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by yk 10y ago
Thing is, snopes and politifact debunk slightly different claims, but agree broadly on what happened. And it is not, that there is some "obviously right" claim^1 that needs debunking, but over a broad range of reasonable choices i
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by yk 10y ago
Apology for submitting: I submitted the essay to a large part because I think that the perspective of viewing a nominee Trump as a symptom rather than an evil in itself as an interesting and hopefully fruitful way of thinking about the curr
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The American Experiment Is Failing(medium.com)
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by yk 10y ago
Physics is a special case for several reasons, [1] most importantly there is a good theory with the effect that different experiments measure the same thing. So once you start looking for a specific deviation from the standard model, you ca
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by yk 10y ago
What about the Cuban missile crises, Kennedy did emphasize the UN security council framework as means to verify withdraw of Soviet missiles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis#Crisis_en...
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Muon examination of Fukushima Daiichi unit 2 fuel debris [pdf](tepco.co.jp)
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French media’s blackout on terrorists’ identities is missing the point(theguardian.com)
2 points by yk 10y ago|0 comments
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by yk 10y ago
I think it is more complicated than that, newspapers have the problem that they are hemorrhaging cash, but also that the format of a newspaper article is not well suited to convey information. It is just long enough to give the impression o
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by yk 10y ago
For some context, there is a very intriguing formulation of General Relativity in terms of entropy. [1] What this suggests is, that gravity emerges from a underlying thermodynamical system. In OP the authors construct explicitly one of thes
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by yk 10y ago
It is JS. Wired displays some text if you use an ad blocker, but does so via JS. (With the effect that NoScript users can read articles fine, but can not watch video...)
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by yk 10y ago
Recently watched the Extremly large numbers [1] youtube series, which nicely complements Baez's series with examples. (Quick follow up question, as far as I understand, there should be a way to understand large cardinals as recursion
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by yk 10y ago
I don't know if I should be impressed or scared. Everything google^1 does in the last few years feels like they really know what they are doing, autonomous cars, everything they do about machine learning, now they are integrating that
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by yk 10y ago
Thing is, standing still on a highway is also not a safe place to be. So the car needs to determine a safe-fail state on its own.
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Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings(nytimes.com)
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by yk 10y ago
> Even on the DRM front, the situation was no better in the past when you had to use Flash or Silverlight for DRM. The situation was a lot better when you needed Flash or Silverlight, the browser was not broken by design. And you could r
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There Is No Scientific Method(nytimes.com)
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by yk 10y ago
When I think about economy of scale and software development, all examples I come up with have the property that any gains are diminishing quickly. For example, a large system has a better build system, which catches a higher number of bugs
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The Party Crashers(newyorker.com)
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by yk 10y ago
The title is slightly misleading, also in usual physicist speak right. The kind of particle here are made up of four quarks, and as far as I know were somewhat expected. The underlying theory, QCD, predicts that free particles (hadrons)^1 a
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by yk 10y ago
Location: Hamburg, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C/C++, Python, Mathematica Email: joerg@tangentbundle.de CV: https://tangentbundle.de/cv.pdf I am a theoretical physicist with software deve
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by yk 10y ago
Absolutely, however we can at least conclude with quite a bit of certainty that it is not an order of magnitude worse than human drivers.
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by yk 10y ago
I really do not like Tesla's strategy of luring the drivers to doze off while driving. However, the Guardian article on the accident claims that Teslas drove 130 million miles in autopilot mode, while the rate of fatal accidents is clo
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by yk 10y ago
I watched yesterday Dan Kaminsky's surprisingly related DEF CON 23 talk [0], where he presents a approach to UI security such that one can embed a paypal iframe without the ability of the website to hijack it. In that context, I view t
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by yk 10y ago
He 4 is usually used for He cooling, which goes down to roughly 4 K. With He 3 you can get a little bit lower, and He 3 has some properties which makes it more useful at even lower temperatures, but the usual cooling is done with He 4, whic
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by yk 10y ago
The problem is, if you have a bunch of partial passwords 1, 2, 3; 1, 2, 4; ... you can just brute force three character combinations of the passwords, which just takes something half a second (times the number of rounds) if you write your p
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by yk 10y ago
And now I will check every svg logo I come across for easter eggs.
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by yk 10y ago
I checked your link, then I proceeded to the terms of service and IANAL there they claim that all 'unicode software' is basically MIT licensed. (Please check with a lawyer before you conclude that word is MIT licensed.)
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by yk 10y ago
It does not work on Firefox with noScript. (And as a matter of fact, prohibiting random blog posts from rendering unicode, executing complex numerical calculations on my graphics card or delivering exploits is kind of the purpose of noScrip
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by yk 10y ago
I mostly agree. In my opinion, separating code points from encodings (without providing a replacement for txt files) was the original sin of unicode. That just adds a lot of complexity with very little gain. (Suppose we would have standardi
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by yk 10y ago
Your answer illustrates my point perfectly, first the lack of a reasonable fall back mechanism. Of course I can start a hex editor, get the utf-8 encoding and then look up the code point ( and theoretically add that character to a open font

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