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Thanks. HN removes characters after the hash when I submit links. Maybe my reputation is too low.

This is an interesting idea for waste heat. Is the waste heat a nuclear power plant produces significant? My understanding is you want all your heat working to spin your turbine.

That’s not really the argument monkeybutton is making, the point is lobsters’ neural complexity is similar to ants, and orcas are comparable to humans.

It is true that photonic systems can multiply/add very efficiently. The limiting factor for optical neural networks are activation functions. Non-linear relationships are hard for …

I concur with many other commenters here, this is a fantastic read. Though, I find the value in this book is not the discrete proposals Jaynes makes - his conclusions on schizophre…

But where does it end? Is all reason not based on a set of axioms? You can comment on your presuppositions, if you throw them all out then there is no (classical) logic. Philosophy…

I understand caution when stating opinions - it is a good instinct, but I'm not sure what you're arguing. > I think that sometimes being overly opinionated and incapable of changin…

Is it wrong to be opinionated? Feser quickly remarks on a problem of math: some mathematical constructs reflect the system of math more than reality. If your philosophy never touch…

You’re suggesting that a head of state (more, a sovereign) should have the right to rule subjects by decree in private. I think that most would agree that the citizens should have …

I am trying to decide on an offer for a SWE position at Facebook. Accepting this position will undoubtedly rapidly advance my career, and more than triple my salary. There are a lo…

baybal doesn’t contradict you. Deng radically westernized parts of the Chinese economy, but he also enforced the one child policy. The economic effects of a small young generation …

Whale fall described in chapter 81 of Moby Dick: Now, this occasional inevitable sinking of the recently killed Sperm Whale is a very curious thing; nor has any fisherman yet adequ…

This is a fun blog post, but I thought it was a little hard to follow. A few observations: When we added the features a new problem emerged: their ranges are very different from X1…

I am working on a product which makes use of this technology. I generate vocal pitch visualizations for karaoke http://pitchperfected.io

HN aggregates, it has no illusions of creating original works. Occasional high-quality reposts are a virtue of HN, and I don't think HN suffers from the same regurgitation issues a…

For non-accelerating masses, or more precisely within an inertial reference frame

I’d say the same, but it’s been more eye-closing for me