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by tines 2y ago
Same thing.
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by tines 2y ago
> She didn't center a coherent vision of the improved future only she could get the country to. So the default is to vote for a person who will run the world into the ground? I don't understand why the onus on the sane person t
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by tines 2y ago
> Have i felt better over the past 4 years I agree with you that for a lot of people this is what it came down to, which is so sad. Short-term thinking will lead us to destruction. Instead of asking whether things have improved over the
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by tines 2y ago
He tried, and failed. I guess we want him to try again though.
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by tines 2y ago
It calls into question the applicability of the infinite monkeys theorem, so the headline is correct but misleading :)
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by tines 2y ago
It's funny that so many people are confused about why this was written. The monkeys argument was originally used against the theory of evolution; "what's the probability that a monkey banging on a typewriter will type out Ham
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by tines 2y ago
Same here, the answer is easy for me: recursive algorithms are for recursive data structures.
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by tines 2y ago
Possibly cumulative error in the timing source?
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by tines 2y ago
> As some who has a dis-harmonic intelligence profile, this has been obvious for a very long time. In the family of my mother there are several individuals struggling with language while excelling in the field of exact sciences. I very s
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by tines 2y ago
> The only possible caveat is that you might need some sort of keep alive [1] to detect if the connection has severed You need this in the real world, but not with the hypothetical "infinite bandwidth perfect connection" of the
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by tines 2y ago
Hmm, I guess I expected this to be a lot more sophisticated, but it's pretty much just your first guess on how to do this. Doesn't really address the dropping of messages. I guess the author is fine with the fact that there may be
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by tines 2y ago
Link to any video or anything on the subject?
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by tines 2y ago
Isn't it (2) that's limited by imagination? Nobody imagined quantum theory, they observed it first.
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by tines 2y ago
> If you know the position and speed, everything, about every particle, then you should be able to extrapolate the future by calculating it. But isn't that the exact thing that quantum mechanics refutes? You cannot know the future j
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by tines 2y ago
> martialed I think you mean “marshaled,” correct?
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by tines 2y ago
Technopoly is also amazing, make that your next read.
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by tines 2y ago
This is an interesting point of view, thinking about it I agree that instilling the "hacker ethic" into kids is very valuable. But how does one do that? For myself, I fell into video game hacking (and related hijinks) because I lo
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by tines 2y ago
Real Commodore hardware is going to break down eventually, I'd love to have something that uses modern parts so we aren't dependent on rare parts that are going to disappear or become super expensive.
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by tines 2y ago
I agree completely. I've looked at designing a system around the Pi Zero, but it's so much work for someone with the time and skills that I (don't) have. And the Pi Zero doesn't seem to have the kind of I/O capabili
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by tines 2y ago
I think the difference is that in the days of the nascent internet, connecting with people meant much more than it does now. You dial into a BBS or log into a MUD and you have a small-ish community of real people that you can develop relati
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by tines 2y ago
I love this project. I've been feeling lately that as computers have become more advanced and software has become more inscrutable, our relationship with our computers has changed, for the worse. This essay hit home for me: https:&#x2
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by tines 2y ago
Mice vs monkeys?
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by tines 2y ago
I know my thoughts are never redundant or messy, that's for sure.
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by tines 2y ago
> from trained medical personnel working in obstetrics and pediatrics This I would agree is a different situation because of the implicit trust involved. But the solution there is much simpler and easier than reforming facebook trolls: j
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by tines 2y ago
Social shaming is so watered down these days. Used to, if you stepped out of line, society would shun you and nobody would patronize your business or whatever, and you'd have to move out of town. Nowadays you get some mean online comme
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by tines 2y ago
Man, what a waste of the term "autonomous worlds." When I hear that, I think "game where the world evolves independently, with or without direct interaction from the player" which is EXACTLY the type of game that I love
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by tines 2y ago
The second law is not a law in the same way like the law of gravity is, it’s more a statistical statement. It simply states that more probable things will happen more often. How do we know what’s more probable? It’s what happens more often.
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by tines 2y ago
Energy conservation isn't as sacred as many people (including me) assume. See for example https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-...
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by tines 2y ago
Ok, I see what you mean now. I took your word "invalidate" to mean "be proven false" whereas I meant "valid" as in "logically coherent, even if not true."
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by tines 2y ago
No, proof by contradiction is a logical construction, has nothing to do with the real world. Proof by counter-example could or could not be observation, depending on whether your example comes from observation or from pure logic.

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