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The Voice said, “Even if I knew everything, I could not know that I know everything.” Murray said, “That sounds like a bit of Eastern philosophy – something that sounds profound precisely because it has no meaning.” The Voice said, “You hav
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The Last Answer - Isaac Asimov https://highexistence.com/the-last-answer-short-story/ Murray Templeton was forty-five years old, in the prime of life, and with all parts of his body in perfect working order except for
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> I wish more programmers understood metaphysics better. We’re built to be philosophers. Total agree, programmers are professional thinkers after all =) > There is a more “real” level of existence where all our actions really exist. Y
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Oh and imagine we would need to capture / know the position AND velocity of even some of the "things" defining the consciousness. Its like really _uncertain_ what we can do then.
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Material sciences could bring a solution: Transparent material that becomes opaque to bright light (something like gamma < 1, gain < 1) in the direction of the light. So each point of the material is transparent or opaque depending on
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Recently bought "Self-editing for fiction writers" as it was recommended as a good book about not only editing but also writing itself. The first chapter is named "Show and tell". Here the authors also state the "sh
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Just hide the nasty layers behind more facades or layers of abstraction. Please never reinvent the wheel, we need more layers, its better software design to reuse the old stuff. /s
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the fast moving mass of earth will distort orbits via gravity. that will be noticed
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Second Life 2.0
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Yes! Humans. So transitively evolution invented lasers and all the other cool stuff mentioned here.
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Hm does that mean you could say the complex quantum probability is just a probability over rotations?
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"whose only runtime job is to sit in the communications path from the primary software to the avionics hardware and monitor the outputs of the primary software and ensure the values and/or rate-of-change in certain values are with
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Imho the most important part of the article: One concern with the study is that the authors generated the objects specifically from skeletons rather than deriving them from shapes, either natural or human-made, covered by skin, metal, or o
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That may be true in general, but it surely does not apply to a post starting with "in my opinion" and you even proceed to nag on that phrase alone. Ironic, how does that fit with "advocating intellectual honesty and clarity&q
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From the primitivetechnology guy I heard the same. He also gives another tip, similar to part of ritual from the article: A lot of toxic plants can be washed with clean flowing water for a few days. Chop them up and put them with a net in a
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Thank you for sharing this! But even on desktop its hard to read, must be hell on mobile. So I will just cite you: 1 - do not do it if you can avoid it 2 - if you really must, then try the folliwing: * break the plant, put a tiny amount of
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So nobody should state ideas without full formal analysis? rude
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Names are one part of a two-part code. The name transmits meaning to people with enough knowledge of the other part. Liken them to other analogies using other names can help build up the required knowledge
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His vehicle ideas are also fascinating: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00013084/im... https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00013084/im... https:&
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Immediate mode gui - short imgui. For example the library "Dear imgui". Basically you write imperative paint functions like this example: ImGui::Text("Hello, world %d", 123); if (ImGui::Button("Save"))
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So a conclusion would be to use numpy instead of for loops for number crunching. But behold! This does not scale as one could expect. Turning a little more complex elementwise computation into vectorized numpy calls produces a lot of memory
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Quickly googled for some data, and this is from 2018: "YouTube shares 55% of its ad revenue with video creators and books an average of $7.60 per 1,000 ad views. That means you get about $4.18 for every 1,000 views of ads shown on your
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I think the question one has to answer first is what "intention" is in itself, at least some informal definition to work with is necessary. how you define it will shape the answer to the rock intention.
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I am still hoping for this to happen.
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It is not "conditional assignment" tho. It is an assignment which returns the assigned value. You can use it in conditions, but you can also use it elsewhere.
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I would think by working together face-to-face. Learning by doing from a "master" knowing his stuff. Like an apprenticeship. What answer did you find?
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I see no problem with consistency: From the hermits point of view, outside of the society with its philosophical framework, it is just gathering. Society may call this theft. I may also jell at the crow stealing my unwatched food "you
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What people call “AI” is actually a long historical process of crystallizing collective behavior, personal data, and individual labor into privatized algorithms that are used for the automation of complex tasks: from driving to translation
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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (2013)(smithsonianmag.com)
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I measure geographical distance using google maps starting from Berlin (52.515277, 13.405301): The german part of Saxon Switzerland is at most 200km. Distance through Dresden up to German-Czech border is 200km. German coast of Baltic Sea is

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