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by szemet 9y ago
A short summary as I understand: Imagine you write a '1' bit to a memory location - now you know for sure that the location contains '1' now, as you can check it anytime. But now you have absolutely no information about
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by szemet 9y ago
By overwriting old information it is still being erased and lost - so the Landaur's principle holds, some explanation is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
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by szemet 9y ago
Maybe. It is also possible that better knifes cause less but more serious accidents, and then it is hard to compare the two. But I stop now, because what we have now are just plausible hypotheses without any real evidence - theoretical kni
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by szemet 9y ago
A big difference is that Rust has a zero overhead interop with C, so it it allows mixed projects or gradual porting. So Scala or Kotlin replacing Java, or F# replacing C# may be a better analogy. What happens there, is that Java and C# are
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by szemet 9y ago
Then you did not want to hurt anyone. Imagine someone who works as a knife grinder. If he do his job right the knifes will be much more dangerous, they may cause accidents or even some will be used intentionally as a deadly weapon. Then con
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by szemet 9y ago
Science needs only methodological naturalism not metaphysical naturalism. There are religious scientists - they personally believe that miracles exist so they oppose the real methaphysical naturalism but they assume naturalism during work (
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by szemet 9y ago
only in the same way, and to the same extent Yes, but entropy can make it asymetrical - in practice past usually have less legal states (a lower entropy point) than the future. Past and future can be completely encoded by the direction of
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by szemet 9y ago
Here the first answer says (with some quotations) that it depends on, if the variable could be declared as register or not. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11962457/why-is-using-an... edit: i recognised that i
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by szemet 9y ago
Undefined behaviour was always there to make possible compilers to optimize as they like (nowadays usually for speed or to ease porting to specific architectures) - that is the essence of C "portable assembly" mentality and it alw
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by szemet 9y ago
I don't agree. As I understand these things: You are mindful and react on direct stimulus - while gaming, you do not think on future or past, you are immersed in your actual activity - it IS mindfulness. BUT it does not improve mindful
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Haskell for Numerics?(idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com)
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by szemet 9y ago
There were multiple different assumptions why Rule 30 was used, if I think neither is a good reason to use it to tribute Conway, why couldn't I answer them one by one? It is just my opinion - it is not hard science but art, so maybe n
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by szemet 9y ago
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-post-modern-artists-question-au...
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by szemet 9y ago
Yeah that's the problem with unconstrained things: http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25 (Ok-ok, I know it is just a fun comment, but just to be serious anyway for the sake of truth: you can think of how likely that
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by szemet 9y ago
So is it a hack? Simply: a Shakespeare festival with T.S. Eliot can get much more press coverage? People like "alternative facts" - both on the believer and the debater side, so give em' what they want for fun and profit? :)
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by szemet 9y ago
Ok but anyway, either they were ignorant or they simply lied in the press release. Choose freely what shows the project members in a better light! (Neither? ;) My initial quotation was this from the press release: The architects said the a
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by szemet 9y ago
Ok. So they are not ignorant or stupid, but have a twisted value system? Imagine that you go to a Shakespeare festival but they only recite T. S. Eliot. When you are disappointed, they say: "Look these are all poems. They are very simi
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by szemet 9y ago
Like what? They decided meanwhile that they would like to celebrate Wolfram instead? Or is there any artistic value to celebrate someone with other persons achievements? Some kind of twisted post-modern artistic message about authorship? Or
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by szemet 9y ago
cladding which is derived from John Horton Conway's 'Game of Life' Strange that no one was there to tell them they are wrong. Anyway, how could they get it wrong in the age of Internet? Every bit of information about '
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by szemet 9y ago
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/other-minds/
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by szemet 9y ago
A causal relation definitely exists in the other way around: people with diabetes are encouraged to consume less sugar... This may explain large part of the correlation.
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by szemet 9y ago
I not understand what you mean by this. We always had those. Do you believe in the existence of: - computers solving the generic halting problem - perpetual motion devices - faster than light communication I guess no, because based upon our
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by szemet 10y ago
I use ceramic knives for the very same reason. Guess it doesn't cut it for you if you insist on this: "made out of a really strong metal"
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by szemet 10y ago
And this is the generalization: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_limit_theorem
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by szemet 10y ago
I've not used it, but afaik Suse linux default install have btrfs+snapper ( http://snapper.io ) It snapshots before every install and yast configuraton step and have a boot to snapshot feature..
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by szemet 10y ago
That's also means they may have to alter our minds sometimes to avoid expensive computations: For example a bit contrived example: if we try to find the next Mersenne prime (or something similar, computationally hard but easy to check
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by szemet 10y ago
I come up with one for you: The clear separation of microstates and macrostates in software, through proper abstractions is a key to good software quality. Unfortunately the lack of abstractions or the prevalence of leaky abstractions, due
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by szemet 10y ago
Similar propaganda was in my country: the capitalist/imperialist West is falling apart. Actualy they became rich, and the eastern block falled. 28 years later I still earn one fifth as a western european. (guess I should be as happy as
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by szemet 10y ago
I guess many people don't have problem with the 'errors are values' concept, just would like to handle them with much less boilerplate: like in Rust or Haskell...
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by szemet 10y ago
"It would take an infinite amount of power to calculate every digit in pi" Representation by digits is just one representation. We have plenty of finite representations: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiFormulas.html

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