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by woopsn 2y ago
"Mixed" versus "augmented" reality have no real meaning, which is why there is confusion about which of the two modalities you're referring to. My question is why avoid the terms overlay, superposition, display and
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by woopsn 2y ago
In business you would traditionally call that sort of arrangement "outsourcing". The Internet of Things is okay -- it could have been worse, The Omninet or something.
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by woopsn 2y ago
I understand. I read Snow Crash. Besides the Metaverse there was also a nuclear powered dog. My point is this -- by allusion to some concept with which an inventor wishes to form an association in the consumer's mind, their products
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by woopsn 2y ago
People seem to think I have trouble understanding what the terms refer to. That's not my point -- you're right in that they are not complex. But why is virtual reality associated with small screens and head tracking? Why wasn&#x27
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by woopsn 2y ago
I do. I've said it before too -- I like that they called it a "generative pretrained transformer" aka GPT.
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by woopsn 2y ago
I know I'm fighting the overwhelming tide here, but what the hell is "mixed reality"? What is "the metaverse"? For that matter what is "artificial intelligence"? Stop trying to dazzle and just use words, i
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by woopsn 2y ago
The lead up to calculus is brutal. I did poorly in high school math, got my requirements finished by the grace of BYU online. Never took precalc. Then in college I crammed for the placement exam and got directly into the upper level calculu
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by woopsn 2y ago
Look at drone tactics deployed in Ukraine. It's shocking. Not in the future but right now, modern warfare is a swarm of <$100 jerry rigged recycled devices flying around delivering a few ounces of explosive whatever head or body can
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by woopsn 2y ago
The toilet on the ISS cost $20,000,000+. One of them. "I guess you're fine with the whole species dying" is extremely unfair (and ridiculous) rhetoric. Rather, the assumption that we won't kill ourselves first is comple
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by woopsn 2y ago
I am not a physicist, my sense though as a layman is that GR explains the motions with which it is concerned more effectively than QM or QFT do. As in, with Schrodinger's cat, what causes the poison's release? And why does that ha
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by woopsn 2y ago
Or differential equations -- that grueling and irrelevant subject physical scientists waste so much time on. :)
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by woopsn 2y ago
What Bostrom said is that he completely repudiates these remarks and that they were disgusting. Leave it at that.
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by woopsn 2y ago
Joseph Pulitzer's retirement letter from 1907 (referencing St. Louis's metro paper): I know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate i
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by woopsn 3y ago
I do remember in my computer architecture class being a little disappointed we only studied educational ISAs, and ran them through emulation rather than "on the metal". Then in my first engineering job after college, I ended up pr
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by woopsn 3y ago
So, intending no snark here - seminars in confidence and writing, emotional regulation, leadership, language tutoring, anger management, other interpersonal/soft skills.. I imagine a future where these are available to all on tape and
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by woopsn 3y ago
I agree overall. But a note - every orthonormal basis partitions the frequency spectrum. It doesn't go away, if you are using e.g. polynomials then you're building functions up out of their frequency components too. The Fourier ba
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by woopsn 3y ago
It can be lossy and not just because of truncation. Convergence is somewhat finicky in Fourier analysis and was not well understood mathematically before the 60's. Engineers made great use of it anyway. Remember that it is an integral
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by woopsn 3y ago
So for example, do programs 1 and 2 compute the same thing? In general this is quite difficult and unsolvable. But then, if so, is the complexity of 1 less than 2? What is the minimum complexity of any program that computes the thing? These
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by woopsn 3y ago
This is really an important point for mathematical philosophy. It is a single enterprise going back to ancient Babylon, China, India, Greece, Egypt, and before. The elementary meta-theory needs to be syntonic to mathematical activity and kn
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by woopsn 3y ago
In a sense computer and electrical engineers/scientists did largely map out the base layers, over ~150 years from the 19th century through the mid 20th. I think equipment (broadly speaking) is foundational for mathematics. The "st
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by woopsn 3y ago
The insurance scam is, classically, someone getting a policy on an asset they know is worthless, going to catch fire, suddenly die, etc. -- and you do pay higher rates as a result.
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by woopsn 3y ago
I'm with you. I started moving away from Google a few years ago. That's what I mean I guess -- when something becomes so full of it, what can you do but turn it off? It's Google's own conceit that without it we'd be
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by woopsn 3y ago
The information age is nothing new (for us), neither is media culture generally, or even silicon valley. AI will now be some new part of the complex. It seems obvious to me that a significant step to combat this effect would be not calling
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by woopsn 3y ago
Burying those lines is not practical. Inspecting and repairing them is. The problem is significant deferred maintenance. Buried lines cost much more to maintain, in addition to installation costs even where they are feasible. It's bett
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by woopsn 3y ago
No, over a million meteorological observations are collected each day by commercial airplanes, and these are a principle source of data for weather models. Weather balloons and other sounding instruments (satellites are capable of this) als
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by woopsn 3y ago
Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity Edit -- also, earth due to its internal heat, and perhaps fossilized remains of those organisms that benefited from geothermal heat/vents/etc during its time
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by woopsn 3y ago
It's a gimmick. When the nonprofit was organized in 2015, the name certainly did not mean open for business. It meant (loftily) undertaking the quasi-religious quasi-humanist mission "in the spirit of liberty" to generate a n
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by woopsn 3y ago
Employees benefit incidentally, buybacks are a manifestation of corporate and capital interests alone. What's "fucking broken" is innovation in the monopolized market.
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by woopsn 3y ago
Apple is unconcerned with the efficient allocation of capital. Hence their shell companies in Ireland. Money spent on innovation is returned to the market efficiently, and ratchets science and technology forward across the marketplace.
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by woopsn 3y ago
A problem is that we can't measure how efficient a computing architecture really is, we can only compare them, and not to a hypothetical machine yet to be devised. When AWS can run their datacenter operations 20x more efficiently, whic

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