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by tines 2y ago
> Math, of course, is that stuff which can’t be invalidated by observations. This is a misunderstanding of what math is, I think. You can invent a perfectly valid mathematical theory that conflicts with observations. Math is just a seque
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by tines 2y ago
> it wasn't made during the nineteenth century That's because people were totally focused on physics, and math was just a useful tool sometimes. Doing physics was the true goal and observation the final arbiter of truth. Nowada
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by tines 2y ago
So the Fourier transform on wave functions is like integrating a normal function, like the velocity function, in Newtonian mechanics?
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by tines 2y ago
What trips me up is that we don't think of the field being a real physical thing. But isn't the field really the _true_ physical thing, and the wave is just a concept we overlay on it? Like, water is the real physical thing, and t
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by tines 2y ago
So to conceptualize the difference between fields with and without restoring forces, I imagine that, for a field that doesn't have a restoring force, the medium itself can move permanently. For example if you have just a bunch of ball
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by tines 2y ago
> The rate at which they oscillate in time is the same rate at which they oscillate in space. Wouldn't it be the opposite, that they do not oscillate in time at all so that they oscillate in space as rapidly as possible (since, as w
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by tines 2y ago
Isn't the "pint-size startup" the status quo for the US? It may be my americocentrism speaking but I feel like the kid-run lemonade stand is as American as it gets. Big business is the aberration, not the rule.
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by tines 2y ago
You said sue the hammer manufacturer. Why didn’t you say to sue the newspaper that ran the ads? The fact that you couldn’t keep that straight in your analogy undermines your argument significantly imo.
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by tines 2y ago
This is a good argument I didn't think of before. What's the response to it?
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by tines 2y ago
It's more nuanced than that. If I sent a hateful letter through the mail and someone gets hurt by it (even physically), who is responsible, me or the post office? I know youtube is different in important ways than the post, but it&#x27
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by tines 2y ago
What? No. From your link: > The overall acceptance rate for women was 4.5%, and the overall acceptance rate for men was 1.9%. You're less than half as likely to get in as a man. Transfer acceptance rates are even more skewed towards
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by tines 2y ago
> If they tilt the crap shoot part in a way that makes the community better, who cares? Everybody's all for tilting the crap shoot until they start tilting away from Asians.
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by tines 2y ago
> this is the way you get equal numbers of men and women applying I don't think this is the only way, it's just the easy/lazy way. Being sexist during admissions is a proximal way of getting more women graduates, but it&#x
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by tines 2y ago
Constance Garnett the OG though. Her translations read so much better to me, so much more poetic.
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by tines 2y ago
I don't believe you're engaging in good faith here, so I'm not going to reply any more, but if you're interested in having a productive conversation, try to think about what I might be meaning a little more and then repl
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by tines 2y ago
I somewhat agree with you, but I think it's very important to distinguish between the two meanings, because different points on the continuum of correctness cause you to come to completely opposite conclusions about the nature of the u
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by tines 2y ago
Again, not a new problem.
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by tines 2y ago
Agree about SpaceX, but I'm not sure how much of that is about Elon. Tesla used to be awesome, its nascency is what I was referring to as the "honeymoon phase," but it definitely feels like it's gone downhill with the Cy
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by tines 2y ago
That isn't a new problem though. Should we not enforce laws against fraud because people might be framed? You determine that through investigation.
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by tines 2y ago
Not that I'm in favor of the proposed measure, but saying because we can't identify wilful frauds 100% of the time then we can't protect the non-fraudsters, is just a bit silly, no? You have this kind of problem detecting any
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by tines 2y ago
Elon's not more evil than anyone else, he's just way dumber than everyone expected him to be when we were in the honeymoon phase.
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by tines 2y ago
It seems that different people often use "not wrong" to mean two different things. Some people are using the word to mean "useful as far as it's meant to be," like you. Some people, like the GP, are using it to mean
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by tines 2y ago
True, but the FTA proof is just really intuitive for me and I like it.
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by tines 2y ago
Let n = 2r, and n = xx for some integers r and x, because n is even and n is a square. So xx = 2r. Because of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, we know that x must be representable as the product of a unique string of prime numbers. Be
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by tines 2y ago
At https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/modiv/programs/intersta/docs/interc... I see the short comment > At service interchanges it is desirable to design the interchanges with the crossroad above the freeway due
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by tines 2y ago
I heard somewhere that the reason is to provide trucks the ability to shed speed to make these sharp turns, and then give them back their speed when coming back down so they don’t have to brake hard or spend a lot of gas to do it. Basically
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by tines 2y ago
What kind of data or data formatting do you need to fine-tune GPT-4o? I'd love to throw a bunch of documentation at it and let it learn, but I don't have the resources to extract knowledge, format it as questions and answers, etc
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by tines 2y ago
> some targets fundamentally do not support tail call optimization Can't any tail call be rewritten as a loop? Couldn't a WASM compiler without the tail call extension implement it this way?
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by tines 2y ago
> Apple's $20 billion a year deal with Google to be the default search engine accounts for at least 10% of its entire market capitalization. Huh? Apple's market capitalization is $3.44 trillion as of today, and the unit of mark
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by tines 2y ago
True, I suppose HTML the better example, it's a tree description language, whereas PNG files, Word documents, etc. aren't.

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