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by woopsn 2y ago
Probably impossible to separate Le Pen's disqualification from the situation in the U.S. It's the song of the day. I seem to recall some account arguing in 2020, nominally on their expertise as a lawyer, that the election result c
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by woopsn 2y ago
I don't believe you, in the sense that I am certain you are lying and do not support both rifle and straw bans etc as well as arbitrary rendition of people to a third world prison. John Yoo had a theory in any case, skewed and kept sec
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by woopsn 2y ago
Is the fact of it being legally cumbersome to acquire a machine gun the best support you can give to this idea of sending perps to El Salvador, "for what they are doing [property damage] to Elon Musk and Tesla"?
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by woopsn 2y ago
You don't know what you're talking about. People are fired when they can't add enough value to justify being employed. Sweeping industry-wide layoffs are different. Eg the "damage was done" to the aviation industry
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by woopsn 2y ago
I went to a University of California school which had 3 calculus tracks - one for life/social sciences students (eg biology, econ), one for physical sciences (chemistry, physics, math, ...), and an honors track. High school went up thr
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by woopsn 2y ago
That's fair. Hardy himself was a zealot and in fact despised applications, writing that he hoped his work would never be put to extrinsic use, for then its value would become contingent on a particular stage of technological developmen
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by woopsn 2y ago
I don't want to come across as harsh because the idea is neat and I'm sure creating this helped the author through their own study/understanding of the subject. But if you want to learn it would be better to study a textbook
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by woopsn 2y ago
What they claim to want to create is a for-profit organization that replaces "most economically valuable work". Putting aside the enormous capital, technical and energetic hurdles - where would the profits come from? Sam's id
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by woopsn 2y ago
The notion of mathematics as "the art and science of effective reasoning" is grandiose and blatantly wrong, both in the sense eg no mathematics is performed when an animal correctly flees from a fire, and also that this definition
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by woopsn 2y ago
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (best of the grandiose classics imo) Deep Impact (the only good asteroid movie?) Jurassic Park + Independence Day (peak Goldblum) Total Recall + A Scanner Darkly (best Philip K Dick adaptation) Gravity (gr
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by woopsn 2y ago
Realistically the alternative is that they remain a kind of sham non-profit. I don't like the company, their mission and leadership creep me out - but all things considered it would be a good thing for them to lose the 503c designation
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by woopsn 2y ago
How does this not break the foundations of quantum theory? For example the Heisenberg uncertainty principle itself implies that the conjugate of a discrete variable must have a continuous spectrum. Thus if there are no continuous variables,
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by woopsn 2y ago
Ilya Prigogine wrote a lot about this, see eg Order Out of Chaos. He won the Nobel prize in chemistry for his work on nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Boltzmann had originally tried to prove that the second law is a mechanical (statistical) f
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by woopsn 2y ago
A system in which information is communicated instantly will quickly reach equilibrium, after which there is nothing left for any part to communicate to another. Eg diffusion of heat eventually results in a temperature distribution in which
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by woopsn 2y ago
But we go to sleep, into deep anaesthesia, and to lesser degrees can lose or have degraded our various senses and cognitive capabilities - doesn't this show that the "thresholds" exist, evidently? Drink a bottle of vodka and
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by woopsn 2y ago
Optimistic reality means spreading cellular life, not the great ape in particular. People by and large are uninterested in this, they feel it is pointless if not somehow immoral. Our "weakness" is not in the flesh but our attachme
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by woopsn 2y ago
Contrast to "only with mathematics can the scientist say precisely as little as they mean to say." (Bertrand Russell)
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by woopsn 2y ago
With FPGAs I can sample a hundred high precision ADCs in parallel and feed them through DSP, process 10Gb ethernet at line rate, etc with deterministic outcomes (necessary given safety and regulatory considerations). They integrate well wit
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by woopsn 2y ago
What can we see? Vapor trails, patterns burned into a plate, etc. The evidence of some "thing" slowing down, perhaps, but really the environment that slowed it down necessarily changing irreversibly. Irreversible effects cannot be
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by woopsn 2y ago
It's not new, cf "media culture" "Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which they communicate than by the content of the communication." "Electric circuitry has overthrown the re
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by woopsn 2y ago
The referenced "researcher/guru" Sidney Dekker wrote a whole book titled Drift Into Failure. "Accidents come from relationships, not broken parts." "Safety may not at all be the result of decisions that were or
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by woopsn 2y ago
Hey thanks for your thoughtful response. In terms of what we may/not be missing out on, I say that because it seems few of the possibilities remaining after a century of investigation (many worlds, relational/information based app
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by woopsn 2y ago
If I recall there was nothing ontological about the actual Copenhagen group's interpretation. They aimed to develop a predictive theory and nothing more. One of their key insights was that ontology simply doesn't play a role anymo
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by woopsn 2y ago
What is deficient about the original explanation that the wave function is not real but rather a scientific theory? The issue has been unresolved for about a century now, it's relatively unsatisfying but hasn't held the science ba
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by woopsn 2y ago
What more is there to say than philosophy, the social sciences, life sciences, computer science and mathematics, education and journalism schools have said about this already. Modern media culture has been well characterized since the 60s -
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by woopsn 2y ago
Was V.I. Arnold wrong when he said everything a student needs to know about determinants is derived from geometric considerations? It seems true to me that, outside of advanced study linear or abstract algebra, this is the one perspective w
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by woopsn 2y ago
Google seemed to think the many billions of dollars spent annually to insert Google into other products was necessary in order to maintain dominance in the search market. This wasn't disputed right? I doubt they are relieved now that B
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by woopsn 2y ago
They spent billions of dollars putting their product into other products by default, and meanwhile conglomerate interests make it a worse product every year, while they do in fact maintain a monopoly.
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by woopsn 2y ago
You're right, I misinterpreted. I don't know what they get out of calling the space non-Riemannian if not to say the inner product fails. Good idea, ignoring that term.
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by woopsn 2y ago
That's an interesting related thought that is not quite the same as the paper. They claim that what we perceive as "color similarity" is not a metric at all. That would be required in order to define arclength and geodesy. I

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