thraway180306

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by thraway180306 8y ago
Of course it is falsifiable. If you can't specify in what way you recover physics from your simulation and what computation actually occurs in your simulation then, apart from the word "simulation" making no sense, you don&#x
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by thraway180306 8y ago
Wow, citing The Economist as neutral news, that's something. Probably about you.
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by thraway180306 8y ago
doubt that Eric Drexler is clueless or malicious Someone however, does not. https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/nano-nonsense-...
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by thraway180306 8y ago
I noticed you consistently misspell Reuben Hersh's surname. Sorry I haven't corrected you when I first saw you doing that on HN close to a decade ago, assuming you might soon self-correct if only by glancing over the book you hold
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by thraway180306 8y ago
There are no equations and no citations to relevant formalisms so your guess is good as anyone's. The author had a spat with arXiv who, while not being a peer-reviewed venue do their best to keep out the crackpottery, rejected some of
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by thraway180306 8y ago
In physicist's ontology, as you surely know, that's just an appeal to Bekenstein bound. Not really being a mathematical result, it is a consequence of thermodynamics and classical (continuous) gravity. Einstein equations can be re
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by thraway180306 8y ago
Please. Stop. You write with letters. Wars are waged writing letters. Also thinking is a tool of war. Therefore stop, don't trouble yourself, and be at peace.
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by thraway180306 8y ago
Sorry, but none of your sentences make any sense. What is fought about with Austrian dialects? What is the consensus mechanism, what does the notion of individual expression of power mean? You mean self-expression is a power structure? Did
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by thraway180306 8y ago
Sorry but what is implied apart from your ignorance? Given are concrete examples: Germanisation and Russification, nothing implied. What are examples of your cultural wars? Anecdote about some villagers? Appeal to human nature? Where and ho
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by thraway180306 8y ago
I don't think Lior believes in his post You may even think he didn't in fact wrote it. Just before you redefine what it means to think, don't tell anyone.
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by thraway180306 8y ago
Look at the definition, there is no possible way you can equate heredity with heritability unless you can't math, sorry. There's no moral sentiment to appreciate in understanding this definition, just education. Denialism of the v
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by thraway180306 8y ago
The methods weren't "just" morally wrong but a bunch of hokum rationalized as science. Just like yours. Heritability does not mean heredity. Even taste is heritable. Results of the GWAS crowd are so bad that Plomin recently t
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by thraway180306 8y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/iceland-eliminated-syndrom...
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by thraway180306 8y ago
I'm not questioning your analysis of behavioral psychology of the herd, but this particular example, prof. Hal Daume of University of Maryland and Microsoft Research has been long associated with the field, though not particularly neur
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by thraway180306 8y ago
So what you say is either the contractor has to subsidize the restaurant, or coerce employees to do it. Gee, wonder what business contractors are in. Another question is what business the “restaurant” that can't even hire the cooks is
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by thraway180306 8y ago
DeepDream is an apt example on a deeper level of analogy. What they wanted was an advance in the important topic of interpretability/explainability. Offshot of a failed experiment turned into the subfield of style transfer and pretty p
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by thraway180306 8y ago
To the mods credit they did make @yummyfajitas go away. Took them years of, as you say, unevenly nice language, but finally they did.
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by thraway180306 9y ago
biology have computation at the core? Doubtful. You can to computing with DNA http://dna.caltech.edu but it is still debated if the actual role of DNA is being a code (some recently weasel out form that stance by saying it&#
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by thraway180306 9y ago
where HN community are based A vague question The numbers depend on how you measure 'user' and 'location' Gets a vague answer. My question was specifically about the commentariat not eyeballs. I don't think myse
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by thraway180306 9y ago
It is heartening to know you do gather information of this granularity. Why not make it available?
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by thraway180306 9y ago
HN is a majority-international site Sorry, but is this claim based on pageviews, or the origins of the comments being posted? It's not like guardian.co.uk/international is in fact international news and opinion.
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by thraway180306 9y ago
> You don’t need any theory about infinity It's not about them, nobody wished them. They came as necessity. > Everything can be done using approximations Approximations are analytical animals. > with bounded error I don
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by thraway180306 9y ago
It depends on your reality of course. It might be the physical reality, whatever that is. Or your own-er reality which might not be logical for example. There are things invariant between realities of course, like the physical experiment an
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by thraway180306 9y ago
Mathematics is tautological, by definition. In what sense anything within a tautological system can be an abstraction? It's a whole package. There is no à la carte Fourier transform without philosophical commitments.
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by thraway180306 9y ago
Infinity and moreover a hierarchy of infinities is very real and has real consequences. You want your Fourier transform to work, you have to quantify infinities (this was in fact what prompted development of set theory: how to make Fourier
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by thraway180306 9y ago
About ML-related research, Fong also piqued my interest earlier with his categorification of almost PGMs. Though it didn't inspire him or anyone to bring effective methods of algebra to PGM and improve the base theory, making the exerc
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by thraway180306 9y ago
This is sometimes called inquiry-based teaching or Moore method, and… there is a textbook advertised as adhering to this particular style, Carol Schumacher's Closer and Closer: Introducing Real Analysis, haven't had it in hand tho
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by thraway180306 9y ago
Law+Math degree is definitely on the weirder side of things I've heard (and I endorsed Oxford's joint CS and Philosophy). But in that case I may allow myself to make an equally far stretch connecting something lawyerly with real a
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by thraway180306 9y ago
Also Shilov.
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by thraway180306 9y ago
Rudin is a good breviary rehearsal if one already almost-knows and feels the material. People with certain inclinations may get a warm fuzzy feeling how things neatly fit together as if by omniscient design. Otherwise it is a crossword puzz

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