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   by wwarner 3y ago

   All true, but equally important is that life is rapidly increasing entropy in a larger, but also local, frame. It’s like a fire. So, in a closed system, living things must exhaust their source of energy and reach equilibrium with its surr
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   by wwarner 3y ago

   It's not a US thing, in my opinion. The industry based unions are currently very strong and some are on strike right now (nurses, auto workers, writers, actors). To me the idea of forming a new union to target a single employer seems l
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   by wwarner 3y ago

   Wealth disparity seems more tangible to me. If you grow up in a city that was transformed by tech but weren’t able to make the switch to computing, you can’t afford to live there any more, you have move. If your job was lost to automation,
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   by wwarner 3y ago

   In less colorful language, you might say that the result is not worth the effort. You can put it even more sharply -- you have an idea of what to do, but it's just not a very good idea. The right reaction (yeah you! in the mirror!) is
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   YouTube Passes Netflix as Top Video Source for Teens(m.slashdot.org)

   2 points by wwarner 3y ago|0 comments
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   Fossilized adult and toddler tracks found at White Sands National Park (2020)(alamogordonews.com)

   3 points by wwarner 3y ago|0 comments
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   by wwarner 3y ago

   Thanks for saying the obvious in a polite fashion. I started to write something out but realized I'd just cause offense. To me, it's obvious that a better educated society is a better society. We could actually go further and actu
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   JWST discovers the farthest gravitational lens ever(bigthink.com)

   4 points by wwarner 3y ago|0 comments
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   by wwarner 3y ago

   yep https://www.songtradr.com/blog/posts/songtradr-bandcamp-acqu...
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    A damn good idea!
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    So the law says that a painter can't steal copyrighted images, but a programmer can. Maybe the law has some catching up to do.
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    Feel a great sense of relief reading this. This fixes the single biggest wart in Go.
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    I really like Blank's idea of a profound belief -- a vision of the future tempered with constant checks against evidence. With that picture, the word "bet" in the business context makes a lot more sense to me. Companies opera
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    What a great read. Exotic spheres are the dark energy of mathematics.
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    Brain expanded, thanks
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    This is such a good explainer
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    This article isn't totally fair, in that the theory of cold dark matter is based mostly on observations of the cosmic microwave background rather than on galaxy behavior. Also, it's not like the 𝛬CDM crowd says they are certain of
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    I took the point to be that the skill of making progress on open questions is very different from the skill of quickly mastering established facts.
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    There is https://www.recurse.com/
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    Here's Brian Keating interviewing Jorge Hirsch from UC San Diego and Inna Vishik of UC Davis [0]. Prof Hirsch was/is a leading critic of the U Rochester papers, but thinks that LK-99 could work. [0] https://www.youtube.
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    Jorge Hirsch, usually quite skeptical of superconductor claims, sees no reason to rule out recent claims
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    High Temperature Superconductor – Brian Keating Interview with Vishik and Hirsch(youtube.com)

    1 points by wwarner 3y ago|1 comments
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    I thought it was a good read. Basically the essay argues that one should make time, and summon the requisite courage, to look for new ideas and new ways of thinking. Imo it applies to any decision that must be made alone.
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    In depth discussion of this issue btw Jorge Hirsch and Brian Keating. https://youtu.be/cAMSoAUo288
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    A great essay that showcases Rust's greatest strength: its ability to eliminate race conditions.
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    Photosynthesis is nearly 100% efficient(bigthink.com)

    3 points by wwarner 3y ago|0 comments
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    rho(x) is the probability density function, and it better sum up to 1 for all possible values of x.
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    I am definitely not bragging — I’m saying the opposite, that all that pressure and elitism around math and science are unnecessary and counterproductive. I also liked the article just fine. The only controversial point I made is that scienc
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    I am totally for software assisted math. Math isn’t just pencil on paper, and it isn’t only proof, and it’s great to talk about over beers.
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    by wwarner 3y ago

    There isn’t that much difference btw an integral and a summation.