thinking_cactus

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by thinking_cactus 5mo ago
Remeber (to you both) extrapolation is a perilous business. Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/605/
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by thinking_cactus 5mo ago
What's the threat model here? If the user must click through a tons of disclaimers (including locked 60-second timeouts with huge WARNING: SCAM ALERT or something) in something buried in settings to get scammed, I think the few edge ca
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by thinking_cactus 6mo ago
I agree. Although in this specific point, I would say we always had depletion (since the most basic microorganisms, after all otherwise life would replicate until it faces depletion limits; all the way to our close primate relatives and thr
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by thinking_cactus 6mo ago
Just probably don't want to put those outside, that would probably count as noise pollution for them.
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by thinking_cactus 6mo ago
I think the core question would be whether her claims are accurate or not, right?
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by thinking_cactus 6mo ago
My contribution: largest-order-first (big endian) makes sense in real life because people tend to make quick judgements in unreliable situations. For example, take the announcement that you're receiving $132551 dollars. You wouldn&#x27
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by thinking_cactus 7mo ago
I wonder the flipside as well. I'm extremely confident a healthy vegeterian or vegan diet will be generally a bit healthier than a meat-heavy alternative. But I believe you can overdo it too, like if you eat enormous amounts of hard ra
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by thinking_cactus 7mo ago
I kind of agree. When nothing's Libre, naming your project Libre<something> is fine, I believe. But imagine OSS succeeds, and everything is named Libre<something>. Then that's terrible. "Did you open libreterminal
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by thinking_cactus 7mo ago
I agree in some ways. Like, I think in a way it's just not viable to patch every little loophole a corrupt or morally bankrupt administration could exploit and all damage it could cause, and probably not without making the administrati
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by thinking_cactus 7mo ago
> If no one works on defence systems then all the things we have could become jeopardized, perhaps not this week but in 5 years. Therefore I can reconcile the idea of working for defence related r&d. I am not saying this line of thin
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by thinking_cactus 7mo ago
Also the amazing https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
Can an MRI catch it? It would be ideal if the cost of MRIs came down so everyone could access it. Where's Moore's law for ~tricoders~ MRIs?
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Idea: Medbook and Other Ideas
3 points by thinking_cactus 8mo ago|1 comments
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
The architectural version is interesting to me. There's really a world of difference, but you need to know some history and some of the "cultural vibes" particular to each country to understand.
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
I get why it is romantic (like the "next thing" after other human discoveries), but I don't think "exploring the universe" is that philosophically interesting? Think about the case you had (1) A completely environme
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
> I realize that the stiffness of the rockers and links will make a difference in how forces are distributed, because that suspension is clearly not statically determinant I think it's (mostly) the terrain geometry (plus gravity) th
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
> They literally only understand text I don't see why only understanding text is completely associated with 'schastic-parrot'-ness. There are blind-deaf people around (mostly interacting through reading braille I think) wh
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
> what the hell does “the rhythm of attention is the rhythm of life” even mean? Might be a reference to the attention mechanism (a key part of LLMs). Basically for LLMs, computing tokes is their life, the rhythm of life. It makes sense t
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
I have seen panasonic cells around my area advertised as leak-proof (or was it leak resistant?). I wonder the effectiveness.
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by kinematic analysis, but the video mentions several analytical analyses of his suspension and how he came up with it. They did some computer simulations to optimize how it would deal with various obstacles.
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
Interesting analysis, but perhaps it warrants a different conclusion: it's almost impossible to please everyone in this case. The resulting colours seem of some utility, but if you intend to make something more interesting you're
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by thinking_cactus 8mo ago
How about plain civil disobedience? Like just stop working? It would need to get pretty extreme before the government had the audacity (and even capacity) to actually track you down to your home and arrest (or kill) you. Although this kind
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by thinking_cactus 9mo ago
I think The Relativity of Wrong (Asimov, https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html ) is a nice counterpoint to this. Sure, we may say everyone is an idiot in some area. But there are relative levels of