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by theoh 8y ago
It doesn't work like that ("in some of the other 22"). One crude way to think about it is that particle has a location in each dimension. In other words, position is a vector whether in 3D or 26D or whatever. It's not po
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by theoh 8y ago
For physicalists, yes.
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by theoh 8y ago
Presumably they mean that material evolution doesn't involve ideas, which is what abstractions are. This is a physicalist line to take which implies that the universe is entirely material, and abstraction is just something human minds
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by theoh 8y ago
That's not a very informative definition, and it's inaccurate. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flâneur for the relevant idea.
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by theoh 8y ago
This might also be of interest: http://www.vestasys.org/lim/
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by theoh 8y ago
Well, that is a matter of opinion. Picasso's early works are certainly realist/academic in style and technique but nobody gets excited about them. Like I say, this is opinion, but as in architecture, where there is definitely no g
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by theoh 8y ago
Painting has deteriorated since the old masters, of whom Goya is sometimes considered the last. Why this happened is not something people have a good answer for, but the end of the 18th C brought increasing rationalisation, modernisation an
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by theoh 8y ago
"a series of fans within a nesting of tubes"
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by theoh 8y ago
One dev intern could tinker with HN's codebase to improve it. It's not as if YC is a startup that has to have a laser focus on one main chance. This is big business now.
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by theoh 8y ago
Pasting block quote for mobile users: "Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is
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by theoh 8y ago
I'm not sure, since it doesn't introduce the notion of detailed balance, whether this article really deals meaningfully with the use of Markov chains at all. It doesn't bring out the fact that the Markov chain transition prob
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by theoh 8y ago
This might be of interest too: https://www.academia.edu/5901305/Undetected_Media_Intelligen...
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by theoh 8y ago
Hmmm. There's an article here by someone who claims to have got an EB-1 by being a leading SEO blogger: https://www.google.ie/amp/s/thenextweb.com/contributors/2017...
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by theoh 8y ago
Yes, but pounds can be used to measure either weight or mass, and as the previous commenter indicated, it's mass we really care about.
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by theoh 8y ago
This is a good application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_light_transport If anyone is looking for the "10 line" version of Metropolis, there's a tiny toy example in, for example, these SIGGRA
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by theoh 8y ago
If it's this, the language used is "weighs" https://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/aviation-communities-and-interest... There are separate regulations for lighter-than-air vehicles.
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by theoh 8y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20180605190135/http://www.latimes...
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by theoh 8y ago
The LA Times' owners have a blanket redirect in place. Very shoddy. But the article is available here: http://web.archive.org/web/20180605190135/http://www.latimes...
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by theoh 8y ago
Alan Kay said it: "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." For example, something like Twitter fails massively here. It's easy to use as a novice, but there's no progression (I know that sound
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by theoh 8y ago
I don't think the problem is with intuition, though it's probably true that people don't realize that the absence of a freewheel is crucial to the function of a unicycle. The problem is that a single example which differs on
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by theoh 8y ago
Christopher Alexander's work isn't based on empirical studies, though, is it? Never seen any. It's just his, uh, inspired opinion.
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by theoh 8y ago
I found that sentence difficult to understand, though. One problem was the use of "difference with" instead of "difference from", which can have the opposite of the intended meaning. I had to read it several times...
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by theoh 8y ago
For some reason plexiglass/perspex is curiously compatible with organic tissue, more so than glass. So a fighter pilot with shards of plexiglass in his/her eyes will have a better prognosis. Naturalness isn't always the last
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by theoh 8y ago
The idea of teaching using extensional definitions (an expanding list of examples) is fine, but I came across a weird case of it at a bicycle repair workshop a few years ago. It's a bizarre example, but it went like this. Audience: wha
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by theoh 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton
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by theoh 8y ago
To amplify the sentiment a little bit: the guy who invented winglets did so based on physical intuition, not calculation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_T._Whitcomb He was such an intuitionist that AFAICS he app
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by theoh 8y ago
This reply is so gratuitous. It would have been enough to say that wing extensions in general (winglets and the 777x ones included) serve to improve the overall efficiency/performance of the wing (so they might not be generating any li
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by theoh 8y ago
Well, the lift on the wingtip is going to make it fold up. In the worst case, I guess it might break off, but it's a very small part of the wing, and it presumably doesn't contain fuel tanks. Chances of it damaging the inboard sec
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by theoh 8y ago
The conventional locking mechanism that I've seen documented is like the lock on a bank vault: several pins, aligned with the hinge, which slide parallel to it, locking inboard and outboard sections in place. This locking mechanism mea
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by theoh 8y ago
The Peter Landin paper "On the Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions" ( https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin64.pdf ) makes it totally clear that, for Landin, FP was an alternative to the bookkeepin

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