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by speakeron 9y ago
Sounds a bit like Yudkowsky's number[1] (your main step is the first one, everything else is salad), which is a computable version of Rayo's number[2]) [1] http://googology.wikia.com/wiki/Yudkowsky%27s_Number
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by speakeron 9y ago
Well, you could plug Graham's number into the Bekenstein–Hawking formula[1]. The formula defines the area and there's a factor of the plank length in there, but Graham's number is so overwhelming that the the result is pretty
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by speakeron 9y ago
> David Metzler's series "Ridiculously Huge Numbers"[1] is a good introduction to this. It goes rather well beyond puny little integers like Graham's number. Yes, David Metzler's series is great and, I would say,
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by speakeron 9y ago
> But it's the m(x) that's actually large in that example. Sure, it's large (mindblowingly so), although I'm not quite clear exactly how you define m(x). It's hard to get a grasp on just how much vastly larger ea
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by speakeron 9y ago
> k(1) = TREE(1), K(2) = TREE(TREE(2)), K(3) = TREE(TREE( <(repeats (TREE(3) time (TREE(3))) What you've made here is what's known in googology circles as a 'salad number'. It doesn't make a conceptual leap ab
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by speakeron 9y ago
TREE(3) is indistinguishable from zero compared to Loader's number[1], which basically takes every bit pattern up to some n and expresses this as a program in the Calculus of Constructions. This system is a bit weaker than being Turing
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by speakeron 9y ago
The Ethereum Classic chain changed later in a hardfork. While this was a 'cleanup' job to remove empty accounts belonging to the DAO hacker, it was done without using his private key and puts lie to the claim that the ETC chain is
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by speakeron 9y ago
Selling Hitler is well worth watching and is currently on youtube[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHO_F32NNew
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by speakeron 9y ago
Hardware wallets use a seed to generate key pairs using a cryptographic random number generator. The seed is usually a sequence of words which you backup on a piece of paper. If the hardware wallet is destroyed you can simply generate the k
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by speakeron 9y ago
One of the definitions of hack is "cut with rough or heavy blows".
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by speakeron 9y ago
> Lets just hope that 8.8.8.8 remains stable. That's why the smart money defaults to 8.8.4.4...
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by speakeron 9y ago
I'm not sure why I would do that, although there are instincts which rely on that (e.g. sex). My immediate concerns are of my somatic existence rather than my genes. If my personal survival depended on the survival of the species (as a
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by speakeron 9y ago
That's the Sunk Cost Fallacy. As a rationalist who seeks to maximize my utility, why should I care about future generations?
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by speakeron 9y ago
In the summer months, I usually sleep with a fan (on a low setting) pointed at the bed. This is primarily to keep mosquitoes away (it works perfectly for obvious reasons), but the sound of it, I believe, really aids restful sleep and I ofte
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by speakeron 9y ago
> the puns That's a reason to keep the name - it's a rich seam that never seems to run dry. Also, if we did want to change the name, we all know what the anointed successor is...
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by speakeron 9y ago
Many worlds is a fairly common stance with physicists. It's what happens when you take the equations of quantum physics at face value. It has a major problem that has yet to be solved (i.e what the hell does the born rule[1][2] (the ru
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by speakeron 9y ago
Yea, Eliezer's stuff is great. He'll weave a story to a point that makes you bristle. You think, how could that be so? But then you realize that what he's saying is: "If you're really rational, how could you come to
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by speakeron 9y ago
In particular, whether it can gain enough mining power to survive. Currently, SegWit2x (the fork discussed here) has 92% of miners signalling that they'll support it[1]. The question in this case is whether the original Bitcoin could s
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by speakeron 9y ago
From about 1983 onwards, home computers were commonplace in the UK. This was mainly the Sinclair Spectrum (a device that, perhaps, caused a mini industrial revolution in the UK by teaching a generation how to code (and how to hack hardware)
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by speakeron 9y ago
I've already got an HTC One M7 that I've had since 2013. It works perfectly and seems able to continue for another 4 years at least. Why do I need this phone?
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by speakeron 9y ago
> What is a "skip" in this context? Not a native speaker here, sorry https://www.google.ch/search?q=skip&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=...
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by speakeron 9y ago
> Ethereum Classic is a fork of Ethereum that held blockchain is immutable paradigm Ethereum Classic did a hardfork last October which removed null accounts created in the DAO attack. Now, while this didn't change account balances,
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by speakeron 10y ago
> There's a Neal Stephenson short story about this, where some warlike and somewhat primitive aliens attack Earth, and are easily defeated by our far-superior weaponry... Is that maybe The Road Not Taken by Harry Turtledove? https:
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by speakeron 10y ago
> That's because of the tiny liquidity. Nowhere near $120 million was sold Actually, more was sold during this period. In just the last 24 hours on Poloniex, the volume was 20 million USD.
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by speakeron 11y ago
I've been testing the performance of the C2. Compared with a Xeon D-1520 (the current hot chip of low-cost cloud computing and actually very nice), single core speed is less than half of the Xeon D (at about the same clock rate of 2.4G
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by speakeron 11y ago
They do redirect, but it's actually to go from the www to the naked domain. This always leaves the naked domain in the URL bar and is, to me, a clean look.
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by speakeron 11y ago
TNG was like this (sourced from a video version and with a very nasty interlace look) on Netflix up to a couple of months ago. Now they stream the magnificent remastered blu-ray HD version which is sourced from the original film with fresh
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by speakeron 11y ago
Yes, the letter spacing is broken which makes it very tedious to read. This is a shame because it's a nice little article on a very useful technique.
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by speakeron 11y ago
Yes, that's a cool way to do it and somewhat natural if you're a server person; but perhaps mentally challenging for a lot of people. Remember Swatch Internet Time[1]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch
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by speakeron 11y ago
Surely more sensible advice would have been: make sure you have offline backups; but if you don't, pay the ransom.

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