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by xorand 8y ago
The notion of "scientific authority" is contradictory with the scientific method. The scientific method is to independently validate an idea, theory, experiment. The scientific authority is that belief instilled to the public that
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by xorand 8y ago
arXiv.org uses MathJax. https://arxiv.org/help/mathjax
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Deterministic vs. Random [video](vimeo.com)
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Why not "polynomial"? Can be quickly verified.
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There is intuition and educated intuition. Analysis and topology counterexamples are usually met with high disbelief. And then there is intuitionistic logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionistic_logic
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Direct link to the content: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/free-reading-spree-to-ki...
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Saving the world in 8 easy steps with Moonad(github.com)
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"I just got the same email (I assume) and all the links look about as suspicious as things come. I'd say to approach with caution at the very least" https://mathoverflow.net/questions/324400/thoughts
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by xorand 8y ago
Also this old first mention at HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9906623
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by xorand 8y ago
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19236328
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Lambda calculus inspired experiments with artificial chemistry(chorasimilarity.wordpress.com)
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by xorand 8y ago
Who are you? I can't find any information about who made Hessix or who is Hessix.
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This is so Microsoft redesigns the Github repos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
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There is a lot of money going from universities to publishers, be them traditional or Gold OA. Researchers would rather use either Green OA (like arXiv) or Sci-Hub or articles available on other researchers pages. Is therefore interesting t
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"Under Elsevier’s proposed terms, the publisher would have charged UC authors large publishing fees on top of the university’s multi-million dollar subscription" So it's a move against both traditional paywalled publishing an
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by xorand 8y ago
Blade runners will be a thing. In Burroughs sense https://imgur.com/a/GnICH3U
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It's because a huge number of people just discovered the net and they don't surf as we are used to, like they don't search as we do etc. I don't want to sound elitist, many of them don't have the experience of it. T
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by xorand 8y ago
OK, here's a new one [0], an animation which circulated publicly of a dodecahedron which self-replicates twice. This is possible because a dodecahedron is a generalized Petersen graph [1]. Topologically is like a perturbed duble strand
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by xorand 8y ago
If you like this, here is the problem I don't know how to solve. Some numbers: 150K views/day and 5MB/view makes 750GB/day served by google for my collection of animations, during 1.5 years. Problem: how can I do this al
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by xorand 8y ago
The image shows a asynchronous graph rewrite automaton which tries to reduce Ackermann(4,4) (the picture name is ackermann_4_4_75steps.gif). The "Ackermann goo" is a speculation based on the look of that and the analogy between c
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Ackermann Goo(imgur.com)
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>We now have media that is so diverse, and of such specificity, that it has essentially eliminated shared culture and narrative. I find more and more difficult to retrieve old or original sources of information.
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by xorand 8y ago
Very nice! I had a very popular G+ collection with hundreds of animations, which I deleted. Now, by looking at your photoblog, I wonder if I can suck all the photos from posts from [1] and then use your Odyssey [2]. [1] https://g
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by xorand 8y ago
>the original dream of the internet was that everyone could publish, everyone would be a creator. With things like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, we're there. The internet achieved that dream. That's what users thought,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sachs_(artist)
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>rampant overfiltering which will kill fair use True! However, according to the draft of the Article 13, this may happen in the case of providers "of an information society service whose main or one of the main purposes is to store
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by xorand 8y ago
"Providers of services such as not-for profit online encyclopedias, not-for profit educational and scientific repositories, open source software developing and sharing platforms, electronic communication service providers as defined in
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"‘online content sharing service provider’ means a provider of an information society service whose main or one of the main purposes is to store and give the public access to a large amount of copyright protected works or other protect
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by xorand 8y ago
I can't compute "educational setting" and "copyright" in the same comment.
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Create. Produce original content. Keep the copyright. Don't consume canned content.

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