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by yk 10y ago
Well, I think this sounds quite good, in fact it sounds so good that it is probably not true. And reading to the page, I stumble over the sentence > An IDE like Medium, not Vim Thing is, vim is not complicated because of some misplaced e
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by yk 10y ago
There was a pretty good essay in the German computer magazine c't sometime in the early 2000nds, were the author argued that a computer is a meta-medium, that is a computer can emulate almost arbitrary types of media. A computer can wo
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by yk 10y ago
Question, did NYT break their website for noScript users or did I manage somehow to break the NYT website for myself? (I tested with chromium and no plugins and the website works there, but if I try to access it with FF and noScript, the ar
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by yk 10y ago
Belichick is considered the best coach in football of the last twenty odd years, so he has probably his process with pen and paper nailed down. And the thing is, new technology requires a learning curve both individually and also on a large
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by yk 10y ago
That would not really help, since at the high end of information newspapers die by a thousand cuts. A journalist simply can not compete with Schneier's or DJB's blog on cryptography, he can not compete with Carrol on theoretical p
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New paper: “Why most of psychology is statistically unfalsifiable”(medium.com)
81 points by yk 10y ago|18 comments
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How the U.S. Became More Involved in the War in Yemen(nytimes.com)
1 points by yk 10y ago|0 comments
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by yk 10y ago
I think this is one of the situations were the intuition of non-engineers should simply be ignored. If we go with the numbers from the article, one fatal accident per 2 million hours driven, and if we assume that this is in the ballpark of
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FSF petition against EME(my.fsf.org)
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by yk 10y ago
No, the star would heat the Dyson sphere, and it would be observable in infrared. Plus you would need several Dyson spheres for each 'naked' star to explain dark matter and they need to be build at a constant ratio of start to gal
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by yk 10y ago
I would suggest, that the link should go to Yahoo's blog post https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/151148689421/open-sourcing-... which contains some technical details. (And furthermore, I guess the HN crowd has
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by yk 10y ago
The Internet is supposed to be a dump series of pipes. However, in practice you can of course try a traceroute and then complain to the ISP, which will or will not cooperate. If the ISP does not cooperate, then you can call their upstream p
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A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn't like dark skin(theguardian.com)
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‘Rolling Coal’ in Diesel Trucks, to Rebel and Provoke(nytimes.com)
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by yk 10y ago
Ants starving in the dark, damp pit of an abandoned nuclear bunker. Sometimes I love the cyberpunk dystopia we live in.
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by yk 10y ago
Thing is, this is media phenomena, a journalists decides which quotes to use. There are of course a lot of people who could be called 'expert' and one of them will have a very quotable opinion.
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by yk 10y ago
In principle, yes. However, there is not only evidence for dark matter from galaxy rotation curves but also from large scale structure simulations and especially from the CMB. The interesting thing is, the CMB observations, which react to t
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by yk 10y ago
Clearly cat is used for clarity in the joke, such that the more or less pun is more obvious. I therefore consider the use of cat in this instance good programming praxis. (Of course good programming praxis in bash is a bit like safe driving
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by yk 10y ago
Yes, exactly. My argument is the opposite, if you reason from evidence that vanishes from time to time, then you will have a very hard time to build a reasonable sound argument.
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World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopædia (1937)(sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu)
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by yk 10y ago
I am no expert on non-physics sciences, but recently I am starting to worry that the way we do science today depends on ideal experimental and theoretical conditions.[1] In physics we see 2 sigma events vanish all the time, just last week w
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by yk 10y ago
Well, theoretical physics is not mathematics. (For some reason, that's a point mathematician are apparently unable to understand.) In (theoretical) physics mathematics is a tool, the important thing is the physical interpretation.
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by yk 10y ago
Yeah, I should stop commenting publicly on an ongoing thought process, before I figured out how to communicate that thought :/ Basically I am drifting towards hard mathematical anti-realism and towards a rather minimal scientific reali
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by yk 10y ago
Probably, but in my view Godel's theorem basically states that there are limits to axiom systems. (In much the same way that you can not write a web server without touching sockets.) My point is, if it would be necessary to switch to a
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by yk 10y ago
As a theorist, theories in physics describe experiments and mathematics is the study of formal axiom systems. So if you want to reject the axiom of infinity, that is fine. If you want to have stronger axioms, like large cardinal axioms, equ
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by yk 10y ago
In Germany we have something like 6 live streams from the TV stations.[1] It is pretty great, you can watch an entire event, and potentially understand what they are doing. By contrast the TV coverage is half of the time some guy in a studi
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by yk 10y ago
No one in the physics community did take the creation of a black hole serious not even as a nightmare scenario. (First you have to create it, which requires large extra dimensions or a similar deformation of gravity at short scales, then it
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by yk 10y ago
Well, in principle physicists would be more than happy to explore radically different theories. But the thing is, physicists tend to worry if a effect is observable. So a alternative theory needs to be compatible with all experiments that h
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by yk 10y ago
When you have a crystal, a regular lattice of atoms, then you often describe it in a continuous approximation. So you interpolate for example the displacement of each atom from its resting position by a displacement field. When you then qua
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by yk 10y ago
That one has my favorite chemistry quote: At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature.

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