perspective of a human ("A rock will probably
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That's not how expectancy works. Perhaps if you had n great grandads, with n approaching infinity, on average they would make it to 109. But there is no telling for your own particular grandad.
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I somehow doubt that they actually randomly sampled from a representative population. It's more likely that they use an online audience who likes to fill out review forms.
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> Reviews.org surveyed 1,000 Americans 18 years and older with a +/- 4% margin of error and a confidence level of 95%. [1] Can one just dictate the error margin on a survey now? [1] https://www.reviews.org/mobile&#
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by smokel 2y ago
You could simply look this up on the internet, but for those of us who are exceptionally lazy, here goes: Every now and then, say every hour, or whenever you think of it, look around you. Try to check if what you see is real. Are things f
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How will this help?
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by smokel 2y ago
Beware, this website is probably a scam. Foldimate has gone bankrupt in 2021 [1], and the domain referral from foldimate.com to a 404 page at miele.com, suggests that it was Miele who bought up the remains, not a sketchy company with a &quo
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by smokel 2y ago
We are certainly getting close! In 2010, watching PR2 fold some unseen towels is similar to watching paint dry [1], but we can now enjoy robots attain lazy student-level laundry folding in real-time, as demonstrated by π₀[2]. [1] https:&#
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Everyone talks about TikTok having some valuable algorithm, but I keep running into the most dimwitted nonsense every time I try it. Then again, perhaps this is the algorithm's way of scaring me away to save precious bandwidth, knowing
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I am happy for your launch and wish you a good deal of luck. Personally I am really disappointed with the idea of requiring a subscription for a home robot, though. When I was younger I envisioned a home robot to have a brain inside itself
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Don't forget the vast (and parallel) improvements in image processing.
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For anyone wondering about related facts: the oldest age someone had while being the chess world champion was 58 years [1]. https://www.chesspower.co.nz/chess-records.html#theoldest
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Why would there have to be consistency and rules?
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For a long time, I wondered why a remake of The Shining was made in 1997 [1]. Now the internet simply explains that this was due to the author of the original novel being dissatisfied with Kubrik's adaptation. So much for mystery. [1
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I don't agree. Trust allows for a lot of things to go a lot smoother. Sure, good friendships can end, but one can also be honest with good friends.
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Going from punched cards to interactive terminals surely must have been a big productivity boost. And going from text based CAD to what is possible on modern workstations has probably also helped a bit in that field. In that view I'd
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Too bad most of society is accidental as well. With which I mean to say that there are a lot of nonsensical projects being done out there, that still make a living for many people. Modern AI may well change things, similar to how computer

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