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by woopsn 3y ago
It's not that crazy, e.g. the freeway system
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The half-life study states degradation might take "roughly 1.5 million years" in permafrost conditions. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555
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by woopsn 3y ago
You might appreciate the additional lens of Chaitin's constant omega then. The probability that a particular universal machine will halt when fed a random program is uncomputable but also algorithmically random -- meaning the (finite)
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by woopsn 3y ago
Scott says in the paper: Even if we supposed that, for every n, there was some reasonable extension of ZF set theory that was powerful enough to settle the value of BB(n) — even so, there could be no systematic way to find
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by woopsn 3y ago
One response brings up the (un)decidability of determining if a physical system's ground state is separated from the rest of its spectrum: > And there are still cases going on today where undecidability results are of broad interest
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Baseless speculation.
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I think you came away with the wrong idea based on these examples. The messaging of the Tao Te Ching is very much not straightforward, but it's clear that the weakest governors are authoritarians, and the most effective barely interven
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by woopsn 3y ago
So I have Mitchell's version and like it as well. But he notably did not call his piece a new translation, only a new version. He doesn't speak or read any Chinese[1], so to begin with he was studying from secondary sources. He al
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by woopsn 3y ago
So right at the beginning it says this -- you can talk about Tao, but not the eternal Tao[1]. From a philosophy perspective, it is a good idea to read different versions because there isn't really a "right way to put it". Thi
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What set the ideas of physicists like Bohr, Born, Heisenberg and Pauli apart is that they led to the creation of quantum mechanics. The criticisms Schrödinger made in his time are worth a lot of attention as well, but nothing really since t
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by woopsn 3y ago
I like Sabine and overall enjoyed her book Lost in Math, but I feel like her particular style of "snark" (mockery) is unproductive and kind of cheap. It makes some sense on YouTube, but not as much when she's interviewing col
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by woopsn 3y ago
I mean, if you are 18 and come into $80k, by all means invest? That hardly invalidates the value of college education, which is an option for most high school graduates.
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Exactly, there is no "category of all Zermelo–Frankel sets".
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Fiber and microwave work just fine. There's inequity but at least it's among the players. Radio spectrum is needed by real industries, emergency services, medical, normal people, etc.
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It will merely end in diminishing returns, no?
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by woopsn 4y ago
I agree it's a red herring to focus on output and interactive behavior when discussing this. If a "shadow prompt" told chatGPT that it writes at a 3rd grade level, we wouldn't argue as much over how smart the bot is. If
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by woopsn 4y ago
The "race" has been on for more than a century. The fact is that it doesn't rain out here. Multi year, multi decade droughts are normal. Our ecosystems depend on the runoff that take place when the water eventually comes back
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There was no soil yet at this time. Plants rooted directly into rock, turning the surface into gravel/sediment, weathering and runoff carried minerals and carbon away into the water. The landscape's stability depends on the roots,
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It's only "bilking" if SpaceX doesn't deliver. They do.
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"For helpful comments on drafts, and/or other assistance, I thank: ..." Odd to have Acknowledgements but no information at all about the author. Who are they?