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by voldacar 5y ago
This "proof" is pretty sketchy. I think he means every differentiable function? Because I fail to see how you can make a neural network evaluate the indicator function of the rationals
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by voldacar 5y ago
From the perspective of your immune system's cells, what exactly does the vitamin D molecule do ?
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by voldacar 5y ago
Cherry feels like cheap chinese crap compared to model F switches. They don't even feel remotely similar.
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by voldacar 5y ago
I'm fascinated by this world we're living in now, with its seemingly total mobilization of all aspects of life in service of some politics or another. Where does this go, ultimately? What is the end state?
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by voldacar 5y ago
>The goal is to educate humanity so that we can start making more conscious decisions I don't think you can educate your way out of economies of scale that make it cheap to feed people garbage. The only real solution would be to dec
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by voldacar 5y ago
It's nice to see the anti seed oil discourse ramping up lately, but I'm sort of pessimistic about this. Like what is the endgame, exactly? Seed oils are in basically everything. Trying to avoid them is like trying to avoid endocri
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by voldacar 5y ago
If that was interesting, you might like the book "Linear Algebra Methods in Combinatorics" https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~laci/CLASS/HANDOUTS-COMB/BaF...
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by voldacar 5y ago
Are dollars fungible by your definition? They have physical serial numbers printed on them. I agree with your broader point, which is why I prefer monero.
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by voldacar 5y ago
I agree. A hyper-advanced race would probably want to disassemble the star and use its hydrogen for something more efficient than the main-sequence nuclear process, which is pretty wasteful.
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by voldacar 5y ago
A lot of the software bundled with most linux distros does though. Such as systemd.
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by voldacar 5y ago
The former secretary of labor Alex Acosta, who prosecuted Epstein back in 2008, made a remark that he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and that the matter was "above his pay grade", which is why he offere
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by voldacar 5y ago
A few off the top of my head that are extremely well-corroborated: Jeffery Epstein (nothing in particular, just literally everything about him) Gulf of Tonkin MK Ultra Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment And those are just the very obvious ones. I
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by voldacar 5y ago
Rotate the parallelepiped so that you are staring down its longest diagonal, or any diagonal really. Now the 3 faces of the parallelepiped directly facing you can be cut into 6 congruent triangles. Slice down these 6 triangles to get 6 tetr
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by voldacar 5y ago
>Google's solution that "outside links" are considered as "votes" that this site is good is what made it good but also what made it vulnerable to SEO. Do you have any other idea on how do you decide if a result i
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by voldacar 5y ago
>So how can we fix the system? The best way to fix the system is to prioritize websites that are there to share knowledge, not websites with their primary priority to make ad revenue. Different solution: - Make a search engine that is ac
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by voldacar 5y ago
>instantly healed of a muscle injury from weightlifting by transferring that exact injury to another person Could you elaborate on that? It sounds... useful I've had exactly one experience that involved an unexplainable phenomenon b
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by voldacar 5y ago
If you have a tetrahedron ABCD, you can also get its volume by dividing the scalar triple product of the vectors AB, AC, and AD by 6. This is because a parallelepiped is made of 6 identical tetrahedra Accidentally discovered that when I was
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by voldacar 5y ago
A lot of different trends in technological stagnation can be traced back to Nixon. The book Where is my Flying Car? goes into this in depth
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by voldacar 5y ago
My brain has come to associate rounded corners with software / websites that: - present insufficient information on my screen and generally waste pixels - do not have settings - have poor performance, with every click taking 300+ms to
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by voldacar 5y ago
>unreasonable and unnecessary speak for yourself. I'd rather have 1080p 144hz than 4k 60hz
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by voldacar 5y ago
>As others have said, the usage of similar words is no convincing evidence for homogenized ideas I disagree. Words are used to convey ideas, so if the space of words is shrinking, one should assume that the space of ideas is shrinking. I
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by voldacar 5y ago
the meme, for those who haven't seen it https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
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by voldacar 5y ago
I like the terrain rendering. Is that a prepackaged thing or did you write it yourself?
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by voldacar 5y ago
>Monero is technically superior to Bitcoin in basically every way I see how this is true from a privacy perspective, but how does monero solve the issue of the blockchain eventually becoming too large for an ordinary person to run a node
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by voldacar 5y ago
You are just assuming the point you're trying to prove > There are plenty of smart people - scientists even - who believe in all kinds of deities. Okay? This is supposed to make me feel - how exactly? I'm not inherently disdain
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by voldacar 5y ago
This is one particular point of view, and it's extremely sloppy reasoning to say that it's "scientifically supported", given that mathematics is not a form of science. There are plenty of very smart people, not just math
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by voldacar 5y ago
It's definitely both. It's not just the physical sounds I make when pronouncing them, but the mood and the overall "atmosphere" of the words that is different.
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by voldacar 5y ago
Even if you completely ignore the meaning and usage context of these words, there are some significant differences. The male words are sharper, rougher, more incisive. Azimuth, teraflop, neodymium, yakuza. The female words are rounder, smoo
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by voldacar 5y ago
>Substack is Y Combinator wait till you find out about hacker news
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by voldacar 5y ago
both 955 and 187 give me that character. I wonder if it has to do with the keyboard I'm using because 955 mod 256 = 187 and I'm using an old keyboard with a usb adapter, so it might be truncating to 8 bits for some reason

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