titanomachy

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by titanomachy 12y ago
I played around with the model a bit and based on a couple assumptions it can be scaled to P(Doom Soon) = x/(1+x) where x = B/b * d where B is the number of humans born in the Doom Late scenario, b is the number of hu
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by titanomachy 12y ago
The helium in a balloon/dirigible is under pressure, so its density would be somewhat greater than 15% that of air. But point taken.
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by titanomachy 12y ago
"Back in May 2010, as the emerging alliance took shape, Palo Alto, California-based Tesla’s chairman, who’s also CEO, called the partnership “historic” and said Toyota was a company he long admired." This sentence, hurts, my brain
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by titanomachy 12y ago
The paper investigated "implicit sequence learning tasks in which optimal learning may in fact be impeded by the engagement of effortful control processes." (from the abstract) "Optimal learning" in the context of implic
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by titanomachy 12y ago
Proof of Stake seems like an interesting idea. I've often wondered if bitcoin's proof-of-work verification model would remain viable as the currency reaches the end of its generation phase and the incentives for hashing become neg
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by titanomachy 12y ago
We all have our vices.
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by titanomachy 12y ago
Interesting thesis. There's certainly a glut of minimally competent developers, many of whom end up at companies for whom software is an incidental concern and therefore lack sophisticated hiring practices. But many of the top 5% are h
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by titanomachy 12y ago
One thing that I think is true (and maybe this is what Ono-Sendai meant) is that compared to many languages, Haskell's syntax is relatively close to the notation used by mathematicians. And notation can strongly influence the way we