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by yk 10y ago
"Multiverse" can have several different meanings, causally disconnected regions of spacetime in General Relativity, landscape ideas in String theory or all the worlds of the many worlds interpretation. However, since non of them s
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by yk 10y ago
A really cool talk was the Dash button talk. The presenter exploited a bug in the audio stack, or as I like to think about it, he got the firmware by singing the secret code word.
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by yk 10y ago
Read it first as algebraic geometry, was confused that I understood some of the words.
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by yk 10y ago
The problem is, that the average citizen does not understand what 'deterministic build' means. One aspect of an election is as a ritual to legitimize the government, and this legitimization currently rests on the argument that in
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by yk 10y ago
You are right, see my edit above.
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by yk 10y ago
I had something in mind like, assume that the last line is not a contradiction, then we have c( e- a) on the left and something smaller than one on the right. However, assume the last line is not a contradiction is false, so I can't bu
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by yk 10y ago
It is clear that the left hand side has to be zero, however I do not see a straightforward way to prove that without using the contradiction itself and he does not need it to be zero to choose that there is a contradiction, so the claim the
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by yk 10y ago
Going quickly through the awesomely titled paper [1], they fit a template to the data and obtain something like 2.9 sigma for their best value, without a obvious way how they deal with the look elsewhere effect. On the other hand, this is p
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by yk 10y ago
The argument is the other way round, they should not be correlated, or if they are correlated they should be correlated in an obvious way, therefore it is likely random chance compared to the situation were suddenly there is a spike in viol
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by yk 10y ago
Probably just random variance. In particular, that most categories of cause of death increased seems to point at random chance, since they should not correlated strongly. (But this is probably something to watch next year.)
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by yk 10y ago
I like the experiment, even if I am not too fond of the idea. However it is 2016, so is there a procedure when politics becomes very clearly relevant in the coming week?
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by yk 10y ago
> (#ad #sp #liveauthentic) In some literary critique sense, it does not so much seem hollow as it seems like authentic expression of our time. The fact that people authentically believe in success in social media does not invalidate the
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by yk 10y ago
See also astroturf campaigns. However in some sense all of these examples are about deception (in some real or imagined sense). On second thought, the natural/artificial dichotomy in diamonds, food &c. is indeed very similar, it is
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by yk 10y ago
Could we get a nice red background for links to forbes? That is a site which distributed malware at least twice [1][2][3] and tries to force users to enable JS. [1] November 2014 http://www.businessinsider.com/forbescom-was
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by yk 10y ago
Alex Halderman's blog post [1] (mentioned in the update of the vox piece) is a interesting read. He argues that a paper trail is an important independent check on election results, and that it should be checked as a matter of principle
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by yk 10y ago
Perhaps we should start naming space telescopes after politicians, so that NASA's budget has an easier time in congress.
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by yk 10y ago
We have a very good theory of gravity, general relativity, and actually for anything that was ever used to build anything including the Voyager probes, Newtonian gravity is enough. In a sense we even have a safety net. As for dark matter, t
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by yk 10y ago
That is what I meant with 'grounding.' I say that mathematics can be a useful tool, however contrast this with the situation in physics, we have comprehensive theories and we have the situation were we can be very certain that all
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by yk 10y ago
I think quantitative analysis is at fault. The thing is, mathematics is a language and I can as easily produce a model that encapsulates the lies we tell ourselves in Newspapers, as I can produce a model based on Hitler's Mein Kampf .
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by yk 10y ago
What does a journalist think when he writes something like "biggest spike in traffic death in 50 years"? The NYT even has a nice plot, that clearly shows that there are two, perhaps three significant, spikes in traffic death, and
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by yk 10y ago
> The first sentence says Hillary has a "98.2 percent chance of winning the presidency". It only gets better from there. That is why physicists demand 99.99% (three sigma) significance before they are calling it hints. The thin
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by yk 10y ago
That's accidentally pretty bleak.
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by yk 10y ago
I do not really find that surprising. The way I think about the observation is as an iterated prisoners dilemma, in which both sides have a history of defect. To expand a bit, wars happen when both sides prefer war to the terms of peace (an
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by yk 10y ago
Decreasing entropy locally is usually called a fridge, and I am currently betting my dinner that it is not bullshit. (I don't have the slightest idea what the article is actually talking about.)
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by yk 10y ago
Yes, to address to criticisms of your comments and siblings, in my experience if you start changing fonts, then you need to change margins and paragraph spacing, and down the rabbit hole you go. The thing is, a small change is not very comp
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by yk 10y ago
I don't really like the article, the problem is that time of possession is a decent proxy for better team, or actually a proxy for team A is better at retaining the ball than team B is at getting the ball. So their counter claim is rou
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by yk 10y ago
Yes, but there are 500 'features' in Word which are almost always really stupid ideas, an experienced graphics designer knows how to use them, 99% of Word users don't. In LaTeX you have to work to do something really stupid.
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by yk 10y ago
It lacks the most important LaTeX tip, don't fight the machine. LaTeX is really good at getting documents that look 90% as good as an actual typesetter could make them look, if one can live with somewhat conservative looking documents.
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by yk 10y ago
There are no states in communism, quoting Lenin: >> Only now can we fully appreciate the correctness of Engels' remarks mercilessly ridiculing the absurdity of combining the words “freedom” and “state”. So long as the state exist
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by yk 10y ago
American civil war is probably the clearest example. That was a war to defend the private ownership of the means of production. Then there are atrocities committed by capitalist governments, for example the Tasmanian genocide. [1] Since I a

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