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by tgflynn 4y ago
Trying to prevent common cheap components that almost anyone in the world can order online from falling into the hands of adversaries is a lost cause. It would require shutting down over half the economy and instituting a draconian and vir
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I suspect a lot of it is historical. If you go back a few years there were lots of browser incompatibilities and many limitations in Javascript, CSS and HTML. To work around those difficulties and limitations many frameworks were created.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It's really not that hard to learn the Greek alphabet. It's just 24 letters almost all of which represent sounds common in English. I'm currently learning the devanagari script for Sanskrit, which isn't exactly an alph
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Thanks, I've actually looked at that a bit (though there seem to be some recent additions I hadn't seen). It seems like a somewhat different experience. With the Latin version there seems to be enough vocabulary overlap that I,
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by tgflynn 4y ago
My vote would be for Sanskrit, though I'm very pleased a Greek version exists.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> Just curious, how do you reference the source material in the notes? It hasn't been much of a problem. With PDF's you can either copy/rewrite the actual content or note page numbers and/or chapter and section headi
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I've been spending some time studying several different subjects so I'll try to describe my approach. This is mostly just a hobby for me so I don't have any real criteria for evaluating how well it works but so far I feel re
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Keeping the same safe houses or reporting structures in place for 60 years seems like it would be terrible OPSEC. The IC is very good at coming up with plausible sounding explanations for why they have to keep secrets that the masses will
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by tgflynn 4y ago
With respect to advaita vedanta I would recommend the YT videos of Swami Sarvapriyananda. All of his longer talks on advaita say more or less the same thing so recommending a single video is more difficult, but this may be a particularly g
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I don't know anything about the situation in India but I can give you a few reasons why I, as a westerner, am fascinated by the language. First the depth and clarity of thinking by ancient and medieval Indian scholars writing in Sanskr
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by tgflynn 4y ago
The question is whether once ignition is achieved there could be a way to design the target/geometry in such a way that the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining/self-propagating. The history of thermonuclear weapons leads me to
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I think it's mainly because using a laser the size of a football stadium was never seen as a practical way to make a bomb.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Yes but, as far as I know, research into achieving laser induced fusion hasn't itself run into many classification hurdles. I suspect that may not be the case with the scaling phase.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
The advantage would be that you wouldn't need tightly controlled and hard to make materials like U-235 or Pu to make one. I'm not in any way saying that using lasers would be a plausible route to such a weapon, since the NIF facil
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I wonder if it might be possible to gain not percentages but orders of magnitude more or less just by making the targets bigger. Is it conceivable that the same basic approach and a comparable amount of input energy could be used to ignite
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> No credentials to speak of other than the fact that I could probably think my way out of an undergrad level abstract algebra or real analysis problem if cornered. That seems like a rather bold claim to make. I don't think anyone
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by tgflynn 4y ago
"had a duty to bring the idea to market within the time frame that US patent law required, which they then did" Do you have a reference for that ? I've never heard of any such "duty". There are many patents that h
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Yes, but that's the opposite situation to many software patents. If air conditioners didn't yet exist you shouldn't be able to patent just the idea of an air conditioner without coming up with an effective design for one. Th
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It seems to me that one of the biggest problems with patents is that it has become possible to patent the "what" instead of the "how". In most cases the "what" is obvious, it's the "how" that&#x
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by tgflynn 4y ago
The real lunatics are the ones claiming you can shut down production of internal combustion engines and the use of fossil fuels overnight and long before equivalent alternatives are available without causing societal collapse and the humani
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Stuff has been injected into the atmosphere by both humans and non-human processes since the beginning. I don't think this is likely to cause irreparable damage. What man has broken man can fix. The anti-human ideology of environment
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Yes, I you're right. I misinterpreted "pure quantum states" as "basis states" (I'm not much in the habit of thinking about QM these days). I believe the "(i.e. as a density matrix)", which makes my
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by tgflynn 4y ago
You may well be right. I haven't read that book, though I have found much of Aaronson's writing to be quite approachable. But I think your previous comment was an inaccurate way of phrasing those critiques.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
No, the fact that what you said is not true is basically the core concept of quantum mechanics. EDIT: As another comment pointed out I was wrong about this, please ignore.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> assuming you meant a general audience without a background in high school mathematics Why assume that ? Isn't the whole point of high school to provide a basic foundation of knowledge that everyone should have ? The parent commen
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> You could much more precise captors What do you mean by that ? There are only so many particles of ionizing radiation traversing a given surface per unit time (fortunately for us).
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I don't know much about "modern philosophy" but traditionally philosophy has focused on questions that are beyond or "prior to" scientific questions. For example modern science (which used to be called Natural Phil
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by tgflynn 4y ago
All the studies cited were performed on psychology students. Would the results be the same for physics or CS students ?
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I'm guessing No/Low-Code platforms and PWA's. AI and robotics will make a real showing at some point but I'm not sure when.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I doubt they'd get along and I think the fault would be more on the monkeys side than the cats.

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