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what if we interpret both spheres created out of the one as: 1. original "terrain" sphere 2. modeled version of the sphere. the virtual "map" sphere. but because the abstractions are so thick (so to say, pardon the poe
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everybody will be accounted AND scripted for. freewill will first turn into a political debate, then an economic issue. finally it'll be realized as too expensive for "average joes" and hence we will have an answer to whether
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my philosophical take is this all revolves around what constitues "one system" on one level, something is a subsystem of a larger supersystem on another, it's all the one and only system. but why wouldn't the components
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it's better and easier than ever I do all my gaming using linux. I haven't used Microsoft's shit since windows 7
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> " or unless doing so is strictly necessary for the purpose of the website." so this legislation is active unless the website needs it... toothless legislation, looks like a classic market capture law
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I'm thinking I'd actually prefer that for a air-gapped industrial control computer. using USB thumb drives to move csv data into the real world where there's internet
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don't worry, some people already do or at least that is my read of academics that say the universe is deterministic
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energy most certainly is "mipmapped" but this would be a funky way to think about inverse square type of laws
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so yes, to answer one of my own questions. I was only really saying that I don't really know any of those constructions; but know all the "preceding" ones. I gotta figure out dedekind cuts or at least learn tarski's fixe
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whenever peoples ponder what the meaning of "is" is, the discussion eventually turns into questioning the meaning of "what" what is "is"? — to know what is "what"?
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it's pretty much a competition between niche programming languages which are interesting to different powerful academics
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> There’s a very deep problem with that—every time you invent a “superset”, do you then have to redefine the subset to be a subset of that “superset”? I have thought about this too, and I'd initially agree with you. but I thought
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I disagree but I'm being nitpicky I think the real funky business happens right between ℚ ⊂ ℝ but maybe all I'm really trying to say is "hey, look at me, I understand how all of ℕ ⊂ ℤ ⊂ ℚ" I'm very very sure that it
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maybe unclear to you. may I recommend Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong. which talks about how text and writing transformed human culture the point (which I learned from the book) is how writting transformed human culture but did not de
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so this is how by the time of Dune they'll say the compass is english instead of chinese like i was told?
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2y ago
openAI is only worth as much as the difference between google's free tier and google's paid tier
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but information wants to be free I say this given what I understand information to be information is about knowledge, what use is knowledge that nobody can know? useless, hence it must be the case that information wants to be copied everywh
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> The nice thing about law as opposed to programming in programming that is called "Undefined behavior"
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so usa congress admits chinese drones are better ? but maybe (or now) usa senate must admit that they can keep up with china in drone manufacturing speed !? this is in adition to tiktok, but then I wonder how much of what amazon sales is ma
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one of the main things I've generalized from programming: that we must think about everything as if it were two completely disjointed things: what we or the user or the interface does, and how it works... and the potentially completely
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you're reading what I say in the worst possible light if anything, the parallel I draw between AI learning and humans learning is all the opposite of narrow and logical... in my intent, the analogy is loose and poetic, not mechanistic
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AI wanted you to write code in GoLang so that it could absorb your skills more faster. kthanksbai
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software architecture is like regular architecture but civil engineering does not exist because there hasn't been an Isaac Newton of software. I'd say the closest so far is Claude Shannon
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it's comparable exactly in the way 0.001% can be compared to 10^100 humans learning is the old-school digital copying. computers simply do it much faster, but it's the same basic phenomenon consider one teacher and one student. fi
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> It's as regular as saying "first full moon in 29.5 days". "the first sunrise in 24 hours!"
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how do we measure the aumont of information my head can hallucinate out of 40 seconds of two babies interacting?
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it's like every big game (studio?) is either microsoft already, or just not yet like every gameplay stands as an engine, or a genre, or a meta-genre? like GrandTheftAuto? but i was i trying to tweet something about getting lost in sto
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free instruction sets: this "langauge" should be spoken by all! a public ISA private instruction sets: this is a private matter, restricted to a need-to-know basis. private ISA the main difference is the private one can sneak in m
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the tricky thing is distinguishing that which is being moved by the wave from the wave itself if the wave is the energy moving, the energy is being moved by the wave, but then what's the wave? clearly not energy if the wave is moving t
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the way I've dealt with semi-related issues is to regard 'engineered music' as it's own artform distinct from live music the archetype I'm trying to follow is painting. when the camera was invented photorealistic pa
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