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by tokipin 14y ago
this is all true until you get to general relativity, which took Einstein some 10 years after special relativity to come up with. general relativity is by far Einstein's most amazing idea/theory, and as far as i know it doesn't have any obv
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by tokipin 14y ago
i would imagine that the algorithm would gain a lot more traction if it actually came with an implementation
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by tokipin 14y ago
my mom has trouble using computers because of the scrolling. i imagine it's something in the same category as how i can't read anything in a moving vehicle without getting a ginormous headache, but other people don't have trouble with it :|
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by tokipin 14y ago
yea but that doesn't mean that Earth's configurations are the only ones that yield life. example: the role water plays here on earth might not even be necessary in other chemical/physical systems, or could be played by other chemicals given
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by tokipin 14y ago
i think it's the opposite of that. by all evidence, life on Earth began as soon as it was possible , and that's just this particular kind of life with this set of particular elements under these particular constraints. there may be other c
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by tokipin 14y ago
i think The Matrix shows that it's at least possible to make a live action remake of an anime. i think what's actually needed is a director who understands the anime essense that well. eg the Wachowski bros the Wachowski bros also directe
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by tokipin 14y ago
unfortunately i think many people see that kind of "formal" architecturing as software engineering related: http://zedshaw.com/essays/master_and_expert.html
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by tokipin 14y ago
wait facebook has like millions of bugs -.- though maybe UI glitches aren't considered bugs
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by tokipin 14y ago
however there's no reason to believe 'qualia' aren't explainable. for example, if "consciousness" is a thing, it may be some kind of system or structural artifact induced by the underlying neurology qualia then would be properly described b
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by tokipin 14y ago
well the key word is "meaningful". and i think it can be stated in a more nuanced form: wankery: architectural shenanigans which suffer significant diminishing returns on investment
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by tokipin 14y ago
it's better because 1) it falls out of the regular semantics of the language. it's just a regular if expression. it's a consequence of a more elegant and unified design, in other words. that ternary syntax by comparison is ad-hoc. to begin
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by tokipin 14y ago
since you asked for my opinion, i think that ? : syntax is a failure. languages where everything is an expression (usually functional languages) have a much better implementation: value = if (test) {some_value * multiple} else {false_
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by tokipin 14y ago
yea. the thought of copy-pasting code is really weird. i would feel very uncomfortable doing it. i'm not surprised people copy-paste, though
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by tokipin 14y ago
there's a lot of stuff that people do that has nothing to do with thinking, and i'd argue that the idea of "intelligent choice" explains pretty much nothing in the context of mating/pairing. example: why are some people of the opposite sex
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by tokipin 14y ago
adventure time is MATH
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by tokipin 14y ago
i more or less lost respect for TED a couple years ago
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by tokipin 14y ago
whats wrong with 1
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by tokipin 14y ago
honestly i don't know of anything that can compare to Mathematica, besides its $300 price tag
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by tokipin 14y ago
the Coursera course "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" just ended but they're keeping all the content online until the next run of the course the lecturer, by the way, is the designer of Scala https://www.coursera.org/course/prog
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by tokipin 14y ago
i think the point was to emphasize the contrast these people made against the typical political campaign culture
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by tokipin 14y ago
the campaign only focused on swing states
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by tokipin 14y ago
probably quite a bit less code than the equivalents in other languages. Mathematica is the most powerful language i know of in terms of abstractive power. essentially it's a symbolically-evaluated Lisp the reason you don't see more general-
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by tokipin 14y ago
i don't think it's a DSL. its evaluation paradigm is symbolic in the same way you would say Java's paradigm is OOP, yet we wouldn't say Java is an OOP DSL even if that's true in some technical sense in this respect i think the name "Mathe
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by tokipin 14y ago
not that i partake in the gloating, but considering all the echospheric rhetoric thrown at the president over the last four years (just think Rush Limbaugh) i think the gloating is very, very well-deserved
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by tokipin 14y ago
personally i was surprised node.js wasn't node.lua in the first place
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by tokipin 14y ago
The president bet all of his political capital, the House of Representatives, and potentially his entire presidential career on passing 'Obamacare'. I don't know of a better example of acting in spite of the political ramifications.
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by tokipin 14y ago
To say the ACA "wasn't terribly popular" is a huge understatement. The amount of $$$ spent against "Obamacare" before and after its passing easily numbers in the hundreds of millions of dollars. "Obamacare" is/was considered a defamatory la
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by tokipin 14y ago
There's a lot of stuff. In addition to those, these are other examples off the top of my head: * Coming out in support of gay marriage, which has always lost in state ballots. * Going after Osama bin Laden, on a 50/50 chance, inside a forei
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by tokipin 14y ago
i think geography (namely, distance ) is actually the fundamental issue here on top of geography, there is the issue that different states (in the U.S.) can have very different logistical/structural systems, different laws, different econo
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by tokipin 14y ago
i wonder if anyone can do a historical trace on when "the debt" started becoming a political issue

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