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by staunton 3y ago
> "The Copenhagen Interpretation", ultimately 'won.' The debates are ongoing and "Copenhagen" (which really isn't a unified and coherent view anyway) is currently losing (among physicists, it will take
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by staunton 3y ago
How about "people don't like foreigners and strangers"? Most societies in human history have been that way. Even chimpanzees kill members of other groups by default when they find them alone.
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by staunton 3y ago
You're forgetting general relativity. Special relativity, yeah, someone else was going to do that one the same decade as Einstein.
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by staunton 3y ago
There's still no replacement (must be at least as cheap), so it will keep going for quite a while. Maybe plant or mushroom fibers can eventually take over some of the market.
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by staunton 3y ago
At which point you can stop using the words "prove" and "possible".
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by staunton 3y ago
I guess it refers to them playing very fast and elaborate solos (right hand) with minimal accompaniment (left hand + bass player + drums). Minimalistic comping will also mostly leave the low notes (left hand) to the bass player and comp in
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by staunton 3y ago
> It has nothing to do with topology in mathematics except the name. Well, the description of a topological insulator does use a tiny bit of topology.
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by staunton 3y ago
> never going to have that kind of awareness Be careful with that goalpost, it might make sudden movements.
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by staunton 3y ago
> To me, the law and programming seem very similar If that was the case, we wouldn't need lawyers or court hearings. Laws are phrased vaguely on purpose because real life is far too complicated to write down every eventuality and
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by staunton 3y ago
To some degree, we do that already.
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by staunton 3y ago
Who says you aren't? It's cheap to lobby on HN, especially if you can use LLMs. In fact, HN's current model of authentication might not be sustainable.
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by staunton 3y ago
We're talking about writing . Writing evolved in order to keep track of how much field workers are owed. Make of that what you will.
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by staunton 3y ago
Fitting and customizing things takes time and is expensive. That fully explains the trend. Before industrialized mass production, making an item by hand and to fit someone's specific needs was only slightly more effort than to make som
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by staunton 3y ago
What are some good examples of meaningful migrations of similar scale that went better?
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by staunton 3y ago
This is the first time I ever saw a comment including the text "I am a lawyer". Does that mean the comment technically contains "legal advice"?
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by staunton 3y ago
Agreed. However, my point about GP stands.
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by staunton 3y ago
The sizes of floating point are growing "apart" in the AI space. Who's to say what might happen with sizes of types. Maybe it's great to use mostly u8 if you're controlling a worldwide asynchronous networked megacom
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by staunton 3y ago
They are different. Namespaces are syntactically enforced and you can opt-in or out to names. To have syntactically validated qualified access. Naming might go well and have the same utility, but you never know what evil things are going
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by staunton 3y ago
C++ has all the things you "felt that C needed". So there must be something more that you dislike.
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by staunton 3y ago
> found a cult around self-referential ideologies That's something. > Rationalism is rational because it is rational... In his ideology, "rational" means "the way of thinking that best lets you achieve your goals&q
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by staunton 3y ago
(2) can be very relevant to material science and chemistry. Those things have huge ranges of important practical applications. For example, people currently struggle to do accurate calculations of the band structures of materials and it doe
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by staunton 3y ago
> So “the laws of Physics are the same in all reference frames” implies “Maxwell’s equations are valid in all reference frames”, which in turn implies “the velocity of light in vacuum is the same in all reference frames” From the point o
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by staunton 3y ago
> I am also curious if there are cultures with a polite probing mechanism which are not humiliating for both parties I think to some degree, it's supposed to be humiliating in the failure case. The type of confession being discussed
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by staunton 3y ago
Why should it produce those designs? Are they in any known sense optimal?
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by staunton 3y ago
GPT would be a lot more useful if it were able to mark sections where it "isn't confident that it can do well". Another thing would be an iterative approach that includes compiling and testing the code. Essentially, you want
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by staunton 3y ago
There may be more than one thing. Capitalism as an information processing system is quite slow. Computers can be faster.
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by staunton 3y ago
If people get used to LLMs governing their lives, those copyright laws will "just" be changed. People will not accept a legal challenge taking away their toys. Granted, we're not at that point yet. But the window for the lega
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by staunton 3y ago
Consider the possibility that may be a point in a technology's evolution where you can "look at what is being done with it" and conclude that it's useful from that , rather than just comparing revenue figures across dom
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by staunton 3y ago
> Math isn’t empirical: it’s assumed axioms which define a formal system. There are mathematicians who would disagree. They would say that math is discovered, not invented and that axioms don't actually matter. They would also say t
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by staunton 3y ago
> If all of that energy could be harnessed; it would be sufficient to power a small toaster oven. Do you have a source? Sounds like an interesting calculation.

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