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I think what's going on here is that you've misunderstood the theorem's hypothesis. The hypothesis isn't that no three of the points are collinear; rather, it's the weaker statemen…

Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https:/…

You can, in fact, predict the effect of an atomic bomb without detonating it. Sure, you can't have the same certainty as if you'd detonated it -- empiricism is important; they test…

> History may be written by the victors, but the losers still get to dictate theory. I feel like Tanner Greer's old post "History is written by the losers" is relevant here: https:…

I was confused at first when you asked if the 8-flow is relevant, when like, the 8-flow is a key input that the cycle double cover is built out of. Then I realized, oh, I guess tec…

I think "importance" here is just being rated as 1 to 4 stars. So it's not "second-most important" but rather "one of the top 5 most important". That doesn't change much, but FWIW.…

People don't talk about the cycle double cover conjecture here because this isn't a math website. Its lack of mention here is therefore poor evidence.

Based on the title, I was expecting this to be about the idea of power transmission via microwave (as seen in e.g. SimCity), but actually it's about microwave communications links …

This is guest post by Cynthia Dwork; that's Dwork's writing, not Aaronson's.

I feel like you ought to be go lower than 17, down to 9, by not counting the 3 generations of fermions as distinct (so you've just got up-type quark, down-type quark, electron-type…

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I like this explanation of cricket for Americans: https://www.dangermouse.net/cricket/baseball.html

The blog post mentions a draft of a manuscript though. I was expecting something like a preprint. He's not willing to post that draft yet?

I put in my name, and four boxes popped up -- one for "American mathematician", one for "spelling bee contestant", one for "American poker player", and one for "fitness industry en…

Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https:/…

I don't understand what you're trying to imply here. Yes, he co-authored a report. What is supposed to be dangerous or suspicious about this? What does your statement about "reputa…

Yes, I was surprised he never discussed the idea that such exponentials are typically made of stacked sigmoids. That said... if the exponential is made of stacked sigmoids, it's st…

> He's taken a side. Yes, that's called "having an opinion". Typically people writing argumentative pieces are doing so because they have a belief about the matter. I'm not sure wh…

> FYI: The author has predicted that "AGI" will be here in 1-2 years and has staked his public reputation on it. He is personally invested in trendlines being lindy rather than sig…

Oy, the title mangler mangled the title. Any chance the title could be fixed here? It's supposed to be "Extremely Low Frequencies".

Facebook does, I'm not sure why it didn't in your case. It adds an "fbclid" parameter that is quite long. I just tried it to confirm. Edit: Perhaps it only mangles links for logged…

I mean there are modified gravity candidates other than MOND. I think those are worth more consideration. MOND seems pretty well disproven at this point, yet somehow it's still wha…

I mean, there are modified gravity candidates other than MOND. I think people should perhaps give more consideration to those and not focus on MOND as their idea of modified gravit…